Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.
CICLA 3D provides 3D printing filaments based on composite and recycled materials of a high definition in 3D printing. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Concepción, Chile.
We’re promoting a blockchain-powered tool that helps to protect intellectual property — namely, all kinds of public content, — and monitor copyright violations.
How it works
Blockchain saves the timestamp and the IPFS saves the content, making the data immutable. On saving, the system delivers a digital certificate that becomes the piece of digital evidence of authorship.
If somebody tries to save another writer's content, our AI won't allow them to do it: before saving, it would check the internet for reverse content.
When saved, if the protected content gets published with no copyright, there'll be an alert.
Also, we resolve blockchain-backed copyright issues.
ReLive
Pre Seed Round in 2022
ReLive designs and offers customized products. The company offers personalized products with some special moment, making it more than a simple item of consumption, but a way to relive that moment that was so special for someone.
RZX Tecnologia focuses its activities on developing solutions that improve the safety and efficiency of drilling operations, replacing some outdated technological equipment and techniques that are still present in this segment.
Autority operates as a subscription-based multi-channel benefits platform designed for vehicle owners, offering significant savings and perks. The platform helps vehicle owners save hundreds of dollars annually while providing additional services at no cost. It also supports auto shop owners by driving new customer traffic, thereby increasing their sales and service opportunities. Additionally, Autority features a B2B marketplace that allows auto part suppliers to effectively sell their products. The company has developed an automotive application that streamlines vehicle-related payments, enabling users to manage expenses such as traffic fines, insurance, tolls, and fuel efficiently. This comprehensive approach facilitates quick access to payment receipts, enhancing the overall experience for vehicle owners and service providers alike.
Autority operates as a subscription-based multi-channel benefits platform designed for vehicle owners, offering significant savings and perks. The platform helps vehicle owners save hundreds of dollars annually while providing additional services at no cost. It also supports auto shop owners by driving new customer traffic, thereby increasing their sales and service opportunities. Additionally, Autority features a B2B marketplace that allows auto part suppliers to effectively sell their products. The company has developed an automotive application that streamlines vehicle-related payments, enabling users to manage expenses such as traffic fines, insurance, tolls, and fuel efficiently. This comprehensive approach facilitates quick access to payment receipts, enhancing the overall experience for vehicle owners and service providers alike.
Autority operates as a subscription-based multi-channel benefits platform designed for vehicle owners, offering significant savings and perks. The platform helps vehicle owners save hundreds of dollars annually while providing additional services at no cost. It also supports auto shop owners by driving new customer traffic, thereby increasing their sales and service opportunities. Additionally, Autority features a B2B marketplace that allows auto part suppliers to effectively sell their products. The company has developed an automotive application that streamlines vehicle-related payments, enabling users to manage expenses such as traffic fines, insurance, tolls, and fuel efficiently. This comprehensive approach facilitates quick access to payment receipts, enhancing the overall experience for vehicle owners and service providers alike.
Box-es is a Uruguayan company focused on the design and manufacturing of intelligent vending machines. The enterprise is composed of a team of young professionals who aim to innovate in the technology market. Box-es develops interactive devices that connect brands with consumers, providing an omnichannel experience that merges physical and virtual retail. Their approach emphasizes convenience and sophistication, utilizing powerful analytics to enhance the consumer experience on the go.
Linxe's vision is to build a truly inclusive financial services platform, one that generates credit history and provides an entry point for unbanked individuals that are too commonly overlooked by large institutional banks in Colombia and Latin America more broadly.
MiBolsillo is the first Peruvian mobile financial personal trainer for the entrepreneur with the main focus to promote financial wellness at the family and micro/small company level. It reduces the hassle to organize users and small businesses' finances together one place and tracks achievement of financial goals in a solution that is superiorly designed, remarkably efficient, and wonderfully personalized. With a predictive analysis executed within the first minutes of interaction and strengthened over the first 7 days, we are able to identify user’s behavior patterns to send targetted behavioral interventions and set the user for success towards building wiser decision-making and healthier financial lives. By putting the last component together with data points from the users' interactions, we are able to suggest best-fit FinServs that adjust to the user’s needs, running a proprietary algorithm that runs over 328 MFIs local product offerings.
Box-es is a Uruguayan company focused on the design and manufacturing of intelligent vending machines. The enterprise is composed of a team of young professionals who aim to innovate in the technology market. Box-es develops interactive devices that connect brands with consumers, providing an omnichannel experience that merges physical and virtual retail. Their approach emphasizes convenience and sophistication, utilizing powerful analytics to enhance the consumer experience on the go.
RZX Tecnologia focuses its activities on developing solutions that improve the safety and efficiency of drilling operations, replacing some outdated technological equipment and techniques that are still present in this segment.
Mowies Inc. is a social platform based in Medellin, Colombia, that allows users to watch a wide range of films, short films, documentaries, and series. The platform serves as a marketplace for independent films and television shows, catering to the growing demand for authentic and diverse content for on-demand viewing. It enables both video creators and viewers to generate income, fostering a community where creators can upload and showcase their work. Mowies aims to provide users with easy access to a variety of content, including educational materials, life hacks, and sports experiences, while also supporting the creative endeavors of its users.
Arqlite SPC, founded in 2015 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington, specializes in recycling plastics through a proprietary process that allows for the recycling of all types of plastics, including those typically deemed non-recyclable. This innovative approach addresses approximately 70% of the plastic waste stream, which includes materials that are laminated, aluminized, or degraded by environmental factors. The result of Arqlite's process is a lightweight artificial gravel that serves various applications in the construction industry, including use by precast concrete companies and landscapers. This product is not only eco-friendly but also offers significant cost advantages, being ten times better as an insulator and three times lighter than traditional materials.
Maximization and prediction engine specifically catered for the event tech industry. Our prediction and recommendation engine boosts revenue and engagement up to 45%. Rebus is the end to end AI engine that can directly manage or seamlessly integrate with existing event solutions in order to: Give attendees a meaningful way to participate in events. It takes a sea of options an event attendee would find overwhelming – analyzes it – and turns it into a truly customized experience within minutes. Boost revenue for event organizers and key stakeholders by connecting attendees to targeted tickets, promotions, coupons, products, services and more. And provide the deepest behavioral insight.
Fitco is a management and retention software that helps fitness boutiques and sports centers in the growth of their business.
Fitco is a management and CRM software for fitness centers and a mobile app for fitness users. The company is helping fitness centers to grow and build communities. FITCO helps companies take advantage of technology to streamline their processes and operations and make their service more efficient.
Precavida is a healthcare platform based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, that connects uninsured patients with suitable healthcare providers. The platform utilizes digital matching services facilitated by a personalized navigator, enhancing the patient experience and fostering retention. By focusing on quality and affordability, Precavida aims to improve access to timely healthcare for those without insurance. The company employs an AI-enabled human concierge to streamline the process and reduce operational costs, ultimately providing a more efficient service for patients seeking medical care.
NavarraTech specializes in variable income trading algorithms for financial market. The company works today on two fronts: developing specialized products for brokers and traders and carrying out projects linked to algotrading. Comprising its corporate structure, the company has professionals with wide experience in the financial and technological market, with passages by asset managers, variable income negotiation tables, brokers and developers of high-level technology. The company was founde din 2017.
MR Presta LLC is a financial technology company headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, Mexico, with additional operations in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The company specializes in providing financing solutions to retailers selling products on e-commerce platforms. It has developed an end-to-end lending platform aimed at promoting funding for small businesses in emerging markets. By utilizing in-house lending technology and partnering with various platforms, MR Presta facilitates access to capital for retailers that may lack the resources to establish their own lending units. The platform leverages both public and private APIs to gather data for underwriting, enabling businesses to effectively analyze and evaluate their financial performance.
OffGridBox is a modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas and developing countries. Their OffGridBox™, an all-in-one system, fits entirely inside a 6x6x6 feet shipping container and is equipped with all the hardware needed to produce electricity and clean water. This innovative technology is a solution for more than 2 billion people worldwide that need energy and clean water on a daily basis. One unit potentially managed by a local women co-op in a Rwandese village can impact up to 300 families (circa 1500 people) providing Tier 1 electricity and sterilized water. They deployed 38 units in 9 Countries (Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar, US and Colombia) for different segments: humanitarian, household retail, service to industry. These units have operated more than 400,000 working hours.
CityCop Inc. is a technology company that has developed a social GPS application aimed at enhancing community safety. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in São Paulo, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay, the platform allows users to report crimes and receive real-time alerts about criminal activities in their neighborhoods. By facilitating communication among users, CityCop empowers individuals to protect themselves and their communities, making it easier to stay informed about safety issues in areas of personal concern, such as homes, workplaces, and schools. This innovative approach to crime prevention aims to create a more vigilant and connected community.
OffGridBox is a modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas and developing countries. Their OffGridBox™, an all-in-one system, fits entirely inside a 6x6x6 feet shipping container and is equipped with all the hardware needed to produce electricity and clean water. This innovative technology is a solution for more than 2 billion people worldwide that need energy and clean water on a daily basis. One unit potentially managed by a local women co-op in a Rwandese village can impact up to 300 families (circa 1500 people) providing Tier 1 electricity and sterilized water. They deployed 38 units in 9 Countries (Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar, US and Colombia) for different segments: humanitarian, household retail, service to industry. These units have operated more than 400,000 working hours.
CityCop Inc. is a technology company that has developed a social GPS application aimed at enhancing community safety. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in São Paulo, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay, the platform allows users to report crimes and receive real-time alerts about criminal activities in their neighborhoods. By facilitating communication among users, CityCop empowers individuals to protect themselves and their communities, making it easier to stay informed about safety issues in areas of personal concern, such as homes, workplaces, and schools. This innovative approach to crime prevention aims to create a more vigilant and connected community.
OffGridBox is a modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas and developing countries. Their OffGridBox™, an all-in-one system, fits entirely inside a 6x6x6 feet shipping container and is equipped with all the hardware needed to produce electricity and clean water. This innovative technology is a solution for more than 2 billion people worldwide that need energy and clean water on a daily basis. One unit potentially managed by a local women co-op in a Rwandese village can impact up to 300 families (circa 1500 people) providing Tier 1 electricity and sterilized water. They deployed 38 units in 9 Countries (Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar, US and Colombia) for different segments: humanitarian, household retail, service to industry. These units have operated more than 400,000 working hours.
Innapsis helps companies automate the issue and reception of invoices while complying with e-invoicing regulations in Latin America. They integrate with a company's ERP system to aggregate invoices and send them to end customers digitally signed. They then offer customized automation and web portals for processes with customers and suppliers. By eliminating paper invoices and automating the associated processes, they help companies reduce their annual invoicing costs by 50% on average.
Voyhoy is a booking platform that helps travelers save time and money across bus, plane, train, ferry, and rideshare in Latin America. It offers an online platform that enables its users to compare and buy bus tickets. Voyhoy was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Santiago, Chile.
BlazingSQL, Inc. develops an open-source, GPU-accelerated SQL engine designed to improve database management and query execution. The company offers BlazingSQL Notebooks, a cloud-based platform that provides users with a managed Jupyter environment equipped with a CUDA GPU and pre-installed, GPU-accelerated Python packages. This platform enables efficient querying of various file formats, including CSV, JSON, Apache Parquet, and Apache ORC, by leveraging Apache Arrow to run queries directly in GPU memory. Established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Lima, Peru, BlazingSQL aims to deliver fast and user-friendly database solutions that enhance performance and simplify setup for users.
Akdemia offers and operates an online platform for school search, management, and promotion. It offers practical tools for managing assessments and notes, mass communications, scheduling activities, automated billing, and display graphical reports as academic performance and late payments, and other tools and reports. The company is based in Venezuela.
Mlab
Series B in 2012
Mlab develops a Software-as-a-Service platform. It has its headquarters in Brazil.
Remitly Global, Inc. is a digital remittance company that facilitates international money transfers through its extensive global network, serving regions such as Africa, Asia, Central Europe, and South America. The company offers a mobile payment service that allows users to send money from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom using various digital devices. Remitly aims to disrupt the traditional money transfer industry, which is valued at $588 billion annually, by employing advanced technology to streamline the process and reduce fees. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., generating revenue primarily from transaction fees and foreign exchange spreads. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Remitly also maintains offices in London, Manila, and Nicaragua.
Kimetric is a consumer analytics company focused on brick-and-mortar environments, offering them data capabilities similar to those available in the digital realm. The company has developed a platform that utilizes facial and skeleton recognition technology to provide real-time insights into consumer behavior. By analyzing the entire purchasing process, Kimetric enables retailers to gather valuable information that helps them make informed decisions and enhance profitability. The company's innovative approach aims to bridge the gap between physical retail and consumer analytics, empowering brands to better understand and respond to consumer needs.
Remitly Global, Inc. is a digital remittance company that facilitates international money transfers through its extensive global network, serving regions such as Africa, Asia, Central Europe, and South America. The company offers a mobile payment service that allows users to send money from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom using various digital devices. Remitly aims to disrupt the traditional money transfer industry, which is valued at $588 billion annually, by employing advanced technology to streamline the process and reduce fees. As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., generating revenue primarily from transaction fees and foreign exchange spreads. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Remitly also maintains offices in London, Manila, and Nicaragua.
Mlab
Series A in 2011
Mlab develops a Software-as-a-Service platform. It has its headquarters in Brazil.