Top 5 Food and Beverage VC Funds & Investors in Uruguay (September 2026)

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• Waymo — Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California.
• GoodData.AI — GoodData is a leading composable data and analytics platform. Build, embed, and scale analytics on demand, with zero vendor lock-in.
• Apex — Apex manufactures ESPA-class satellites, ranging from 40 to 400kg. Our first spacecraft bus platform, Aries, is built for LEO missions for earth observation, communications, and more. Configure the Aries bus to meet your specific mission profile.

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• Robbin — Robbin is leading a revolution to change how 21 million SMBs fund $2.5 trillions in B2B Payments. Employing an innovative underwriting approach, Robbin leverages BRL 3 trillion in card receivables as collateral to underwrite a one-of-a-kind business credit card for underserved entrepreneurs.
• Telepatia — Telepatia is a health tech platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to support medical professionals.
• Karta — The premium US charge card for the world's borderless people. Credit lines up to $200,000 based on your US assets. No Social Security number required.

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• Sofi — Over-indebtedness is a problem that is often seen as a dead end. This perspective can generate a mental state of irritability, stress, sadness, anxiety and even diseases such as depression. These problems can happen to over 75% of Brazilian families that are in debt, where a third of them cannot pay their bills on time. This is a global socialproblem with a total market of over USD 1.5 trillion. hiSofi was born from the desire to transform this reality by uniting technology, user experience and user interface, content, growth hacking, data science and storytelling with the purpose of transforming and curing people’s lives by fostering healthier financial solutions through education and financial reinclusion. We are a fintech that brings the accounts recovery & management (ARM) industry to the digital era.
• Conic — Conic AI Employee Onboarding is an AI-powered platform designed to streamline employee onboarding and training for companies of all sizes. By leveraging conversational AI, Conic automates onboarding processes, answers employee questions, delivers interactive training materials, and provides performance analytics to enhance knowledge retention.
• StyleDesigner — StylesDesigner is an AI-powered app that transforms fashion shopping with personalized cross-brand recommendations. It understands users' tastes to suggest tailored outfits, making shopping efficient and enjoyable. It caters to online shoppers, budget-conscious individuals, and those seeking unique styles. Key features include AIrecommendations, outfit completion and generation, multimodal-based search, and support for small brands, ensuring an inclusive and innovative shopping experience

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• GU Trade — GU Trade helps to maximize the team on the ground effectiveness providing key information for the decision making process. Leveraging on breakthrough technology, GU Trade web and mobile solution, provides accurate and online Point of Sales (POS) key indicators for monitoring and optimizing in-store execution guidelines. Currently includes customersall across Latam and is looking for funds to expand our presence in the North American market.GU Trade enables and facilitates having the necessary visibility of each POS execution, it incorporates retail knowledge and expertise to easily gather the necessary data for managing key business variables and be prepared to capitalize on new business opportunities. Our tool is permanently updated through continuous improvement processes that include new technologies and customer feedback.Some of our main attributes are: Providing granular, actionable and online POS execution KPIs to capitalize on each business opportunity. Constant flow of innovation, 100% retail-oriented Image Recognition / Big Data. Intuitive and versatile product.Key Performance Indicators offered by GU Trade: Facing and SOS
. Out of stock
. Price
s. Promo executions. 
POP Material implementation.
 Products expiring date. 
Returns
. Assortment by RE and cluster
. Planogram compliance
. Competitive activity.

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• Lazarillo — Lazarillo Accessible app that guides you everywhere and connects you to local information and businesses
• EmbedX — We allow any digital platform to offer insurance to their users. We have built plugins for different e-commerce platforms, such as VTEX, Magento, Shopify and Jumpseller for them to install in a matter of minutes and start offering these financial products.We also have an API for those platforms built in-house to integrate easily.Every day weimprove a little bit, maybe this week is to make meetings more efficient, maybe next week will be to consume less coffee.
• Ailex Tech — Legaltech focused on transforming legal documents into structured, consumable data using AI/ML