Led · Crowdfunding · Mar 2026

Blanco offers agile financing to micro and small enterprises by digitalizing invoices, automating processes and applying intensive AI for risk analysis and onboarding. The company delivers customer engagement primarily through WhatsApp to reach historically underserved segments. Blanco reports an accelerated growth trajectory in invoices financed and registered companies, driven by its AI-enabled underwriting and streamlined onboarding. Leadership includes Diego Contreras and founders with prior experience at Xepelin. Blanco aims to scale across Latin America and ultimately position itself as a digital bank specialized in micro SMEs. The recent $1.7M Broota round will be used to build out the commercial team and expand the platform's debt and financing capacity.

Led · Crowdfunding · Apr 2025

Founded in 2016, Poliglota began as in‑person conversational language groups and evolved into a digital EdTech platform offering guided online and offline group practice. The company teaches five languages (English, Italian, French, Portuguese and German) and combines social conversation with coach guidance. As of the articles, Poliglota has trained more than 40,000 students, employs around 90 staff and works with 350+ active coaches, while corporate sales account for roughly 45% of revenue. The startup has focused its expansion on Mexico (now a primary growth market) and is pushing toward the U.S. Hispanic market, supported by recent fundraising. Poliglota plans to integrate AI and new personalization tools by 2025 to tailor learning paths while preserving its social learning model. The company’s historical valuation surpassed $50M after the 2021 financing that included participation from Y Combinator and Harvard’s investment fund.