You are now exploring the regional public voting page for Latin America. There are 30 female-led startups for you to choose from. After you have found the entrepreneur you are ready to empower, cast your vote! You can continue exploring the different regional voting pages to vote for other female founders.
You are now exploring the regional public voting page for Latin America. There are 30 female-led startups for you to choose from. After you have found the entrepreneur you are ready to empower, cast your vote! You can continue exploring the different regional voting pages to vote for other female founders.
Health
Nume supports women’s health so they can achieve their maximum potential. They are the patient’s virtual gynaecologist.
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PROSPERiA is a social impact spinoff from the MIT Media Lab, created to democratize access to healthcare in emerging markets through solutions based on Artificial Intelligence. Currently, we are focused on building a future where data and AI will allow the prevention of blindness for everyone. Our AI-based solution allows for the early detection of visual complications through risk assessment calculators, non-invasive fundus cameras, retinal image analysis, and personalized recommendations.
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Carefy’s mission is to make healthcare institutions more efficient to ensure access to quality healthcare for all. Thus, Carefy offers a hospitalization management platform for the healthcare audit process that reduces hospitalization time by up to 40% (without readmissions), increases healthcare team efficiency by up to 137% and reduces hospitalization costs by up to 13%.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Elytron is a biotech company that developed an AI-based technology that, through the analysis of genomic information and understanding the mode of action of microbial strains, can significantly improve the process of developing solutions for agricultural pests and diseases, effectively accelerating the overall R&D processes and deliver products for specific targets.
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Health
Sin Reglas is the first FemTech in Mexico focused on menopause and improving the health of women 40+. We are women empowering women in Latin America to take control of their health with a digital community that integrates knowledge, conversation and care, with a gender perspective, to accompany women during all the stages of menopause, so that we are able to live it as a more lucid, liberating and fulfilling experience. We inspire women to take control of their health through a digital platform.
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Health
Vixsystem is an Information Technology company that has as its main product, its pioneering innovation, the Lysa Robot Guide Dog, which is a product geared mainly to meet the prevention of the mobility of people with visual impairment, bringing them more conditions of access to health, leisure, and social welfare for a more autonomous and healthy life, physically and mentally at low cost and eventually free.
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Gisens Biotech is revolutionizing the field of human diagnostics by bringing together traditional biotechnology with modern semiconductor microelectronics. Our novel, first-of-its-kind biosensing microchip technology allows for disease detection and monitoring with unparalleled speed, accuracy, and affordability. We will equalize the existing inequities in healthcare by removing the major barrier for decentralized diagnostics: lab-grade performance at a point-of-care cost.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Verqor is a fintech solution for growers in Mexico. It is a platform through which growers can: (i) apply for a 100% digital, productive credit, designed for BoP. (ii) access the biggest agri-input marketplace in the country, which includes supplies like fertilizers, crop insurance, irrigation systems, and certifications. (iii) directly connect with buyers looking for a more streamlined supply chain. We eliminate informal intermediaries to help farmers to earn more every cycle using formal credit.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Demeter Innovation Lab empowers women to guide themselves, their families, their communities, and their industry toward sustainable livelihoods. The opportunity is to “technify” coffee crops, to measure important variables, thus achieving better flowering in the coffee plant, which guarantees better production and harvest.
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Health
ImunoTera was founded by three researchers who developed a biotech platform capable of restoring and activating the immune system to fight infectious diseases and cancer. The pipeline so far includes therapeutic vaccines to control HPV-related cancer, HIV, ZIKV and SARS-CoV-2. Their first product, the TERAH-7 is currently being applied in an experimental clinical showing complete regression of cervical neoplasia, and HPV clearance and avoiding the need for surgery in some treated patients.
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Palpa is a breast-shaped device with a simulation of a tumour inside. The device is filled with liquid soap and it is used as a massager in the shower so women can learn how to feel a tumour and perform breast self-exam in their routines. It is not a detecting medical device, its function is to educate women and train them to perform their breast self-exams every month.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Food 4 You is a biotech platform that develops solutions for dairy alternatives producers, using lactic bacteria and software. They are developing different starter cultures depending on each vegetal substrate used, enhancing flavor, texture and nutritional profile through fermentation with non-GMO bacteria. We are focusing on helping producers to achieve an easy and fast way to diversify their products taking care of health, taste, and the planet.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Puna Bio uses extremophiles – microorganisms sourced from La Puna, the highest and driest desert on Earth – to develop biological inputs for agriculture that increase yields, reduce carbon emissions, and restore degraded soil.
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Health
Ale Health Consulting is dedicated to addressing major health challenges in Mexico, specifically chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension, through the use of digital tools like telemedicine and chatbots. The company focuses on serving underserved communities, including poor communities in both urban and rural areas. Their primary product, the Mobile Health chatbot, detects patients at risk of diabetes and provides remote consultations and education to help bridge the healthcare gap.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Sylvarum is developing electrostimulation technology to control the metabolism of plants in order to improve crop yields of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) producers. Plants have a “nervous system” based on electric charges that regulate their internal processes, and they learned how to hack it. They have demonstrated that they can make plants grow 23% more biomass, with space for improvement. Their mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to more sustainable and scalable agriculture.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Plant Powered is a food tech company that develops and manufactures nutritious and sustainable meat substitutes, dairy substitutes and delicious ready-to-eat dishes from our Latin American gastronomy, all commercialized in inclusive packaging with Braille writing. With our sustainable business model, we are able to have a direct impact on the weakest link of the supply chain, which are the small local farmers that supply the fruits and vegetables that are the input of our products.
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SDW is an organization dedicated to democratizing access to drinking water and sanitation worldwide. Led by a female entrepreneur, the organization has received international recognition for its positive socio-environmental impact. Aqualuz, which treats water from rainwater harvesting systems using solar radiation, is one of the most accessible technologies developed by SDW. The device has already been implemented in Brazil and Ecuador, treating over 40 M litres of water in 50 communities.
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Pipo Saúde is a tech-enabled broker that sells and manages healthcare benefits (from insurance to fitness) for companies. By being a one-stop shop’ for its customers, Pipo connects companies to the most adequate bundle of benefits, reducing the overall cost, diminishing the operational load for HR and improving the overall benefits experience for employees (“members”).
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A more effective system for embryo selection that is based on the convergence of patient clinical data, genetic diagnosis, embryo growth imaging, and the core of our startup: metabolomic diagnosis. Since 2015 Embryoxite’s scientific team has been studying embryo metabolism. They have been developing a new disruptive diagnostic and a more accurate predictive implantation score that the professionals will use to decide which embryo will be transferred with more precision.
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Enteria is a biotechnology-based start-up specializing in the analysis and impact of the human microbiome (gut, vaginal and skin). With their microbiota analysis platform, they develop services to offer value to each type of client: individuals, professionals and laboratories.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Raks develops an intelligent irrigation management system, using remote sensing to indicate when and how much to irrigate. The solution saves water and electricity in production processes. All technology is developed by Raks, working with high-precision TDR soil moisture sensors patented by the company, in addition to a remote platform for monitoring all data.
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Nanotransfer is developing a library of ready-to-use, safe and efficient delivery systems to be used in gene therapy. Our delivery systems are non-viral, non-immunogenic oxide nanoparticles. Further, they have the potential to target specific cells.
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Huna provides AI-powered digital solutions to add value to existing check-up protocols and routine exams for the early detection of female diseases by unlocking the hidden potential of blood analytes. Huna’s patented model can accurately detect the first signs of breast cancer (up to 90% success) by considering a woman’s age and routine blood biomarkers. Huna has set its sights on validating and rollout an affordable breast cancer risk-assessment instrument to fast-track mammogram access.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Syocin developed a Synthetic Biology Platform capable of designing and building highly potent bio-bactericides based on proteins that can precisely target plant bacterial pathogens affecting world fruit and vegetable production and distribution, in a sustainable way preserving soil health. They are revolutionizing the way in which plant bacterial diseases are treated and cured to improve world food availability.
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Nanogrow is a multiproduct platform that develops nanobody-based biological products for the human and veterinary pharmaceutical industry, with an initial focus on the treatment of skin diseases. They seek to improve and democratize the use of biological agents, generating more effective and safer localized therapeutic solutions.
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Pluvi is a Brazilian startup incubated at the Tech Hub of the Federal University of Pernambuco, under the mentorship of Prof Savia Gavazza. They specialise in rainwater harvest for drinking purposes. They operate in rural and urban areas, using our own sustainable technology to harvest rainwater, and store and treat it at the time of consumption, without using chemicals. Their mission is to take clean water to all people using rainwater and contribute to universal access to drinking water.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Hexa offers sustainable management of organic waste with insects. Their process generates high-value bioproducts for different industries: sustainable protein for animal consumption, biofertilizer and chitin. Biofir improves people’s overall health by growing probiotics and fermented products. A byproduct of their process generates dextran, a polymer that can be used in the pharmaceutical field, in the food industry, and for water treatment.
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Health
Blood testing is crucial for early diagnosis. In Colombia accessibility to labs is limited and healthcare providers spend 28% of their budget on preventable chronic disease (PCD) treatments. Hem developed a colorimetric blood test interpretable through a mobile app. It is a portable and accessible alternative to a first diagnostic screening that remotely collects patient data to help healthcare providers optimize the use of their resources and provide a better service.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Nat4Bio is an Argentine ag-biotech start-up developing microbial-based products for post-harvest crop protection. Its first product is a biodegradable, chemical residue-free, edible coating that extends shelf life by slowing ripening and preventing post-harvest infections, whilst reducing food waste, greenhouse gas emissions and inefficient water and land use. The company has raised funding from US and Argentinian VCs and is currently piloting the prototype in citrus and pear packinghouses.
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Nutrition & Agriculture
Sibö is a biotechnology company developing clean, efficient, and sustainable insect-based biomaterials and ingredients for the food industry. Their technology allows them to convert any insect into its macromolecules (proteins, fatty acids and chitin), and use these molecules as building blocks to develop highly functional materials and product applications.
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