Founded in 2018, VALR is a global cryptocurrency exchange serving over 1,000 corporate and institutional clients and close to 700,000 users worldwide. Headquartered in Johannesburg, VALR is licensed by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) in South Africa, approved to offer services in Europe, and has received initial approval from Dubai’s VARA.
Region: South America
Iglu
Iglu is a Brazil-based mobile point-of-sale (PoS) software with native omnichannel capabilities for retailers with omnipresence. It offers retailers an Apple-Store-like delightful product by (1) replacing bulky in-store equipment with a mobile PoS, (2) stitching together disconnected tools such as payments, e-commerce platforms, ERP etc., and (3) integrating with all major credit, debit cards, alternative payment methods such as installment, and the rising real-time payment system in Brazil — PIX.
Toku
Toku is a payment orchestration company that offers a solution for collecting recurring payments in LatAm. It has three main value propositions: 1) increase payment acceptance rate via dynamic routing; 2) incur the lowest possible cost by using account-to-account payment; 3) have the best-automated payment experience.
Parrot
Parrot is a Mexican food tech startup that helps the country’s restaurants to digitize and optimize their operations through technology. Its ParrotConnect solution is an all-in-one platform for today’s restaurants: multi-brand and multi-channel, which allows the user to manage all business tasks from one device. Integrate orders from delivery apps, table service and take-away orders on the same screen, configuration of personnel permissions, menu editor, kitchen areas, types of payment, cashier operations, and real-time reports from a single management portal.
Guros
Guros is an embedded insurance company in Mexico that’s transforming the entire insurance experience, from purchasing to managing vehicle and mobile insurance. They’re on a mission to democratize insurance in Latin America; both for end-customers and neobanks/fintechs who want to embed insurance into their platform, but need to do so in a much simpler, faster, and reliable way.
Mozper
Mozper is bringing the weekly allowance into the digital era in Latin America. About 70% of the population in the region has never received formal financial education, and do not have the right tools to teach their children. In Brazil and Mexico alone, parents give more than $10B each year in pocket money to kids. Mozper offers a Visa debit card and an app where parents can give their kids an allowance, set spending rules (so they can’t blow it all on video games), assign chores and even create and track savings goals.