Start-Up Chile
AcceleratorSantiago · Pre-Seed–Growth
Investment thesis
Start-Up Chile focuses on empowering founders and their startups to create impact from Chile toward global markets, regardless of the company's development stage. Over a decade its portfolio entrepreneurs have generated more than two billion dollars in sales worldwide and have collectively raised over US$2 billion in capital. The program emphasizes strengthening the Latin American ecosystem, pointing to the emergence of unicorns and other high-growth companies within its portfolio, whose combined valuation has surpassed US$5.8 billion. It positions itself as a launchpad helping entrepreneurs conquer competitive international markets.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 7, 2026.
Founder mafia
The Start-Up Chile mafia →10 people who came through Start-Up Chile went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 39 of 50 portfolio companiesSaaS ×24AI & Machine Learning ×21Fintech ×6AgTech ×5EdTech ×5Biotech ×4Digital Health ×4Healthtech ×4
HQs:Chile×14Colombia×1Germany×1Italy×1
Portfolio companies · 50 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really likeAltitud 100K is a Chilean applied-science company offering AI, automation, engineering, and STEM training services, along with R&D in oncology, medical engineering, and aerospace engineering (CubeSats).
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEdTechPuente Alto, CL
Amnova Biotech is developing a first-in-class injectable regenerative biomaterial therapy designed to repair heart tissue after myocardial infarction.
BiotechHealthtechMedical Devices
Batwise is an AI search optimization platform that tracks how large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews represent a brand, measuring visibility, position, sentiment, citations and competitor performance per business category.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Boe is a telemedicine platform that connects men experiencing hair loss (androgenetic alopecia) with dermatologists who review a digital medical questionnaire and prescribe personalized treatments combining finasteride, minoxidil, dutasteride, and biotin.
Digital HealthDirect to ConsumerHealthtech
Co-investorsTantauco
Check Auditor is a SaaS due diligence platform that turns public and regulatory data into risk intelligence for third-party and supplier evaluation, integrating sources like SII, Poder Judicial, Dirección del Trabajo, financial bureaus and restrictive lists via platform and API.
ConMaestría TP is an AI platform for technical-professional secondary education (EMTP) teachers that generates lesson plans, presentations, study guides, case studies, and assessments aligned to the Chilean MINEDUC curriculum.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Dip Your Trip is a travel booking service that connects travelers with local experts to plan custom adventures such as trekking in Patagonia, skiing the Andes, and visiting Machu Picchu.
ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality
EVJA develops technological solutions for crop monitoring and protection to support growers in managing agricultural challenges including climate change and sustainable resource use.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningClimate TechIoTNaples, IT
Co-investorsCDP Venture Capital
Fiordo is a multi-agent GRC platform that automates regulatory reporting to Chile's Sernapesca (SIFA) and certification bodies for salmon farming operations, letting technicians report via WhatsApp voice or text while the system validates data and generates the exact XLSX files required.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaS
FlowNex AI builds AI products for businesses, including Agentia, a customer service agent for WhatsApp and Webchat that automates responses and integrates with CRM, ERP and ecommerce platforms, and FlowOps, a decision intelligence tool with an AI copilot ("Flowy") that analyzes data from ERP, CRM and spreadsheets.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Glya provides a remote patient monitoring platform that captures clinical data, vital signs, and biomarkers at home for chronic and acute patients, using an optional Bluetooth IoT gateway connected to biomedical devices and a WhatsApp-based AI assistant.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthIoT
HousePricing provides AI-supported automated property valuations and market analysis for the Chilean real estate market, using official data from the CBR, SII and property portals.
AI & Machine LearningPropTechSaaS
Idesify provides a platform for biometric identity verification and KYC onboarding, combining liveness detection, government document validation, and fraud prevention with GDPR and global data-protection compliance tools.
CybersecurityFintechSaaS
Kenbi Akademie offers certified online continuing-education courses for nursing professionals and care services, covering topics such as mandatory training, wound management, and digital skills.
Digital HealthEdTechHealthtech
Leo Mejor develops and sells digital educational resources focused on supporting reading acquisition, reading enjoyment, and reading comprehension for children.
EdTech
Leydedatos offers a data-protection compliance platform that uses AI to help organizations meet Chile's Ley 21.719, digitizing tasks such as the record of processing activities (RAT), data inventory and classification, impact assessments (EIPD), consent management, and ARCO+ data-subject rights requests.
AI & Machine LearningLegalTechSaaS
Obra Maestra is an AI-powered mobile app for construction tradespeople that builds professional job quotes from text, voice, or photo inputs, generating materials lists with real local store prices.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechSaaS
Oxygen offers an industrial platform for manufacturing and plant operations teams in Latin America, combining a CMMS module (OxyPulse) for maintenance, asset and work-order management, an AI-based production planning tool (OxyPlanner) with real-time rescheduling, and an advisory service for continuous improvement.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
Relvo is an AI-agent-driven revenue operations platform that reads contract pricing terms, generates billing rules, connects to customer usage via API, sends pre-invoices, manages approvals and purchase orders, and automates payment collection and bank reconciliation.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Riela is a retention layer that sits on top of a company's existing payment gateway to recover failed recurring charges, using scoring models to decide when to retry a payment and notifying customers via WhatsApp or email to reduce involuntary subscription churn.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
SearchBrand.ai is an SEO and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) analytics platform that audits a brand's presence across search engines and AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, identifies content gaps and competitor comparisons, and generates optimized content and action plans.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Surphage develops specific bacteriophage combinations (branded NeoPhage) to control pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Listeria monocytogenes in animal and plant production without the use of antibiotics.
AgTechBiotechFoodTech
Tazki is a Chilean HSEQ (health, safety, environment and quality) software platform that digitizes occupational safety and prevention management, including safety talks, training, inspections, findings, accident investigations, contractor management and reporting, with electronic signatures valid before Chile's Labor Directorate (DT).
Construction TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Terrabiom works on soil restoration by reestablishing microbial communities (mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria) so that native vegetation can take root and self-sustaining forest ecosystems can regenerate.
AgTechBiotechClimate Tech
TesmoTech is building an interoperable electronic clinical records platform for health centers (public, private, and NGO) and independent healthcare professionals, letting them view patients and log each consultation.
Digital HealthHealthtechSaaS
TrustOps adds cryptographic verifiability to software development pipelines, signing every build, test, approval and deployment inside trusted hardware and anchoring them in an append-only transparency log to produce tamper-evident audit evidence.
CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Urbanamente offers FRANK, a data platform that draws on official public sources such as census data, the Chilean tax authority's (SII) property registry and Form 2890 real estate transfer filings, and municipal urban regulations.
Construction TechData & InfrastructurePropTech
Vera is an AI platform that automates commercial credit analysis for corporate banking teams, ingesting financial documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, statements) to standardize data and generate credit ratings, risk flags, and credit memos in minutes using a bank's own risk parameters.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Wava is a payments platform that lets merchants accept payments through Colombian digital wallets and the Bre-B system—including Nequi and DaviPlata—via checkout, payment links, and API, with tools for collection, centralized accounts, and disbursements.
E-commerceFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBuenTrip Ventures
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Start-Up Chile made?
- Start-Up Chile has 50 tracked investments.
- What stage does Start-Up Chile invest at?
- Start-Up Chile invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Growth stages.
- What sectors does Start-Up Chile focus on?
- Start-Up Chile focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Start-Up Chile located?
- Start-Up Chile is headquartered in Santiago, CL.
- Does Start-Up Chile lead rounds?
- Yes, Start-Up Chile leads investment rounds.
- Who does Start-Up Chile co-invest with?
- Start-Up Chile most often shares deals with BuenTrip Ventures, CDP Venture Capital, Tantauco, among 3 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
from their channelDemo Day: All AIs on you
Start-Up Chile
Convocatoria BIG 12: Next BIG steps [Chilenos]
Start-Up Chile
BIG 12 application process: Next BIG steps [Foreign Entrepreneurs]
Start-Up Chile
BIG 12 application process: Why Start-Up Chile? [Foreign Entrepreneurs]
Start-Up Chile
Convocatoria BIG 12: ¿Por qué Start-Up Chile? [Chilenos]
Start-Up Chile
Catch-Up with Start-Up Chile: Cómo emprendí desde la ciencia
Start-Up Chile
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