Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Ecuador (September 2026)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• Nuvocargo — Nuvocargo is your all-in-one digital platform for cross border trade between the US and Mexico. Book your shipments now
• DeltaX.la — DeltaX is a digital freight platform that connects shippers with carriers and truckers in Latin America.

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• Peoplecard.co — Digital payments solution- Blockchain friendly

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• 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.
• TravelX — A fully automated product that optimizes airline revenue through the use of dynamic flight swap and seat buyback offers, in order to free up space for last minute, high yield passengers on high demand flights.
• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• Helcim — Helcim is the easy and affordable solution for small and medium businesses accepting payments in-person or online.
• Sharpi — Sharpi offers an AI solution that automates B2B order entry by converting customer messages into structured ERP orders.
• Feathery — Enabling product teams to build powerful forms.

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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.