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Cacau Show
Cacau Show is a Brazilian fine-chocolate franchise retailer founded by Alê Costa in 1988, headquartered in Itapevi, São Paulo, and Brazil's largest franchise network by store count since 2022.
Carlos García Ottati
Carlos García Ottati is a Venezuelan-born entrepreneur who founded the used-car marketplace Kavak in Mexico City in 2016, which became Mexico's first unicorn in 2020 and Latin America's most valuable startup by 2022.
Carolina Matsuse
Carolina Matsuse, known as Carol Matsuse, is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the São Paulo functional apparel brand Insider with Yuri Gricheno in 2017.
César Carvalho
César Carvalho is a Brazilian entrepreneur and chief executive who cofounded Wellhub, the corporate wellness platform launched as Gympass in 2012 and valued at $2.4 billion.
Clara (corporate spend-management fintech)
Clara is a Latin American corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020, combining corporate credit cards, bill payment, and expense automation for companies in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
Conta Black
Conta Black is a Brazilian fintech founded in 2017 by Fernanda Ribeiro and Sérgio All in São Paulo, offering accounts, cards, and credit mainly to Black and peripheral Brazilians.
Contabilizei
Contabilizei is a Brazilian online accounting firm founded in 2013 in Curitiba by Vitor Torres, serving over 100,000 small businesses and describing itself as Brazil's largest accounting company.
Creditas
Creditas is a Brazilian fintech, founded by Sergio Furio in 2012 and headquartered in São Paulo, that makes loans secured by real estate, vehicles, or payroll at rates far below unsecured credit.
Daki
Daki is a Brazilian online grocery and quick-commerce company founded in São Paulo in 2021, which delivers from its own dark stores and became a unicorn within ten months.
Daniel Castanho
Daniel Castanho is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded Ânima Educação in 2003, led it as CEO for 15 years, and has chaired its board since 2018.
Daniel Scandian
Daniel Scandian is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the online furniture retailer MadeiraMadeira in Curitiba in 2009, a former Formula 3 champion who made the company a unicorn in 2021.
Daniel Vogel
Daniel Vogel is a Mexican technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Bitso, a Mexico City-based digital asset platform that became Latin America's first crypto unicorn in 2021.
David Arana
David Arana Ley is a Mexican fintech entrepreneur who co-founded Konfío in 2013, a digital lender to small businesses that reached a $1.3 billion valuation in 2021.
Diego Dzodan
Diego Dzodan is a technology executive who co-founded the Brazilian social-commerce marketplace Facily in 2018, after serving as vice-president of Facebook for Latin America from 2015 to 2018.
Diego García Escobedo
Diego Iván García Escobedo is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who co-founded Clara, a corporate spend-management fintech, in Mexico City in 2020 and heads its product and technology.
Diego Martins (Brazilian technology entrepreneur)
Diego Torres Martins is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded unico, a digital identity and fraud-prevention company, in São Paulo in 2007 and leads it as chief executive officer.
dLocal
dLocal is a cross-border payments company founded in 2016 in Montevideo, Uruguay, letting global merchants accept local payment methods in emerging markets through a single API.
EBANX
EBANX is a Brazilian cross-border payments technology company founded in 2012 in Curitiba by Alphonse Voigt, João Del Valle, and Wagner Ruiz, connecting global merchants with local payment methods like Pix and boleto.
Eduardo Pontes
Eduardo Pontes is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded the card-acquiring company Stone in Rio de Janeiro in 2012 and served as Vice Chairman of StoneCo's board.
Emerson de Lima
Emerson de Lima is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Sauter Digital, a cloud and AI consultancy founded in São Paulo in 2020.
Enter
Enter is a Brazilian artificial-intelligence legal-tech company founded in São Paulo in 2023 by Mateus Costa-Ribeiro, whose EnterOS platform automates mass litigation for companies like Nubank and Bradesco.
Fabien Mendez
Fabien Mendez is a French-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded Loggi, a São Paulo logistics company, in 2013 and led it until stepping down as CEO in 2022.
Fábio Bacarin
Fábio Bacarin is a Brazilian entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded Contabilizei in Curitiba in 2013 with Vitor Torres, serving as the company's chief technology officer and board member.
Fábio Carrara
Fábio Carrara, full name Fabio Augusto Bredda Carrara, is a Brazilian engineer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Solfácil, the São Paulo fintech financing solar energy projects across Brazil.
Fabricio Bloisi
Fabricio Bloisi (Fabrício Bloisi) is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who built iFood into Brazil's leading delivery platform and became Prosus and Naspers chief executive in 2024.
Facily
Facily is a Brazilian social commerce marketplace founded in 2018 in São Paulo by Diego Dzodan and two co-founders, selling discounted groceries through WhatsApp group buying and neighborhood pickup points.
Felipe Delgado (entrepreneur)
Felipe Delgado is an entrepreneur who co-founded Merama, a Latin American e-commerce company, in December 2020; previously CEO of Beetmann Energy, he now serves as Merama's CFO and president.
Felipe Villamarín
Felipe Villamarín is a Colombian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Rappi in Bogotá in 2015 with Simón Borrero and Sebastián Mejía, after building the grocery app Grability; Rappi became Colombia's first technology unicorn.
Fernanda Ribeiro
Fernanda Ribeiro is a Brazilian entrepreneur who cofounded the fintech Conta Black in São Paulo in 2017 with her husband Sérgio All, serving as its CEO since May 2023.
Francisco Padilla
Francisco de Jesús Padilla Sánchez is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who left Wall Street to co-found Konfío, a fintech lender to small businesses, in 2013.