TOP 30
Women Founders
to Watch in LatAm

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Cintia Freitas — CEO & Сo - Founder, Datta Büsiness
Stephani Caser — Co-founder & CEO, See Me
Constanza Levicán — CEO & Founder, Suncast
Rayen Inostroza — CEO & Founder, ChatLPO
Melania Sanhueza — CEO & Founder, MUUD
Fernanda Palacios — Co-Founder & CFO, SubCargo
Juliana Marulanda — CEO & Сo - Founder, Momenta
Ximena Ruget — Co - Founder & President, Glya
Magreth Gutierrez Vargas — CEO & Founder, AAVANCE
Ana María Acevedo — Chief Operating Officer, Teia invest
Paola Lavín — Co - Founder, ELO
Laura Del Castillo Negrete — CEO & Сo - Founder, Kunzapp
Keila Barral Masri — CEO & Founder, CROMODATA
Fernanda De La Colina — Co - founder, Zumma
Paola Velarde — Founder , CircaLab
Cintia Freitas — CEO & Сo - Founder, Datta Büsiness
Stephani Caser — Co-founder & CEO, See Me
Constanza Levicán — CEO & Founder, Suncast
Rayen Inostroza — CEO & Founder, ChatLPO
Melania Sanhueza — CEO & Founder, MUUD
Fernanda Palacios — Co-Founder & CFO, SubCargo
Juliana Marulanda — CEO & Сo - Founder, Momenta
Ximena Ruget — Co - Founder & President, Glya
Magreth Gutierrez Vargas — CEO & Founder, AAVANCE
Ana María Acevedo — Chief Operating Officer, Teia invest
Paola Lavín — Co - Founder, ELO
Laura Del Castillo Negrete — CEO & Сo - Founder, Kunzapp
Keila Barral Masri — CEO & Founder, CROMODATA
Fernanda De La Colina — Co - founder, Zumma
Paola Velarde — Founder , CircaLab
Cintia Freitas — CEO & Сo - Founder, Datta Büsiness
Stephani Caser — Co-founder & CEO, See Me
Constanza Levicán — CEO & Founder, Suncast
Rayen Inostroza — CEO & Founder, ChatLPO
Melania Sanhueza — CEO & Founder, MUUD
Fernanda Palacios — Co-Founder & CFO, SubCargo
Juliana Marulanda — CEO & Сo - Founder, Momenta
Ximena Ruget — Co - Founder & President, Glya
Magreth Gutierrez Vargas — CEO & Founder, AAVANCE
Ana María Acevedo — Chief Operating Officer, Teia invest
Paola Lavín — Co - Founder, ELO
Laura Del Castillo Negrete — CEO & Сo - Founder, Kunzapp
Keila Barral Masri — CEO & Founder, CROMODATA
Fernanda De La Colina — Co - founder, Zumma
Paola Velarde — Founder , CircaLab

These founders are building
businesses worth paying
attention to in 2026

The list is curated from investor nominations across Latin America and startup applications

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Paola Lavín — Co - Founder, ELO
Paola Lavín
ELO
HealthTech & MedTech
Mexico
pre-seed
ELO helps independent healthcare practitioners deliver better care by using AI agents to reduce administrative burden and automate their most complex workflows.
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Malena Jimenez — CEO & Сo - Founder, mikigai
Malena Jimenez
mikigai
Wellbeing, Longevity & Life Sciences
Mexico
pre-seed
Mikigai helps companies improve employee wellbeing through immersive experiences and is building Latin America's leading workplace wellbeing platform.
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Laura Del Castillo Negrete — CEO & Сo - Founder, Kunzapp
Laura Del Castillo Negrete
Kunzapp
Enterprise Software
Mexico
seed
Kunzapp is the first SaaS Manager in LATAM, a spend management and procurement platform that gives companies full visibility and control over their software subscriptions to reduce costs and optimize tech spending.
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Macarena Rodríguez — Co - Founder & Country Manager, Pawer
Macarena Rodríguez
Pawer
Fintech
Chile
seed
Pawer is a pet insurtech platform in Chile offering flexible, unbundled veterinary insurance. Through its mobile app, it provides tailored coverage to individuals while helping companies offer pet benefits as a modern employee perk.
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Constanza Levicán — CEO & Founder, Suncast
Constanza Levicán
Suncast
Energy & Sustainability
Chile
seed
Suncast provides AI-powered energy generation forecasts for solar and wind plants in Latin America. By combining satellite imagery and weather data, it helps energy companies optimize plant operations and easily meet regulatory requirements.
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Keila Barral Masri — CEO & Founder, CROMODATA
Keila Barral Masri
CROMODATA
HealthTech & MedTech
Mexico
seed
Cromodata connects LatAm hospitals to global life sciences by turning fragmented clinical records into anonymized, compliant datasets—generating new revenue for clinics and ensuring regional representation in AI medicine.
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Rayen Inostroza — CEO & Founder, ChatLPO
Rayen Inostroza
ChatLPO
Education Technology (EdTech)
Chile
pre-seed
An AI-powered edtech platform that helps teachers plan lessons, create assessments, and generate classroom materials aligned with the national curriculum. By automating time-consuming administrative work, ChatLPO frees up teachers to focus on what matters most: their students.
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Juliana Marulanda — CEO & Сo - Founder, Momenta
Juliana Marulanda
Momenta
Gifting & Corporate Wellness/Team-building
Colombia
pre-seed
Momenta is a Colombian marketplace offering curated experiences like workshops and wellness retreats as alternatives to material gifts. It helps individuals and companies strengthen relationships through personal gifting and corporate team-building.
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Cintia Freitas — CEO & Сo - Founder, Datta Büsiness
Cintia Freitas
Datta Büsiness
RetailTech & E-commerce
Brazil
pre-seed
Datta is a martech SaaS that automates ad data collection and reporting. It turns scattered performance metrics into clear, actionable marketing insights for agencies, franchises, and professionals across Brazil, Mexico, and beyond.
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Ximena Ruget — Co - Founder & President, Glya
Ximena Ruget
Glya
HealthTech & MedTech
Colombia
seed
Glya is a remote chronic care platform for elderly and underserved patients. Using AI, IoT, and WhatsApp (no app required), it monitors vitals and sends reminders to reduce complications while giving providers continuous health visibility.
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Michelle Shocron — Co - founder, Continuum
Michelle Shocron
Continuum
RetailTech & E-commerce
Argentina
seed
AI-powered 'creative operating system' automating content production and campaign activation across social, ad, and media platforms (Meta, Google Ads, TikTok, YouTube). Clients include Mercado Libre, Coca-Cola, PedidosYa. .
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Adriana Gonzalez — CEO & Founder, tizo
Adriana Gonzalez
tizo
Artificial Intelligence (AI/ML)
Panama
Seed
Tizo is an AI-powered commerce platform enabling offline, unbanked LatAm consumers to buy and sell. Using conversational AI, integrated logistics, and local agents, it digitizes informal commerce without requiring internet access.
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Mercedes Bidart — CEO & Co - Founder, Quipu
Mercedes Bidart
Quipu
Fintech
Colombia
Seed
A fintech providing digital credit to underserved LatAm micro-entrepreneurs and informal workers. It uses AI to assess creditworthiness based on real-time economic activity rather than traditional credit history.
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Angela Acosta — CEO & Founder, Morado
Angela Acosta
Morado
Fintech
Colombia
Seed
Morado is a fintech platform providing capital, tools, and resources to women-led beauty businesses, empowering female entrepreneurs to scale.
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Estefanía Abello — Co - Founder, Muta
Estefanía Abello
Muta
Energy & Sustainability
Colombia
Seed
All-in-one tool that empowers companies in the recycling industry to scale efficiently. Muta helps trace every step of operations, organize all essential data digitally, eliminate the need for paper, and drive sustainable growth.
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Patricia Florencia — Founder, Pilou
Patricia Florencia
Pilou
Fintech
Mexico
Pre-Seed
A digital investment platform that manages stock market portfolios based on each user’s risk profile and financial goals. It offers an easy, transparent, and low-cost way to invest, with portfolios managed by globally experienced financial experts.
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Melania Sanhueza — CEO & Founder, MUUD
Melania Sanhueza
MUUD
Wellbeing, Longevity & Life Sciences
Chile
pre-seed
MUUD is an AI-powered edtech platform that detects early signs of student distress. It gives US and LatAm schools real-time, anonymized well-being insights to enable proactive mental health support.
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Magreth Gutierrez Vargas — CEO & Founder, AAVANCE
Magreth Gutierrez Vargas
AAVANCE
Fintech
Colombia
pre-seed
AAvance is a financial inclusion platform for migrants and unbanked communities in LatAm. It provides a fee-free digital wallet, Visa debit card, and financial education to help underserved populations build credit.
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Sabrine Matos — Founder, Plinq
Sabrine Matos
Plinq
Others
Brazil
pre-seed
Plinq is a women-only safety app. Check who someone really is by name, phone, or CPF before a date, a ride, or letting a stranger in. Verified people, shared red and green flags, location sharing, and a panic button, all in one private space built for women.
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Valentina Valencia —  Founder & CEO, Vaas
Valentina Valencia
Vaas
Software Development
Colombia
likely early-stage, seed
A fintech infrastructure company that provides embedded financial services and API-based solutions, enabling businesses to integrate payments, banking, and financial operations directly into their platforms.
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Melissa Amado — Founder , Genius Mining
Melissa Amado
Genius Mining
Mining
Peru
pre-seed
A deep-tech startup that develops AI-powered systems to optimize mining operations through digital twins and reinforcement learning. Its platform integrates strategic planning, dispatch, and processing to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase operational performance in the mining industry.
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Fernanda Palacios — Co-Founder & CFO, SubCargo
Fernanda Palacios
SubCargo
LogTech, Freight & Transportation SaaS
Chile
Seed
SubCargo is a digital logistics operator that combines a freight marketplace with a SaaS platform, connecting cargo-generating companies with a collaborative network of road freight carriers across Chile, Peru, and Mexico.
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Juanita Castañeda Giraldo  — Co-Founder, Bord
Juanita Castañeda Giraldo
Bord
IT Asset Management, B2B Logistics, SaaS, HRTech
Argentina
Seed, Early Stage
An IT asset management platform for remote teams across 30+ countries. It handles the entire hardware lifecycle—from purchasing and onboarding to repairs and recycling—with localized multi-currency support for clients like FEMSA and Marriott.
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Fernanda De La Colina — Co - founder, Zumma
Fernanda De La Colina
Zumma
FinTech , AI , Corporate Expense Management
Mexico
Angel
An AI-powered corporate expense management platform that allows employees to automatically invoice and manage company expenses by simply sending a photo of a ticket via WhatsApp, with automatic reconciliation, ERP integration, and real-time reporting.
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Stephani Caser — Co-founder & CEO, See Me
Stephani Caser
See Me
HealthTech & MedTech
Brazil
pre-seed
See Me makes women's intimate health accessible across Latin America through precision medicine: molecular self-collection diagnostics for the vaginal microbiome, HPV and STIs, with AI-structured personalized digital clinical care.
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Paola Velarde — Founder , CircaLab
Paola Velarde
CircaLab
Fintech
Peru
pre-seed
Circa is a Peru-based fintech building "buy now, pay later" infrastructure for B2B commerce, specifically targeting Peru's traditional neighborhood corner stores a market of 400,000+ small retailers and the distributors/brands that supply them.
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Ana María Acevedo — Chief Operating Officer, Teia invest
Ana María Acevedo
Teia invest
Education Technology (EdTech)
Colombia
seed
Teia helps Latin American women solve financial exclusion and lack of investment knowledge by delivering practical financial education and personalized coaching through digital courses, corporate content partnerships, and a top podcast Las Socias
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Maria Artunduaga — Founder & CEO, Samay
Maria Artunduaga
Samay
HealthTech & MedTech
United States
seed
Samay is developing Sylvee™️, an AI-enabled sensor for diagnostics and monitoring chronic respiratory diseases. Our mission is to detect Small Airway Disease before it becomes irreversible — years before standard spirometry can.
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Natalia Cano — Co-Founder, Docokids
Natalia Cano
Docokids
HealthTech & MedTech
Cayman Islands
pre-seed
Docokids is a Colombian telehealth startup providing 24/7 pediatrician consultations via WhatsApp. Parents receive personalized care plans and exact dosing from licensed doctors in under 20 minutes, with no app download required.
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Brigitte Brousset — Co-Founder & CEO, GOW Credit
Brigitte Brousset
GOW Credit
Fintech
Mexico
pre-seed
GOW is an AI-powered credit intelligence platform that helps financial institutions make better SMB lending decisions by identifying creditworthy businesses that traditional underwriting misses.

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