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One Small Network Teaches Corporate Colombia to Make Promises It Can Measure
It began as an international cooperation project and became the room where Colombian business turns ten UN principles into workshops, targets, reports and awkwardly useful conversations. The clever part is not the pledge - it is the machinery after the pledge.
Connect wants Bogotá’s next big idea to find a buyer
The Colombian nonprofit brings universities, companies and entrepreneurs into the same room. Its real test comes afterward: turning introductions into technologies that businesses will actually use.
ComparaOnline sells the second opinion
The Latin American insurance marketplace built a business around getting shoppers to compare. Its harder job is turning a better-informed customer into an insured one.
Laika took pet shopping online. Then it opened the doors.
The Colombian pet retailer raised $65 million across three funding rounds, built a membership habit and moved into physical stores. Its next test is making that combination pay.
OSC Top Solutions Group Wants Your Network to Earn Its Keep
The Colombian integrator grew by following its customers across borders. Now it is selling a harder promise: making the networks, security systems and people behind critical infrastructure work together.
The Furniture Company That Built a Bank and a 32,000-Square-Meter Back Room
Muebles Jamar does not merely sell sofas. It coordinates local makers, extends household credit and moves bulky goods through one of Latin America's largest furniture distribution operations.
The Medellin Agency That Learned to Sell to America in Two Languages
It began in 2003 with one text message. Two decades later, SM Digital runs paid search, social, and lead-gen for brands across two continents - and built its whole model on the idea that the fastest-growing market in the U.S. speaks Spanish.
Callbook AI
Callbook AI is a Y Combinator (S26) startup building AI voice agents that make and take business phone calls in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Founded by Colombians Diego Avellaneda and Daniel Martinez, it began as a plug-and-play AI phone system for Zoho CRM and has sharpened its focus on automated debt collections and portfolio management across Latin America, handling calls, WhatsApp, SMS, and email from a single platform.
Cifrato
Cifrato is a Colombian, Y Combinator-backed (W25) startup building an AI accountant for accounting firms and retail businesses across Latin America. Its AI agents run end-to-end accounting workflows - pulling electronic invoices straight from tax authorities like Colombia's DIAN, classifying them, applying taxes, reconciling payments, and pushing accounting-ready data into ERP and POS systems. Founded in 2025 by Juan Pisco and Yerson Cacua, the company reached roughly $1M ARR and processed over a million invoices for 270+ clients within its first year.
Luable - MejorCDT (YC S21)
Luable is a Colombian fintech running MejorCDT, a marketplace that lets everyday savers compare and open fixed-term deposits (CDTs) from many banks online, commission-free. For banks, it is a cheaper, faster funding channel than opening branches or hiring salespeople. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (S21), it has processed over USD $30M in deposits and is expanding from Colombia into Mexico and the Caribbean.
Milio
Milio (YC W23) is a Colombian fintech building real-time, account-to-account payment infrastructure for Latin America. Through a single API, banks, fintechs, and enterprises can move money between accounts in seconds - handling collections, disbursements, cross-border transfers, and treasury automation while cutting transaction costs by up to 80%.
Palomma
Palomma is a Medellin-based fintech building an AI-native banking platform for real estate in Latin America, starting with rent. It deploys AI agents that handle leasing, sales, and collections for property managers across WhatsApp, SMS, and phone calls 24/7, then layers on payment collection and disbursement to own the flow of rent and monetize it through credit and insurance products. Founded in the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch, the company originally launched as a frictionless Pay-by-Bank API for LatAm merchants before pivoting to real estate.