Top 40 Sustainability Startup Investors in Chile (June 2026)

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• Mywacc — We are a fintech that offers valuation services to provide start-ups and small businesses with accurate, reliable, and affordable financial valuations (leveraged in AI), as well as access to capital and additional services that could help them make better financial decisions and improve their chances of success. Funded by Corfo Chile. Partnershipfrom UDD Ventures. Part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
• Audibots — Otro sitio de WordPress
• Remote Waters — Remote Waters provide water purification systems with low O&M and fast installation for remote communities with limited access to potable water.

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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.
• ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.

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• Kriptos — Kriptos uses AI to ensure accurate classification for your company. Kriptos helps businesses locate their most critical information and prevent data leakage through software that analyzes, classifies, and labels documents automatically.
• Altscore — AltScore offers Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) tools for MSMB lending that provide cutting-edge underwriting, client experience, and smart collections.
• Reuse — Reuse is an end-to-end online marketplace for buying and selling refurbished electronics in LATAM.

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• INDIMIN — INDIMIN is a platform that transforms data into productivity and connects artificial intelligence, people for sustainable mining. It creates a new state of play in the mining industry that achieves the triple digital impact: solutions that integrate the environment, people, and operational efficiency.
• Pignus — SaaS tool that uses VR and AI in order to detect behavioral deviations in workers, facilitating preventive decisions to reduce accidents and improve productivity.Currently, there is a version for operational workers and one for supervisors, both of which are capable of generating behavioral traceability by identifying competencies and behaviorsthat affect people's safety and productivity.
• VITECH by Fukai Data — VITECH is a cutting-edge Al startup that is revolutionizing the way mining companies monitor and analyze their mobile equipment. Our solution uses advanced vibration analytics and artificial intelligence to predict failures on trucks, such as Caterpillar AC 798, and others mobile equipment, and provide early detection of damages, real-timemonitoring, detailed reports, and notifications in case of an early stage failure to prevent accidents and improve time availability per equipment.

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• INDIMIN — INDIMIN is a platform that transforms data into productivity and connects artificial intelligence, people for sustainable mining. It creates a new state of play in the mining industry that achieves the triple digital impact: solutions that integrate the environment, people, and operational efficiency.
• 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
• Wareclouds — Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.

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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.
• Aquabyte — Aquabyte builds machine learning products for aquaculture (fish) farms.Aquabyte was founded in 2017 to bring machine learning and computer vision technologies to the aquaculture industry. Our diverse team of machine learning experts, entrepreneurs, and aquaculture biologists are hyperfocused on delivering solutions with a real-world impact.Real-time sea lice counting, biomass monitoring, and appetite detection are just a few of the many applications that will eventually be possible with the Aquabyte system. We have offices in San Francisco and Norway.Aquabyte surpasses modern farm monitoring products with our machine learning platform and smart camera system. Our solution offers easy installation, continuous monitoring, and multiple applications.Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of food production on the planet, offering a meaningful solution to global food deficits. Aquabyte’s mission is to use machine learning to make fish farms more efficient, sustainable, and profitable.
• MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.

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• SmartMining — Somos una empresa de tecnologías de la información aplicada al mundo industrial y minero. Llevamos inteligencia a los procesos con el objetivo de optimizar el uso de recursos críticos, generando ahorros y aumento de productividad.

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• PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
• Polar Cold — Polar Cold provides cold rooms-as-a-service on a monthly subscription, conveniently installed onsite at customer facilities. Polar Cold is dedicated to advancing sustainability in the cold chain space.
• Verta Bioenergy — Bespoke drop in replacement pellets to decarbonise industrial coal use. Minimal investment required. Decarbonising one plant at a time.

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• Floid — Open Finance para conectar de forma segura con los datos financieros de tus clientes
• Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
• FarmaLoop — FarmaLoop is an online pharmacy which is easy to use platform and innovative prices as per customers requirement.

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• Andes — Andes empowers microbes to enable positive action against climate change.
• Done Properly — On DP we believe that humanity deserves a new generations of ingredient to improve our health. To do that we created Arya, our platform of discovery and development of new ingredients that combines fermentations technologies with circular economy.This new ingredients allow us to reduces the uses of salt in several applications or create sustitutesof animals meat usisng micoproteins.
• The Live Green Co — Precision nutrition for Food & Nutra CPG brands. 45+ IPs, 5X faster to market, global scale at staple prices. Define the future of nutrition.

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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.
• 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
• Bright Star Studios — Publisher of Ember Sword. We build zero-friction next-gen social MMOs that empower gamers through open player-centric-economies based on digital collectibles.

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• Cifrato — Cifrato helps mid market accounting accounting firms automate bookkeeping, payments, bank reconciliations, tax reporting and insights reporting with AI so they can grow their client base 2x and reduce their headcount by at least 80%.
• Fecundis — Nuevos medios de cultivo para capacitación de espermatozoides
• Forest — A cleaner, healthier and happier world is possible, one pedal at a time. 10 minutes free, every day, for every user.

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• myTeam — Helping Sports Clubs and Academies to optimize their daily processes and communication with their members
• Kredito — Kredito is a platform that focuses on generating loans for small to medium-sized businesses.
• Bamba — We help large companies that want to help their affinity users to solve unforeseen events fast, by minimizing costs, through a smart digital agent embedded in any company’s interface

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• Relif — Using Open Finance & AI, we enable individuals to refinance their consumer credits with various institutions in a few clicks by consolidating information, structuring a solution, and then integrating with banks for them to deliver it. Combining this with financial education, we reduce their financial burden, generate a real impact on theirfinances, and improve their quality of life.
• Chipax — A Fintech making SMB accounting dramatically simpler, with real-time data collection from IRS and banks, and automated reporting on what’s most important (cash flow, income statement, debts payable, etc.) We make the day-to-day easier, through tools such as bank reconciliation, cash flow forecasting, or debt collection tools.
• BePretty — Bepretty is an online guide that enables women to search, discover, and book beauty appointments. It also allows professionals to expand their businesses by promoting and managing them online. Bepretty was launched in April 2015 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

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• Sunamp — Thermal energy storage solutions that make homes, buildings & vehicles more energy-efficient & sustainable while reducing carbon emissions.
• TIMining — TIMining offers state-of-the-art software for the mining industry, from load and haul simulation to holographic technology.
• Ceibo — Combinamos I+D, excelencia operacional y desarrollo para crear productos que cuidan el planeta.

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• Nudos — B2B platform that enables companies to manage the equipping of hybrid workers distributed over the world. From the Onboarding (devices procurement anywhere) to the offboarding (recovery and storaged of devices), and everything in between. The company was founded in 2022 and headquartered in Mexico City , Mexico.
• KredFeed — Recibe el dinero de tus ventas hoy, sin tener que esperar el plazo de pago de tus clientes.
• Airbag Technologies — Analiza, retroalimenta y premia a tus conductores

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• Beeok — Beeok is a GreenTech Company that develops Software Solutions for Sustainability. Beeok is a B2B SaaS software for environmental, health and safety law compliance and other corporate sustainability solutions.
• Wenu Work — Wenu Work developed IoT technology in order to help companies become more productive and sustainable, through energy efficiency. With easy-to-install sensors and user-friendly platforms, Wenu Work provides valuable tools in order to enable better decision making within companies in terms of energy efficiency, operational efficiency of criticalassets, energy cost allocation throughout the business units across a company, communication to stakeholders regarding sustainability, etc.
• BioPub-WriteWise — WriteWise is a software that will help you write, analyze, and edit your next paper with intelligent feedback. By scientists for scientists, free Abstract demo.

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• S-Save — Be smart, be sustainable
• FounderList — FounderList is an online platform to invest in high impact Latin American startups.
• PropertySimple — Experience the power of ChatGPT by OpenAI in revolutionizing your property journey. Elevate your success with PropertySimple's innovative AI solutions for the modern real estate landscape!

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• Triciclos — We generate capabilities , spaces and procedures to take charge of our waste responsibly providing materials that can be recycled in the domestic market . We create opportunities to change the way we view and treat our waste . Everyone can be a part , just enough to want to participate!

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• Influur — Access the global creator community instantly and collaborate at scale with our end-to-end solutions.
• Lenk — Lenk powers the process mortgage origination in Latin America
• LEASY — Leasy is a FinTech platform that provides automobile financing to ride-hailing drivers through a subscription model. It uses its algorithm and evaluators to analyze users' profiles and find suitable cars for them and helps customers to enter into a contract to own a vehicle.Co-founded by Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay in 2018, thecompany aims to help people who would like to earn incomes as ride-hailing drivers be able to afford cars, thus earning a steady income.

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• Guapeco — Guapeco provides customized pet insurance services that helps pet parents take care of well-being of their pets through a health plan
• You.com — you.com is a search engine that helps users find what they're looking for by prioritizing real results. It aims to take on Google and other search engines dependent on advertising. It offers privacy controls to let users customize their browsing experience. It raises the bar on privacy, offering a zero trace incognito mode. It never tracksusers on the internet.You.com was developed by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher.
• Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.

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• Hunch — Hunch is a consumer web application that is building the "taste graph" of the internet, mapping every person on the internet to every entity on the internet and their affinity for that entity. An entity could be a web site, a cookbook, a hotel room, a celebrity, a restaurant, etc.Hunch creates a taste profile by asking them a seriesof questions which range from serious to profound and subsequently can make recommendations personalized to that user, which live in "topics".Topics vary widely, from entertaining subjects like 'Which superhero would you be' to more conventional questions like 'Should I Switch to A Mac?' The system then uses the answers to these questions to offer the user a suggested solution, a "hunch" of what the user would like.
• Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
• The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science) — The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill) aims to help farmers around the world protect and improve their farming operations with uniquely powerful software, hardware and insurance products. The company’s proprietary Climate Technology Platform combines hyper-local weather monitoring, agronomic modeling, and high-resolution weather simulationsto deliver Climate Basic and Climate Pro, mobile SaaS solutions that helps farmers improve profitability by making better informed operating and financing decisions.

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• Boddle — Boost math engagement and close learning gaps with the most interactive 3D math game. Tackle learning loss and help your kids catch up and excel in K-6 math with Boddle's adaptive learning platform!
• Otto — TeleVet is the only all-in-one platform that streamlines scheduling, communication, and payments, so you can stay focused on doing the work you love.
• BillionMinds — We help organizations develop employees who are ready for anything through experiential learning combined with reporting and analytics

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• The Live Green Co — Precision nutrition for Food & Nutra CPG brands. 45+ IPs, 5X faster to market, global scale at staple prices. Define the future of nutrition.

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• Kran — Development and application of innovative and sustainable solutions with Kran nanobubbles in agriculture, aquaculture and water treatment.
• Btrust — BTRUST is a SaaS company that provides Supply Chain Finance solutions for corporates and their suppliers. We create a digital ecosystem where companies can optimize their cash flow and working capital through their invoices, accessing a competitive investment funds network to fund early payments. Our simple, fast and digital experience lead usto reach the entire supplier base improving its financial health having a positive impact on the ESG metrics.
• TRAINFES — TrainFES is a digital neuro-rehabilitation platform for people with paralysis, allowing patients to rehabilitate in their own home at a lower cost and with better results than traditional rehabilitation therapies.

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• Finvero — Finvero facilitates your daily tasks and activities in just a few clicks and enjoy great benefits. Finvero offers your customers credit payments and increase your average ticket sales. Finvero was established in January 2021 by Mexico City, Distrito Federal.
• The Live Green Co — Precision nutrition for Food & Nutra CPG brands. 45+ IPs, 5X faster to market, global scale at staple prices. Define the future of nutrition.

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• BY BUG — We use insects to process organic waste in modular units called bioreactors and offer this technology as a waste management service. This modular infrastructure allows us to integrate our units into the existing waste infrastructure of our clients and, at their facilities, convert their waste into high-value and low-impact protein, fertilizer and,because we have a carbon negative process, carbon bonds.
• Occupi — Streamline your property management with digital rent payments and comprehensive tenant screening. 20+ payment methods, seamless integrations.
• TadHealth — Powering the future of mental health access, safety, resources, and professionals. User-friendly tools that help you manage and track support seamlessly.

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• MarvelBiome — MarvelBiome, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company with a vision of harnessing the power of microbes for treating various human diseases.
• Alsym Energy — Alsym™ Energy has developed an innovative low-cost, high-performance rechargeable energy storage technology that’s free of lithium and cobalt, and ideal for applications such as stationary storage, maritime shipping, and electric vehicles.By using readily available, inherently non-toxic and non-flammable energy storage materials, Alsym is workingto deliver wide-duration storage with performance comparable to lithium ion at a much lower cost, speeding the pace of decarbonization for people around the world.
• QuanticAsset — QuanticAsset develops and manages AI Driven Options Hedge Funds and ETFs

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• Sacyr — Sacyr is a global group committed to meeting any challenge to transform their society. They operate in almost 30 countries to improve infrastructure and services to citizens. They transform to continue transforming their future.
• Plata — Plata Card is a financial app for credit card.
• Bracell — Bracell manufactures several kinds of paper for books, notebooks, cardboard paper for product packaging, toilet paper, and a number of specialty papers. Lwarcel Celulose's portfolio also includes the provision of basic raw material for hygiene and disposable product production, fluff pulp.

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• BY BUG — We use insects to process organic waste in modular units called bioreactors and offer this technology as a waste management service. This modular infrastructure allows us to integrate our units into the existing waste infrastructure of our clients and, at their facilities, convert their waste into high-value and low-impact protein, fertilizer and,because we have a carbon negative process, carbon bonds.
• Blauwal — Blauwal is a ship service company that provides cleaning and steering system repair services.

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• MetaSoccer — MetaSoccer is a decentralized football metaverse where you can create your own club and generate income while you run it.
• Smart Protection — Protect your revenue by eliminating threats and infringements. Gain full visibility of what is happening with your brand online.

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• Amplicity — Amplicity is a Singapore-based energy technology company that provides a turnkey solution to transform idle industrial backup batteries (such as UPS systems at data centers and factories) into revenue-generating smart energy assets. By integrating hardware and software controls, the company enables these systems to participate in energy trading,demand response, and grid services, helping industrial sites reduce energy costs, decrease reliance on diesel, and meet decarbonization goals.
• TablePointer — TablePointer is the A.I. and intelligent energy solution for small & medium commercial facilities to optimise energy efficiency, manage assets, upgrade profitability, and unlock sustainability gains right away.
• EIT InnoEnergy — InnoEnergy is industrialising clean tech innovation for a net zero economy. We invest in startups and build industrial value chains.

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• Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
• Maqui — Maqui is a business-to-business platform helps garment brands in improving supply chain management by reducing manufacturing waste.
• Petwealth — Petwealth, under their direction, is in the forefront of AI-powered pet diagnostics, providing earlier, wiser health insights.

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• Azoma — Ecomtent enables brands to create eCommerce content with Generative AI. Using Ecomtent's self-service tools, customers can generate their entire optimized Amazon listing, using our AI product photo generator, AI Generate infographics at scale, a+ content, and generate optimised copy.
• instaHOP — We inspire you to craft personal travel plans... and create unforgettable experiences. Adventure awaits - lets make it happen!
• Hyperbound — Hyperbound AI analyzes thousands of calls, uncovers why your top reps win, and builds AI roleplays to help you scale fast and reinforce your playbooks.

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• The Live Green Co — Precision nutrition for Food & Nutra CPG brands. 45+ IPs, 5X faster to market, global scale at staple prices. Define the future of nutrition.

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• BY BUG — We use insects to process organic waste in modular units called bioreactors and offer this technology as a waste management service. This modular infrastructure allows us to integrate our units into the existing waste infrastructure of our clients and, at their facilities, convert their waste into high-value and low-impact protein, fertilizer and,because we have a carbon negative process, carbon bonds.
• Apparta — Apparta is an up-and-coming startup seeking to tap into the unattended 352-billion-dollar market of empty restaurant tables in Latam. Restaurant sales in Latam, excluding delivery, account for 151 billion dollars. However, the average restaurant has a 30% occupancy rate. Restaurants pay a myriad of fixed costs - from rent to labor and utilities -meaning every empty table is money lost. At Apparta we fill empty restaurant tables by offering whole-menu discounts for consumers to reserve. Our business model results in a win-win relationship, where restaurants get to fill their empty tables and maximize sales, while consumers get to enjoy discounts of between 10% and 50% off their final bill. After 6 months of operation, we are now active in Bogota and Barranquilla with more than 200 restaurants.
• Marco — Marco provides access to fast, flexible financing so you can manage cash flows and invest in growth. Factoring made easy.

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• 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.
• TIMining — TIMining offers state-of-the-art software for the mining industry, from load and haul simulation to holographic technology.
• Marco — Marco provides access to fast, flexible financing so you can manage cash flows and invest in growth. Factoring made easy.

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• Kashin — KASHIN is a microlending app that gives small loans to underbanked people and controls risk using social reputation scores & smartphone-based variables. Users increase their credit line and reduce interest rates according to their own credit behavior and their first degree referrals.
• 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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• doxo — Doxo is an all-in-one bill pay service that facilitates secure payment to any biller with any payment method on any device. It currently serves over 7 million users who make payments to 120k local and national businesses, making doxo the largest bill pay directory in the nation. Billers on the network get paid directly and consumers have completebills pay independence over when and how they pay their bills. The company more than doubled its customer base in 2018 and is expanding its team to further accelerate growth and change the bill pay landscape to focus on the customer. doxo investors include MDV, Sigma Partners, and Bezos Expeditions.
• aPriori Technologies — Digital manufacturing insights platform that combines product cost management, design for manufacturability and sustainability, and supplier collaboration.
• The Live Green Co — Precision nutrition for Food & Nutra CPG brands. 45+ IPs, 5X faster to market, global scale at staple prices. Define the future of nutrition.

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• Onfly — Chega de perrengue para organizar viagens e despesas corporativas
• Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
• Kumu Holdings — kumu is a pinoy community platform where you can just hang out, explore the many livestreams the Kumunity has to offer, meet and chat with fellow Filipinos all around the world