Yassir is the leading super app for French-speaking Africa, bundling ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and digital payments into a single platform serving more than eight million users across the Maghreb and beyond. Founded in 2017 by Stanford-trained engineer Noureddine Tayebi and El Mahdi Yettou, the company has raised over $193 million, including a record $150M Series B led by Bond.
Orchestro.AI is a Dublin, California-based vertical AI startup building an open logistics network that unites carriers, shippers, and service providers under a single AI-driven operating system. Founded in 2023 by supply-chain veteran Shekar Natarajan with co-founders Bhagavathy Krishna and Jim Wrubel, the company is layering a virtue-based platform it calls 'Angelic Intelligence' on top of last-mile delivery to make parcel flow cheaper, smarter, and more humane.
Felipe Chávez Cortés is the CEO and co-founder of Robot.com (formerly Kiwibot), the company that put sidewalk delivery robots on college campuses worldwide. A Colombian entrepreneur who turned a burrito delivery sticker shock at UC Berkeley into a fleet of 500+ autonomous robots completing over 1 million tasks across the US, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and pilot cities in Europe and Asia. Named MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 for Latin America in 2018, he previously co-founded and sold Lulo - Colombia's first app to accept credit card payments - before pivoting to build what has become one of the world's most-deployed autonomous delivery networks.