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The Company Teaching Global Money to Speak 17 Local Languages
A single API, 17 Latin American countries, and 640-plus ways to move money. How a Buenos Aires payments company became the plumbing under global commerce - then got bought by an ad-tech giant.
Latin America's Freelancers Needed a Home. Workana Built One, Then Took It to Asia.
Founded in Buenos Aires in 2012, Workana turned a region full of remote talent and no dedicated marketplace into the largest freelance platform in Latin America, with more than two million professionals and a growing outpost in Southeast Asia.
Despegar Is Building the Operating System for Latin America’s Vacation
The Buenos Aires-born travel company survived the dot-com bust, regional currency shocks and a pandemic. Now, inside Prosus, it is stitching flights, beds, credit, loyalty and AI into one Latin American checkout.
InvGate
IT Management is evolving. InvGate enables you and your organization to streamline service operations, optimize IT spend, and enhance Asset Lifecycle Management.
Settle Network
Settle Network is a Buenos Aires-based fintech that builds the fiat-to-crypto rails Latin America runs on. Through its Latamex gateway and Stellar-based settlement infrastructure, it lets exchanges, businesses, and users convert local currencies like the Argentine peso and Brazilian real into crypto and stablecoins - and back again - in seconds. A Y Combinator S22 company backed by the Stellar Development Foundation, Settle became the on/off ramp behind global exchanges including Binance and OKX across the region.
N5 Now
N5 Now is a Buenos Aires-founded software company built specifically for the financial industry. Its 'systematics' platform - along with AI products AIfred, Pep and Singular - lets banks, insurers and payment companies connect CRM, campaigns, analytics, compliance and omnichannel operations on top of existing legacy systems instead of replacing them. Founded in 2017 by former Santander executive Julian Colombo, N5 works fully remotely across teams in dozens of cities, serves clients including Santander, Mastercard, Itau, Interbank and Zurich in roughly 15-18 countries, and closed a $20M Series A in 2025 to accelerate its AI agents for banks.