Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in LATAM in October 2023

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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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• Cerebral — Discover online mental health care at Cerebral. Access therapy, medication options, and a dedicated care team. Start improving your mental health.
• The Coffee — Minimalism | Architecture | Technology | Specialty coffee
• Kairos — Go from Web 2.0 to web3 with our creative partnership and comprehensive NFT solutions.

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• Meru — B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America
• Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.
• Clara — Clara is an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for growing businesses in Latin America. Clara's credit cards and spend management solution are already being used by thousands of top companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.The company is backed by leading regional and global investors, such as Coatue, DST Global, monashees,Kaszek, Canary, Picus Capital, Avid Ventures, A*, Box Group, SOMA Capital, SV Angel, and dozens of angel investors including some of the most successful founders in LatAm and the world. Clara reached a unicorn valuation in record time and has been recognized as a Great Place to Work and a LinkedIn Top Startup.Clara is creating the future of how company finances are run and helping our customers be more successful. Clara aspires to empower companies to operate with agility and financial clarity, ultimately increasing the economic competitiveness of Latin America.

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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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• 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.
• Branch — Branch sells premium office furniture for teams of all sizes. Standing desks, workstations, ergonomic chairs and filing cabinets, sold direct to save you money. Space planning, delivery and assembly come standard.
• Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.

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• Salvy — A melhor operadora para o seu time!
• Elevva — Elevva help e-commerce brands in retail management, e-commerce channel expansion, and vendor management.
• CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.

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• Toku — Toku helps companies to automate collections and facilitate payment processes. Toku enables companies to optimize the collection of recurring payments.
• 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.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

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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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• Shopper — Industry leading NPS, Shopper.com.br is the best replenishment system for Brazilian consumers."Reducing our loss of time and money with repetitive activities" Shopper.com.br is a startup whose mission is to build a more efficient world, where essential products arrive at people's homes as easily as water arrives at the tap. Ourview of "efficiency" is complete: we look at both the waste of resources along the production and distribution chain of products and services (which generate unnecessarily high prices for the final consumer), and the waste of resources and time that end consumers spend to find, buy and enjoy these products and services. Our mission is to build a more efficient world in this direction. A world where people lose less money and time with monotonous, routine, everyday, unnecessary activities. We want to build such a world using innovative technology and business models, always with highly qualified and committed people on the team. Our first challenge is to improve the efficiency of the distribution chain and supply of essential consumer products: cleaning products, personal hygiene and non-perishable food. We do this through our online platform for monthly sales and deliveries of grocery products. Our recurrence model allows us to have no inventory and have high predictability of demand, generating efficiency, which is passed on to consumers in the form of lower prices (~10% cheaper).

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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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• 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.
• Blossom.team — Powered by AI, Blossom's science-backed professional coaching brings together experienced coaches & ML to show actual growth on key topics: productivity, communications, leadership, stress management, career development, interpersonal skills, and more. Subscribe and see why it's the successful professional's secret superpower!
• Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?

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• DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
• Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
• FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

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• TytoCare — TytoCare offers the Home Smart Clinic - for accessible, high-quality primary care from home, with no compromises.
• Atarraya Inc — Atarraya is a fully integrated FoodTech company that focuses on the optimization of every aspect of shrimp farming: Biotech R&D, breeding, production, marketing, even software, and hardware development. It is committed to making shrimp the best animal protein source for the 21st Century. Its current (2020) operation consists of two farms andone hatchery in Mexico. It runs a continuous harvest cycle, every week, and sells its product through the Agua Blanca brand in Mexico and the US.It will expand with local production into the US in 2022, with the technology to grow sustainable shrimp in any city in the world undercutting commodity cost.
• Exactera — Enhance your business's tax function with Exactera, the intelligent, user-friendly software transforming tax operations and compliance.

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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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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
• Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

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• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health

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• CarLabs —
• Michroma — Michroma is a biotech platform producing natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way. We are using synthetic biology to unleash the potential of filamentous fungi and develop proprietary strains capable of producing high-performance ingredients in bioreactors.

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• OneMarket — OneMaket is the biggest online platform in Brazil of Healthy Food Subscription, providing access for high-quality products for a price better than specialized stores.Owner of the subscription box brands : GlutenFree Box (www.glutenfreebox.com.br), LacFree Box (www.lacfreebox.com.br), SugarFree Box (www.sugarfreebox.com.br), VeganaBox(www.veganabox) and OrganicaBox (www.organicabox.com.br).In 3 years, we have sent more than 100,000 boxes to all states in Brazil.

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• Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).

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• APTK Spirits — APTK Spirits is a retailer of alcohol, cocktails, cups, and other accessories. They provide complements, cups, packaging, foams, drinks, the club, custom bottle kits, kits, and gifts. It is an online e-commerce platform.

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• Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
• Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
• MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.

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• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
• TROOP — TROOP es la primera plataforma en Colombia que te permite adquirir participaciones en inmuebles comerciales arrendados a partir de bajos montos.

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• OneMarket — OneMaket is the biggest online platform in Brazil of Healthy Food Subscription, providing access for high-quality products for a price better than specialized stores.Owner of the subscription box brands : GlutenFree Box (www.glutenfreebox.com.br), LacFree Box (www.lacfreebox.com.br), SugarFree Box (www.sugarfreebox.com.br), VeganaBox(www.veganabox) and OrganicaBox (www.organicabox.com.br).In 3 years, we have sent more than 100,000 boxes to all states in Brazil.

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• Lantern — Lantern is a customer engagement automation platform to optimize upsell opportunities.
• Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.
• Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

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• McLarens — McLarens performs claims management, loss adjusting, pre-risk and damage surveying, and auditing services for companies throughout the world. Specific areas of expertise include Aviation, Agriculture, Property, Casualty, Technical Services, Transportation, Crime & Specie, Claims Management, and Audit. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA,McLarens has offices around the world. McLarens’s global footprint enables it to provide streamlined consistent service to global customers, while at the same time delivering local expertise and responsive service. McLarens is the only global, employee-owned loss adjusting firm in the world. McLarens’ adjusters have an average of over 20 years of claims experience, and this experience is a key part of how McLarens has built its reputation for high quality loss adjusting services.
• Atarraya Inc — Atarraya is a fully integrated FoodTech company that focuses on the optimization of every aspect of shrimp farming: Biotech R&D, breeding, production, marketing, even software, and hardware development. It is committed to making shrimp the best animal protein source for the 21st Century. Its current (2020) operation consists of two farms andone hatchery in Mexico. It runs a continuous harvest cycle, every week, and sells its product through the Agua Blanca brand in Mexico and the US.It will expand with local production into the US in 2022, with the technology to grow sustainable shrimp in any city in the world undercutting commodity cost.
• Simplicity Group Holdings — We are a Financial Marketing Organization providing annuity, life insurance, and retirement solutions to insurance & financial advisors & their clients.

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• Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).

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• Diferente ≠ — Mercado Diferente is a mission-driven Brazilian foodtech created with a purpose: give everyone access to healthy foods while fighting food waste in Latin America. By rescuing organic items considered "imperfect" and directly sending them to consumers, they are able to offer up to 40% off traditional retail prices. Founded by EduardoPetrelli (ex-James Delivery), Saulo Marti (ex-Olist), Paulo Monçores (ex-VTex) & Walter Rodrigues (ex-Rappi), Mercado Diferente is backed by major investors such as Maya Capital, Collaborative Fund, GFC and unicorn founders like Matias Muchnick (founder of NotCo), Abhi Ramesh (founder of Misfits Market), Hamish Shepard (founder of HelloFresh) and Tiago Dalvi (founder of Olist).
• Collective Equity Ownership — Collective Equity allows founders of high-growth tech companies to pool equity with each other, enabling them to share in each other's success and diversify some of their risk.

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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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• 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
• FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

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• 75 & Sunny — 75 & Sunny is Spencer Rascoff's investment firm and startup lab. In 2020, 75 & Sunny Ventures invested in 39 companies, 25 of which are based in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, 75 & Sunny Labs launched two startups: dot.LA and Pacaso. In 2021, 75 & Sunny Ventures is on track to invest in more than 25 startups, and 75 & Sunny Labswill launch two new companies. Spencer — who co-founded Hotwire and Zillow, and who was CEO of Zillow for more than a decade — started 75 & Sunny to support and mentor startups and their leaders in LA and beyond. Its team provides 75 & Sunny companies with a broad range of support, including leadership coaching; marketing and PR advice; brand amplification; product strategy; recruiting; access to our broad network of partners that include top venture capital and private equity firms; overall mentorship; and help with subsequent fundraising. Spencer is an investor in over 55 venture capital funds, many of which use 75 & Sunny for informal deal-sourcing at the earlier stage.
• Pacto — Presentamos Pacto, tu nueva forma de pedir y pagar en restaurantes.
• Sidekick Bakery — Sidekick Bakery is your pastry box for one. Your cure to kale. Your extra shot. Your dessert for dinner. Your version of self-care. Your let’s grab a coffee some time. Your made-it-through-the-week treat. Your Sidekick. (Steve Salis, Founder)

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

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• CLUVI — Cluvi digitalize the sales channels of restaurants and turn their data into a potential tool to increase their sales
• QuantPi — QuantPi creates automated and scalable solutions for AI model explainability and robustness auditing.

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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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• APTK Spirits — APTK Spirits is a retailer of alcohol, cocktails, cups, and other accessories. They provide complements, cups, packaging, foams, drinks, the club, custom bottle kits, kits, and gifts. It is an online e-commerce platform.

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• OneMarket — OneMaket is the biggest online platform in Brazil of Healthy Food Subscription, providing access for high-quality products for a price better than specialized stores.Owner of the subscription box brands : GlutenFree Box (www.glutenfreebox.com.br), LacFree Box (www.lacfreebox.com.br), SugarFree Box (www.sugarfreebox.com.br), VeganaBox(www.veganabox) and OrganicaBox (www.organicabox.com.br).In 3 years, we have sent more than 100,000 boxes to all states in Brazil.

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• Atarraya Inc — Atarraya is a fully integrated FoodTech company that focuses on the optimization of every aspect of shrimp farming: Biotech R&D, breeding, production, marketing, even software, and hardware development. It is committed to making shrimp the best animal protein source for the 21st Century. Its current (2020) operation consists of two farms andone hatchery in Mexico. It runs a continuous harvest cycle, every week, and sells its product through the Agua Blanca brand in Mexico and the US.It will expand with local production into the US in 2022, with the technology to grow sustainable shrimp in any city in the world undercutting commodity cost.
• FLOWER CO — We sell weed on the internet. Thousands of products delivered overnight throughout California from Humboldt to San Diego
• Bespoke Financial — Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies. They alleviate working capital constraints across the entire cannabis supply chain. Bespoke supports their clients as they scale and grow with unique financing solutions and cannabis business loans.

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• Medusa — For developers who must customize e-commerce setups, Medusa is a new digital commerce engine that provides extensibility and customizability with low developer effort. Unlike Shopify, BigCommerce and others, we offer an open, modular architecture that removes the need for hacky workarounds and secures maintainability and speed.
• Everfund — Everfund is building a new ecosystem of tools for developers to build the best fundraising systems that enable nonprofits to adapt to digitization, without building from scratch.
• Neverland — Neverland helps you grow an oasis that never stands still. Our blog will help you in your plant journey to discover new plants and guide you in their care.

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• 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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• Alecrim — Founded in 2015, Alecrim is an application platform that brings together the chefs in São Paulo to deliver healthy meals right on its client's doorstep.
• Scratch — Scratchpay provides simple and friendly, payment plans for medical financing. High approvals, no hidden fees, no surprises.

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• 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.
• Kall Morris — Kall Morris Inc orbital debris research and development, consulting experts.
• Buddy's Pizza — Buddy's Pizza is a widely recognized as the originator of detroit-style pizza.

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

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• Ramper — Ramper is a sales prospecting software that helps B2B companies to generate more outbound leads with less time from sales people. With Ramper, sales people can build segmented lists, automates cold mail cadences, track prospecting analytics and integrate with most popular CRM's and inbound plataforms from the market.With Ramper, sales teamsget the leads they need to build pipeline and to focus their time doing actitivies that will drive team to reach their goals.
• Lingopass — Lingopass is the all-in-one solution to accelerate the professional development of all your employees, featuring an engaging learning dynamic and monitoring of the real progress of each employee.
• APTK Spirits — APTK Spirits is a retailer of alcohol, cocktails, cups, and other accessories. They provide complements, cups, packaging, foams, drinks, the club, custom bottle kits, kits, and gifts. It is an online e-commerce platform.