Top 30 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Colombia in October 2023

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• Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
• Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
• FZ Sports — Fz Sports is a tech company that creates connections between rights owners, sports brands, and sports fans. The way to enjoy and monetize sports content.

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• Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
• Somos Internet — Somos Internet is a network and telecommunications startup that provides latest generation internet with a fast, secure, stable connection. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia.

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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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• Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
• Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• SteinCares — SteinCares is a supplier of specialty healthcare products, such as complex generics, biosimilars, and cutting-edge pharmaceuticals.
• Veritas Finance — Veritas Finance focuses on meeting the financial needs of the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Veritas Finance Private Limited is an organization started with the primary intention of reaching out to the customers who either have no access or inadequate access to financial services in the informal sector. 'Veritas' in Latin meanstruth. True to its name, Veritas is focused on making a true impact through inclusive access to financial services on the customers engaged in informal activities.The company is run by professionals with rich experience in the financial services industry that aims to make availing credit easy to this segment and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of Indians engaged in informal activities and who actually build the nation.
• Mahindra Last Mile Mobility — Mile Mobility is a division of M&M that is in charge of the company's well-known mix of petrol, CNG, diesel, and electric last mile mobility 3- and 4-wheelers - passenger and freight vehicles.

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• Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
• Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.

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• PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.
• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• CAT Labs — CATLABS.IO - Building Digital Asset Recovery and Cybersecurity Tools to Enable Public and Private Sector Customers to Fight Crypto-Enabled Crime

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• Atmosfy — Atmosfy lets you explore dining through video. Easily browse 10-second, engaging videos from customers who recently dined there.
• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Boost Capital — Boost Capital is a fintech company that offers online microfinance services at lower rates. It uses innovative technology to pre-qualify customers within minutes of applying for a loan based on ability and probability to repay. Boost Capital enables both collateralized and uncollateralized loans, with loan size across the small business spectrum(from $100 to $10,000). Its platform automates the loan application for MFI partners and allows customers to hear back on their loan applications 100x faster than through traditional paper-based loan applications.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Singapore.

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• Plenna — Plenna offers face-to-face and online gynecology check-ups and services. The company is based in Mexico City, Mexico.
• Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
• HealthAtom — HealthAtom is a healthcare software platform that design innovative healthcare solutions that allow the clinical industry to advance in the use of administrative technologies. They dentalink and medilink software for better healthcare services for patients.

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
• EPICA — EPICA is the AI company that gives companies unprecedented power for decision making by detecting patterns of behavior of audiences in real time.
• Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.

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• Stride Funding — There's a better way to fund your education.
• Black Oak TV — Subscribe to BlackOakTV, your new home for some of the best emerging black TV shows, movies and films on the planet.
• Esusu — Esusu: We report rent payments to major credit bureaus to help renters build credit while maximizing property outcomes for managers & owners.

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• Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
• Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

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• Thallo — Thallo is a Carbon Credit Marketplace that is run on the blockchain. We offer businesses and individuals a place to purchase carbon credits.
• ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
• Xternity Games — Boost engagement and empower communities on web3

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• Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
• Drip — Drip is your home for entertaining live shoppable events for collectors and craft lovers
• Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

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• Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
• YgEia3 — Looking for wellness testing in London, SW? Get in touch with the professional team at YgEia3. We work with corporations, collegiate and professional teams. Call us today.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.

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• Soko — SOKO produces innovative, ethical jewelry and accessories from sustainable materials in Nairobi, Kenya
• Aflore — Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
• Classcraft — A positive approach to behavior that inspires educators and motivates learners

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• Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
• Bike Bazaar — Bike Bazaar is a two-wheeler life cycle company where you can buy, sell, exchange any two-wheeler or avail finance for your vehicle. The company provides a range of affordable solutions and hassle-free experience along the two wheeler lifecycle, which include financing to purchase new and pre owned two wheelers, access to green bikes, insurance,and a transparent marketplace for buying and selling of preowned two wheelers.Bike Bazaar was founded in 2017 and is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
• Sitara — Sewa Grih Rin provides affordable housing finance to the under-served low income households in urban and peri-urban locations.Incorporated in 2011, SEWA Grih Rin Limited was envisaged as a means for the under-served households to access affordable and formal housing finance in urban & peri-urban locations. We learnt that low-income householdsheld two facets of their life very close to their heart: they treasured the education of their children; and aspired to self-own a property, a home of their own.SEWA Grih Rin Limited’s work is aimed at directly improving the quality of life of informally employed households, especially their women members, by creating a tangible financial asset in their name. We provide an affordable alternative to those households whose credit capacity falls behind the widening financing gap given the informal nature of their employment.

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• Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
• Monto — Monto is a mobile application that offers staff the flexibility to collect their already worked salary before the company's payday. Monto reduces financial stress and improves the quality of life of employees. Monto improves satisfaction, productivity, and retention in the workforce.
• Aflore — Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.

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• Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
• Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
• Investree — Mari bergabung menjadi Lender di Investree serta berdayakan UKM Indonesia, dengan pendanaan berasuransi dan dapatkan imbal hasil hingga 20% per tahun.

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• Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
• Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

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• Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
• Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
• BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

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• Aspen Power — Aspen Power Partners is a distributed generation platform with the dual mission of accelerating and democratizing decarbonization.
• MAXEX — MAXEX is the first digital mortgage exchange to enable buying and selling residential loans through a single clearinghouse.
• Corcentric — Corcentric is your complete end-to-end accounts payable, accounts receivable procurement solutions company. Click here to learn more about what we offer!

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• Raleon — Create engaging experiences that convert more users and increase loyalty, powered by Raleon's engagement platform.
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?

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• Elenas — Elenas is Latin America's top social commerce platform. Our platform has empowered tens of thousands of women across Colombia to launch online businesses and earn extra income by selling products on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media sites. Currently, 11 million women across Latin America sell consumer good products through direct salescatalogs and door-to-door sales. Elenas provides a digital solution for them to start an online store, manage clients, and grow their business from home, without having to worry about product sourcing, delivery, or payment collection.
• Talently — Talently offers an intensive program that helps software developers get a better job in the technology industry, anywhere in the world. It is the accelerator of the careers of Latin American tech talent.
• Tennders — Tennders is a SaaS company based out of Barcelona, offering on-demand road transport services. Shippers, carriers and freight forwarders optimise the way they work thanks to its team of experts and technological innovation. Its platform focuses on helping companies digitise their business and prepare them for future industry challenges,regulatory and otherwise. It makes it possible to reduce inefficiencies so that they can save costs and time. With their in-house sales team specialising in customised and urgent transport services, they can meet the needs of today's market. Tennders is committed to balancing people and technology to achieve efficient supply chains, increasing the visibility of digital and sustainable opportunities.

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• Regalii — Arcus Arcus is the leading payments-as-a-service platform making fintech possible for everyone. Arcus helps businesses fuel smarter, faster, integrated, and more accessible financial services. Some of the world’s most popular mobile payment apps including Santander, BBVA, Walmart, 7-Eleven, RappiPay, and more, are powered by Arcus’ infrastructure.
• Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
• VU — Sebastián Stranieri, is CEO and founder of VU Inc, a multinational company that provides secure and frictionless digital experiences for more than 350 million people over the world. Passionate about technology, he has more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity industry. His career has always been driven by the desire to innovate insafer solutions that improve the quality of life of citizens and companies, and that is how VU was born. VU focuses on the new concept of “online persona” providing robust identity verification for its users, which allows a more holistic authentication paradigm. Through the combination of traditional cybersecurity controls with geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis based on machine learning, VU enables a continuous authentication process where the user is seen as a whole, rather than a set of credentials. In July 2021, VU announced a $12 million Series B funding round with investors such as Globant and Telefonica. Sebastian, is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2013 and selected by Forbes Argentina as one of the 30 Promises in 2017. His passion for what he does led him to win the Sadosky Award for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Chamber of the Argentine Software Industry (CESSI) in 2019. VU received several recognitions, such as: Cybersecurity Ventures ranking 500, Santander’s X100 and VISA - La Nación’s Innovation Award, in the category of payment methods and cybersecurity for developing new business models in financial services through the use of technology that mark socioeconomic trends, changes in consumption habits and payment methods and also improve the security of transactions, among many acknowledgments from Microsoft as partners and for our technology, such as: AI Latam Partner of the Year (2021), Global Finalists in IA and Government (2021) and Country Partner of the Year (Argentina, 2019 and Bolivia, 2020)

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• Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
• Konta — Konta offers an online accounting service for micro and small businesses in México. Their company vision is to make running a small company easy. They are helping freelancers and small entrepreneurs by implementing a cost-effective, automated online accounting service. José Menéndez and Pablo Icaza founded the company in September 2019, with itsheadquarters in Monterrey, México.
• Source — Discover SOURCE Water, a renewable, clean drinking water solution made possible by the power of Hydropanels

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• Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
• Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
• Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Bababos — Bababos is a platform that allows SME manufacturers to quickly access a variety of high-quality raw materials, from polymers and chemicals to steel and other metal products. This eliminates the need to handle numerous suppliers. The company's platform streamlines the buying process by digitizing administrative duties. Additionally, Bababosprovides manufacturers with flexible payment options that lessen their financial burden and enable them to concentrate on what they do best—producing high-quality products. Bababos enhances the SME producers' supply chains.
• Channel19 — Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch.