Top 35 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Brazil in October 2023

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• Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
• Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
• Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.

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• Tipspace — Tipspace allows to any gamer monetize their matches and create new game modes on competitive games.
• Beekeeper — Frontline business leaders use Beekeeper to connect and engage their whole workforce with our productivity app that teams love to use.
• KiddieKredit — Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores.

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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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• ZiYou — ZiYou provides subscription services for sports equipment and content.
• Cash.in — Pagamento de campanhas de incentivo inteligentes, seguras e 100% digitais
• Navegam — A Navegam é uma empresa que iniciou suas atividades, em 2019, automatizando a venda de passagens fluviais, evoluindo para serviços de acompanhamento logístico rodoviário e fluvial na Amazônia. Hoje atua no mercado em quatro frentes diferentes, E-commerce (venda online de passagens), FEPS (sistema de venda de passagens), Navegam LOG (sistema delogística) e Sentinela (sistema de monitoramento de embarcação)

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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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• 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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• Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
• Silverguard — A B2C2B protection fintech that provides freemium protection solutions for individuals and valuable protection data for companies.
• Movens — Movens is a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce brands. We deeply understand the business to support entrepreneurs in their growth journey, solving working capital issues and cash flow fluctuations with affordable, flexible funding and insights with data intelligence.

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• Autolab — As a car owner in Latin America, there are essentially two options for vehicle repair: dealerships which charge exorbitant prices, or informal "talleres" (repair shops) which cost less but provide poor service and customer experience. Autolab aims to be the third (and clearly the best) option by offering car owners a best-in-class vehiclerepair service and auto repair shops a way to grow and improve their operations. Our tech stack allows us to control the quality and efficiency of the operation, thus achieving a unique service for the end customer.
• PackageX — PackageX is revolutionizing the logistics industry with the world's first Headless Logistics Cloud. PackageX empowers retail and commercial enterprises to achieve unprecedented success by delivering unparalleled developer experiences, workflow improvements, customer loyalty, and profitability.
• PredictionStrike — PredictionStrike is a platform on which users can trade virtual shares of athletes as if they were stocks. The platform operates as a real stock market and allows users to buy/sell shares, build portfolios, and operate in a live market using real money. Share prices are determined by a player’s real-world performance, where eachgame/match acts like an earnings report, as well as the fans’ demand for those shares.

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• SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• MerQube — MerQube is a cloud native indexing platform designed for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale. In the growing space of passive (index-linked) indexing, MerQube provides robust financial indices in the areas of equities, futures and options and ESG and has the expertise that spans market-capitalization weightedindices to risk-premia, volatility, thematics, and ESG.
• wooptix — Wooptix is a developer of light field and wavefront phase imaging platform designed to acquire all information about the light using

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• OHCA — OHCA specialize in alcoholic beverages, wines, and cachaca.
• Zippi — Zippi provides financial services for gig workers in Latin America.
• Spleet — ProptechSpleet is an online marketplace for affordable residential rentals and rents financing in Africa. For the tenant, we simplify the rental process by providing flexible rental and payment options and eliminate bureaucracy and expediting the search process. For the landlords, we make renting quicker, safer and better by providing accurateinformation on the tenant and ensuring rental payments are made as and when due.

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• VIPe — We are building the future of financial health, starting with the ones who need it the most. We exist to give the attention and care every person deserves The PPL market in Brazil has a big and untapped opportunity, the market is almost unexplored and highly fragmented, but still, it possesses one of the best rates among Personal Credit productsFully verticalized PPL (Private Payroll loan) with own origination, own financial institution, own Funding vehicle. This provides us with greater flexibility and greater margins Healthy proven model, excellence in execution, and high yields, we’ve been generating profits since day 1, this while growing revenues 40x and building a R$ 75mm Portfolio over 19 months only Highly experienced team, not our first rodeo, we reached a R$ 350mm portfolio in the previous business (offline only). After operating PPL for almost 20 years, our team knows exactly what must be done to succeed as a credit company.
• Approva Facil — Easy Approve provides real estate, technology, promoting meetings, social mobility, digital transformation, residential property management, digital platform, proptech, and startup services. They also provide buying, selling, and renting properties.
• Galaxies — We are one of the first #gametechs in LATAM and our objective is to offer training for the creation of new talents, updating for those who already work in the area; in addition to certifying and validating those who play, lead, create content and want to build a career in the world of games. Galaxies is a solution for publishers to acquire newusers and find qualified professionals, better understanding the needs and trends of players and the market. A tool to help game developers with releases and the possibility to communicate with the community. Our mission is to connect and empower the gaming community.

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• Arado — Clicampo is a platform for SMB farmers, providing supply chain and business solutions.
• Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
• Nomad — Nomad is providing financial services.

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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.
• Multiverse — We're building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training via professional apprenticeships
• Ultima Genomics — Ultima Genomics, Inc is revolutionizing DNA sequencing technology with the UG100 by providing scalability for the $100 genome

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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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• Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
• HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
• League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.

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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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• Alltius Inc. — Alltius is an AI-driven platform for conversational assistance in software products primarily to help and guide users in their product journeys.
• Fluid Biomed Inc. — Fluid Biotech is a Calgary based company that aims to develop the next generation of stents to improve patient well-being and realise better health and quality of life through innovation.
• Secret Skin — Buy non-toxic skincare & beauty products online from Secret Skin. Shop 100% natural and organic Skin Care, Hair Care, Bath & Body Care, Beard Grooming and Beauty products for Women & Men online at the Secret Skin store.

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• IBBX — IBBx is focused on developing wireless energy technology.
• Syos — Syos is a startup specializing in the development of IoT (Internet of Things) and Analytics solutions.
• Rúmina — Rúmina engages in providing digital solutions for dairy and beef farmers. Its multi-product platform is designed to promote efficiency gains across the production process. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

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• Caju — At Caju we are creating a benefits platform for the teams of the future. Starting with benefits used every day by most employees, we want teams to use products and services they like and that are fair to merchants and partners. We'll launch soon!
• Vidia — Vidia is a digital marketplace that allows the purchase of surgeries by individuals without access to health plans.
• 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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• Fiibo — Fiibo is the first health and wellness multplatform in Brazil, offering an innovative technological solution that connects all healthcare stakeholders in one place. The platform includes an app that allows employees to choose from a variety of available products and services, as well as a data management and contracting platform for companies andbrokers. This provides greater freedom and flexibility in selecting how to care for one's health.
• Lagoped — Lagoped operates as a sustainable outdoor clothing brand.
• Eyecare Health — Eyecare Health is a health technology company that specializes in ophthalmology.

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• Semexe — The platform for sports enthusiasts, with the objective of helping physical activity practitioners to buy and sell sports equipment in a simpler way, with safety and expert advice. It is the place where sports fans connect, shop smarter and help boost the collaborative economy.

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• Mecanizou — Mecanizou is a distributor of automobile parts. They offer products that include filters, lubricantes, scanners, correias, arrefecimento, frenagem, and baterias.
• 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.
• Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.

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• Plamev — Plamev is a company which provides with pet health plans.
• ISA — ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service.
• ABC da Construção — ABC da Construção is a construction company that provides consultation and materials to clients. It supplies furnishing, designing, and building supplies. ABC da Construção was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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• ISA — ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service.
• Nexodata — Nexodata was born to anticipate the future in the healthcare system this is our main purpose.

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• Semexe — The platform for sports enthusiasts, with the objective of helping physical activity practitioners to buy and sell sports equipment in a simpler way, with safety and expert advice. It is the place where sports fans connect, shop smarter and help boost the collaborative economy.
• Final Level —

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• Piwi — Hi there, we are Piwi®. Like a broker, only easier. We didn’t create the company because we were in love with the market. It was exactly the opposite. With an easy to use and intuitive digital benefit managing platform we replaced the old school brokerage changing the way in which companies research, buy and manage their health plans and benefits.That’s evolution coming around!
• Inspirali — Inspirali is an education institute providing post graduate training in health sector.
• Sanar — 26K Followers, 709 Following, 489 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Sanar (@sanar)

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• Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
• Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
• House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.

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• Witseed — Witseed is an Edtech formed by a team of passionate about education, technology and cinema, and we aim to reinvent the education experience to help professionals and companies reach their goals. Our focus is to produce quality content connected to the market and made available in our adaptive learning platform, which personalizes the learningexperience. Witseed's great differential was to reverse the logic of the market, and instead of creating content and going to market to get customers, we created a board with the largest companies in Brazil to curate and validate all content to be produced. Each company that believed in the model, one executive indicated to attend the Board of Education, which was structured with follow-up routines to validate the topics that most interested the companies and have greater impact on the challenges that they are going through. Witseed was born in July 2017, with the following clients: Algar, Braskem, BrasilFoods, Sabesp, Siemens, Fiat, Calcenter Group, Saint-Gobain, Oncoclinics, GRSA, Gerdau, CCR, Natura, Grupo Pão de Açúcar, Random, Ecorodovias and FIERGS. This model resulted in a different monetization strategy, since the companies paid development quotas before the product actually existed, and after having a number of companies in the Board, we started the project. It ended up being a funding in the bootstrapping model, with investment coming directly from our customers, through the revenue sold to them: we opened that the investment to create a niche academy, with thematic content, which in this case was the SSAcademy (Shared Services Academy), was almost 1 million, and to that end, we would form a board of companies, which would divide this amount into equal quotas, thus becoming customers of Witseed. As a benefit, they would pay less to gain access to all developed content and would also participate in a Board of Education, curating all content that was to be developed. SSAcademy's first wave of content was delivered two months ago, and companies are already using, with very positive feedbacks. As an indicator of success, we have after 2 months of launching the first version with our content, about 6,000 professionals in the platform, with a satisfaction rating of 4.76 (on a scale of 1 to 5) as well as having several statements from the Directors and Managers who are our clients, as a case of success and innovation in Corporate Education, from being prominent for the agile development of high quality content, even by participating in the innovation of Content Co-construction between companies. Companies have drastically reduced the cost of producing content for education, democratized content for a much larger number of employees and managed to bring better practices from other companies into their training and development areas.
• Octagora — Octagora is a SaaS company specialized in Remote Visual Assistance.
• Vacinas.net — Vacinas.net is the digital hub that connects those who need to be vaccinated with those who do the vaccination.

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• IZZI Gaming — Platform where gamers learn how to play better thru coaching and courses.
• SkillHub — SkillHub is a provider of corporate training services to employees.

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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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• reNFT — Multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and rev-share. Start building!
• fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
• Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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• Coolx — Coolx has a mission to bring technology to the service of forests. Through satellite technology and AI we help environmental consultancies, engineers and forestry managers to optimize the analysis, management and forest conservation.
• Tribboo — Project management platform for construction SMEs
• Nuwe — Nuwe is a startup disrupting how tech professionals get hired and improve their skills, while at the same time it changes the way companies do people management and recruitment. To achieve that,we have developed a gamified platform which allows users to take challenges, participate in projects and contribute to Nuwe’s community sharing knowledgeand helping other users out. All of this contributes to their path to getting a job and their professional self-development.Companies can ask for personalized challenges, getting access to a database of validated users. For companies, wanting to participate in Nuwe’s selection processes not only get a database of validated users, but they generate a huge impact within tech communities which helps them gain a better reputation and have access to more qualified talent in the future. Moreover, companies can also ask for internal employee analytics which will help them optimize their overall performance.

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• EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
• Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
• Tap — The first secondary trading platform for private fund secondaries.

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• DRUID — DRUID is an AI platform that allows companies to automate processes by designing and deploying UiPath RPA integrated chatbot virtual assistants.
• GlobalComix — GlobalComix is a free digital reading and distribution platform that helps creators and publishers share and sell their comics. GlobalComix helps readers understand the value of artistic labor and help creators earn cash in more consistent and flexible ways. Most importantly, GlobalComix promotes cross-cultural exchange and help comics fans andmakers connect with each other in deeper, more insightful ways.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

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• ISA — ISA lab is to deliver the best solution for health and offers a humanized service. ISA is an online platform where one can select the process like examination, test, or vaccine. Then schedule and make payment online, receive ISA wherever one wants. Finally, they offer a facility to check the result online and rate their service.
• Sweetch — Sweetch is an Artificial Intelligence based platform for large scale prediction, prevention and outcome improvement of chronic diseases - diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. They believe that every individual should live a healthier lifestyle. Currently, no scalable and cost-effective solution exists that helps the prediabeticpopulation, therefore providing some sort of guidance is vital. Sweetch reduces the risk of diabetes and improves outcomes of chronic diseases by implementing a personalized intervention that focuses on emotional support and motivation to drive behavior change.Sweetch developed a proprietary machine-learning platform that predicts an individual’s 3-year risk for developing Metabolic Syndrome related diseases – type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity.