Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Colombia in October 2023

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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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• UBITS — UBITS is an online learning platform for skilling employees in Latin America. Through education we empower every person and every organization in Latin America
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
• Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans with affordable prices.

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• Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
• Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
• 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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• PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.
• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• CAT Labs — CATLABS.IO - Building Digital Asset Recovery and Cybersecurity Tools to Enable Public and Private Sector Customers to Fight Crypto-Enabled Crime

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• Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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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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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
• Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

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• Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
• YgEia3 — Looking for wellness testing in London, SW? Get in touch with the professional team at YgEia3. We work with corporations, collegiate and professional teams. Call us today.

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• Morado. — Morado. is the next generation B2B marketplace for beauty shops.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

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• Thallo — Thallo is a Carbon Credit Marketplace that is run on the blockchain. We offer businesses and individuals a place to purchase carbon credits.
• ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
• Xternity Games — Boost engagement and empower communities on web3

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• El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.

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• Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

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• Repool — Repool makes it easy to create and manage hedge funds. Save time, delight investors, and focus on what matters.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• Checkmate — Never miss a deal.

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• AiVF — AIVF provides embryologists and clinics with the ability to make better IVF decisions for their patients, using our AI-powered embryo grading software.
• R2 — R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer financing to their merchants in Latin America. The company was founded in 2020, and currently operates in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador.
• Flowcarbon — Flow Carbon uses blockchain technology to put carbon offset credits on-chain, accelerating the creativity and scalability of climate change solutions. Flow Carbon is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 2021.

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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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• 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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• Trace.Space — Engineers develop complex products 10x faster with Trace.Space. Requirements management for the next generation
• Yonder — Financial benefits for global teams, set-up in less than 5 minutes. Enrol your team in local health insurance and pensions from local and global providers
• Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.

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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.
• Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
• Comp — Compareemcasa is a comparison website developed to help consumers when deciding what services to hire online. It enables consumers to compare insurance services, loans, and more. The company's focus is on financial products and services enabling Latin American households to save time and money.Compareemcasa is headquartered in São Paulo,Brazil and was founded on 2009.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• Grupo Central — Grupo Central is a pioneers in Chile in the development of the Dark Kitchens and Dark Stores model.

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• LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
• AVAtronics — AVA Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Solution is a breakthrough in Audio Industry. AVA is the first and only TRUE WIDE-BAND ANC in the market capable of selectively cancelling all annoying noises we want to get rid of without compromising the quality of Music or speech.
• Blumer — Blumer is a social networking platform that provides social networks that can monetize time by consuming advertisements, selling nfts, and making crypto transactions. It offers social networks, crypto, digital marketing, and blockchain.

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• Docket — Docket optimizes the search, management, and analysis of documents with legal value, reducing costs and time. The platform makes the processes of formalization, as well as the business sectors, more strategic and efficient. Docket was established in 2016 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.
• SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.

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• Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
• CLIVI — Clivi is a specialized digital clinic that provides comprehensive treatment to patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Welbe Care — We're transforming access to primary health care in Mexico by providing companies access to prevention and information on the health and well-being of their employees while providing quality primary care at an affordable cost to their employees and their families.We leverage technology with an innovative business model to provide laboratorystudies, physical examination checkups, medical consultations with our medical team composed of preventive general medicine and nutrition, we also give them access to our network of specialist doctors, clinics, and laboratories.

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• ZUZU Hospitality — ZUZU Hospitality is chain for independent hotels, delivering revenue growth through distribution and revenue management.As such, we are the indisputable primary partner to hoteliers in driving revenue. Acting as their hotel operating system, we power their back office revenue generation business operations, allowing them to focus on being greathoteliers.
• CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• RentSpree — RentSpree automates the entire rental application process. Receive an online rental application and tenant screening reports for free.

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• Cobre — Cobre is powering companies to become workplace banks with private label technology that will give low wage employees access to financial products
• SuaQuadra — Quadra is a commercial real estate marketplace. Major technology and real estate investors' support, including Kaszek, Canary, ONEVC, and the Cyrela family.
• Comp — Compareemcasa is a comparison website developed to help consumers when deciding what services to hire online. It enables consumers to compare insurance services, loans, and more. The company's focus is on financial products and services enabling Latin American households to save time and money.Compareemcasa is headquartered in São Paulo,Brazil and was founded on 2009.

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• BEWE (formerly miora) — Founded in 2016 and launched in five countries — Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — BEWE operates a SaaS platform for beauty & wellness centers.
• Vitau — Subscription model pharmacy for patients with chronic diseases in Mexico.
• WOOM — WOOM is AI for Reproductive Health. Our vision is women’s health, empowering users to make the right decisions about their reproductive health.17 to 25% of couples experience a challenge with fertility. Both female founders faced it and why they left Google and eBay to launch WOOM. WOOM is an easy, unique and personal experience. Besides thepersonal recommendations, WOOM calculates daily chances of pregnancy, cycles calendar; and users receive support through an engaged community and a fertility services platform. Our first product is trying to conceive and we are moving into other women's health stage.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.

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• Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
• Atrium LTS — Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes within law firms, and help firms identify and attract new clients. Its technology provides a better experience for legal clients than they previously thought possible, increasing communication and speed of service.The company collaborates withforward-thinking lawyers to help determine the direction and decisions for these products.
• Mercury — A complete financial stack to build your company. Scale with FDIC-insured bank accounts, debit and credit cards, and 3-click payment flows.

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• Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
• MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
• Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

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• IKF Finance — IKF Finance provider of asset management services designed to provide financial services.
• Agrim Wholesale — Agrim Wholesale is a b2b e-commerce market for manufacturers and retailers.
• Annapurna Finance — Annapurna Finance operates as a micro finance company. We offer agricultural loans, money loans, small business loans, insurance and home improvement loans at their doorstep.

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• TRACTIAN — TRACTIAN makes it easy for maintenance teams to detect issues in their machines early on. Just like Shazam, it quickly identify the "song" the machine is producing and warn about mechanical failures right when their first signs appear.
• Blind Creator — SaaS with embedded finance for Content Creators
• VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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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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• Raleon — Create engaging experiences that convert more users and increase loyalty, powered by Raleon's engagement platform.
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?

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• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• BCN Visuals — BCN Visuals is an award-winning innovation company and 3D anamorphic billboard production partner. We are specialists in digital Out of Home 3D ads.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Simpol — We make Simpol to everyone in LATAM buy, hold and sell stable coins and access to DeFi benefits to get better yielding than traditional financial system.
• Shalder — Shalder is a flexible work community, allowing businesses across LATAM access the workforce they need, on-demand, to achieve their business goals. No bidding, prize competition, powered by IA.
• Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.

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• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• 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.
• Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service

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• Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
• Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

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• El Dorado — El Dorado is a P2P marketplace that helps to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, money transfers, foreign exchange, and digital wallet services.
• Syndicate — Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network.

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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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• 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.
• Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
• Wonder brands — Wonder Brands is a Latin American startup specialized in partnering with successful digital brands to boost their growth. The implementation of its strategy is achieved by injecting into associated companies a significant investment to exponentially increase working capital, marketing and equipment, as well as providing added value in the areas oftechnology, digital marketing, supply chain and administration.

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• Truora — Connect with your users via WhatsApp Optimize your onboarding process using WhatsApp.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

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• Munily — Munily, a proptech software, Is redefining security and administration in residential communities by centralizing all communications.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• Liti — Science, technology and data enabling a superior metabolic health
• 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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• Coodesh — Hiring coders is a pain in the ass for traditional HR. Save time and money by tracking the best coders with a complete Tech Recruitment Platform that evaluates coders to connect with your company. We provide on the platform a set of tools for talent acquisition, interview priority algorithm, behavioral mapping, and different ways to techchallenges.
• Jerry — Jerry is an AI, ML, and bot-powered car ownership app that saves customers time and money on car expenses. With its first product, Jerry redesigned and disrupted the century-old car insurance process, turning stacks of pages and hours of calls into a handful of clicks. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
• Condofy — Condofy is ready to serve you from essential and recurring services to other types of specific services, should the need arise. Being that all services are guaranteed by our team and always supported by our own platform and processes of excellence in service. Services included: Collection, Collection, Payments, Calculation and collection of taxes,Accounting, Payroll, Legal, Virtual Assembly and Face-to-face, among others.

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• Tonder — Tonder is a payments capability with a platform to manage payment provider connections, smart routing, reporting, and more. They manage multiple payment providers and eliminate the associated complications.
• 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.
• Legal Karma — We're building a future where you go to your financial provider for your legal needs.

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• Finblox — Finblox is a platform that helps crypto investors buy and earn rewards on their crypto assets like Bitcoin, USDC, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Axie Infinity
• Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
• Yuno — A fast checkout that integrates your company to the payments and fraud ecosystem.

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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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• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
• Mnemonic, Inc — Easily build, ship, and scale powerful NFT applications with Mnemonic's complete, reliable, and real time data and analytics capabilities.

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• Valiu — Valiu is a fintech company that provides borderless financial services to all Venezuelans. It has created a mobile application that allows access to a convenient dollar savings and transfer system for any migrant or family member, regardless of their socioeconomic status or the range of their phone. The company was co-founded by Simon Chamorroand Alberto Niego in 2018.
• Dondo — Get what you want giving what you have