Top 30 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Colombia in October 2023

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• Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
• Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
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• Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

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• Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Ubanku — Tus finanzas simples, organizas y lejos de la inflacion
• Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
• smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.

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• Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
• Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
• Swell Energy — Solar, Storage, and VPP - Home Energy Systems - Swell Energy

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• Rappi — Rappi is a consumer tech company that specializes in providing online delivery services. It connects consumers who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and virtually anything with independent contractors who can fulfill those needs. The company was founded in 2015 with its main offices in Bogota, Colombia.
• Authy — Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an additional layer of protection beyond passwords. Download our free app today and follow our easy to use guides to protect your accounts and personal information.
• SandboxAQ — SandboxAQ is an enterprise SaaS company combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society.

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• Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
• Tarken — Tarken helps in developing its technology that connects grain buyers and sellers and operates an artificial intelligence tool for commodity pricing.
• Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.

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• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• Grupo Central — Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.

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• Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
• Todos Comemos — Todos Comemos delivers pre-made ingredients that allow customers to prepare their favorites meals in less than 10 minutes and paying on average $3USD per meal. TodosComemos is creating a new way of cooking power by a new groceries category. Pre-made ingredients.

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• Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.

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• Agrizon — Agrizon mission is to become the global leader e-platform in Agribusiness, as a AgTech digital company, focus on food sustainability, connecting farmers with their favorite Ag brands. Agrizon.com empower merchants to grow their businesses by offering on-demand delivery, providing delightful experiences from door to door, by building the last-miledelivery in agribusiness, we are bringing communities closer, to farmers.
• 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.
• Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.

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• Resq — At ResQ, we're obsessed with simplifying the repairs and maintenance experience so you can focus on doing what you love. Talk to a ResQ Expert today!
• Foodology — Foodology creates and operates digital restaurant brands made for delivery.The company aims to be a delivery-focused restaurant group in Latam. With its portfolio of virtual brands operated through cloud kitchens, Foodology strives to create a best in class delivery experience for its customers.The company was founded in 2019 by HarvardBusiness School classmates Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero.
• Ascend — Ascend is an online payments platform that automates insurance payments end-to-end: from online customer payments and financing to the distribution of commissions and carrier payables.

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• busuu — Study a new language online with Busuu's award-winning courses. Learn together with native speakers in Busuu's community.
• Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
• Titanium Sports Nutrition — We make superior sports nutrition products for every interval of sport to help athletes fuel past their limits. Our products are natural, great-tasting and clinically formulated and scientifically proven to harness the unique power within each athlete and fortify it against fatigue, dehydration and burnout. Join us!

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• Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
• Olga Ri — Olga Ri is a digitally native, cloud kitchen-based, fast casual restaurant that delivers convenient, delicious and healthy salads and grain bowls. On the back of great technology, state-of-the-art operations and a purpose-driven brand, we are helping shape the next generation of foodservice in Brazil. As a company, we are committed to thinkingsustainably, building diverse teams, cherishing urban communities and fostering more colorful lives.Olga Ri is available for customers in São Paulo across proprietary and third-party platforms via delivery, pickup and in-company outposts.
• Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.

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• Teachable — Create & sell online courses and coaching with the best online course platform used by the entrepreneurs to sell $500m+ to over 18 million students. Try it free.
• Percept.AI — Your new customer support platform
• Lime — Lime aims to provide a sustainable solution to the first and last mile transportation problem by helping people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint. The company empowers future generations to change their behavior so we can save this planet together. From the electric scooter to thee-assist and pedal bike, experience the excitement of Lime’s smart mobility fleet.

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• Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
• Unaric — Unaric buys, builds and grows Salesforce based SaaS companies and is backed by leading global investors.
• Vetalia — Vetalia offers a variety of services specifically geared toward dogs, reimagining access to the veterinarian experience. Vetalia helps to maximize quality of pets life.

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• Omnisient | Collaborative Consumer Intelligence — Omnisient is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform that allows businesses to collaborate on data insights on consumer behaviour and preferences without sharing consumers' identities or contact information.
• Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Instant EFT, debit + credit card, cash, direct deposit and debits. Manage + reconcile digital payments and send payouts.
• Termii — Termii is an online platform that helps teams secure repeat customers by sending personalized emails and SMS through multiple.Termii helps African businesses communicate with customers across SMS, email, voice, and instant messaging channels. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

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• Finerio Connect — Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.
• PowerCred — PowerCred is a one-stop API suite for clients to access alternate data from SMEs. Our integrated system provides real time connectivity which allows financial institutions to build better products to suit small business requirements. We have a network of data partners across categories which help us to build a robust and comprehensive intelligence system, allowing FIs to make more confident decisions, and empowering small businesses to focus on business growth.
• Chhotastock — ChhotaStock :Invest and Grow more.India's first small ticket size investment platform.

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• Viable — Understand what your customers are telling you in their qualitative feedback with advanced AI and NLP technology for feedback analysis.
• RootFi — RootFi provides a dependable and secure integration layer with an expanding list of APIs, allowing you to focus on developing features that your consumers will appreciate. Begin shipping solutions for credit risk assessment, accounting automation, and analytics.
• Grey — Open international bank accounts for free to receive and make foreign payments instantly or convert currencies - all in one place.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Trully — Trully
• NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.

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• Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
• Inventa — Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers and offers them flexible payment terms
• Inventa — Inventa is a wholesale marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers across Latin America.

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• Cerebral — Discover online mental health care at Cerebral. Access therapy, medication options, and a dedicated care team. Start improving your mental health.
• Iris Nova — Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution.
• Crush Capital — Groundbreaking series following founders on their capital-raising journey. For the first time, viewers can Click-to-Invest in featured companies.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.
• Ubanku — Enlau is a platform where University Community can order food on-demand in campus colleges in LATAM and get it delivered by students.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.