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Positivo Tecnologia
Positivo Tecnologia is a Brazilian technology company headquartered in Curitiba, founded in 1989 as Positivo Informática, that makes computers, servers, payment terminals, and education technology and provides IT services.
QI Tech (fintech)
QI Tech is a Brazilian financial-infrastructure fintech founded in 2018 in São Paulo, the first fintech licensed as a direct credit company and a securities distributor in Brazil.
QuintoAndar
QuintoAndar is a Brazilian proptech company founded in 2012 by Gabriel Braga and André Penha that intermediates rentals, guarantees payment to landlords, and operates in six countries.
Rafael Vasto
Rafael Vasto is a Brazilian technology executive, co-founder and CEO of Daki, the São Paulo rapid grocery delivery company he founded in 2021 that became a unicorn valued at US$1.2 billion.
Rappi
Rappi is a Colombian on-demand delivery and digital commerce company founded in Bogotá in 2015, operating a multi-service super-app across nine Latin American countries at a valuation above $5 billion.
Renato Andrade
Renato Andrade is a Brazilian co-founder of Merama, a Latin American e-commerce brand holding company founded in 2020, and served as its CEO Brazil until 2025.
Rodrigo Batista
Rodrigo Batista is a Brazilian entrepreneur who created the cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin in 2013, led it as CEO until selling his stake in 2019, and founded the global exchange Digitra.com.
Rodrigo Galindo
Rodrigo Calvo Galindo is a Brazilian education executive who was chief executive of Kroton from 2011 and of Cogna Educação from 2019, and has chaired Cogna's board since 2022.
Rodrigo Maroja
Rodrigo Maroja is a Brazilian technology executive from Brasília, co-founder and COO of Daki, the São Paulo quick-commerce grocery platform that became a unicorn in 2021.
Roger Laughlin Carvallo
Roger Laughlin Carvallo is a Venezuelan-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Mexican used-car platform Kavak in 2016 and was chief executive of Kavak Brazil from 2020 to 2024.
Romero Rodrigues
Romero Rodrigues is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the price-comparison site Buscapé in 1998, ran it until its $342 million sale to Naspers in 2009, and became a venture capital partner.
Santiago Sosa
Santiago Sosa is an Argentine engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nuvemshop, an e-commerce platform known as Tiendanube that was founded in 2011 in Buenos Aires and valued at US$3.1 billion in 2021.
Santiago Suárez
Santiago Suárez is a Colombian technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Addi, a buy now, pay later company in Bogotá that he founded in 2018 after a finance career at J.P. Morgan and Lending Club.
Sauter Digital
Sauter Digital is a Brazilian technology consultancy founded in 2020 by Emerson de Lima, providing AI, Google Cloud, and data engineering services to large enterprises from São Paulo and Garanhuns.
Sebastian Castro (Kushki co-founder)
Sebastian Castro, full name Sebastián Castro Galnares, is an Ecuadorian entrepreneur and MIT-trained engineer who co-founded the payments company Kushki, Ecuador's first unicorn, and serves as its President.
Sebastian Kanovich
Sebastián Kanovich is a Uruguayan entrepreneur and economist who co-founded the payments company dLocal, Uruguay's first unicorn, and led it as chief executive until 2024.
Sebastián Mejía
Sebastián Mejía is a Colombian entrepreneur from Cali who co-founded Rappi, the Bogotá-based delivery and financial-services super-app, in 2015 and led it as President until April 2025.
Sebastián Noguera
Sebastián Noguera is a Colombian economist and industrial engineer who co-founded Habi in 2019, the real estate platform that became the first PropTech unicorn in Spanish-speaking Latin America in 2022.
Sergio Fogel
Sergio Fogel is a Uruguayan technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the Montevideo-based cross-border payments platform dLocal in 2016, now its co-president and chief strategy officer.
Sergio Furio
Sergio Furio is a Spanish former investment banker who founded Creditas, a Brazilian online secured-lending company in São Paulo, in 2012 and serves as its chief executive officer.
Simón Borrero
Simón Borrero is a Colombian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Rappi, the delivery and fintech super app founded in Bogotá in 2015, which reached profitability in 2024.
Stefanini Group
Stefanini Group is a privately held Brazilian technology consulting and IT services multinational founded by Marco Stefanini in 1987, family-owned and operating in 46 countries.
StoneCo
StoneCo, known as Stone, is a Brazilian payments fintech founded in 2012 in Rio de Janeiro by André Street and Eduardo Pontes, listed on Nasdaq since 2018.
Tiago Dalvi
Tiago de Angeli Dalvi is a Brazilian entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Olist, the Curitiba-based commerce company for small retailers that reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2021.
Tiendanube
Tiendanube, known in Brazil as Nuvemshop, is an Argentine e-commerce software company founded in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving more than 180,000 online stores across Latin America.
Totvs
Totvs is a Brazilian enterprise software company headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 1983, the largest management-software company in Latin America, serving more than 70,000 customers in over 40 countries.
Ualá
Ualá is an Argentine fintech company founded in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri and based in Buenos Aires, serving more than 11 million clients in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.
unico
Unico, formerly Acesso Digital, is a Brazilian identity-verification company founded in 2007 in São Paulo, offering facial biometrics and fraud prevention, and became Brazil's first IDTech unicorn in 2021.
Vitor Torres
Vitor Torres is a Brazilian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Contabilizei, an online accounting platform founded in 2013 in Curitiba that grew to about 100,000 clients and US$225 million in funding.
Vitor Zaninotto
Vitor Zaninotto is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur and former SAP consultant who co-founded the São Paulo social commerce platform Facily in 2018, serving as its chief technology officer.