This event includes afternoons free for networking with sessions in the mornings and evenings on topics such as embedded finance, digital IDs, public policy, AI, collaboration and experience sharing among startups. The fee to attend is USD 1,250. You may seek more details by emailing tickets@finnovista.com or calling +56 36 66 48 12.

Techreo, a digital financial services firm serving 480,000 people in Mexico and Bolivia, recently raised USD 3.4 million in bridge funding to support its expansion into Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the US. The funders are the US-based impact investor Creation Investments and the Mexican venture capital firm G2 Momentum.

The head of Creation’s investment team in Mexico, Amadeo Ibarra, described Techreo’s app as “uniquely designed to serve people at the base of the economic pyramid." Its offerings include financial services, financial education and business solutions. Techreo was founded in 2022.

This event offers panel presentations on impact investing, networking via “speed dating,” pitches by women entrepreneurs and awards recognizing success in working toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The fee to attend is USD 1,200. For further inform­ation, you may call +52 56 0455 55 or email flii@nvgroup.org.

Pomelo, which is based in Argentina and also has offices in four other South American countries and Mexico, recently closed its Series B funding round. The company helps other companies accept their customers’ credit, debit and pre-paid cards, including through partnerships with the US-based payments firms Mastercard and Visa. The new investments in Pomelo, which total USD 40 million, bring its total amount raised to USD 103 million since the launch of the company in 2021. Kaszek, an investor in technology in Latin America, led the funding round, with participation from multiple other firms, including Brazil-based Monashees. Each of these investors will take a seat on Pomelo’s board of directors.