Top 20 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Venezuela (October 2023)

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• Usage AI — Usage AI's automated cloud management tools help companies save time and money in the cloud.
• Vesto — Fintech
• Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.

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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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• DevZero — DevZero is a platform for remote software development. Code in a cloud development environment that's exactly like production, purpose-built and enterprise ready.
• BrainLogic AI — We are a #ConsumerAI company that creates massive-scale, GenAI-first products designed to positively impact emerging markets.
• Carbon Robotics — The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder solves one of agriculture's biggest problems: weed control. Laserweeding kills weeds without herbicides or tilling by harnessing computer vision and thermal energy to identify and destroy weeds at the meristem. It's healthier for crops and land, and safer for farmers.

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• Mooch — Mooch is the last budgeting app you'll ever need. Mooch builds a budget for you based on your personal finances and lifestyle, then automates it every month so you don't have to think about it. The better you are at budgeting and saving money the more rewards you earn from Mooch.
• Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
• Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

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

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• Deskree — Generate a complete and scalable back-end infrastructure with tons of features via a web interface. Infinitely scalable & truly independent.
• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• Series — Series provides full-stack enterprise financial services designed for institutions & enterprises.

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

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• Natilus — Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+.
• Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
• Bionaut Labs — We developed microscale robots to deliver biologics or small molecule therapies locally to targeted disease areas to help patients suffering from severe brain disorders.

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• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
• Zest — Zest helps create and manage Investment DAOs, backed by a real-world LLC. We're a full-suite concierge, offering DAO tooling alongside back-office and compliance support. We remove the inherent complexities surrounding Investment DAOs so ​members can form a global community that compliantly coordinates capital to maximize investmentopportunities together.
• Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.

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• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
• Varo Money — Get access to personal banking services including no monthly fee checking, high-yield savings, cash advances up to $250 and more with Varo Bank.
• Airlift Technologies — Founded in 2019, Airlift is on a mission to build a world of self-empowerment using technology-backed logistics solutions that enable safe, reliable and affordable access to necessities. Airlift scaled Pakistan's largest decentralized transportation network to change the way people move, shifting away from private vehicles towards sharedmobility and affordable mass transport. In 2020, Airlift diversified into last-mile delivery through Airlift Express, delivering essentials across households in 30 minutes across Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Airlift Express spans across food supplies, household supplies, pharmacy, stationery, pet food, fresh fruits and vegetables, small electronics and more. On this mission to enable self-empowerment in the region, Airlift is backed by First Round Capital and has recently raised over $24m in financing.

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

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• 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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• 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.
• Stack — A Stack gives ML datasets version control and collaboration. Simply, Gitlab for datasets.
• 10 Minute Squad — GoPuff for Korea. We deliver groceries in 10 minutes in Seoul through a networks ‘dark stores’.

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• bitBiome — BitBiome is a microbiome analysis company that aims to discover and understand disease-linked microorganisms. Its, single-cell whole-genome analysis platform specifically targets microbes and can be used on uncultured, raw samples, providing unprecedented strain-level quantitative and functional insights.THe company was founded in 2018 and isbased in Japan.
• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM

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• Lumu — Measure compromise in real time with Lumu. Detect incidents and threats before they cause damage. Network detection and response solution built for proficient cybersecurity operations, recommended by industry experts.
• Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge
• 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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• Notissia — Smart Search Your Documents. Built For Financial Due Diligence.
• X (formerly Twitter) — Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as “tweets”. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, Twitter has more than 400 millionmonthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. Twitter’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages. Twitter was launched in 2006 by Twitter's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.
• Noba — Give your team the benefit of inflation-protected savings in digital dollars, backed 1:1 to USD.

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• LUB Foods — Luthman Backlund Foods AB was started in 2013 by Carl Backlund and Niclas Luthman. Since then they have built a team of dedicated and hard-working people around us that all share the same vision - creating snacks and confectionery that is actually good for you and the people you love.THeir ambition is to create a global brand and a wide range ofproducts that adds to the quality of life and well-being of all the snacks and candy-loving people of the world.
• Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
• NICK’S — Swedish-style ice cream is so creamy, so light and so Swedish. Swedish-style is low fat, low calorie, and keto friendly ice cream. But most importantly it's CREAMY ice cream that has only 4-7g of net carbs per serving.

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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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• Optera — Optera helps corporations measure, manage, and reduce their carbon emissions up and down their value chains, backed by comprehensive and trusted data.
• Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
• Numeral — Numeral provides fully automated revenue recognition and transaction-level cash reconciliation for high-volume businesses. The company's automated subledger provides real-time revenue reporting and transaction-level cash reconciliation for the digital payments era.

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• Ello — Ello is an app-based reading coach that listens to your child read from real books, teaches and motivates them, and transforms them into enthusiastic readers.
• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision