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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.
Sytex
Sytex is an Argentine SaaS platform that digitizes and automates field infrastructure operations for telecom, energy, construction, and oil & gas teams. Companies use it to design workflows, run them in the field on a mobile app, verify evidence with AI, and turn every action into a single source of truth - replacing the Excel-and-email sprawl that slows down network rollouts and maintenance across nine-plus countries.
Emi Labs
Emi Labs builds AI-powered recruiting automation for high-volume, frontline hiring. Its autonomous AI agents attract, screen, schedule, and onboard hourly workers through channels like WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger, promising faster time-to-hire and a more human candidate experience. Founded in 2018 and backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Merus Capital, Emi counts large employers such as Walmart, OXXO, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Burger King, and Heineken among its customers and says roughly one in ten frontline hires in Mexico runs through its platform.
MiChamba
MiChamba is a Mexico-founded startup that turns WhatsApp into an operational management platform for frontline and deskless teams across Latin America and the US Hispanic market. Instead of forcing workers onto a new app, it layers AI agents - led by an assistant named MarIA - on top of the messaging tool people already use, converting informal chats into trackable tasks, reports, and productivity data. It raised a $2.25M pre-seed round in 2025 and counts Hilton, Pemex, and Repsol among 50+ customers in construction, hospitality, logistics, and industrial sectors.