Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in LATAM in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Latam. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Latam. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in LATAM in February 2025
Investor | Artificial intelligence LATAM investments |
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Bhavik Bajaj | 4 |
Carlos Rodriguez | 3 |
Justin Mateen | 2 |
Edward Lando | 2 |
Pedro Mariani | 2 |
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
Milton Seligman | 2 |
Nadav Ben-Chanoch | 2 |
Carlos Pacheco | 2 |
Caio Maia | 2 |
Wensceslao Casares | 2 |
Hugo Barra | 2 |
Jon Oringer | 2 |
José Marcello Mascarenhas | 1 |
Steffen Vollert | 1 |
Gokul Rajaram | 1 |
Leonardo Pedrozo | 1 |
Mario Augusto Sá | 1 |
Martin Escobari | 1 |
Nigel Morris | 1 |
Meyer Malka | 1 |
José Cristián Cortés | 1 |
Francisco Javier Restrepo | 1 |
Pedro Fiuza | 1 |
Mauro Levi D'Ancona | 1 |
Mateus Paiva Lambranho | 1 |
Fersen Lambranho | 1 |
Jorge Shwartzman | 1 |
Esteban Sosnik | 1 |
Ralf Wenzel | 1 |
Eduardo Baer | 1 |
Guilherme Bonifacio | 1 |
Patrick Sigrist | 1 |
Jeff Horing | 1 |
Leonardo Borrero | 1 |
Cristina Campero Peredo | 1 |
Sergio Fogel | 1 |
Chris Re | 1 |
Alan Rutledge | 1 |
Alexander Torrenegra | 1 |
Miguel Ángel Peña | 1 |
Mark Gormley | 1 |
Markos Achar | 1 |
Juliano Dutra | 1 |
Hugo Romay | 1 |
Brian Requarth | 1 |
Helio Waszyk | 1 |
Pedro Arnt | 1 |
José Augusto Schincariol | 1 |
Bhavik Bajaj
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
- ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
- THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING
Carlos Rodriguez
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Chile, Denmark, Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
- Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.
Justin Mateen is the Cofounder and former CMO of Tinder, the world's largest dating platform. In 2021, and 2022 Business Insider ranked Mateen as the best early stage investor in the US, placing him at the number 1 spot on the top 100 list of US Seed Investors both years. In 2020, Forbes included Mateen on their list of the decade's top10 tech entrepreneurs. Fast Company has listed him as one of the most creative people in business.Founded in 2012, Tinder is the highest grossing app on Apple's app store since 2017 and was valued at over $40 Billion dollars in 2021.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Whop — Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
- Urbanic — Urbanic is a fashion brand that sells products online.
- Somethings — Somethings connects teens with a Certified Peer Specialist Mentor who provide a safe, trustworthy space to feel their best and combat loneliness.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
- Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.
Pedro Mariani
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Government
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
Carlos Carrillo Alvarez - CIO & Founder @ SmartMining
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Investment focus
- Sensor, Software, Analytics
- Pre-Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- SLUSHY — Slushy is the ultimate adult social platform for new creators. Post content, grow your following, and monetize your profile all in one place. Reach new fans on day one with instant approvals and payouts on demand. Sign up and start earning today!
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Unsloth AI — Easy finetuning for AI and LLMs. Open-source and for beginners. Get faster with Unsloth.
Milton Seligman
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Grocery, Big Data
- Seed, Series D
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
- Liv Up — Liv Up is a direct to consumer food brand and online grocery store based in Brazil.The company puts together tasteful, natural, and convenient meals and groceries through top notch tech, customer obsession and constant innovation. By using only natural ingredients and partnering with local producers to source only the freshest, their chefs areable to produce naturally healthy and tasteful meals. By using high-end tech and constantly optimizing the processes, the company is able to deliver them broadly and at a good value per money across the biggest metropolitan areas in Brazil.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
- TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
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IBGC - Certified Board Member
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Investment focus
- Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- FOHAT — FOHAT, an Energy Intelligence company, is changing the energy sector with innovative solutions by allowing integration of distributed energy resources (iDER) and new solutions for energy trading (P2P TE).
Caio Maia
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Big Data, Government
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
Wences Casares is a technology entrepreneur with global business experience specializing in technology and financial ventures. He is an advocate of the Bitcoin revolution and he has said he believes that Bitcoin will be bigger than the internet.He is the founder and CEO of Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet startup based in Palo Alto, California. Xapo issaid to be the largest custodian of bitcoin in the world. Xapo has raised $40 million from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Chile, Brazil, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Tril — Tril is a social recommendations network that enables its users to discover movies, television shows, music, restaurants, and more from other people. It was launched in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
- Cornershop — Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service for the Latin American market.Founded simultaneously in Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City in 2015, we now operate in 8 countries across the Americas.In July 2020, Uber acquired a majority stake in the company. This provided an important injection of capital and allows the company to access moreresources to continue building and improving its service over the upcoming years. Cornershop Mexico was not part of the transaction and will continue to operate independently while waiting for approval from the Mexican antitrust authorities (COFECE).
- Pago Rural —
Technology executive & investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
- MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
- 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.
Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
- Zamp — We take care of sales tax, so you don't have to.
- NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.
José Marcello Mascarenhas
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Property Management, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Isket — Isket provides artificial intelligence and big data to assist in the decision process for real estate and developers. They provide demographic characteristics for property sales.
Steffen Vollert
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Bayonet — Protect your business from fraud with Bayonet
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Atlas — Atlas is an invite-only charge card that unlocks access to exclusive dining and travel experiences.
- New Lantern — New Lantern provides cutting-edge AI-powered cloud-native PACS solutions for healthcare providers, enabling faster and more accurate radiology diagnostics.
- Innovartan Learning Solutions — Innovartan empowering schools for excellence, students success and IIT JEE & NEET preparation. Bridging the gap between coaching and school education.
Leonardo Pedrozo
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Generative AI
- Pre-Seed
- Colombia
Portfolio highlights
- Coleoptera SAS — Aulas Interactivas 2023
26 years old entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO of CASH. We are building a future where every Gen Z has control over their financial life at NG.CASH. | Forbes Under 30Previously:- Co-Founded Trampolin, a Banking-as-a-Service startup. Exit to a NASDAQ-listed firm;- Co-Founded Neagle, one of Brazil’s Top 100 YouTube Channels (+8MM subscribers);- Co-Founded FanStar, a Talent Agency company focused on Gen Z digital influencers.I’m also an early Crypto-adopter and active Angel Investor.Made in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jungle — Jungle is a new web3 gaming studio. We develop and publish hybrid games that are mobile first and blockchain-enabled.
- Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.
- Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling
Martín Escobari is Head of Global Growth Equity, Co-President, and Managing Director. Martín is Chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee and also serves on the Portfolio and Executive Committees. Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Martín was a Managing Director at Advent International where he focused on the financial services sector.Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and CFO of Submarino.com, a leading Brazilian online retailer that went public on the Bovespa and was sold to Lojas Americanas in 2006. Martin started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.Martín serves on the board of directors of several GA portfolio companies including Arco, dLocal, Grupo Axo, and XP Investimentos. He also served on the boards of prior GA investments including Pague Menos, Smiles, Sura Asset Management, and Sanfer.Martín graduated with high honors with a B.S. in Economics from Harvard College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar. He serves on the board of Primeira Chance, a scholarship program for gifted children in Brazil, and is active with Endeavor Brazil, where he mentors young entrepreneurs. Martín is also a member of the Advisory Group for the Brazil office of Harvard´s Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a board member of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Identity Management, Financial Services
- Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
- Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay
Portfolio highlights
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
- unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Incode Technologies — Incode Technologies is a digital identity company that builds delightful and secure biometric identity products for frictionless banking, payment, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode is recognized as a leader in enterprise-grade facial recognition by the US Government. Built for the next generation of consumers, Incode’s products arealready used by some of the world’s largest banks, financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security for those who matter the most: the end-users.Incode was founded in 2015 by a passionate serial entrepreneur and a group of hard-working, goal-crushing individuals. Headquartered in San Francisco, Incode operates globally with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.
Nigel Morris is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of QED Investors. Nigel has a BSC in Psychology from the East London University and a MBA with distinction from London Business School.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Big Data
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
- MarginEdge — Only restaurant management software to combine automating restaurant invoicing with inventory, recipes, budgeting. Simple and intuitive, reduce invoice processing time by over 90% with automated payable processing. Request a demo!
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Series C, Series B
- United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
- NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
- unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."
Results driven leader with several years of experience helping companies to their greater potential, within crisis and turbulence, engaging stake holders, team members and customers developing collaboration, critical thinking, and determination.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery
- Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- tet4d — Tet4D is a cutting-edge SaaS platform revolutionizing logistics planning through automation. Our solution optimizes load cubic capacity, selects the ideal transportation, and determines the most efficient routes, ensuring complete traceability and visibility throughout the logistics process. Inspired by the game Tetris, Tet4D leverages advancedartificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to introduce innovative approaches in integrated logistics.Our company is dedicated to making a significant environmental impact by reducing the number of trucks on the road by 5-10%, showcasing how AI can serve humanity. We achieve remarkable reductions in costs and planning times—cutting the latter by an impressive 90%—while also contributing to a lower carbon footprint among other substantial benefits.Join us at Tet4D as we continue to push the boundaries of logistics innovation and sustainability.
Francisco Javier Restrepo
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Investment focus
- Retail, Logistics, Food Delivery
- Seed
- Chile
Portfolio highlights
- tet4d — Tet4D is a cutting-edge SaaS platform revolutionizing logistics planning through automation. Our solution optimizes load cubic capacity, selects the ideal transportation, and determines the most efficient routes, ensuring complete traceability and visibility throughout the logistics process. Inspired by the game Tetris, Tet4D leverages advancedartificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to introduce innovative approaches in integrated logistics.Our company is dedicated to making a significant environmental impact by reducing the number of trucks on the road by 5-10%, showcasing how AI can serve humanity. We achieve remarkable reductions in costs and planning times—cutting the latter by an impressive 90%—while also contributing to a lower carbon footprint among other substantial benefits.Join us at Tet4D as we continue to push the boundaries of logistics innovation and sustainability.
Pedro Fiuza is the Managing Partner of Servtec Energia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Mauro Levi D'Ancona - CEO @ 180° Insurance
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Mateus Paiva Lambranho is the Partner and CFO/COO of HYPR.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Chairman of GP Investments
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Investment focus
- Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
- Prota Games — Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes
Jorge Shwartzman
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed
- Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Crunch Dna — We help companies to integrate to the world of eCommerce in order to dominate it, managing the complex tasks so that they can enjoy the simple, profits. We created the only proven methodology to guarantee results for your brand in the short, medium and long term. Integrating and positioning your brand and products in all marketplaces, providingtechnology, services and tools that create and impact and differentiation.
Esteban Sosnik is the current Managing Partner of Reach Capital. She previously worked at co.lab as a Founder and Executive Director. Esteban attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A
- United States, Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- Popego — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Innovamat — InnovaMat is a company that aims to revolutionize the learning of mathematics by transforming the classroom and the relationships that occur in it to excite, stimulate and motivate students. The materials put the student at the center of his own teaching-learning process and allows him to develop autonomy and critical thinking: an emotional andexciting process designed to engage the student through positive stimuli. To achieve this, InnovaMat proposes contextualized mathematics, a flexible curriculum, varied activities based on manipulative material and applets, techniques and strategies that facilitate the evaluation and management of the 21st century classroom, the personalization of learning, cooperative learning or gamification .
- Aprende Institute — Aprende Institute is the online education platform for vocational skills training in the US hispanic market and LATAM.
Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Grocery, Delivery
- Seed, Series B
- Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Eduardo Baer is the Chief Operating Officer of Nomad.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Mexico, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
- Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
- Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs
Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth…
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech
- Seed, Series C
- Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
- Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
- Driven Education — Driven Education is an education platform for digital professionals.
Jeff Horing has been a co-founder and managing director at Insight Venture Partners since 1995. Under his leadership Insight has become a premier venture capital and private equity firm focused on growth investments in software and internet businesses, currently investing from a $2.56 billion fund. Jeff's areas of focus include mobile,online gaming, data, infrastructure and internet software. Jeff is a former member of the board of directors of Airborne Entertainment (acquired by Cybird Co.), CTSpace (acquired by Sword Group), Beechwood Data Systems (acquired by Cap Gemini), Greenfield Online (IPO, later acquired by Microsoft), Hitwise (acquired by Experian Group Ltd), IAG Research (acquired by The Nielsen Company), ProMira Software (acquired by Manugistics), Shutterstock (IPO), SLP Infoware (acquired by Gemplus), Solarwinds Inc. (IPO NYSE: SWI), and Xchange (IPO acquired by Amdocs).Jeff is an investor or currently serves on the board of directors of AirWatch (mobile device management), Anaqua (IP asset management), GFI Software (cloud-based services), Jagex Ltd (online gaming), Nexon (online gaming), Datacore Software (storage virtualization), New Relic (application performance management), Teamviewer (remote desktop collaboration), WIX (free DIY flash-based websites), Whitney University System (distance learning technology), and Zumba (global fitness and lifestyle brand).Prior to founding Insight, Jeff was a key member of the technology investing team at Warburg Pincus. Earlier in his career he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Capital Markets group.Jeff holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He has dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Engineering and Wharton School, where he graduated with high honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. Jeff is a regular speaker at Wharton as part of the Distinguished Guest speaker series.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Israel, Canada
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- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
- Abnormal Security — Advanced email protection to prevent credential phishing, business email compromise, account takeover, and more.
- Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care
Leonardo Borrero
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- Software, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Colombia, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Unergy — Unergy cuts off investment and information barriers in energy. Through our collaborative platform, we allow people to invest with a sustainable and profitable purpose in solar energy projects made with those who wish to consume affordable and cleaner energy from solar panels without investment costs or debt. We offer between 20% and 35% cheaperenergy rates to companies. We provide this by offering a full energy proposal that includes a solar energy system installed on a customer's roof without requiring debt or investment costs. On top of this, we offer grid power and real-time energy consumption tracking to improve the way our customers monitor and make decisions. These solar energy projects are financed by people who want to invest from approximately $US270.00 with annual interest profitability ranging between 8% to 13%, making otherwise not profitable solar energy projects possible and making all interested parties part of these.
- TuPlaza — We are a technology startup developing and trading small farm production to urban centers for households, restaurants, and groceries looking for healthy and sustainable fresh goods.TuPlaza ensures market access and technical support for small farmers, assuring fair value for their products and supporting what, how, and when to crop, whileconsumers can access and check product origin, farmer they are contributing for, and healthy and certified fresh products.
Cristina Campero Peredo is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PROSPERiA. She previously worked at McKinsey and Company as an Associate. Cristina Campero Peredo attended the University of Cambridge.
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- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed
- Mexico
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- PROSPERiA — PROSPERiA is a social impact spinoff, created to massify early detection and treatment of chronic diseases in emerging markets through AI-based solutions.
Sergio Fogel investor at 3DBattery.
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- Financial Services, CRM, Venture Capital
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, Brazil, Uruguay
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- Latitud — Build good sh*t with Latitud
- Tuvis — Tuvis enables companies to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with business interactions over unofficial channels like WhatsApp and iMessage.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Chris Re
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- Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Life Science
- Series A, Funding Round
- Nicaragua, United States
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Alan Rutledge
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Mexico
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- Bujeti — Corporate Credit Cards, Spend Management software built for your African realities. It empowers your people to do more. It combines virtual, smart physical credit cards, payments and expenses into one experience powered by Visa Cards, dedicated NUBANs, Mobile Wallets and Faster Payments.
- FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
- SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
Alexander Torrenegra is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Torre and a Co-Founder at Tribe Labs. He previously worked at Bunny Studio as the Co-founder and CEO. He attended Florida International University.
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- Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Colombia, United States, Chile
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- Aptuno — Aptuno - Busco apartamento o casa en arriendo
- Vozy — Vozy is an artificial intelligence voice platform that helps companies change the way they interact with their customers, using voice assistants and conversational AI.
- LaManicurista — LaManicurista is a Colombian start-up that provides on-demand beauty services. Customers are able to make an appointment or also request an immediate service.
Miguel Ángel Peña
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed
- Argentina
Portfolio highlights
- CUX — CUX is a groundbreaking mental health assistant with immense market potential! With 17K active users already, CUX is a web app that combines the wisdom of 6,000 secrets answered by Connie Ansaldi and mental health protocols from experts. This AI learns, remembers, and proactively connects users to peer support groups. It even offers a marketplacefor institutions and service providers. For businesses, CUX tackles silo issues. PAX, our first client, offers travel-related solutions like fear of flying, cancellation anxiety, and conflicts with companions. Governments benefit from CUX as a primary tool for mental health and penetration. Now, the numbers: 145M people in LatAm and Spain work in companies with 100+ employees, with 56% admitting mental health challenges. Each company invests $8 per employee, creating a market worth $650M. Spain spends $576M (5% of population) monthly on mental health, while LatAm invests $240M (10% of the population). Join the mental health revolution with CUX!
Mark K. Gormley is a Partner at Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity in 2006, Mr. Gormley was a Partner at Capital Z Financial Services Partners (“CZFS”), a leading financial services private equity firm, where he played a leading role in the operations and investment activities of the $1.85 billion fund. Mr. Gormley co-founded CZFS in1998 and shared responsibility for the oversight of all of the firm's investment and monitoring activities. Prior to founding CZFS, Mr. Gormley served as a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), specializing in the insurance and asset management industries. While at DLJ, Mr. Gormley worked on corporate finance and merger and acquisition assignments, as well as on principal related activities on behalf of DLJ Merchant Banking. Prior to joining DLJ in 1989, he was a founding member of the Insurance Group at Merrill Lynch in 1985. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including The Edelman Financial Group, Skopos Financial Group, Captive Resources, Carlile Bancshares, PDR Network, MidCap Financial, Universal American, Permanent General, NewStar Financial, British Marine Holdings, Catlin Group, Bank Handlowy, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH among others. Mr. Gormley received a B.S.B.A. cum laude in Finance and Economics from the University of Denver and an M.B.A. from New York University.
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- Service Industry, Insurance, AgTech
- Series A, Private Equity, Secondary Market
- United States, Mexico
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- McLarens — McLarens is an insurance industry leader providing claims management, loss adjusting and risk mitigation services to clients around the world.
- Atarraya Inc — Explore Atarraya Farms commitment to sustainability and ethical seafood production. We create the most sustainable protein in the world through innovative aquaculture practices. Join us in revolutionizing the future of seafood
- Simplicity Group — Simplicity is the leading partner for advisors, financial institutions, and consumers by delivering the best combination of wealth accumulation and financial protection products that meet the needs of a consumer-oriented holistic financial plan.
Markos Achar
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- SaaS, Retail, Big Data
- Seed
- Mexico
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- Crunch Dna — We help companies to integrate to the world of eCommerce in order to dominate it, managing the complex tasks so that they can enjoy the simple, profits. We created the only proven methodology to guarantee results for your brand in the short, medium and long term. Integrating and positioning your brand and products in all marketplaces, providingtechnology, services and tools that create and impact and differentiation.
Juliano Dutra is the Partner & Head of Technology at bake startup studio and Co-Founder & Board Member at Gringo.
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- Software, Education, Human Resources
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- Devpass — Transform your team's coding patterns into lifelike practical experiences and bridge the knowledge gap.
- bud — The world is changing faster than ever, so is work and life. However, management, company practices, and workplaces are falling behind. We believe that people can design and build a better experience and organizations for themselves. They just need space, data, and the right tools. That's why we are putting all our experience and energy totransform the work experience, together.
Hugo Romay is the Board Member of Endeavor.
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- Analytics, E-Commerce, Data Integration
- Seed
- Uruguay
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- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.
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- Real Estate, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Brazil, Colombia, Mexico
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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).
Multicultural senior executive with 40 years experience built internationally with responsibilities in strategic and operational functionsManaged P&L at country and regional leves in markets/regions of high growth relevance (India, South East Asia)Strategic responsibility for Global Food business with development & implementationof strategies, Innovation pipelines , Brands guardianship & communication, capital expenditure and Talent managementShaped and implemented the Global Nestle R&D and PTC new set-up being today the blueprint to the present operationsProfound exposure on Corporate Governance through Board membershipsRecently has joined IMD Business School as Executive-in-Residence becoming active working with its faculties and programsMulticultural life exposure by living in Brazil USA, France, Switzerland, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore
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- B2B, B2C, AgTech
- Pre-Seed
- Brazil
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- Ecotrace — Ecotrace FOCUS ON AGRO, founded by entrepreneurs accumulating 14 years of experience in agribusiness, offering an unique end-to-end traceability solution, ensuring reliability, security and transparency throughout the value chain, using a set of technological solutions such as: Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data and Data Science, thus creating aunique traceability platform for its trust and transparency in data through the Ecotrace protocol that uses Blockchain technology.
Pedro Arnt is the current Co-Chief Executive Officer of dLocal. He previously worked at MercadoLibre as a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Pedro Arnt attended the University of Oxford.
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- Software, Information Technology, B2B
- Seed, Series A
- Mexico, Uruguay, United States
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- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Mendel — Optimiza tus gastos con Mendel: control eficiente, flujos automatizados, seguridad antifraude, integraciones y datos impulsados por IA.
José Augusto Schincariol
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Audio, Video
- Series A
- Brazil
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- Samba Tech — Samba Tech is an online platform that develops videos to help companies better communicate with their audience.Samba Tech is an online video platform in Latin America and helps hundreds of companies to communicate better with their audience, providing tools to stream videos on any device at any time with Samba Videos, a customizable businessintelligence platform. Samba Videos includes an online media management dashboard, with access to every device. The dashboard feeds the user key analytics (e.g., the most popular content, viewer demographics) about their target audience when the content is viewed. The Samba Videos dashboard has customizable categories and the ability to publish and register videos on one user-friendly interface. The platform is integrated with an application program interface (API) that allows for the creation of any application software the user desires.
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