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Juan Pablo Ortega and the Trouble With a Simple Payment
He learned the cost of fragmented payments while taking Rappi across nine countries. Now the pilot-turned-founder is trying to give global commerce one control panel - and teaching the software to fly more of the route itself.
Gabriela Tafur
Gabriela Tafur is a Colombian lawyer, former Miss Colombia and Miss Universe top-five finalist turned tech founder. As CEO and co-founder of Idilio TV, she built Latin America's first vertical microdrama streaming platform after spotting nail-salon workers binge-watching Chinese micro-dramas during her Stanford MBA. In June 2026 Idilio raised a $5.5M seed round backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, a16z Speedrun, Goodwater Capital and Nubank founder David Velez, after reaching 1.5 million downloads across 93 countries in five months.