Top 35 Hospitality Startup Investors in Mexico in October 2023

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• KUKUN — KUKUN provides rental and hospitality services.

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• Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
• 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.
• Hero Guest — Hero Guest is a digital platform focused on evolving restaurants’ experiences. It improves business profitability through empowered staff, engaged customers, and strategic data. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico.

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• Quinio — Acquire and build e-commerce brands in Latin America
• ExpertPlan — ExpertPlan brings simple, affordable retirement plan solutions to small employers through its innovative use of technology. With continued investment in operating efficiencies and client service, ExpertPlan is a leader in the defined contribution market, providing retirement services for thousands of companies and organizations with billions ofdollars in retirement assets. The firm also offers a full range of consulting services including cash balance retirement plans, defined benefit plans, and defined benefit/defined contribution combination plans. Now a part of the Ascensus family of companies, ExpertPlan continues to be a trusted independent partner for retirement plan solutions and services.
• KUKUN — KUKUN provides rental and hospitality services.

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• Zenfi — Zenfi is an online application that allows its users to track information along with renders alerts and tips to improve credit scores.
• 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.
• Hero Guest — Hero Guest is a digital platform focused on evolving restaurants’ experiences. It improves business profitability through empowered staff, engaged customers, and strategic data. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico.

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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
• Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
• Rocket.Chat — Explore Rocket.Chat, where we put data privacy into every conversation and enable teams to collaborate seamlessly.

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• KUKUN — KUKUN provides rental and hospitality services.

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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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• Casai — Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.
• Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
• NAVIGATE — NAVIGATE is a management consulting firm that helps clients solve their business problems.

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• Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
• Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
• Vest — Vest is an app-based brokerage that wants to provide Latin American savers with access to American assets that are differentiated by product, pricing, and content. Latin Americans are known for saving, but many prefer to do so in cash or in zero-interest savings accounts.

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• Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
• Stark Bank — Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company. It is a financial technology that allows companies to expand their operations by allowing them to make extra transfers, payments, and charges.
• Tani Salud — Tani Salud is a platform that provides quality care and transparent surgery prices for the middle class in Latin America. The company is based in Mexico City.

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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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• Casai — Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.
• Finloup — Finloup is a buy now, pay later FinTech that increases consumer purchasing power and uses Open Banking to ensure responsible spending.
• Clara — End-to-end spend management for companies in Latin America.

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• Saluspot — Saluspot is an interactive community of physicians dedicated to improving the health and welfare within the social networking world of health online.
• Lingokids — Voted #1 Kids Learning App, Lingokids is the best app for kids 2-8 years old! Because when learning is fun, kids love to learn! Check it out!
• Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.

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• Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
• Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
• Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
• 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.

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• Leasity — Leasity is an online platform to manage properties online. They are the main data in the rental contract, and they automate it. They receive rental payments and stay updated at all times about properties.
• Destácame — Destacame is the first behavior-based credit score in Latin America.
• Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.

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• Lizza — Finnu is a financial services technology company based out of Barcelona, Spain, giving its users access to affordable asset-backed consumer loans via its mobile app.Finnu leverages machine learning and alternative phone usage data points, as well as mobile device management (MDM) technology to deliver credit to those, who are usually overlookedby other lenders. With Finnu, users can not only fully digitally apply and receive loans via their phones, but use their phones as collaterals to significantly reduce interest rates. Finnu is backed and supported by top-tier venture capital funds from Europe and Latin America.
• GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
• Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

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• RepRally — RepRally bridges the gap between emerging brands and local retailers.
• 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.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.

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• Loft — Loft is a transactional marketplace for residential real estate that helps manage the home buying and selling process.Founded by repeat entrepreneurs in 2018, Loft is Brazil’s first transactional marketplace for residential real estate, facilitating the purchase and sale of properties on behalf of individuals, brokers, and two publicly listedREITs managed by the company. By leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft is bringing the Brazilian homebuying experience into the e-commerce age while integrating a multitude of adjacent service offerings.Loft was founded in 2018 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Reka AI — Reka is an AI research and product company that develops models to benefit humanity and advance the state-of-the-art.
• GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.

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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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• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
• El Camino Travel — El Camino curates group trips for solo travelers. We empower better travel experiences. Members save $250 on trips.

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• 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.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Flojoy — Flojoy is the leading open-source platform for AI-enhanced test, measurement, and control and the leading Python-based alternative to LabVIEW. Download Flojoy Studio today to connect to over 700 supported benchtop instruments, sensors, motors, cameras, DAQ boards, and DMMs.
• 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.
• H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.

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• 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.
• Naya Homes — Proptech, real estate, vacation and short-term rentals, consumer finance
• 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.

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• Aliada — Aliada is a marketplace for finding a trusted cleaning professional and improving the working conditions of the domestic service industry. With Aliada, in under one minute, you will be matched with a reference-checked, and quality assured cleaning professional who will leave you a happy and clean home. Aliada makes your life easier, at the sametime it helps Mexican women build a better life for themselves. At an affordable price and without contracts or hidden fees, customers will receive a trusted highly rated aliada. For their cleaning professionals, becoming an aliada can be a life changing opportunity. All of their aliadas receive medical insurance, economic incentives, and educational opportunities for their professional and personal advancement. At aliada, their mission is to impact over 2 million domestic workers who work in sub-optimal conditions. They believe that by investing in women who are committed to their own advancement and that of their families, They can do their part to contribute to a better Mexican society.

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• Etched.ai — Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference.
• Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.
• Marker Learning — The wait is over: we provide a clinically valid, professional learning disability assessment and action plan in just one month

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• Casai — Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.
• 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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• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
• Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.

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• Casai — Casai is a startup in Latin America, merging smart home technology, and premium accommodation to innovate the hospitality industry. It is a real estate platform for fully-furnished premium apartments in Mexico City and is a hospitality concept designed for the nomadic generation. Casai curates beautiful apartments that merge the design andcomforts of a boutique hotel with the technology of a San Francisco home and the local ambiance of a vacation rental.
• Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
• NAVIGATE — NAVIGATE is a management consulting firm that helps clients solve their business problems.

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• 011h — 011h Sustainable Construction SL. Building a green future.
• Seabery — Seabery is a technological SME that helps professionals and trainees involved in industrial careers enhance their skills through the use of augmented training and simulations.The Ed-Tech resources management platform, Seabery Augmented Training, is a combination of 4D augmented reality, simulations, cloud-learning, teacher managementsoftware, analysis modules, and apps that supports several industries such as healthcare and military. The teacher software manages the training process and allows instructors to develop content, monitor in real time the activity of each student and evaluate it, and generate reports. The e-learning platform contains theoretical and multimedia content and can be accessed from anywhere and from any mobile device or PC. Video games and simulated environments allow users to train themselves. Augmented reality allows users to ""transform"" a physical object's behavior depending on their actions.The Augmented Training Technology received the Auggie Award for the best Augmented Reality Technology solution for enterprises at the Augmented World Expo AWE2014 in May 2014. It also won “the most innovative product for education” award by Worlddidac in June 2014. Seabery received “the most visited booth” and “the most promising technology” award at Weldindia and “the most innovative technology” award at HungExpo in Hungary.Seabery was founded by Alejandro Villaran and Basilio Marquínez in January 2008 and is based in Pesquero, Spain.
• Samara — Samara is a cleantech company.

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• Reservamos — We are a multi-modal booking engine for travel based in Mexico. We cover over 90,000 routes and 3700 destinations. Reservamos is the best way to compare and book buses, flights, and ride sharing options anywhere in Mexico + US with one search.
• Mediasmart — mediasmart Mobile is the first Spanish company focusing on the real time optimization of mobile advertising (both on smartphones and tablets) using its proprietary technology platform.mediasmart Mobile was one of the first movers into the mobile programmatic ecosystem, having launched in Jan 2012. It gives access to global mobile inventory -both in mobile apps and web - from more than twenty seven ad exchanges/SSPs, and it has successfully proven throughout the years that its algorithms can effectively manage big data to deliver results. A proven and scalable technology, currently handling more than 800,000 ad requests per second, mediasmart can be used directly by clients on a self-serve basis or via APIs, and it handles both RTB and programmatic direct buys.Mediasmart has offices in Madrid, London and Paris.
• Giant Swarm — Implement and manage your Kubernetes infrastructure with Giant Swarm. We will guide you along the Kubernetes learning curve. Get your containers in production.

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• Kocomo — Kocomo is an early-stage proptech startup, backed by leading U.S., European, and Latin American investors. Leveraging the power of technology, Kocomo has created a transparent vertically-integrated solution that empowers people to purchase, enjoy, and sell co-ownership stakes in luxury homes, starting in Mexico. At Kocomo, we believe your memoriesdeserve a home. We are on a mission to make the dream of vacation home ownership an attainable reality for more people around the world.
• Filo — Filo, Edtech, transactional learning model by online tutors available for students in less than 60 seconds. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filo.student&hl=en&gl=US

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• Licify — Licify, a procurement cloud-based platform specialized in the construction industry, has redefined interactions between developers, contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers. It creates a community developing transparent and efficient realtionships allthrough the value chain. This improves the procurement and supply processes, generating savingsand increasing profitability.
• Mi Compa — Ominchannel Chatbot to Make Financial services accesible for the underserved
• KUKUN — KUKUN provides rental and hospitality services.

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• Flyway — Owning a pied-à-terre in a city you regularly visit is unnecessarily difficult. You end up wasting money on rentals and hotels, since buying a whole property is simply not affordable. We created Flyway to change that.You can now co-own a second home, in your favorite city, at a fraction of the price.A share of 1/12 gives you up to 30 daysof stay annually in your city home. Want more? You can buy more shares! You own the asset, not a block of time. Flyway deals with all the hassle of ownership, so that you simply land and enjoy your city getaway.HOW WE DO IT BEHIND THE SCENESWe identify top-notch properties, in top locations that we can supercharge with smart features. We then set up an LTD (Limited Liability Company) that acquires the property. That LTD is split into 12 equal shares, and each share costs 1/12 of the total house price. A buyer can buy up to half of the property (6 shares). WHAT YOU GETYou get ownership of a second home suited to your budget and needs. Whether you use it for leisure, work or you simply believe in the property’s potential as an investment, you have the rights to the asset. You can use and resell your share when you want. Meanwhile, you get to enjoy upscale, smart living in very prime properties, downtown, without any of the headaches of maintenance, cleaning and bill handling. Flyway acts as the Property Manager, taking all the hassle of ownership away from you, so that you simply land and enjoy your home.
• Muni Tienda — Muni Tienda is the first community group buying platform in Latin America, the system aims to provide convenience and savings to the region's middle class households.