Top 30 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Peru in October 2023

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• Koltin — Koltin offers preventive, accessible health plans focused on people.
• Birdstop — Fully automated aerial imaging on your field assets through AI powered drones.
• Lex — Lex is a lo-fi, text-based social app for womxn, trans, genderqueer, intersex, two spirit, and non-binary people for meeting lovers and friends. Lex—short for lexicon—is the only social app where the text comes first and the selfies, second.

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• Shenji Changhua — Shenji Changhua is a biotechnology company focusing on neurological diseases such as ALS.
• Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
• Life Biosciences — Lingfu Bio is a service provider of the whole industry chain of experimental animals and animal models.

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• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
• Instashowing — Instashowing is a startup with an online real estate tool designed to help agents easily schedule home showings.
• Connect Homes — The Connect Homes housing system comes from a decade of research on making high-modern, green architecture affordable to the mass market. The results are low-cost modular prefab homes that mimic the spatial and aesthetic qualities of mid-century modern California residential architecture. These homes can be shipped anywhere, adapted to anyenvironment, and are move-in ready a few weeks later. Connect Homes modules emerge from our San Bernardino factory 95% complete -- with all interior and exterior finishes, doors, windows, appliances, plumbing, mechanical, fire sprinkler systems, finish flooring, and roofing already installed. The homes can be shipped worldwide on the intermodal shipping container network and can be installed in as little as two weeks.

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• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
• Ulab Systems — Take back control of your treatment plan with uLab - the treatment planning software and aligner system designed for orthodontists. Learn more now.

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• AnFin — AnFin is a venture-backed fintech company building the most innovative products in the wealth management and brokerage space. We strongly believe in the power of the stock market to transform developing economies. Therefore, we want to democratize access to stocks, bonds, and structured investment products. By leveraging scalable technology andstrategic partnerships, AnFin plans to build an ecosystem of products that connect stakeholders in a seamless way.
• Kambio — Kambio helps custom home builders build and sell more homes in less time using our real-time 3D home configurator platform and modular architecture for prefab.
• Treinta — Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.

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• Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
• Capitalizarme — Capitalizarme.com is an E2E marketplace, just like Amazon or MeLi, but for real estate assets. They basically choose the best investment options and simplify the process to make a responsible investment. Discover opportunities and investment guidance, buy and manage online with just a few clicks using state-of-the-art tech.
• Katapult Commerce — Katapult Commerce eliminates the complexity and high costs of creating and operating the digital channel for supermarkets and pharmacies, integrating physical stores into the online operation with a platform that optimizes and manages everything, from online sales to ordering and delivery.

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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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• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !
• 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.
• Alvin — Alvin is a powerful mobile app that automatically creates and adjusts your budget to help you meet your goals.

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• Moova — Moova is a technological platform that captures idle last mile logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source ofincome. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America by reimagining the last mile for a sustainable world.
• 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.
• 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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• Qashier — One Qashier solution streamlines POS & payment operations empowering businesses to thrive in the digital economy. Be More with Qashier.
• Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
• Bluu Seafood — Cultivated Seafood Made From Fish Cells. Tastier, Healther and More Sustainable.

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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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• Wicuk — Wicuk is an ecosystem that seeks to develop successful gastronomic ventures. It has six verticals that provide integrated support: Brands, Dark Kitchen, Lab, Supply Chain, Store and Networking.Dark Kitchen: Kitchens fully implemented with licenses and permits ready to start operating with minimal investment and low risk.Brands: Own digitalgastronomic brands and those associated with us.Store: Physical stores and Dark Stores with presence in different channels.Lab: Center for the creation, implementation and execution of virtual brands, continuously innovating, advising and training.Supply Chain: Consolidated supply chain between the ecosystem and third parties.Networking: Gastronomic digital platform with the aim of sharing experiences, contacts and ideas, promoting and helping the entrepreneur.

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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.
• Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
• Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.

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• GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
• Vantient — Bring your people together with engaging experiences, and collect zero-party data consentingly. Build trusted data relationships with your community.
• Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.

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• Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
• Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
• Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.

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• Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
• Instacrops — Instacrops is a AgTech platform that integrates technologies and provides services for farmers. Instacrops is a virtual assistant that combines high power Software and IoT modules to optimize irrigation, weather forecasts, detect pest and diseases, maximize fertilizers, giving real time recommendations for farmers with actionable insights.
• Manzana verde — Balanced meal delivery according to your goals. We are in Piura, Lima, and Mexico City. Manzana Verde is a Meal delivery and nutritional advice monthly subscription platform that achieves nutritional goals.

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• Palomma — Palomma is a tech company that saves merchants in the community money on card fees by allowing customers to pay directly from their bank at checkout. It enables users to make secure payments with their bank account with a single click and earn rewards in affiliated businesses. With secure, one-click bank payments, merchants can reduce processingcosts while increasing conversion.
• 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.
• MEDU Protection — Sustainable protective clothing that can be washed 50 times without losing their protective properties, reducing cost and waste.

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• Integral — Compliantly connecting health data as securely and as quickly as possible.
• Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
• Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.

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• Humata — Humata is an AI research assistant that provides answers to questions asked by the user on files such as technical papers and reports. It also allows users to upload files and documents.
• Openly — Openly provides exceptional insurance by delivering truly comprehensive coverage through independent agents without surprise or concern. We do this because we exist to make insurance remarkably simple.
• LastMile AI — Prototype and productionize generative AI apps. Built for engineers, not just ML practitioners

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• Kinjo — Kinjo changes the way we approach education and screen time, harnessing the power of kid-favorite platforms (like Roblox!) to help them learn and grow.
• UBITS — UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America
• Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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• Sonect — SONECT enables every shop in the neighborhood to act as a “virtual ATM” using just a smartphone or its POS-system. It democratizes the process of cash distribution in order to reduce the “cost of cash”. SONECT is a location-based matchmaking platform that connects those who want to withdraw cash with those who want to deposit cash – typically alocal shop owner. It builds a community around local businesses and helps them generate physical leads. Using SONECT:• local shops will not only have less cash to manage at the end of the day but also earn a commission & attract new customers by offering a new service and having access to an additional marketing channel• individuals can avoid an extra trip to the ATM and withdraw money without fees at the click of a button – wherever they are: in a restaurant, a bar, their favorite local shop, … • banks can reduce ATM operation costs & complement their ATM network – or even enter new markets without investing significant capital. On top of that, they can leverage a new revenue channel and get closer to their customers.
• LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani) — LoveLocal (formerly known as m.Paani) is the only app you need for all your daily needs fulfilled by your trusted local shops online. Now enjoy the convenience of online ordering, Fast home delivery, digital payments - all at a tap of a button. Shop anytime, anywhere from a vast range of products including fresh fruits, vegetables, groceries, OTCMedicines, Home and Personal Care Products, snacks, and much more. So LoveLocal!
• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !

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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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• Wisecut — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
• Take It Down — This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.
• Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).

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• Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
• Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
• Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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• Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.
• Shinkansen — Shinkansen enables fintechs and startups to transport money automatically to consumers, suppliers, banks, and conventional networks. They free engineers, automate treasury, and reduce the cost of making transfers. Shinkansen is headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.
• Cometa — Cometa provides technological and financial tools to increase access to quality education in Mexico and Latin America. Take off with the most recent developments in school administration. Maintain complete control over your reconciliation, billing, and operations.

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• Devpass — Transform your team's coding patterns into lifelike practical experiences and bridge the knowledge gap.
• Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
• DORA — Everything you need to know about the future of financial inclusion through rental property management. We solve the iconic Edgar Vivar character Señor Barriga in El Chavo del 8 Show main problem: -Rent collection.

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• Shypyard — Shypyard puts advanced analytics and intelligence in the hands of up-and-coming merchants to accurately forecast and adjust demand, replenish stock, and more.
• Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
• Oyster Technologies — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.

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• Qanlex — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
• Sidcodx — Sidcodx is a tool that collects and digitalizes data automatically in the job site to speed up critical construction processes such as progress control and the formwork stage.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance

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• LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
• Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
• OlaClick (YC W21) — Create electronic menu boards for your restaurant or store. It is totally free. QR codes menu or digital menu boards. Digitalize your menu in an instant and start receiving orders !

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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.