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Franco Lamping
Franco Lamping is a Brazilian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital insurer 180 Seguros in São Paulo in 2020, after five years as a Nubank engineer.
Frete.com
Frete.com is a Brazilian digital road-freight marketplace and financial-services company formed in 2021 from CargoX, Fretebras, and FretePago, led by founder Federico Vega; it became a unicorn in November 2021.
Gabriel Braga
Gabriel Braga is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of QuintoAndar, a São Paulo rental platform he built with André Penha into Latin America's largest proptech.
Gabriel Lameirinhas
Gabriel Lameirinhas is a Brazilian computer engineer, educated at the Universidade de São Paulo, who co-founded the industrial technology company Tractian in 2019 and serves as its Co-CEO.
Gastón Taratuta
Gastón Taratuta is an Argentine entrepreneur who founded Aleph Group, a Miami-based digital-advertising intermediary, and in 2022 became the first Argentine named EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year.
Geraldo Thomaz
Geraldo Thomaz, full name Geraldo do Carmo Thomaz Júnior, is a Brazilian software entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform VTEX in Rio de Janeiro in 2000.
Gerry Giacoman Colyer
Gerry Giacoman Colyer is a Mexican technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Clara, the corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020 that became Latin America's fastest unicorn.
Grupo ABC (Brazilian advertising holding)
Grupo ABC was a São Paulo-based advertising and marketing holding founded in 2002 by Nizan Guanaes and Guga Valente, Brazil's largest, sold to Omnicom in 2015 for about R$ 1 billion.
Grupo SEB
Grupo SEB is a Brazilian private-education group founded in 1963 in Ribeirão Preto by businessman Chaim Zaher, split in 2026 into SEB Education and Z Participações.
Guilherme Benchimol
Guilherme Benchimol is a Brazilian financial-services executive who co-founded the brokerage XP Investimentos in Porto Alegre in 2001, led it as chief executive until 2021, and took XP Inc. public on the Nasdaq in 2019.
Gupy
Gupy is a Brazilian human-resources technology company founded in São Paulo in 2015 by Mariana Dias and three co-founders, selling AI-based recruitment and employee-lifecycle software to more than 4,000 enterprises.
Gustavo Chamati
Gustavo Chamati is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin in São Paulo in 2013 with his brother Maurício, later serving as CEO before joining the board of its holding company 2TM.
Habi
Habi is a Bogotá-based, data-driven residential real estate platform founded in 2019 that buys, renovates, and resells used homes in Colombia and Mexico, becoming a unicorn in 2022.
Henrique Weaver
Henrique Weaver is a Brazilian fintech entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Pagaleve, founded in 2021, whose Pix installment payments reached US$100 million in annualized revenue by 2026.
Hot Sale (shopping event)
Hot Sale is an annual online discount shopping event in Latin America, launched in Mexico in 2014 by AMVO and held mainly in late May and early June.
Hotmart
Hotmart is a marketplace for digital products founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2011 by João Pedro Resende and Mateus Bicalho, now headquartered in Amsterdam.
iFood
iFood is a Brazilian online food-delivery platform founded in São Paulo in 2011, the largest in Latin America and wholly owned by Prosus since 2022.
Igor Marinelli
Igor Marinelli is a Brazilian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of TRACTIAN, an industrial technology company founded in São Paulo in 2019 that applies sensors, software, and artificial intelligence to machine maintenance.
João Del Valle
João Del Valle is a Brazilian software engineer turned fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a cross-border payments company founded in Curitiba in 2012.
Jose Roberto Nogueira
José Roberto Nogueira, born 1965, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Brisanet in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, and leads it as chief executive; the company listed on B3 in 2021.
Kavak
Kavak is a Mexico City-based e-commerce platform for buying, selling, financing, and servicing pre-owned cars, founded in 2016 by Venezuelan entrepreneurs and valued at US$8.7 billion in 2021.
KondZilla
KondZilla is a Brazilian media and entertainment holding company headquartered in São Paulo, founded by Konrad Dantas and built on funk music video channels on YouTube.
Konfío
Konfío, also known as Konfio, is a Mexican financial technology company founded in 2013 that lends digitally to small businesses, becoming a $1.3 billion unicorn in 2021.
Konrad Dantas
Konrad Dantas, known professionally as Kondzilla, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded KondZilla, the São Paulo entertainment company behind Brazil's largest YouTube music channel, and the Netflix series Sintonia.
Kushki
Kushki is a Latin American payments technology company founded in 2017 by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastián Castro and headquartered in Quito, Ecuador. In 2022 it became Ecuador's first unicorn.
Laércio Cosentino
Laércio Cosentino is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, an electrical engineering graduate of the University of São Paulo, who founded Microsiga in 1983 and chairs TOTVS, Latin America's largest software company.
Leandro Torres
Leandro Torres is a Brazilian banking executive and co-founder of C6 Bank, the São Paulo digital bank founded in 2018 by former BTG Pactual partners, where he runs the brokerage.
Loggi
Loggi is a Brazilian logistics and delivery technology company founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Fabien Mendez and Arthur Debert, which intermediates freight between corporate clients and independent partner couriers.
Loreanne Garcia Ottati
Loreanne Garcia Ottati is a Venezuelan businesswoman who co-founded Kavak, the Mexico City-based used-car platform that became Mexico's first unicorn, and served as Chief People Officer.
Luciano Freitas
Luciano Freitas is a Brazilian entrepreneur and marketing executive who co-founded the São Paulo social-commerce marketplace Facily in 2018, after marketing roles at Uber and Airbnb.