Top 10 Internet VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Uruguay in October 2023

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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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• 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.
• Volta Trucks — Electric trucks for sustainable cities, with people at the heart of everything we do.
• VerSe Innovation — VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

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• Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
• Vioo — Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand. The solution automates the creation of visual content.
• 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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• 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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• Carrot — Carrot is Mexico’s first car sharing service that provides fuel-efficient automobile reservations to members, billable by the hour or day. Carrot members pay a monthly membership fee in addition to car reservation charges which include gas and insurance. Carrot’s service is the first of its kind in Mexico, giving rise to an agreement with theMexico City government for special parking permits and access to electric cars. At the end of 2015, Carrot had a fleet of 82 cars in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Puebla.
• gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simplifies the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing efficiency and transparency.
• Inventive Power — Inventive Power develops innovative technologies in generation and efficient use of energy, aimed to maximize the reduction of energy costs in the commercial and industrial sector. Their IP technology is a solar concentrator that generates useful thermal energy in industrial or commercial applications where large amounts of hot water, steam or heatinput are required; at a much lower cost to generate it with fossil fuels and with a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases.

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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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• Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

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• nocnoc — Start selling in the largest cross-border store in Latin America and reach 485 million consumers in less than 48 hours.
• Boki — We are a team that has excelled in software, pedagogy, video games, the publishing world, and very motivated to positively impact the lives of millions of children. We have created Boki, a tool that is improving the learning experience in schools in Uruguay, Chile, and México, returning the natural enthusiasm to learn of thousands of schoolchildren. Boki can be understood as a “Netflix” with educational content, which includes challenging and really fun activities and exercises that help children learn while enjoying, in a playful and interactive way. Boki helps teachers to prepare the class, it is compatible with multiple platforms and easily adapts to national curricula.
• TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.

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• Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.

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• Webdox — Webdox is a SaaS CLM focused on large and medium companies in LATAM and the US. Webdox control automates and optimizes the entire contract lifecycle for all kinds of contract types with different features for the whole contract lifecycle, including contract request, contract drafting, validation, e-signature, contract execution, contract changemanagement, contract repository, and reports.The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Region Metropolitana, Chile.
• gurucargo.com — Gurucargo is an innovative full-service “one-stop-shop” technology platform that does for cargo shipping what Expedia.com did for travel industry – create an “end-to-end” solution that simplifies the booking of sea, land and air based cargo shipping, with complete supply chain visibility at every step of the way, reducing costs in time and money,while maximizing efficiency and transparency.
• Onko Solutions — Onko Solutions is committed to the development of accurate and innovative solutions that contribute to the detection, prevention and treatment of cancer in underserved communities.