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Luiz Marcelo Calicchio
Luiz Marcelo Calicchio, known in the Brazilian financial market as Teco, is a banking executive and founding partner of C6 Bank, the digital bank launched in São Paulo in 2019.
Mandic
Mandic is a São Paulo-based Brazilian technology company founded in 1990 as the Mandic BBS by Aleksandar Mandic, later rebuilt as a corporate cloud provider owned by Claranet.
Marcelo Kalim
Marcelo Kalim is a Brazilian banker who founded C6 Bank, a São Paulo digital bank, in 2018 and serves as its chief executive and main shareholder.
Marcelo Lombardo
Marcelo Lombardo is a Brazilian software entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Omie, a São Paulo cloud ERP provider for small businesses that he started in 2013 with Rafael Olmos.
Marcelo Maisonnave
Marcelo Maisonnave is a Brazilian economist and entrepreneur who co-founded the brokerage XP Investimentos in Porto Alegre in 2001, leaving in 2014 before its 2019 Nasdaq listing.
Marco Stefanini
Marco Antonio Stefanini is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded the IT consulting firm Stefanini Group in 1987 and remains its Global CEO, based in São Paulo.
Marcos Galperin
Marcos Galperin is an Argentine businessman, born in Buenos Aires, who co-founded MercadoLibre in 1999, led it as CEO for 26 years, and became Executive Chairman in 2026.
Mariana Dias
Mariana Ramos Dias is a Brazilian technology executive who co-founded the AI recruitment platform Gupy in São Paulo in 2015 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Mariana Vasconcelos
Mariana Vasconcelos is a Brazilian entrepreneur and chief executive of Agrosmart, a digital agriculture company she co-founded in 2014 that monitors water use, carbon emissions, and crop disease.
Mariano Gomide de Faria
Mariano Gomide de Faria is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the VTEX digital commerce platform in 2000 and took it public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021.
Martín Palombo
Martín Palombo is an Argentine technology entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform Tiendanube, known in Brazil as Nuvemshop, in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving as Chief Product Officer.
Matias Muchnick
Matias Muchnick is a Chilean entrepreneur who co-founded NotCo in 2015 and serves as its CEO; the company became the first Chilean unicorn, valued at US$1.5 billion in 2021.
Mauro Levi D'Ancona
Mauro Levi D'Ancona is a Brazilian insurance executive and co-founder and CEO of 180 Seguros, a São Paulo insurtech founded in 2020 after roughly five years in Nubank's finance area.
Maximiliano Casal
Maximiliano Casal is a Uruguayan software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the digital freight forwarder Nowports in 2018 and later returned as its chief executive officer.
Merama
Merama is a Latin American e-commerce holding company founded in December 2020, headquartered in Mexico City and São Paulo, that buys majority stakes in online brands.
Mercado Bitcoin
Mercado Bitcoin is a Brazilian cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013 in São Paulo, offering over 220 digital assets and serving more than 4 million clients.
Michael Greer
Michael Stephen Greer is a technology executive and co-founder of Pagaleve, the Brazilian fintech that lets consumers pay in installments over Pix, where he is chief technology officer.
Movile
Movile is a Brazilian technology holding company founded in 1998 by Fabricio Bloisi, best known as the vehicle through which iFood grew into Latin America's dominant food delivery platform.
NotCo
NotCo is a Chilean foodtech company founded in Santiago in 2015 whose AI platform, Giuseppe, develops plant-based foods like NotMilk; it became a $1.5 billion unicorn.
Nowports
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder founded in Monterrey, Mexico, in 2018 by Alfonso de los Ríos and Maximiliano Casal, and became Latin America's first LogiTech unicorn in 2022.
Nubank
Nubank, also known as Nu Holdings, is a São Paulo-based digital bank founded in 2013 by David Vélez, the largest in Latin America with 139 million customers.
Nuvemshop
Nuvemshop, known as Tiendanube in Spanish-speaking markets, is a Latin American e-commerce platform founded in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving about 180,000 brands across five countries.
Olist
Olist is a Brazilian commerce-technology company based in Curitiba, founded by Tiago Dalvi in 2015, which connects small retailers to marketplaces and became a unicorn in 2021.
Olivier Scialom
Olivier Scialom is an e-commerce entrepreneur based in Mexico City who co-founded Merama in 2020, the online-brands company that became a unicorn valued at $1.2 billion within twelve months.
Pablo González (Mexican entrepreneur)
Pablo González is a Mexican technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Bitso in 2014, serving as its first CEO and later Chief Design Officer until 2021.
Pagaleve
Pagaleve is a São Paulo fintech founded in 2021 by Henrique Weaver and Michael Greer that lets consumers pay in installments through Pix without a credit card.
Paulo Alencastro
Paulo Alencastro is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the identity-verification company unico in São Paulo in 2007, Brazil's first idtech unicorn, valued at US$ 2.6 billion in 2022.
Paulo Veras
Paulo Veras is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and former chief executive of 99, the São Paulo ride-hailing company sold to DiDi in 2018 as Brazil's first unicorn.
Pierpaolo Barbieri
Pierpaolo Barbieri is an Argentine entrepreneur and historian who founded the fintech Ualá in 2017, building it into a digital bank with over 11 million clients.
Pismo
Pismo is a Brazilian cloud-native payments infrastructure company founded in São Paulo in 2016, providing card issuing and core banking processing, acquired by Visa for $1 billion in 2024.