Top 30 Marketplace Startup Investors in Ecuador (October 2026)

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• CURA — CURA removes cement's process emissions upstream with electrochemical technology. Deep decarbonization without replacing feedstocks, plants, or standards.
• Origin — Origin is building the World's First General Purpose Construction Robot that automate interior finishing trades like drywall finishing, painting and more on real job sites. Construction is a $2T+ industry facing labor shortages, rising costs, and stagnant productivity. While manufacturing, logistics, and automotive have embraced automation, construction remains largely manual. Origin is developing the world’s first general-purpose construction robot — an AI-powered robotic system designed to work alongside human crews and operate power tools across multiple trades. Our robots are already deployed on live job sites in New York City in partnership with leading General Contractors and Trade Contractors. We are on a multi-decade mission to build intelligent robotic systems that enable scalable, high-quality, and cost-efficient construction.
• Pathways Technologies — Pathways delivers NRMCA-verified concrete EPDs in weeks. Purpose-built EPD software for ready-mix producers.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
• Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.

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• Finnecto — Procure-to-pay (P2P) SaaS Solution. Finnecto automates purchase requests, policy reviews, approval workflows, vendor quotation digitalization and comparison, and purchase orders matching, effectively reducing manual and repetitive tasks. Finnecto makes procurement and daily operations of companies faster, cheaper, and more transparent whilekeeping spending under control.
• ConstructAI — ConstructAI turns PDF structural drawing sets into construction-ready LOD 350 Revit models, rebar modeled bar by bar. 5.8x faster than manual modeling, timed on camera and signed off by the client.
• PayMon — PayMon integrates an ERP software with a user-friendly digital wallet for seamless payment processing, top-ups, and much more.

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• DataRoot — DataRoot provides data science and AI solutions, helping businesses leverage data for growth and optimization.
• Conectamos — Ship with local carriers, more affordable and reliable
• Frente — Nossa missão é transformar a forma com a qual as pessoas fazem câmbio. Unimos a experiência de profissionais com carreira consolidada no mercado financeiro a uma visão inovadora e contemporânea de negócios. Tudo com a potência que a tecnologia de dados trouxe para o universo Fintech.Somos a sua parceira de câmbio mais sólida e confiável, capaz deatender às suas demandas, superando desafios cada vez maiores e mais rápidos, em um mundo em constante transformação. Nossa preocupação verdadeira com um atendimento próximo, consultivo e atencioso, além de taxas acessíveis e preços justos, complementam a experiência que oferecemos. Tudo de forma a trabalharmos para diminuir a carga burocrática e processos engessados das grandes instituições financeiras.

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• COR — COR is the management platform for agencies and consultancies. Automate time tracking, visualize profitability in real time, and scale with AI.
• Instaleap LLC — A B2B SaaS platform for supermarkets and grocery retailers to centralize eCommerce, marketplaces, fulfillment, picking and delivery operations.
• Home Delivery Service (HDS Global) — We’re on a mission to transform eCommerce – end-to-end – starting with fresh groceries and other home essentials. Powered by the latest in AI and advanced robotics, our patented automated fulfillment system, RoboFS, enables quick, touchless order fulfillment, bringing fresher-than-store goods, direct to your door. Our shopping experience isalso built around each customer’s dietary needs, preferences, and brand favorites. Gone are the days of filtering and scrolling through irrelevant inventory. With HDS, you’ll only ever see products that match your exact criteria. HDS also offers: • Made-to-order meats and prepared foods, customized to your exact specs • Free home delivery with no subscription /delivery / service fees or tips • Tri-temperature-controlled vans, so frozen items arrive fully frozen • Retail-level customer service and easy at-home returns, right at your doorstep • Sustainable delivery totes, eliminating nearly all cardboard and plastic waste

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• NeoFarm — NeoFarm is a project that focuses on producing fresh, local, organic veggies in urban areas.
• Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
• XXII GROUP — With more than 50 employees, XXII designs, develops and markets a SaaS platform for deploying and configuring algorithms for video stream analysis: XXIICORE. Our solution has already convinced companies in many sectors and local authorities, whose teams measure the benefits of video analysis assisted by our algorithms every day.

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• Fillip — Fillip specializes in advancing and rejuvenating iconic and disruptive brands across the sports and entertainment sectors.
• Fillip Fleet — Fillip is a digital fuel and expense management solution that gives businesses full control over vehicle-related spending. Fillip's modern payment platform allows businesses to fuel up anywhere, monitor purchases in real-time, and streamline bookkeeping - making operations more efficient and cost effective.
• Cicada Technologies — Cicada is a fintech company that combines technology, intuitive design, and market expertise to deliver a differentiated and easy-to-use trading solution that transforms how market participants connect and transact.

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• Biochar Now — Biochar Now is a pioneer in the biochar industry with strong engineering, manufacturing, sales and administrative personnel focused on making and selling quality biochar on a very large scale.
• To'ak — To'ak Chocolate is made from rare Ecuadorian Nacional cacao beans. Using a unique barrel aging processes, we create extremely limited editions of luxury single-origin dark chocolate. Discover To'ak Chocolate today.

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• Dtek.AI — Dukkantek aims to empower and enable traditional merchants to be able to compete in the modern world or the digital world through digital transformation. It is a technology partner that improves and provides so many solutions to your business. Dukkantek has what every store needs to manage their business easily and efficiently. With Dukkantek, you will have an end-to-end technology companion that improves all your processes.
• Supy — The data-driven restaurant inventory software: get real-time insights to cut costs, reduce waste, and boost profits for multi-location operations.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• Leapfin — Close month-end faster, report accurate financials, and gain unprecedented visibility into your business with automated revenue accounting and unified transaction data.
• Pod Foods Co — Pod Foods is a revolutionary B2B distribution platform that connects emerging food brands with grocery buyers.
• Truv — With Truv, users can easily connect their payroll account and instantly share the information you need to run verifications—and we make it more affordable and faster than your manual verifications.

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• Databits — Databits offers world-class training oriented to solving real-world industry challenges. Our professor team comprises industry experts certified in the most demanding skills and tools. We teach Artificial Intelligence, Python, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, Spark, Big Data, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Power BI, Databricks, Azure, andmore. We have customers in Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua, where we have trained +3000 professionals and +20 large regional companies.
• luzverde — Luzverde provides a fintech platform that creates and manages credit in retail stores. It enables companies to grant direct credit to their clients. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Quito, Pichincha.

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• Arqgen — Arqgen develops generative and AI-based software designed for multi-scale architectural designs.
• Leads2b — Leads2b is a technology solutions company that specializes in the generation of Leads in the B2B market. Using big data and artificial intelligence, Leads2b nourishes with market information an automated prospecting process, increasing the effectiveness of the business sector so that its clients achieve their goals.The company was founded in 2014and is based in Curitiba, Brazil.
• Uncover — Uncover uses state of the art technology in Data Integration and Predictive Modeling to optimize marketing investments and accelerate growth.

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• VSORA — VSORA provides high performance companion solutions combining AI and signal processing to enable autonomous driving and ADAS
• Leviia — Leviia is the cloud storage company that fights to protect the environment and ensure reforestation.
• PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.

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• Alpagga — Alpagga is the online marketplace for purchase and sale of decommissioned agri-food equipments.
• OTPless — OTPless is a software company that develops SaaS products which enables users to log into various platforms using WhatsApp. They have officially partnered with WhatsApp to make their product safe, reliable and efficient. They are a young and dynamic company looking to revolutionize logging in as we know it. OTPless is headquartered in Delhi,India and was founded in 2021.
• Accumulator — Accumulator is a U.S. private equity firm regulated by the SEC, operating as an index-like fund covering a wide range of privately held, growth-stage tech companies.

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• Qutwo — We build AI that helps industry leaders define the next decade of competitive advantage.
• HrFlow.ai — Meet the first AI agents and Foundation models trained on billions of interview outcomes. The Hiring SuperIntelligence predicts your next hires and who's worth meeting, saving managers thousands of hours wasted on false positives.
• Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.

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• Humera — Humera - AI CAPTCHA That Knows You're Human
• Allonic — Allonic is a robotics hardware company pioneering 3D Tissue Braiding, a new manufacturing platform for producing integrated, compliant, bio-inspired robotic bodies through a single, fully automated production process. By eliminating assembly-heavy designs and supply-chain complexity, Allonic enables significantly faster iteration, lower costs, andsafer, more dexterous robots to be built. Originally founded from Hungary and operating internationally with a US HQ and a growing team of 15, Allonic is building the hardware foundation for the next generation of intelligent machines.
• Heywa Labs — Two products, one engine. Heywa Studio for businesses, Heywa for anyone with a question worth following.

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• Soteris — Soteris provides artificial intelligence-based pricing tools to the insurance business. The company is working hard to transform the entire insurance value chain and would like to keep you updated on developments.
• Settle — The smartest way to sell to the government.
• Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.

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• Swaap — We build & operate onchain trading systems. We are a group of scientists and technologists committed to build open systems.
• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Skedway — Skedway connects software, AI, sensors, displays and automation into one intelligent operational layer for the physical workplace.

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• UMW Recordings Inc. — The ultimate music distribution platform for artists, labels & B2B clients. Launch your white label service or release tracks globally with UMW Recordings Inc.

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• GENWI — Genwi is used by marketers to distribute information, gathered from multiple sources, to mobile devices in realtime. It provides an efficient way to curate, manage and optimize content, which results in vastly better channel to relay information to an organization’s customers, partners and employees.
• FarFaria — FarFaria is an app for the iPad that offers unlimited reading, instantly. Designed to provide families with the perfect story time, FarFaria stimulates an interest in reading and promotes families spending time together. For a low monthly cost, families have access to FarFaria’s vast library of content with new stories added every week.FarFaria was created by Intuary, a team of socially responsible entrepreneurs whose mission is to create innovative products that enhance people’s lives. In addition to FarFaria, Intuary is the creator of Verbally, a free app that aids those suffering from nonverbal disabilities.
• Poshmark — Buy, sell, and discover fashion, home decor, beauty, and more

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• Cocoa & Company — Cocoa & Company operates as a real estate development firm focused on large-scale land subdivision and infrastructure mapping. The company's value proposition centers on acquiring tract acreage along high-demand transit corridors and transforming raw properties into master-planned parcels ready for residential building and condominiumdevelopment. By managing local structural approvals and leveraging private credit facilities, the business creates structured real estate opportunities that meet expanding coastal population and destination needs.
• Erna Enterprises — Erna Enterprises focuses on real estate development, property management, and affordable housing solutions.
• Haya Enterprises — Haya Enterprises is a property development company.

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• A5X — A5X is a financial institutional platform offers trading and post-trading solutions to the capital and financial markets.
• Primero AI — Primero AI develops a foundational systems-intelligence platform that integrates scattered legacy software, tools, and spreadsheets into a unified enterprise ontology. This semantic data layer captures process knowledge to orchestrate and deploy auditable multi-step AI workflows and custom agents. Their enterprise model allows large organizationsto modernize labor-intensive operations and measure financial outcomes directly on their core systems.
• 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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• Soyio — Gestiona consentimiento, identidad y derechos de titulares con trazabilidad auditable. Registra actividades de tratamiento con IA. Cumple la ley 21.719.
• 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
• Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.

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• Welli — Welli is a medical financing company based in Colombia. It provides patient loans at the doctor’s office or clinic in seven medical specialties that are paid out of pocket. Welli aims to become the financial partner of doctors and patients alike across Latam. Beyond the core credit product, offering includes doctor financing for medical equipmentand savings clubs for patients ineligible for financing.
• EQUIP — In the region, SMB construction companies, which represent 90% of the market buy supplies manually at local hardware stores or retailers at high markup prices, which affects access to housing in LatAm. EQUIP’s platform offers a more efficient and cost-effective alternative, allowing construction companies to buy all the materials they need, get thedelivery and credit, all in one place.Our founding team has strong tech and construction backgrounds. Our investors include Pareto VC, Unpopular VC, GG Capital and angels from Rappi, Mercado Libre, and Amazon.
• Prestamype — Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company.

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• UMW Recordings Inc. — The ultimate music distribution platform for artists, labels & B2B clients. Launch your white label service or release tracks globally with UMW Recordings Inc.

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• Mercately — Mercately is an e-commerce management center with powerful tools to improve the online store and customer service.
• Skillfully — Skillfully builds AI-powered pre-hire simulations so employers can see past the resume to see applicant skills in action.
• AdZen — Shared Vision is at the forefront of online commerce technology, providing creators with a cutting-edge platform to optimize and automate affiliate revenue streams. Its SaaS solution features a centralized management platform for creators, enabling them to easily manage their affiliate links and maximize their revenue potential. Meanwhile, itsunique consumer-based shopping cart experience drives increased sales and generates revenue for creators, brands, and itself.

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• Arqgen — Arqgen develops generative and AI-based software designed for multi-scale architectural designs.
• MySide — imobles helps people buy apartments through a combination of a disruptive web platform and an out of the blue buyer agent service.
• CUB — CUB develops a platform that automates the management of receivables and after-sales for subdivisions. It replaces manual routines to save time, and resources, and reduce bad debt.

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• Holyvolt — Our mission is to provide the world with high-efficiency renewable energy solutions at an affordable cost and with minimal environmental impact.
• Solea — Solea is the AI CSR that helps with booking, routing, and logging home service jobs in real time.
• VERO — VERO delivers fast, fair rental screening for renters and property teams, making leasing decisions easier, faster, and more reliable for everyone involved.

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• Buildpeer — Buildpeer is a project management software for construction fields. The company was founded by Mauricio Valdes in 2021 and is headquartered in Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
• Hotelverse — Hotelverse allows customers search over hotels on their platform and book rooms as per their requirements.
• Savana — Electronic Health Records reuse, with Clinical Natural Language Processing.