Top 15 Life Science VC Funds & Investors in LATAM (October 2023)

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• Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
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• Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.

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• Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
• Sitryx Therapeutics — Sitryx is a biopharmaceutical company focused on regulating cell metabolism to develop first-in-class disease modifying therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immuno-inflammation. The company was co-founded by a team of world-leading scientists from the United States and Europe who have contributed significantly to the field of immunometabolism.Sitryx was founded in 2018 with seed funding from SV Health Investors and raised $30 million Series A funding from an international syndicate of specialist investors including SV Health Investors, Sofinnova Partners, Longwood Fund and GSK. The company has a pipeline of projects at multiple stages of drug discovery. Sitryx is headquartered in Oxford, UK.
• Tenpoint Therapeutics — Tenpoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company pursuing vision-restoring engineered cell-based therapeutics.

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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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• 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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• Frizata — Frizata is the first digitally native, vertical brand in the flexitarian frozen food space.
• Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.

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• Koda Health — At Koda Health, we empower patients to take control of their medical care with our digital advance care planning tools. Our legal and easy-to-use directives seamlessly integrate with your organization's workflow, ensuring your patients receive the care they deserve.
• Inso Biosciences — Inso Bio (formerly Tico Bio) is an early-stage biotechnology startup out of Cornell University developing platform technologies for biological sample preparation.
• ClearBlue Markets — ClearBlue Markets offers specialization in carbon sales, consulting, project development, solutions and services.

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• iYell — iYell Mortgage Platform consists of three pillars, Media that can be used for marketing, Technology to make the procedure more efficient.
• Securitize — Securitize is unlocking alternative assets with a fully digital, regulatory compliant platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.
• NTT DATA Payment Services — Atom technologies Limited is an end to end payment services provider offering a vast range of payment services and solutions through Online & Offline platforms. High Success Ratio 24/7 support Multiple payment options Great value adds for boosting business.

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• CellFE — CellFE is a company developing a microfluidics based device to deliver gene-editing molecules. CellFE developed microfluidic device and process that can efficiently deliver gene-editing molecules into the human cells.
• rabbit — Revolutionizing human-machine interaction
• Vayu Robotics — Vayu Robotics is an AI robotics company that develops and commercializes automotive sensing, autonomous vehicles, and robotics technology.

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• Matter. — We are an innovation company pioneering technology solutions for capturing, harvesting and recycling microplastics.
• Hugging Face — Hugging Face is an open-source & platform provider of machine learning technologies. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
• Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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• Dom Rock — Dom Rock is a provider of cloud-based analysis solutions designed and built to be a unified business data integrity environment in a simple, fast, and assertive way. It captures any kind of data from any source, whether in the form of texts, PDF files, transactions, or records of releases.Dom Rock unifies and publishes analyzes with fulltraceability eliminating the arduous task of incurring long processes in the search for data under deadlines pressure, often non-negotiable and having assertiveness in sensitive issues involving impact on cash generation of companies.Dom Rock was founded in 2013 and it has offices in Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, and Campinas in Sao Paulo Estate of Brazil.
• Chatbot Maker — Chatbot Maker helps companies get more customers by automatically capturing leads using a chatbot. The platform helps customers use messaging applications to do marketing, sell more, and create relationships in a personalized, private, and automatic way through chatbots.Its service includes design, strategy, conversation design, artificialintelligence, machine learning, implementation, launch, metrics, and chatbot tracking. Chatbot Maker was founded in 2016 and is based in Fortaleza in Brazil.
• Fractal Engenharia — Fractal Engenharia is a company specialized in water resources management.

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• Hariken — Every second a website produces thousands of information about each visitor such as, pages accessed, interests, purchases made, origin, time, among others. With this information collected and targeted, Hariken can generate profiles and organize them by creating a strategic big date. In addition, Hariken allows this data to be used in the mainactivation tools: CRMs, Email Marketing, Yahoo / Oath / Doubleclick, Appnexus, and even Facebook and Instagram. Hariken not only collects and organizes information but also works so that the manager has full control of all the data generated in the company and the freedom to access them whenever they want. Hariken is a data hub and the possibilities are endless. Some cross data online with Offline, others exchange data with partner companies; lease data from non-competing companies to strengthen their campaigns, etc. Anyway, the data is yours and the decision on how best to take advantage of them as well.
• Sensorweb — Sensorweb is a technology company that develops solutions with the Internet of Things for Health, connecting environments, devices, and people. Sensorweb helps institutions in their journey of success, through innovation and excellence of its services.
• Wevo — Wevo is the first iPaaS in Latin America, a SaaS platform for APIs, systems and data integrations, with pre-built connectors to connect different kinds of softwares like Magento, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Zendesk, VTEX, Rakuten, Mercado Livre, among other applications, with customers in 10 countries.

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• Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
• Sensix — Through the FieldScan platform, Sensix uses analytical intelligence and machine learning to consolidate and correlate data from drones, satellites, machines, climate and soil and plant samples, generating input application maps, greater crop predictability and greater profitability for farmers. The web-based platform FieldScan is capable ofdelivering weed localization maps, quantifying planting gaps, identifying vigor and biomass variability and soil and plant sampling maps for variable rate application of fertilizers, nematicides, regulators (cotton), resistance inducers and insecticides, communicating directly with the agricultural machinery and impacting in saving of inputs, greater homogeneity of the crop and increase of yields.
• Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.

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• Tarvos — Tarvos is an automated insect monitoring platform with real-time insights from smart traps.
• Ping. — SaaS
• Doutor Ao Vivo — Doutor ao Vivo is a digital health platform for telemedicine. Doutor Ao Vivo is a health tech software company.

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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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• Cor.Sync — Fast and accurate infarction diagnosis for hospital emergency care. High sensitivity quantitative test of cardiac troponin level in less than 10 minutes with just one drop of blood. Learn more about corsync point of care.
• Intuitive Care — Intuitive Care is a healthtech company which provides solution for healthcare sector.