Top 15 Manufacturing Startup Investors in Colombia (October 2026)

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• Erco Energía — We build Solar PV, EV infrastructure and Electric Energy Storage systems. Erco was founded in 2012 and is based in Medellín,Colombia with offices in Cali and Bogotá.
• Leal — Leal is the leading SaaS platform for AI-driven customer engagement in Latin America, empowering retailers to acquire, retain, and maximize customer lifetime value through advanced automation and personalization.At its core, Leal offers a powerful AI Decisioning engine for loyalty, offers, and campaign management, ensuring that brands deliverhyper-personalized experiences at scale. The platform includes: • Customer Data Platform (CDP): A centralized hub that aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to power data-driven marketing strategies. • Campaign Management Suite: AI-driven orchestration of email, SMS, and WhatsApp campaigns, enabling retailers to automate engagement across channels. • Customer Experience Module: Tools for measuring and improving customer sentiment through NPS, satisfaction surveys, and crowdsourced mystery shopping. • Loyalty & Rewards Engine: A flexible framework supporting points, cashback, rebates, and gamification, designed to drive repeat purchases and brand advocacy. • API-First Infrastructure: Seamless integration into existing tech stacks, with 350+ integrations across major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors.Leal is trusted by global brands like Subway, Chevron, and Miniso, managing millions of transactions across LATAM. Backed by investors like Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms, Leal is helping retailers turn data into revenue.
• HYBRICO Energy Technologies — HYBRICO was born to solve the three main challenges of the telecom industry in emerging markets worldwide: cost of energy, site availability and carbon footprint. We deliver the only end-to-end energy-as-a-service solution for both off-grid and bad-grid telecom sites. Through our leading-edge hybrid technology and our proprietary cloud-basemonitoring and control software we lower your OPEX, increase your cash flow, maximize your energy uptime (99.95% guaranteed) and reduce your carbon emissions all with zero initial investment. All your energy needs: infrastructure, fuelling, monthly utility bill and maintenance in a long-term fixed-price contract that allows you to better manage your operating costs. Run by experts with decades of field experience in designing high-uptime infrastructures and providing O&M services to thousands of telecom sites. We are cleantech and we are obsessed with achieving the lowest levelized cost of energy in the market. Through technology we make it profitable for you to reduce carbon emissions, increase connectivity and help save the planet. Lets welcome a greener, more connected future. HYBRICO: Green Uptime for Telecom Sites!

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• GRAI — GRAI is an AI music research company building interactive music products
• Edmund — Edmund reads your schematics, PLC programs, and operational data, then helps maintenance teams find root causes in seconds, not hours.
• Cnuic Technologies — The future runs on light and we're building the tool that makes it.

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• Washington College — One of the oldest leading liberal arts colleges, Washington College offers uniquely traditional and personalized academic experiences.Situated in Chestertown along Maryland’s Chester River, Washington College exists in one of America’s most well-maintained historical communities.One particularly outstanding academic program at WashingtonCollege is its Starr Center for the Study of American Experience. This center brings scholars and students together to discuss and study traditional history in new ways. Starr Center Faculty also publish regularly in such places as The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian and The New York Times.Other academic areas of study include Anthropology, Art History, Black Studies, Clinical Counseling, Drama, Education, Engineering, Humanities and International Literature.Personalized in its approach, Washington college boasts a low student-faculty ratio, ensuring that students receive as much attention from faculty as possible.Students may complete their experience by living in on-campus residences and participating in Washington College’s academic, recreational or athletic organizations.Financial aid options at Washington College include standard grants, loans, work-study and scholarships for those who qualify.
• Rockville Science Center — Rockville Science Center provides opportunities for people to engage in science and engineering activities.
• Carroll County Public Library — Carroll County Public Library offers a variety of services, including meeting and study room space, interlibrary loans,

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• QC82 — Co-founders of QC82 have established cluster-state entanglement for CVQC implementations, manufactured quantum photonic circuits with 40 entangled modes, and created low-noise single-photon detectors at telecom wavelengths. To overcome fault tolerance and enable practical QC applications, we are creating room-temperature photonic chips with on-chipphoton number-resolving detectors.

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• Demetria — Demetria is an AI-powered taste and quality intelligence SaaS startup for the coffee supply chain.
• 1s1 Energy — Hydrogen Not Carbon Affordable green hydrogen enabled by boron based chemistry. Learn more Industry-leading electrolyzers Proprietary technology 1s1
• Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.

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• Lightsprint — LightSprint is the software factory for product teams. PMs, designers and ops build in a shared cloud workspace while engineering controls every merge.
• HealthLeap — HealthLeap provides an AI-driven clinical decision support platform for hospital teams. The platform analyzes electronic health record data to surface adult inpatients who may be at nutritional risk and highlights contributing factors. It supports registered dietitians by prioritizing assessments and identifying patients who might otherwise be missed. HealthLeap focuses on malnutrition screening today and develops additional modules for conditions such as congestive heart failure readmissions, pressure injuries, and food insecurity. It integrates into existing clinical workflows while leaving final decisions with clinicians.
• IRIDIUM CREDIT LTD — Iridium is the operations layer that turns B2B invoices into financeable working capital. Verification, collections, and cash posting - automated for receivables lenders.

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• 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.The company's platform combines conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and contextual voice assistants to automate communication across self-management or one-on-onetailored chats, allowing customer-centric businesses to deliver customized customer experiences at scale while cutting costs.Vozy was established on February 18, 2017 by Humberto Pertuz, Helmuth Corzo, Alejandro Lopez, and Ricardo Marin in Medellín, Antioquia.
• Finaktiva — Finaktiva is the number one financial ally of Colombian entrepreneurs. We offer flexible and agile online financial solutions (loans in various forms, factoring and confirming) adjusted to the requirements of the companies. We also offer a range of non-financial tools through our platform to help SMEs´ grow. Our customers are typically businesseswith innovative business models, double-digit growth rates that have a positive impact in their communities.
• Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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• Afterwind — Afterwind® exists to preserve natural resources for future generations by recycling glass fibre assets into circular advanced materials with full traceability.We help asset owners and industrial manufacturers in Advanced Materials, Renewable Energy, and Construction recover and reuse end-of-life and byproduct materials without compromising theiroriginal properties, including glass and carbon fibres, PET and PVC foams, and resin powders.Team Afterwind is expanding across Europe, working on- or near-site to help our clients cut costs, CO2, and risks, while supplying stable, high-quality, circular advanced materials that deliver on EU Taxonomy and green targets.
• Salva Health — Salva Health is a healthcare solutions provider company that develops products to enable the prevention and early detection of diseases.
• Affinity — Join over 145,000 who trust the Affinity to manage their personal and business banking needs, from payments to savings, as well as loans

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• 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.
• Glasst — New materials for the Construction industry.

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• UIN — UIN is the BehaviorOS for banks, fintechs, telcos, and retailers. Its AI-powered platform analyzes user behavior and transaction data to orchestrate personalized triggers, incentives, rewards, and experiences that increase activation, frequency, retention, and lifetime value.
• Dapper — Dapper is a SaaS platform that empowers companies in Latin America to navigate public affairs with clarity and precision. By combining cutting-edge technology with expert legal and economic analysis, Dapper delivers real-time insights on laws, regulations, and policy shifts that impact business strategy. From monitoring legislative changes toproviding customized economic intelligence, Dapper helps organizations anticipate risks, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions in complex regulatory environments. The company operates in Colombia, Perú and Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Chile as of February, 2026.
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy is a next-generation energy retailer transforming Latin America’s electricity market. By replacing analog meters with smart metering infrastructure, Bia delivers real-time consumption data and a digital platform that helps businesses and households cut costs, optimize usage, and improve sustainability. Backed by Kaszek, 8VC, GlobalFounders Capital, and Nazca, Bia serves leading companies including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, WeWork, Terpel, Falabella, and IKEA. With rapid growth in Colombia and expansion plans into LatAm, Bia is building the digital backbone of energy retail in the region.

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• Retri — Retri is a two-sided marketplace that connects construction companies and project managers (those who need heavy equipment) with equipment owners (those who have heavy equipment to rent). Retri simplifies the rental process, making it faster and more efficient for both parties.Retri's value proposition includes:For Renters: Easy access toa wide variety of heavy equipment, streamlined rental process, and reliable service.For Equipment Owners: Increased utilization of their assets, additional income stream, and reduced administrative overhead.Retri's technology platform enables seamless communication, secure transactions, and efficient logistics, making it a convenient and reliable solution for heavy equipment rental needs.

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• Penagos — Penagos Hermanos - Penagos Hermanos
• ServiceBots — Servicebots is a Conversational AI company that is revolutionizing the way companies communicate with their customers. Servicebots helps to improve its clients' business performance by bringing them all the power of Artificial Intelligence and customized Large Language Models to help companies have more conversations, faster conversations,better conversations, and more cost-effective conversations with their customers. Servicebots' generative Voicebots can hold natural and very fluent conversations with your customers, with human like voices. Servicebots provides two Conversational AI solutions: an Omnichannel Digital Contact Center platform and a Speech Analytics platform. Through our Omnichannel Digital Contact Center platform, our Intelligent Virtual Agents (Voicebots or Chatbots) can immediately answer every inbound call or text conversation (zero wait time), 24/7, which significantly improves your customer experience. Since our Intelligent Virtual Agents can handle up to 70% of our customer’s calls, without any need for human intervention, Servicebots can help its clients reduce at least 30% of their customer services costs. On the other hand, our Voicebots can also generate massive outbound phone-based campaigns for many use cases such as sales, debt collections, appointment scheduling, on-time delivery validations, customer satisfaction surveys, etc. Our clients love the speed at which we can cover their customer databases and timely gather key market information that can be acted upon immediately. Servicebots' Intelligent Virtual Agents have successfully generated more than 20 million calls in different countries. Our Speech Analytics platform allows our clients to capture “the Voice of the Customer”. Key insights like reasons for calling, customer pains and customer sentiments and emotions are all gathered through our platform, as we provide our clients with the ability to monitor 100% of their customer contacts, as opposed to the typical 2% that can be handled manually. We can also automate your Contact Center agent performance assessment. Relevant performance aspects such as kindness, efficiency, script adherence level, objection handling abilities, and deal closing abilities are all automatically assessed in 100% of customer contacts, using AI. This automated holistic assessment can help identify “the secret sauce” of successful calls in important business functions such as sales, debt collections and customer retention. Both contextual and acoustic critical success factors of the most effective agents are quickly identified, and hence actionable insights are determined to improve contact effectiveness and impact the business performance in the short run. This also provides valuable feedback for improving agent training, reducing agent churn, and improving the agent recruitment process. We can event go as far as to being able to predict future customer behavior using acoustic AI. This allows us to forecast the probability that a customer will purchase the product or service that our client is offering (or not), honor the debt payment commitment it has just made or churn to the competition. By being able to identify “the X factor” of your most successful Contact Center Agents we can train our Intelligent Virtual Agents to be able to emulate your best human agents. Using Customized Large Language Models, we can enhance such training with best practices and provide our Voicebots with much more domain specific in-depth knowledge than a human agent can typically handle. In short, based on Servicebots’ conversational analytics abilities, we can create highly effective Intelligent Virtual Agents that are trained like our client’s best human agents, that have access to our client’s best practices and ample domain expertise, and can predict the customer’s future behavior, and can immediately answer or make any number of phone calls or customer contacts 24/7. Based on those same abilities, Servicebots also offers “Intelligent Virtual Co-pilots” that can advise its client’s Contact Center human agents to better handle the calls or customer contacts in real time. Relevant call improvement aspects like how to better handle objections, what negotiation alternatives to offer the customer, important information disclosure reminder and kindness improvement recommendations are all included in Servicebots’ Co-Pilot’s solution value proposition.

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• QC82 — Co-founders of QC82 have established cluster-state entanglement for CVQC implementations, manufactured quantum photonic circuits with 40 entangled modes, and created low-noise single-photon detectors at telecom wavelengths. To overcome fault tolerance and enable practical QC applications, we are creating room-temperature photonic chips with on-chipphoton number-resolving detectors.
• Lumai — Lumai delivers optical compute for the inference era, enabling up to 50x AI performance and 90% less power. Supports billion-parameter LLMs today.
• Pinc Technologies — PINC's nanoPPLN platform brings nonlinear circuits to integrated photonics, unlocking breakthroughs in sensing, computing, communications, and beyond.

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• Penagos — Penagos Hermanos - Penagos Hermanos
• ServiceBots — Servicebots is a Conversational AI company that is revolutionizing the way companies communicate with their customers. Servicebots helps to improve its clients' business performance by bringing them all the power of Artificial Intelligence and customized Large Language Models to help companies have more conversations, faster conversations,better conversations, and more cost-effective conversations with their customers. Servicebots' generative Voicebots can hold natural and very fluent conversations with your customers, with human like voices. Servicebots provides two Conversational AI solutions: an Omnichannel Digital Contact Center platform and a Speech Analytics platform. Through our Omnichannel Digital Contact Center platform, our Intelligent Virtual Agents (Voicebots or Chatbots) can immediately answer every inbound call or text conversation (zero wait time), 24/7, which significantly improves your customer experience. Since our Intelligent Virtual Agents can handle up to 70% of our customer’s calls, without any need for human intervention, Servicebots can help its clients reduce at least 30% of their customer services costs. On the other hand, our Voicebots can also generate massive outbound phone-based campaigns for many use cases such as sales, debt collections, appointment scheduling, on-time delivery validations, customer satisfaction surveys, etc. Our clients love the speed at which we can cover their customer databases and timely gather key market information that can be acted upon immediately. Servicebots' Intelligent Virtual Agents have successfully generated more than 20 million calls in different countries. Our Speech Analytics platform allows our clients to capture “the Voice of the Customer”. Key insights like reasons for calling, customer pains and customer sentiments and emotions are all gathered through our platform, as we provide our clients with the ability to monitor 100% of their customer contacts, as opposed to the typical 2% that can be handled manually. We can also automate your Contact Center agent performance assessment. Relevant performance aspects such as kindness, efficiency, script adherence level, objection handling abilities, and deal closing abilities are all automatically assessed in 100% of customer contacts, using AI. This automated holistic assessment can help identify “the secret sauce” of successful calls in important business functions such as sales, debt collections and customer retention. Both contextual and acoustic critical success factors of the most effective agents are quickly identified, and hence actionable insights are determined to improve contact effectiveness and impact the business performance in the short run. This also provides valuable feedback for improving agent training, reducing agent churn, and improving the agent recruitment process. We can event go as far as to being able to predict future customer behavior using acoustic AI. This allows us to forecast the probability that a customer will purchase the product or service that our client is offering (or not), honor the debt payment commitment it has just made or churn to the competition. By being able to identify “the X factor” of your most successful Contact Center Agents we can train our Intelligent Virtual Agents to be able to emulate your best human agents. Using Customized Large Language Models, we can enhance such training with best practices and provide our Voicebots with much more domain specific in-depth knowledge than a human agent can typically handle. In short, based on Servicebots’ conversational analytics abilities, we can create highly effective Intelligent Virtual Agents that are trained like our client’s best human agents, that have access to our client’s best practices and ample domain expertise, and can predict the customer’s future behavior, and can immediately answer or make any number of phone calls or customer contacts 24/7. Based on those same abilities, Servicebots also offers “Intelligent Virtual Co-pilots” that can advise its client’s Contact Center human agents to better handle the calls or customer contacts in real time. Relevant call improvement aspects like how to better handle objections, what negotiation alternatives to offer the customer, important information disclosure reminder and kindness improvement recommendations are all included in Servicebots’ Co-Pilot’s solution value proposition.

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• Glasst — New materials for the Construction industry.