Mexico City (October 30, 2019) – MassChallenge Mexico, part of MassChallenge’s global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced the top 10 startups from its 2019 cohort. The selected startups will now advance to the final judging round, where they’ll compete for cash prizes that will be awarded at the MassChallenge Awards Ceremony on November 7, 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico.
“From companies with niche data analytics platforms to businesses that sell honey-based beauty products, we have a diversity of ideas in our 2019 startup class,” said Camila Lecaros, Managing Director, MassChallenge Mexico. “This kind of diversity propels the new ways Mexican startups are molding and changing our country, and we have a big responsibility to help them grow and consolidate their business models”.
The top 10 startups will now compete for $2M Mexican pesos in equity-free cash prizes during a final in-person judging round. A select panel of industry leaders will evaluate each startup based on their potential to transform industries and solve massive problems.
Members of the community will have the opportunity to meet the 2019 cohort during our annual MassChallenge Awards Ceremony on November 07, 2019 at Espacio R, in Mexico City.
MassChallenge Mexico Top 10 Startups
PolyBion (México) is a biofabrication platform that produces biomaterials, such as “Celium®” a biotextile that resembles leather and has very similar mechanical properties, with the advantage of reducing water usage, being animal-free, carbon negative, and grown to dimension.
DartSpeed.com (Colombia) is the only cloud-based solution that applies over 20 optimizations to achieve webpage load in less than 1 second.
LikeU (Colombia) is a platform that allows to select, train and give women in developing countries digital skills in order to provide world-class services such as customer service, marketing and sales, among others, with better: talent, results, flexibility and faster implementation.
ActiPulse Neuroscience (México) is a neuro-tech company specialized in the clinical research, engineering and manufacturing of neuromodulation devices to treat primarily Parkinson’s Disease and other neuro-psychiatric disorders.
Talent on Demand (México) is a marketplace that connects executive and independent experts to projects with companies that need on-demand and cost-effective solutions in a flexible way.
Symplifica (Colombia) is a SaaS that simplifies employer processes to formalize domestic workers and enroll them in the social security system.
Facturedo (México) is a LatAm working capital financing online marketplace, that provides a transparent, economic and seamless tool for SMEs to obtain liquidity from their electronic invoices.
Abeja Reyna (México) is a company dedicated to the production of bee honey and the production of beneficial and innovative products based on it.
Legalario (México) is a legal services SaaS company offering personalized and tailor-made legal documents and contracts to businesses and individuals.
Bellezacheck (México) is a digital, community-driven platform for consumer reviews and ratings on beauty products, with the mission to empower users to make better purchase decisions on beauty spend by providing them with impartial and relevant information.
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MassChallenge Mexico Partners
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Baker McKenzie
Bancolombia
CEMEX
Greenber Traurig
Nestlé
Cementos Progreso
Simon-Kucher
Sura