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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.
HOLYWATER TECH
HOLYWATER TECH is a Ukrainian-founded, AI-first entertainment company building a mobile-first streaming network for short, vertical, episodic stories. Its ecosystem - My Drama (vertical microdrama series), My Passion (digital books), My Muse (AI-generated series) and Freebits (ad-supported streaming) - has grown to more than 85 million app installs. Founded in Kyiv in 2020 by Bogdan Nesvit and Anatolii Kasianov, the company pairs human creators with AI production tools to turn books into bite-sized vertical series, and in January 2026 raised a $22M round led by Horizon Capital, on top of a strategic investment from Fox Entertainment.