Top 35 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Argentina in October 2023

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• Z1 — Z1 is a digital banking app made for teenagers and young adults where teenagers can learn financial independence. Founded in 2020 by João Pedro Thompson (ex-Vereda Educação), Thiago Achatz (ex-Grow Pay), Sophie Secaf (ex-BOX 1824) and Mateus Craveiro (ex-Pagar.me), the company has already conquered important investors: the Maya Capital fund and 99founders , Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas. Now, the company announces that it has received a contribution from the American accelerator Y Combinator, which has companies such as Airbnb, Twitch, and Rappi in its portfolio.
• Glass | Government Ecosystems — GLASS is a software ecosystem powering high-performing governments. We build purposeful, transformative technology for XXI century governments, using Artificial Intelligence to digitize, streamline and scale good processes and decision-making.Regardless of size, public systems, or challenges, we make it easy for governments to do what'sright, empowering them to run efficiently and to offer high-quality public services that are universally accessible to all.We believe that a new blueprint for good governance is possible, and are creating the tools to make that happen, today.
• menta tech — menta ayuda a boleteras a aumentar ingresos, reducir costos y gestionar datos, con integraciones simples que proveen seguridad y eficiencia.

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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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• Kwara — Kwara turns analog credit unions into modern digital banks.
• Goodvest — Goodvest is an investment app (life insurance) that builds a better world, in line with your values and promoting performance.
• Vibrant Planet — Data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of climate change.

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• Seedz — Seedz is a platform that brings farmers, resellers, rural producers, and agricultural entrepreneurs together boost agri - industry.
• Pure Ocean Algae — Pure Ocean Algae is a biotechnology company that integrates value chains from macro-algae and other marine resources. The company has over the winter of 2019/20 deployed its first trial lines of Palmaria palmata to sea, with initial results being extremely positive. It has also taken primary research in tank-based vegetative production andsucceeded in developing a pilot commercial plant that can produce commercial volumes of Palmaria palmata, at levels approaching 100% per week.
• Ascribe Bioscience — Ascribe develops natural crop protection products that help farmers reduce disease and increase yield without harming the environment or human health.

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• Nilus — Nilus is an impact-driven company that aims to eradicate malnutrition by applying technology to deliver affordable and healthy food to low income people. Nilus is creating a new value chain for the base of the pyramid, based on food rescue, disintermediation and inclusive design. Our vision is to become the largest and most impactful food companyin the Americas, by servicing the more than 360 million people living in poverty.
• Escadrille — Escadrille is an apparel brand that offers a range of high-end cycling and lifestyle apparel items. Its apparel include jersey, aero suit, sorts, vest, and arm warmers that enable cyclists to get the prefect fit product and enjoy the ride. It was launched in January 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• Advanced Catheter Therapies — Advanced Catheter Therapies, an early stage research and development medical device company, has a portfolio of innovative catheter technologies targeting vascular disease including thrombosis, inflammation, occlusions and restenosis. ACT is developing a revolutionary device for restenosis (re-blockage of blood vessels) and as well as catheters forendovascular debulking (clearing of blocked blood vessels).

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• SPAKIO — Renta de mini bodegas en CDMX con servicio a domicilio. Guarda lo que necesites de forma segura. El mejor precio desde $299 x mes
• Mattilda — Mattilda helps schools manage and automate payments.
• Kitchenita — Kitchenita is a Buenos Aires based startup that creates data-driven food concepts for delivery. Through data analysis and proprietary technology, we launch online native food brands that we position in the top 10 of its vertical in less than a month.

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• Wirelane — Wirelane is a full service provider in the field of electric mobility. The company is currently active in 5 countries (D, F, S, NL, CH) and has experience with large industrial customers (VW, Vattenfall, Bouygues and others). In addition to their software solutions, they also offer specially developed charging stations that set standards throughthe use of advanced technology such as radar sensors and tap payment. The company works with customers from all industry sectors to develop solutions for tomorrow’s mobility needs. Wirelane is one of Europe’s leading specialist providers of hardware, software and app solutions.
• Charquiqui — Charquiqui specializes in manufacturing red meat products intended to offer cured meat snacks. It offers retail products and packages of red meat that contains beef bites, cured in natural brine, and partially dehydrated on grills.
• 13 Fronteras — Latin American Cuisine

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• Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
• Kitchenita — Kitchenita is a Buenos Aires based startup that creates data-driven food concepts for delivery. Through data analysis and proprietary technology, we launch online native food brands that we position in the top 10 of its vertical in less than a month.
• Addionics — Addionics creates the next generation of rechargeable batteries by using smart 3D structures to improve battery performances

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• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
• Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
• Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.

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• Instock — Instock offers a gravity-defying ecommerce fulfillment.
• ZipperTax — AI copilot for tax professionals and taxpayers
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups

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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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• Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
• Strise — Strise is signaling a new era of enterprise software and organizational change, transforming how companies work and empowering individual growth through knowledge. We believe in the AI-enabled financial institution without data silos where users and data are working together to solve even the most complex business problems.
• Opna — Opna is a financing platform for climate projects that remove carbon and protect natural ecosystems. Opna offers data, proprietary risk assessments, and efficient capital structures, helping companies to translate net-zero committed capital from financial institutions, and corporates into direct financing across a project's lifecycle.

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• Federato — Insurers can no longer afford to underutilize data. RiskOps means more precise + productive underwriting live in only 8 weeks... yes, seriously. Thinking yet?
• Regal.io — Regal is the first branded, event-driven phone & SMS sales platform. Regal's Journey Builder and Branded Caller ID drive 35%+ answer rates, 25%+ revenue increase.
• AudiencePlus — AudiencePlus is pioneering the industry's first owned media software for marketers, enabling companies to build, engage, and monetize an owned audience. We believe that every company is becoming a media company, and are creating software, content, and community to help.

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• 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.
• Exactly — Exactly is a decentralized, non-custodial and open-source protocol that provides an autonomous fixed and variable interest rate market enabling users to exchange the time value of their assets and completing the DeFi credit market.
• Comp — Compareemcasa is a comparison website developed to help consumers when deciding what services to hire online. It enables consumers to compare insurance services, loans, and more. The company's focus is on financial products and services enabling Latin American households to save time and money.Compareemcasa is headquartered in São Paulo,Brazil and was founded on 2009.

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• Sayurbox — Sayurbox memanen dan mengantarkan Sayuran dan Buah Organik Segar tanpa pestisida dari petani lokal secara online. Mulai dari kacang panjang, buncis, tomat, caisim, dll.
• Greeneye Technology — Spray Less, Grow More. Our mission is to dramatically reduce chemicals usage while increasing productivity and profitability for farmers.
• Vestaron — Vestaron is leading a revolution in crop protection with peptide-empowered bioinsecticides. Learn more about our products and the science behind them.

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• twig bio — twig bio operates as a bioengineering startup. twig bio using AI and robotics to find sustainable replacements for harmful ingredients.
• WNWN Food Labs — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• 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.
• Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service

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• Peakr — We are a digital platform for purchasing departments that will address key pain points in the procurement process, from challenges in expanding the supplier network to the ability to obtain Instant liquidity on their invoices through banking solutions.
• Zuru Latam — First on-demand digital insurance platform focused on cargo insurance for SMEs in latam that allows you to quote and contract policies
• Airbag Technologies — Airbag is a SaaS and a Mobile Telematics solution looking to reduce transit accidents caused by texting and driving, fatigue and drivers’ behavior. We develop high end technology for transportation companies to reduce the risk before it happens and give instant feedback to their drivers to reward them for good performance. With all the data wecreate personalized risk profiles for transportation and insurance companies to reduce risk in the operations and increase profit.

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• OXIO — OXIO is a carrier-as-a-service platform designed for brands and enterprises. The company has built the modern overlay network entirely as a 100% cloud-based solution, blending the wireless connectivity of many providers. OXIO's B2B SaaS solution unlocks the full and uncompromising control of the wireless experience for brands, includingactionable intelligence that drives clear value and results.OXIO was founded in 2018 and based in New York City, New York.
• Fudo — Fudo is a web-based management system for restaurants, bars and cafes, which allows operation from anywhere, at any time. It is present in Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Argentina serving more than 8.000 customers.
• 180° Insurance — Uma nova forma de distribuir e consumir seguros no Brasil.

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• alfii — Alfii is a digital HR management solution for startups and SMEs. One place to manage employee data, payroll, and time off. Get started in minutes.
• FunnelStory — Revenue Data Platform for GTM Teams
• dope.security — No stopovers. No outages. Eliminate the datacenter and perform all security checks directly on the endpoint, providing stronger privacy, reliability, and performance speeds up to 4x faster.

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• Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
• Axenya — Axenya is a digital health platform company.
• Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.

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• NuCicer — NuCicer is a crop genetics company expertise, pioneering ultra-high protein varieties of chickpea.
• Nutropy — Nutropy produces real milk ingredients, identical to those produced by cows, to develop premium cheese alternatives that taste just as good as cow’s cheese but are more sustainable, healthier and better for the animals. No animals involved, full cheese experience.
• InPlanet — Carbon removal projects with impact! We focus on carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering together with farmers in the tropics.

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• Angle Health — Digital-First Health Plans For The Modern Employee
• Senniors — Trusted home care for the elderly and dependents. We combine humanity and technology.
• Bloom — Bloom is a Canadian fintech that provides home equity release solutions to 55+ homeowners, allowing them to access the money they've accumulated in their houses to help finance their retirement needs.

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• 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.
• TurtleTree — TurtleTree is unlocking a new generation of dairy-based functional nutrition using modern precision fermentation technology.

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• Z1 — Z1 is a digital banking app made for teenagers and young adults where teenagers can learn financial independence. Founded in 2020 by João Pedro Thompson (ex-Vereda Educação), Thiago Achatz (ex-Grow Pay), Sophie Secaf (ex-BOX 1824) and Mateus Craveiro (ex-Pagar.me), the company has already conquered important investors: the Maya Capital fund and 99founders , Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas. Now, the company announces that it has received a contribution from the American accelerator Y Combinator, which has companies such as Airbnb, Twitch, and Rappi in its portfolio.
• Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
• Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now

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• WOW EARN — WOW EARN connects users to the blockchain, enabling them to mine, earn, and trade via decentralised mining, earning, and trading systems.
• New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.

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• Tomorrow Foods — Producción de proteínas en base vegetal

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• Attn: Grace — Attn: Grace is a sustainable wellness brand designed for women. Starting with bladder leakage, they're creating thoughtful, more sustainable solutions for life’s inconvenient truths, one challenge at a time.
• Prime Roots — Prime Roots is on a mission to provide a better cut of meat for every type of eater. Rooted in koji, Prime Roots is able to replicate the taste and texture of meat without any of the environmental costs of animal proteins.
• Carbice Corporation — Carbice is the first no-compromise thermal interface material. It achieves all the advantages of both solid and liquid thermal interface materials without any of the pitfalls.

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• FeedVax — Transforming fish vaccines with a simple and profitable solution.
• Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
• Tomorrow Foods — Producción de proteínas en base vegetal

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• Peptyde Bio — Launched by the Danforth Technology Company, Peptyde Bio combines nature and artificial intelligence to develop nature-based biofungicides.
• SentiAR — SentiAR is digital health, software device company adding a new dimension to clinical practice in interventional procedures. Spun out of Washington University, we are developing the first 3D visualization platform using real-time holography of the patient's anatomy and catheter location, "floating" over the patients, with a goal toprovide the clinician and patient a faster, safer delivery of care.SentiAR’s mission is to transform the experience for both patient and clinician in interventional procedures with a 3D augmented reality platform featuring real-time holographic visualization of the patient’s actual anatomy, “floating” over the patient.The visualization is fully controllable “hands-free” by the clinician, providing an ergonomic breakthrough for the treatment and analysis of cardiac arrhythmias within an interventional catheter lab environment. SentiAR is developing the platform for eventual FDA submission.
• Impetus Agriculture — Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products.

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• Hyfé — Hyfé Foods is a biotech company producing ingredients by leveraging fungal fermentation to upcycle water byproducts from food manufacturers.
• PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.
• PartnerSlate — PartnerSlate is an online platform that helps food and beverage brands make the right strategic partnerships to get their next product to market. Brands can discover, connect, and build relationships with contract manufacturers and other food industry partners across North America.

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• PoLoPo — PoLoPo is a biotech company that produces proteins on a large scale and according to specifications. PoLoPo develops a "superAA" plant by employing directed metabolic engineering techniques and fully utilizing plants' capacity as various metabolite and green protein factories. A significant amount of free amino acids can be producedby the superAA. The increased production of amino acids is then translated into an increase in the scale at which proteins are produced in plant organs.
• Immi — immi has 6g of net carbs, is packed with 21g of protein and 18g of fiber, is keto-friendly, and is entirely plant-based.
• Good Dog Food — Good Dog Food creates cultivated meat for healthy pets and a healthy planet

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• AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
• Invoke AI — InvokeAI is the Generative AI tool for professional creatives. The company is a creative engine for Stable Diffusion models that empowers professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using AI technologies.
• Atomicwork — Atomicwork is an employee experience platform that makes it incredibly easy for your teams to find information and get help at work.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• 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.
• BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.

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• Avenida Compras — Avenida Compras operates an e-commerce site to sell products online. The products include home products, clothing and some electronic devices. Alan Kraus, Andres Freire, Federico Malek, Pablo Orlando, Pablo Simon Casarino, and Santiago Bilinkis founded Avenida Compras on July 1, 2013, with its headquarters in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Itoperates as a subsidiary of Avenida.
• TROCAFONE — Trocafone is the first end-to-end e-commerce marketplace of LATAM that enable people to buy and sell used electronics hassle free, focused on smartphones in Brazil. At Trocafone they improve the selling and buying experience by acquiring the devices from sellers, refurbishing and re-selling them as pre-owned certified. Buyers enjoy the greatdeals of a peer-to-peer marketplace combined with the service, convenience, and safety of a retail store. Sellers enjoy a streamlined experience since It takes seconds to sell an item, and shipping is effortless with Trocafone's pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers.
• OpenZeppelin — The standard for secure blockchain applications