Top 30 Startup Investors in Ecuador in October 2023

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• Koban — Koban is a fintech company that aims to reduce complexity and revolutionize the way money works in Latam. The majority of Latin Americans that remain unbanked and the existing banking customers deserve a better choice. They offer their users digital financial services that are easy to use, innovative and accessible to move, transact, save andunderstand money all in a highly secure digital platform. In Koban they put customers first. They are passionate about empowering people’s financial lives through technology and design and driven by their mission to promote financial inclusion in their countries.
• Airpals — Gig worker-friendly startup, providing modern same-day B2B courier services
• Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.

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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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• COR — COR is the next-generation solution for creative and professional teams that intelligently suggests how to manage your projects, teams, and finances.
• Instaleap LLC — We help eGroceries to optimize order management, gain picking and packing efficiency, deliver on time and delight customers.One single platform with you every step of the way: from checkout to delivery and data insights.
• Home Delivery Service (HDS Global) — Creating the future of ecommerce

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• YoFio — YoFio
• Koibanx — KOIBANX is a software company focused on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Services.Koibanx solutions cover a wide range of use cases defined by their Transparency, Security, LowCost and Efficiency of applying Blockchain technology.These new decentralized software solutions have the potential to disrupt several industries rangingfrommarketing rewards to financial inclusion, allowing a democratic access to new opportunities formillions of new consumers across the world.
• 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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• XXII GROUP — With more than 50 employees, XXII designs, develops and markets a SaaS platform for deploying and configuring algorithms for video stream analysis: XXIICORE. Our solution has already convinced companies in many sectors and local authorities, whose teams measure the benefits of video analysis assisted by our algorithms every day.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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• 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.

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• Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
• Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
• Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.

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• Jupe — Jupes are off-grid dwellings built to be mobile, from deep nature retreats to concert festivals. Each Jupe is electrified with charging outlets, climate controls, and a temperature-moderated queen mattress.
• Offsight — Factory ready project management software for the modular and offsite construction industry. We solve the delivery, quality, traceability and communication challenges of modular, offsite and project based manufacturing.
• SoleSavy — Get tools and resources to grow your sneaker collection without paying resell, and join a tight-knit sneaker community you can trust.

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• CO2offset — CO2offset is an advanced SaaS solution that measures the carbon preserved in forests for its nurturing and development.
• DeepNeuronic — DeepNeuronic is a tech startup that specializes in building machine learning-based products to resolve and automate daily problems.
• Enthec Solutions — Enthec Solutions offers products on security monitoring, DevSecOps, and cloud.

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• Leviia — Leviia is the cloud storage company that fights to protect the environment and ensure reforestation.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
• Zenly — zenly your world

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• OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
• Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

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• Cooltra — Cooltra is the leading company in sustainable mobility solutions on two wheels in Europe. Born in Barcelona 15 years ago and co-founded by the entrepreneur Timo Buetefisch, it is currently present in 6 European countries (Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Portugal and the Czech Republic), and has a workforce of close to 400 employees. Cooltra has afleet of more than 16,000 vehicles, of which 64% are electric scooters that operate with a zero-emissions footprint. The company offers sharing services, such as the rental of scooters and electric bicycles by the minute, as well as renting services for both individuals and for companies and public administrations.
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• Invivox — INVIVOX is the first worlwide plateform connecting doctors for a practical in situ medical training in 1 to 1 or in very small group. Invivox facilitates practical trainings between doctors all over the world for the ultimate benefit of the patients
• Quinten Health — Simulating Real-World to accelerate and secure health products development, approval, and reimbursement
• HoopCare — HoopCare supports your organization to build efficient Preoperative Clinic Services to improve health and safety for each patient scheduled for an elective surgical procedure. Advanced practice providers, under the direction of physicians, provide appropriate, customized testing, evaluation and education to each patient based on their individual needs.

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• El Cambur — El Medio del Centro
• El Meme — Agencia de Marketing Digital / Productora de Contenidos Digitales Audiovisuales | El Meme
• GkillCity — GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims tocreate more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.

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• Colab.re — Colab.re is a citizen-to-government engagement platform, where citizens socially interact to report city's daily issues, suggest urban improvements and rate public services. On the other end, they offer governments a freemium CRM and Workflow management tool. They currently (march 2016) have +150k users in Brazil, +100 clients includingmunicipalities, state governments, federal departments and utility companies. They believe in creating better cities for the people, with the people.
• El Meme — Agencia de Marketing Digital / Productora de Contenidos Digitales Audiovisuales | El Meme
• GkillCity — GKillCity is a digital, countercultural citizens’ communication project. It was founded in 2011, in Guayaquil, and 152 editions have been published since, with contributions of over 290 collaborators from all over the world. New media in Ecuador is almost unexplored, and Gkillcity.com wants become the iconic digital media of Ecuador. It aims tocreate more audio content and mobile applications, and also make use of digital TV channels.

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• Otis AI — Otis is the first AI-powered virtual assistant that helps run and optimize your digital marketing cross-platform, at scale and at a budget that works for your business.
• IndieFlow — IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. The platform provides a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage creative projects, distribute to streaming platforms, collect roylaties, register music with royaltycollection societies, promote music, book gigs, receive payments and more.
• Autority.io — Owning a car is amazing, but administering it is a hustle. Owners are overwhelmed with the amount of services that need to keep up: insurance, parkings, tolls, fines, maintenance, tires, registration, gas, among others, and everything is done independently and decentralized.At Autority, we’ve built an App were we centralize services and benefitsrelated to a vehicle. We’ve built a network of AAA carshops were users have access to free perks and discounts, we’ve integrated parking lots to make users entry and exit cashless, we give users alerts on fines they’ve received, we inform users on their use of tolls preventing them getting fined, we are able to display their insurance information and benefits, we leverage discounts on gas, and the best, we keep a digital track of everything guaranteeing our client a better resale price of his car.

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• Jüsto — Jüsto is an online delivery-only grocery store chain that offers a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meat products, beauty products, and house supplies that can be delivered at every consumers' doorstep. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City.
• protera — Protera is advancing the science of protein engineering to address some of the most critical problems and opportunities in food, agriculture, the environment and human health. We streamline protein design and development with MADI, our proprietary deep learning algorithm, to predict high value protein products and enzymes with unprecedented speed.Our in-house lab generates small quantities of the new predicted structures to validate their desired performance. Upon lab validation, we collaborate with our clients on next steps to move from pilot to industrial scale production.
• LiveKuna — Working directly with Ecuadorian farmers to create food that's healthy, tastes good and does good. Quinoa and Chia Snacks and Cereals. Gluten Free Flours. High Protein & Fibre Pastas. Superfood Blends with Probiotics. Organic Seeds and Grains. #SnackinOnSuperfoods

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• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• ALPHS — THE ALPHS is an Indian-Italian lifestyle brand which operates as a specialty online retailer. It was founded in 2021 in Bengaluru, India. It serves customers worldwide, offers limited premium apparels, and lifestyle products which includes fragrances made in Italy. To ensure authenticity, their genuine products are sold exclusively through theirofficial website as mentioned in their terms of service. It gets online on big events and are available to purchase for a limited duration of 7 days only, thus selling out very quickly. Initially, they burned a great deal of their investor's cash by hiring top-notch verified celebrities on Instagram to promote their products and also did a lot of free giveaways to attract people. As seen on a news website, they were targeting women between the ages of 18 and 35 years from a few top Tier 1 countries which included United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy through paid advertising.As mentioned in an online publication, Ashini started it on Instagram as a fun side project inspired by 'The Originals', a fantasy supernatural American series. Later, it was turned to a professional brand backed by a few mysterious wealthy members, Ashini was one of them. So far, the brand has raised a total of US$345K in funding over 2 seed rounds from 6 investment organizations with Y Combinator as the lead investor, and made a revenue of US $1.35M in their very first year of online presence.
• Teachy — Teachy is a platform that doubles teachers time through artificial intelligence.

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• Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
• Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
• Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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• Cheetrack — Bringing AI to your sales process to close faster and automatically. Check our video https://youtu.be/PNacP44M-WQ
• ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.

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• Holacasa — Holacasa te ayuda a conseguir tu hipoteca, comparando +11 bancos. Sin costo ni compromiso.
• Picker — On-demand delivery gateway.
• ConfiAbogado — ConfiAbogado is an online legal firm that provides legal solutions to low-income people.

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• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
• Mate Fertility — Mate Fertility Is the Fastest Growing Fertility Network That Makes Care Affordable In A Warm Clinic Setting With Compassionate Providers.
• Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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• Cobee — Cobee develops an online platform that automates and simplifies employee benefits management. The company also provides benefits for employees and flexible compensation that makes companies and employees fall in love. It facilitates the management of your benefits plan and allows you to focus on what really matters.Cobee provides a subsidy toyour employees to complement the cost of the benefits you want. They eliminate intermediaries and external suppliers of each of the benefits, thus achieving such as reduce costs and improve service quality for companies and employees, create a single source of information, which facilitates the management, resolution of incidents and the visibility of what happens in each moment, and offer your employees a benefits package centralized on the same VISA card, with real-time visibility of the savings generated and controlled from their Cobee App.Cobee was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
• 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.
• Pacto — Pacto provides technology to restaurants and bars in order to improve the customer experience and accelerate business growth. It seeks to be a catalyst for financial inclusion for small and medium-sized food and beverage companies by integrating them into digital commerce through technology-based solutions.

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• Lance — Freelancers! Get a bank account that pays your taxes, automates your savings, and sends you a paycheck.
• Sound Brands — SOUND is born of a desire for a purer, simpler drink—no sweeteners, no fillers, nothing more than just what is needed. In a world crowded by noise and artificiality, we went back to the roots with just high quality organic tea and bubbles. Their promise is to create the best tasting beverage, with the highest quality ingredients and the most honestand transparent business practices.
• Waffle Labs — Waffle Labs is a technology company that reinvents insurance and improves value for consumers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Li, Quentin Coolen, and Sam Barnsley, Waffle Labs is headquartered in New York.

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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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• Procol — Reliable, flexible and simple-to-adopt spend management platform that drives sourcing and procurement excellence.
• Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
• Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.

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• Kovalee — Kovalee is a mobile app publisher. They empower app creators. They partner with app owners through a publishing model and bring their apps to the top of the charts. They provide product enhancement, monetization boost, user acquisition, and app store optimization services.
• EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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• 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.

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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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• ecoworks — Ecoworks uses industrial pre-fabrication, digital processes, and highly efficient energy systems to modernize multi-family houses with up to four floors within a few weeks.
• Mercator AI — Our mission is to give business developers more time to do what they do best, and support them with the insights they need to have informed and productive conversations. We mine and analyze millions of construction data points across the project lifecycle so that our customers can confidently find and qualify projects and partners faster.Mercator is used by Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate, and Manufacturing companies to inform strategic and tactical decision making.Mercator AI is a privately held company that has recently closed a pre-seed round.
• Field Materials, Inc. — Increase Margins and Cut Costs with Digital Procurement