Alaya III

Alaya Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to fostering and enhancing the value of technology-driven companies in Latin America, particularly in Argentina and Chile. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, with additional offices in Córdoba, Santiago, and California, Alaya focuses on seed, startup, early, and expansion stage investments. The firm targets various sectors, including information technology, fintech, e-health, agribusiness, educational technologies, biotechnology, knowledge process outsourcing, and digital television. Alaya typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.5 million in each venture, holding minority stakes and maintaining its investments for five years. The firm aspires to contribute to a new economy in Latin America, characterized by technological advancement and knowledge-based initiatives.

Carlos S. Baradello

General Partner

Mario Barra

General Partner

Luis Bermejo

General Partner

Oscar Guardianelli

General Partner

Omar Vega

General Partner

57 past transactions

Moova

Private Placement in 2019
Moova is a technological platform that captures idle logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of independent "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source of income. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America.

KILIMO S.A.

Private Placement in 2018
KILIMO S.A., an agricultural technology company, develops a decision support tool for irrigation management in the agriculture sector. The company offers Big Data engine for soil testing, satellite and climate data, and irrigation prescription through. It offers its services thorough web or the mobile application. KILIMO S.A. was founded in 2014 and is based in Cordoba, Argentina.

Rocketpin

Seed Round in 2020
Rocketpin is a platform that provides information gathering services for a variety of industries. The objective is to gather field information in an agile, reliable, and economical way. The platform utilizes a crowdsourcing model where thousands of people do small freelance jobs, according to their location. Some examples of jobs could be: auditor at the POS, survey taker, or Mystery shopper, always answering through the Rocketpin App and then receiving a reward upon completion.

TopicFlower SA

Seed Round in 2015
TopicFlower SA develops and operates a platform for marketing on social media networks. The platform allows users to measure results and build loyalty between the brand and community. TopicFlower SA allows users to publish content, monitor competition, build sale tool, and analyze the market. The company is headquartered in Córdoba, Argentina.

Axend

Seed Round in 2018
Es la plataforma global de inversiones alternativas, que conecta personas con sus oportunidades de inversión ideales

Talently

Seed Round in 2022
Talently provides education services for programming roles. The program provided by the company is offered online and taught in English. The program offers content, such as English communication skills, remote-ready skills, and career mentoring. The company is headquartered in Lima, Peru.

Filadd

Private Placement in 2019
Filadd is a digital platform that facilitate study resources to university students. It is a collaborative web in which users share study material to enhance learning and adapt it to the present. In Filadd the student can take notes and organize his study, he can find notes contributed by his classmates and he can take classes online if he needs to improve some knowledge

Houm

Seed Round in 2021
Houm is reinventing the way of leasing properties in Latam by leveraging technology, data, and design to transform a currently painful and bureaucratic process into a pleasant, quick, and simple experience, both for the owner as for the tenant.

Egg Chile SpA

Private Placement in 2019
Egg Chile SpA develops learning methodology solutions. Its learning methodology allows students to achieve an academic performance above average, as well as develops autonomy, teamwork, emotional intelligence, creativity, study habits, and the ability to adapt to change. The company also offers pre-university courses in the areas of medicine, engineering, odontology, technician in health, and architecture; and digital marketing and programming courses. In addition, it develops a platform that allow users to apply methodology in any classroom in the world. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Mendoza, Argentina.

Egg

Seed Round in 2019
Egg is an education company that specializes in the fields of life science and social impact. The company is driven by its mission is to achieve dreams by overcoming obstacles, achieve excellence in working as a team, and be at the forefront creating the future. Egg was founded in 2015.

Betterfly

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Betterfly is a purpose-driven wellbeing and insurance platform that empowers organizations and employees to improve their health and wellbeing while making an impact in their communities. Its unique approach to employee wellbeing rewards good habits with life insurance coverage that grows every day and converts every healthy activity into a charitable donation. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

QMATCH

Private Placement in 2019
QMATCH operates a business-to-business web platform for information extraction, analysis, and comparison. The platform scraps the Web, analyze and report on specific goods to customer companies. Its services include online information on price optimization, assortment optimization, competitor, market, and brand analysis. It serves e-commerce clients. QMATCH was founded in 2017 and is based in Vitacura, Chile.

Qienna Wealth Management Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Qienna Wealth Management Inc. operates an automated web-based platform to provide investment advisory services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Quiena Inversiones is based in Argentina.

Qienna Wealth Management Inc.

Private Placement in 2020
Qienna Wealth Management Inc. operates an automated web-based platform to provide investment advisory services. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Quiena Inversiones is based in Argentina.

Entelai

Private Placement in 2019
Entelai LLC develops and delivers artificial intelligence software solutions for the healthcare industry. Its solutions include Entelai Pic, an artificial intelligence software for medical image analysis; and Entelai Pre-Doc, an artificial intelligence software to improve the experience with patients in the office. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Inti-Tech

Venture Round in 2019
Solar energy is the fastest growing renewable energy in Chile and the world's leading unconventional source. Photovoltaic solar plants need a simple and effective solution to stop the loss of efficiency caused by dirt on the surface of the modules. USD $ 1.8M / year in a 100MWp plant After two months without supervision, a solar panel can generate up to 35% less energy due to the effect of dirt depending on the location and context of the plant. Its cleaning constitutes approximately 40% of the operation and maintenance costs of a photovoltaic plant. This means a great loss of efficiency, therefore money, putting at risk the success of the projects.

Chattigo

Seed Round in 2017
Chattigo is the platform to manage all the chats of your company in one place.Chattigo offers a unique opportunity to incorporate new digital attention technologies into your business. They invite you to know how they strategically transform your care system.

Egg

Seed Round in 2019
Egg is an education company that specializes in the fields of life science and social impact. The company is driven by its mission is to achieve dreams by overcoming obstacles, achieve excellence in working as a team, and be at the forefront creating the future. Egg was founded in 2015.

Aquabyte

Private Placement in 2019
Aquabyte, Inc. designs and develops a smart camera system and web dashboard for fish farming sector based on computer vision and machine learning models. The company's camera system allows for detection of biomass and appetite, sea lice counting, and feed optimization. Its web dashboard provides a real time monitoring metrics. Aquabyte, Inc. was formerly known as Ellis Technologies Inc. Aquabyte, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional office in Bergen, Norway.

Backstartup

Seed Round in 2020
At Backstartup we want to reinvent the relationship of small businesses with their accounting and finances, and for this reason we've decided to reinvent the Accountant. Our SwaS, completely replaces the Accountant in Small Business, providing them with reports, taxes and financial statements month to month though our online platform. We eliminate manual tasks and human errors by using accounting automation bots and bank integrations and assign our customers a virtual administrative support team that accompanies them to guarantee a comprehensive service experience. We are pioneers in Latin America, where paper culture is highly entrenched, in moving traditional offline behaviors to a 100% online experience.

Coba

Seed Round in 2024
Coba is taking the complexity out of remote work through an open platform of financial tools and services that are built around the needs of the remote worker, with an initial focus on Latin America.

Finerio

Seed Round in 2023
Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.

Finerio

Seed Round in 2023
Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.

MegaBite Food

Seed Round in 2022
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 us ultrascalable, 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.

Kilimo

Seed Round in 2018
Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.

Lemon Cash

Seed Round in 2022
Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.

Teamcubation

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Teamcubation incubates junior software development teams and transforms them into experienced professionals.

escala

Venture Round in 2024
All in one software for marketing and sales

Finerio

Seed Round in 2021
Finerio is an automated and free personal finance platform in Mexico. Finerio allows users to link debit and credit accounts of the most important banks in Mexico while providing them insights on how to financially plan and save money.

Entelai

Seed Round in 2019
Entelai LLC develops and delivers artificial intelligence software solutions for the healthcare industry. Its solutions include Entelai Pic, an artificial intelligence software for medical image analysis; and Entelai Pre-Doc, an artificial intelligence software to improve the experience with patients in the office. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Talently

Seed Round in 2021
Talently provides education services for programming roles. The program provided by the company is offered online and taught in English. The program offers content, such as English communication skills, remote-ready skills, and career mentoring. The company is headquartered in Lima, Peru.

46 Degrees Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
46 Degrees Technologies Inc. develops and delivers direct carrier billing platform for content providers, such as gaming companies that sell digital goods. The company offers mobile payment alternatives to a host of users that do not have access to a bank account, and thus lack a credit card to purchase digital goods, such as games, music, and digital infotainment products. It offers its solutions to mobile users through the connections with mobile network operators in the emerging markets of Latin America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Encinitas, California.

Zoco

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
ZOCO is an online software of "SaaS" mode (Software As A Service) that helps you publish and manage your store in Mercado Libre. They combine management and automation tools providing an integral service for Mercado Libre sellers. ZOCO will allow you to have a better visualization in the Marketplace of Free Market, since they care about every detail of your publication, all this influences that your publications in this channel are effective and professional. Increase your sales with ZOCO and become a TOP SELLER of Mercado Libre.
Plataforma digital que vincula los pacientes de forma directa con el producto (Ortodoncia Invisible) a un bajo costo y con financiamiento logrando un acceso de forma masiva.

Rocketpin

Seed Round in 2018
Rocketpin is a platform that provides information gathering services for a variety of industries. The objective is to gather field information in an agile, reliable, and economical way. The platform utilizes a crowdsourcing model where thousands of people do small freelance jobs, according to their location. Some examples of jobs could be: auditor at the POS, survey taker, or Mystery shopper, always answering through the Rocketpin App and then receiving a reward upon completion.

Kilimo

Seed Round in 2018
Kilimo is a Big Data solution for water management in agriculture.. It features climate monitoring by using satellite and site data to provides prescription for each crop and increase water use efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cordoba, Argentina.

Moova

Seed Round in 2019
Moova is a technological platform that captures idle logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of independent "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source of income. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America.

Quiena Inversiones

Seed Round in 2018
The faster growing investments management company in LATAM. An internet based investment adviser allowing retail investors from LATAM invest globally.

Simpleat

Seed Round in 2020
Simpleat is a meal delivery service company that provides healthy, nutritious, homemade meals ready in under 15 minutes right to the customers doorstep. The company delivers a superior selection of more than 100 available meals for the consumer to have in their freezer. The products are prepared with quick frozen technology and vacuum-packed techniques that make it possible to offer the convenience of frozen plus outstanding quality by bringing the freshness of the farm to the table. Customers discover a new easy way to eat fresher and healthier food as well as save time, money and reduce waste.

123Seguro

Seed Round in 2017
123Seguro.com is a digital insurance broker, founded in 2010. The company compares, sells & manages insurance policies (car, motorcycle and life) from top insurers, in Argentina, Colombia and Chile. Users can issue or manage their policies through Websites, Mobile Apps and Chatbots. It operates in two different models to get new customers: B2C and B2B2C.

Aquabyte

Series A in 2019
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.

Moova

Corporate Round in 2021
Moova is a technological platform that captures idle logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of independent "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source of income. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America.

Filadd

Seed Round in 2019
Filadd is a digital platform that facilitate study resources to university students. It is a collaborative web in which users share study material to enhance learning and adapt it to the present. In Filadd the student can take notes and organize his study, he can find notes contributed by his classmates and he can take classes online if he needs to improve some knowledge

Inti-Tech

Private Placement in 2019
Solar energy is the fastest growing renewable energy in Chile and the world's leading unconventional source. Photovoltaic solar plants need a simple and effective solution to stop the loss of efficiency caused by dirt on the surface of the modules. USD $ 1.8M / year in a 100MWp plant After two months without supervision, a solar panel can generate up to 35% less energy due to the effect of dirt depending on the location and context of the plant. Its cleaning constitutes approximately 40% of the operation and maintenance costs of a photovoltaic plant. This means a great loss of efficiency, therefore money, putting at risk the success of the projects.

QMATCH

Seed Round in 2019
QMATCH operates a business-to-business web platform for information extraction, analysis, and comparison. The platform scraps the Web, analyze and report on specific goods to customer companies. Its services include online information on price optimization, assortment optimization, competitor, market, and brand analysis. It serves e-commerce clients. QMATCH was founded in 2017 and is based in Vitacura, Chile.

Chattigo SPA

Private Placement in 2019
Chattigo SPA develops an instant messaging platform that enables companies to communicate with their customers through an instant messaging application. The company allows its clients to chat from their smartphones with contact center executives to answer questions, request services or support, schedule visits, provide loyalty programs, requirement tracking, and shopping. The company is based in Chile.

MyHotel

Seed Round in 2017
Nowadays customer feedback is the key to success for any big service company. We automatize the process of gathering and processing customer feedback so hotels can engage better with their guests enhancing better reputation and, consequently more customers. We also help our clients understand which operational improvements will make their business thrive. Everything automatized and in user friendly web based platform.

Loads

Seed Round in 2023
Loads is the first digital platform to offer an end-to-end solution to make importing and exporting fresh food simple, transparent, and accessible, from financing through logistics and everything in between, enabling traceable and secure transactions worldwide for growers and importers. Located in Chile, our multidisciplinary team combines up to +20 years of experience in technology and international trade, all sharing the same purpose: Change how the industry has been working for the past +80 years by helping local growers connect with global markets through technology.

INITECH

Seed Round in 2019
INITECH, a pioneer of a safer IT world will now become a pioneer of a U-world where everyone can utilize safely and conveniently with the competitiveness of Banktown, a company specialized in financial IT service.

Moova

Venture Round in 2023
Moova is a technological platform that captures idle logistic capacity and transforms it into high efficiency and low cost shipping solutions. The platform connects E-Commerce and retail businesses with a fleet of independent "Moovers" who complete deliveries on their bicycle, motorcycle, car or van to generate an additional source of income. Through route optimization software, real-time traceability, flexible warehousing, and analytics, Moova is propelling the nascent E-Commerce industry in Latin America.

Preauth

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Preauth is a software company that builds collateral for everything. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Delaware, United States.

Six Clovers

Seed Round in 2022
Six Clovers decentralizes a payment network that enables to reimagine payment infrastructure for the next generation of the internet. It is the intersection of blockchain, digital assets, and payments.

QMATCH

Private Placement in 2019
QMATCH operates a business-to-business web platform for information extraction, analysis, and comparison. The platform scraps the Web, analyze and report on specific goods to customer companies. Its services include online information on price optimization, assortment optimization, competitor, market, and brand analysis. It serves e-commerce clients. QMATCH was founded in 2017 and is based in Vitacura, Chile.

Welii

Seed Round in 2017
Welii is a unique and complete platform of technological products of last generation focused on optimizing the integral services of the health sector.They are a technology company born in Latin America with the goal of revolutionizing the health sector and bringing their products to the world.They are the perfect intersection between the technology that has come to this day to make everything simpler and more agile, and innovation in health that improves and extends their quality of life.