Top 40 Retail Startup Investors in Colombia (September 2026)

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• Cuidefy — Cuidefy is a platform aimed at connecting families with trusted caregivers for children, the elderly, and pets.
• IUS.Earth — IUS.Earth offers a comprehensive and advanced solution for SMEs, sustainability, environmental management, and strategic intelligence.
• Quipu Bank — QUIPU consists in a platform that enables digital local markets in informal settlements, using blockchain applications.

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• Estate Media — Real Estate's Biggest Personalities Under one Roof
• Subquadratic — AI lab leading the subquadratic LLM revolution.
• Hidden Studios — Hidden Studios develops and advertises Fortnite Creative games, with 100M+ plays monthly. The company collaborated with prominent brands and creators, including Skydance, Snoop Dogg, and CaseOh, to deliver engaging gaming experiences. Hidden Studios maintains an active presence on YouTube, sharing content related to their Fortnite Creativeendeavors.

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• Treinta — Treinta powers 7 million SMBs across the US and Latin America with simple finance, inventory, and sales tools.
• Worky — At Worky, we are revolutionizing the way HR is managed at Small and Medium Companies. We want to disrupt the way these firms communicate with their employees, and these employees’ financial health
• Orthogonal — Giving AI agents the tools they need.

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• Quix — Quix helps companies create AI-powered training programs by turning internal content into interactive learning.
• Xoul — XOUL is a health-tech platform that leverages phenotyping AI to help parents understand their children’s emotional state through digital behavior analysis. By passively monitoring content interactions, social app usage, and behavioral patterns, XOUL identifies early signs of anxiety, depression, and other emotional challenges. Our insights empowerparents with meaningful data to foster open conversations, strengthen family bonds, and support early intervention. With a strong focus on privacy and ethical AI, XOUL ensures responsible data processing while delivering actionable intelligence to improve children’s mental well-being in the digital age.
• Sin Intermediarios — Low cost high quality wellness products

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• LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
• Amigo Edu — Amigo Edu offers digital fundraising and scholarships by facilitating digital examinations to eligible merits for higher education.

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• Pitz — PITZ is building the infrastructure layer for the $1T global auto repair industry — starting with Latin America, expanding to the US in Q4 2026. The platform combines voice-driven AI diagnostics, automated parts procurement, and embedded financing into a single system of record for independent repair shops. In 9 months: $1.78M ARR, 1,462 activeworkshops across Mexico and Brazil, 83% gross margin, 70% subscription revenue, and NRR above 100%. Founded in 2025. Delaware C-Corp. Seed stage.
• Prima — Reliable manufacturing & supply chain partner for custom parts, metal fabrication & efficient sourcing from Mexico. Manage design, production & delivery
• Karrot — Karrot is a cloud-based software suite solutions that provides omnichannel retail solutions.

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• Cifrato — Contabiliza, paga, concilia y analiza tus facturas en minutos, sin errores ni trabajo manual.
• Monato — Integrate payments, collections, and financial services in one place at the speed and scale your business demands.

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• Brekfuz — Brekfuz is an AI startup that builds an intelligent coordination platform called The Human API. The system transforms undocumented human knowledge and digital exhaust into structured endpoints to eliminate information bottlenecks. This allows both human teammates and autonomous AI agents to query institutional memory directly without waiting forhuman availability
• Omen AI — Harness the power of Ai and proprietary sensing to prevent equipment failures.
• PAVE Space — PAVE Space develops in-space transportation and satellite servicing technologies that enable movement and management of payloads across different orbits. The company builds spacecraft systems centered around a kickstage platform that transfers multi-ton payloads from low Earth orbit to target orbits within short timeframes using onboard propulsionsystems. Its core offering focuses on orbital mobility, providing services that bridge the gap between launch vehicles and final satellite deployment by repositioning payloads after initial launch. The platform is designed to integrate with multiple launch providers and supports both rideshare and dedicated missions through compatible interfaces and propulsion technologies.Beyond transportation, PAVE Space develops capabilities for in-orbit operations, including satellite inspection, life extension, docking, and servicing. These functions use a combination of propulsion systems, guidance and control algorithms, and autonomous technologies to manage spacecraft activities and extend satellite usability.

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• Curative — Get on-the-go COVID-19 testing and other essential health services, wherever you are.
• Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
• Last Energy — Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy.

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• Creditop — Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit.
• 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.
• Fracttal — Fracttal offers intelligent maintenance and asset management software (CMMS/GMAO/EAM), that is 100% mobile and cloud-based. These tools allow companies to manage their maintenance in a more sustainable, secure, and efficient way that guarantees the integrity and continuity of their operations, as well as the safety of workers.Demonstrated improvements include reducing asset failures by over 25%, improving maintenance costs by at least 15% and increasing productivity by more than 35%, while also reducing accidents and operational risks. Fracttal, which counts companies such Acciona, Unilever, Iberostar, Veolia and FedEx, among its almost 1000 customers, directs its solutions to large multinationals and SMEs in various industry sectors, including manufacturing, facility management, energy, and transport in which it already has a significant presence.With its main solution, Fracttal One, companies can remotely manage all maintenance operations from any device and for any type of asset, including equipment, vehicles, machinery, and facilities. This intelligent tool, a leader in several of the world's most prestigious rankings, facilitates real-time collaborative work between different work teams and integrates with any ERP. Fracttal One improves decision making, maximizes efficiency and extends the useful life of physical assets, while reducing incidents and unplanned downtime that can lead to delays, lost profitability, and accidents. Fracttal has also developed Predictto, an AI enabled predictive maintenance solution that allows companies to anticipate failure conditions with a high percentage of certainty. To do so, Predictto applies Machine Learning to bigdata, identifying the behavior of assets based on proprietary reliability and degradation models.

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• Trivoro — Trivoro is a grocery store that offers meats, fruits, and vegetables.

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• Convex — All gas, no breakages. Convex is the reactive backend platform that keeps up with you and your agents.
• FLORA — FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building creative tools.
• Samepage — Building your second brain for product leaders

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• SLUSHY — SLUSHY is a secure mobile web based platform for content creators to find, grow, & monetize their audiences. A creator first, tech-driven tool, designed with key discoverability features and audience insights. In a market where existing solutions (OnlyFans, Patreon) fall short of their creators' demands, SLUSHY provides an alternativesolution for professional content creators that prioritizes their monetization, support and management needs. SLUSHY incorporates a powerful legal framework, with robust compliance tools including simplified consent, ID verification, and content moderation. The new home of unrestricted content, SLUSHY is here.
• Unsloth AI — Unsloth is an open-source, no-code deskop UI for training and running open models on your local hardware.
• OneImaging — OneImaging makes life-saving diagnostics affordable, accessible, and personal. We connect employers, health plans, and members to a trusted national network of imaging centers, delivering faster answers with transparent pricing and premium care across MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds, mammograms, X-rays and more. We serve organizations looking to control medical spend and individuals who need reliable results without delays. Every scan booked through OneImaging is proof that healthcare can be simpler, cheaper, and kinder.

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• Starcloud — Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space.
• modus — Modus - The Context Warehouse for Enterprise AI. Automatically mine, compose, and deliver intent-based context to any AI platform. Backed by Insight Partners.
• Cambium — Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse.

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
• LetsData — LetsData is an AI-power radar against disinformation. LetsData provides real-time media and social media monitoring in over 50 countries, empowering state agencies, businesses, and civil societies to proactively navigate risks and seize opportunities in the face of disinformation.
• Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.

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• WealthMore — Most people build wealth alone. You don't have to. Get a dedicated advisor, an AI wealth coach, and personalized investment portfolio. Plans start at $25/month. No minimums. Book a free intro call today.
• Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
• Logoi — With Logoi, get an always up-to-date, searchable knowledge graph for your Marketing Agency.

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• ClosetUp — ClosetUp is building the leading B2B resale and circular commerce platform for fashion brands in LatAm. We help enterprises monetize overstock and returned inventory through a managed e-commerce, earning a 41% commission while reducing waste and costs. We’re obsessed with solving inventory inefficiency and sustainability through technology,logistics, and data-driven pricing.

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• Linnda — Linnda specializes in leveraging data to enhance e-commerce sales. The company focuses on monitoring the performance of digital campaigns, aiming to convert data into actionable insights for sales improvement. Linnda serves a variety of businesses, providing them with the tools and expertise needed to understand and optimize their online salesstrategies. Through data analysis and targeted digital marketing efforts, Linnda helps companies to increase their online visibility and sales performance.
• Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
• Demetria — Demetria is an AI-powered taste and quality intelligence SaaS startup for the coffee supply chain.

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• Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
• OpenX — OpenX has the largest independent ad exchange network for publishers and demand partners, while maintaining the highest quality marketplace standards. Learn more.
• StorSimple — Learn how to migrate a StorSimple 8100 or 8600 appliance to Azure File Sync.

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• LAIKA — LAIKA is an e-commerce platform for pets that offers a variety of products and services. LAIKA is like a dog with two tails right now. Its platform for pet products and services has been growing in recent months and it’s drawn the necessary investment to keep up its momentum.LAIKA built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhereelse to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories, and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty, and entertainment services. All of the above is delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.
• Petal — Credit cards with cash back at many local businesses, no annual or international fees, high limits, and a mobile app that makes it easy to manage your money, track your spending and automate payments.
• Yassir — Access on-demand daily services like ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and payments with Yassir, your super app.

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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 — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

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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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• Glitzi — Terapeutas certificados y expertos en belleza confiables, que garantizan la mejor experiencia.
• Walkbase — Walkbase offers advanced retail analytics to boost marketing impact and personalize the in-store shopping experience, driving better engagement and sales.
• SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.

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• ClosetUp — ClosetUp is building the leading B2B resale and circular commerce platform for fashion brands in LatAm. We help enterprises monetize overstock and returned inventory through a managed e-commerce, earning a 41% commission while reducing waste and costs. We’re obsessed with solving inventory inefficiency and sustainability through technology,logistics, and data-driven pricing.

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• Mara — autonomous horde of the free world
• Beglaubigt.de — https://t.co/BCWk4L679n ist die erste Plattform zur Digitalisierung des Notariats in Europa.
• ZeroSettle — Zerosettle offers a merchant web checkout software for iOS apps to process payments, manage tax, and handle compliance and disputes.

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• Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
• Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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• Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.
• Foody — Foody provides healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans at affordable prices. They provide healthy food to the vast majority of Latin Americans at affordable prices.

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• Kashin — Kashin (YC S22) is Square with working capital for micro-merchants in LATAM. We control risk with collaborative credit scoring and our vision is to become the primary financial platform for the masses. Before Kashin, the founders led the largest regional Uber competitor and grew it from 0 to $50m in annual revenue.
• 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.
• Velocity — Velocity is a micro fulfillment dark store that delivers through digital channels.

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• Vestua — Vestua is a secondhand fashion marketplace for women. They sell clothing, sportswear, shoes, wallets, accessories, and brands. Vestua manages the whole process, including receiving garments at home, categorization, online sales, and transferring profits.
• DataRoot — DataRoot provides data science and AI solutions, helping businesses leverage data for growth and optimization.
• BeFun Entertainment — Transformamos marcas globales en experiencias inolvidables.

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• Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge
• Simetrik — On a mission to bring transparency and trust on business data by empowering people with technology.
• numia — numia (formerly Debmedia) is a B2B SaaS platform that helps industries manage customer journeys by seamlessly integrating online and offline experiences. By combining AI automation with human interaction, numia assists companies—including leading banks, insurance firms, telcos, healthcare providers, and retailers—to boost sales, optimize customerengagement, and enhance customer satisfaction.

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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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• Apriora — Conduct real-time interviews with your AI Interviewer
• Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
• Founder AI — Discover ready-to buy prospects, break into key accounts and accelerate deal cycles with YC-backed AI sales tool.

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• SoloPulse — SoloPulse is changing how the world sees by bringing a new approach to sensing and communication technologies that is based on proprietary mathematical wave theory algorithms. This approach unlocks barriers that legacy technologies face while also improving computational efficiency and resolution. SoloPulse’s advanced sensing and beamformingtechniques can use a single electromagnetic pulse to produce high-resolution imaging and increased data transmission rates.
• Solestial — For new space projects that need 100X more power @ 1/10 the price vs. incumbent III-V technology. Regher develops radiation-hardened silicon solar technology to make power in space affordable.There is a demand for 100 MW of solar for space in the next 5 years. But the existing space solar panels are extremely expensive and very slow tomanufacture. With today's technology 100 MW of space solar panels will cost more than $60B and it will take more than 10 years to manufacture. Regher Solar solves this problem. Regher Solar is revolutionizing the access to power in space with space tolerant ultrathin silicon solar panels, which for the first time on the market, will have both high efficiency and low cost in a single light-weight and flexible package.
• Proteus Space — Pioneering Automated Satellite Design for Rapid, Payload-Tailored Satellite Deployments with a World-Class Space and Advanced Technology Leadership Team

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• Mutka — Mutka is a mobile app that offers groceries delivered in less than 15 minutes, 24/7 and with no fee in the city of Cali, Colombia.

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• Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
• Eden — Eden unifies medical imaging operations with clinical AI: PACS, teleradiology, AI-assisted diagnosis and structured reporting, deployed across 2,600+ imaging departments.
• Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.

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• Mutka — Mutka is a mobile app that offers groceries delivered in less than 15 minutes, 24/7 and with no fee in the city of Cali, Colombia.

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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.
• ALKEMIO — ALKEMIO is a developer of a bio-magnetic technology intended to transform electronic waste into quality battery-grade metals.
• metaBIX Biotech — Predictive technology for emerging pathogen and microbiological risk for the agrifood sector from environmental samples.

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• Rely — Rely is a company that focuses on converting the vast amount of unstructured data found in real estate transactions into structured.
• GlossGenius — GlossGenius is the all-in-one booking, payments and POS solution that helps beauty and wellness professionals drive bookings and grow your business.
• Genius AI — Building technology to help service businesses run themselves

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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.
• Xpendit — Xpendit is a Spend Management B2B SaaS controlling Corporate OPEX in an automated and simple way, reducing the cost of managing expenses by up to 80% and associated fraud by up to 20%. Our AI model, the use of WhatsApp, and soon our corporate credit cards, make our value proposition a paradigm shift in how our customers control their spending.
• Yana — Yana is an artificial intelligence designed to provide you with emotional support whenever you need it most. You can confide your thoughts and emotions to Yana at any time and place, without fear of judgment. Whether you're looking to improve your mood or self-esteem, or simply vent on a tough day,

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• a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
• Fun — Fun offers the highest converting rails to execute blockchain actions. Optimize your funding rails, reach new customers, and reduce costs.
• Flagler Health — Flagler Health is the AI-native operating system for musculoskeletal (MSK) care. Flagler seamlessly coordinates clinical and administrative workflows across the full patient lifecycle inside providers' existing EMRs.