Tech
Funding, product launches, and hiring — the private-market signal on Venezuela’s recovery.
startup
$160M
Business banking platform — checking accounts, corporate cards, expense and treasury management, and global payments for startups and SMBs. Co-founded by Venezuelan entrepreneur Victor Cardenas (CEO, a Thiel Fellow and Stanford dropout) and Kevin Bai; reached unicorn status in April 2026.
San Francisco, California, USA · 2020
fintech
$100M
Buy-now-pay-later consumer credit app: shoppers make a down payment at partner retailers and pay the balance in interest-free installments, in-store and online.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2022 · ~90 people
startup
$69M
Multi-service 'super app' — began as food delivery in 2020 and expanded into groceries, pharmacy, ride-hailing, and shopping across Venezuela. Founded by Vicente Zavarce and Santiago Rodríguez Reggeti.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2020 · ~350 people
startup
$45M
Cloud-based CMMS (maintenance management software) combining IoT and AI for asset-intensive industries — manufacturing, energy, and facilities across Latin America and Europe. Founded by Christian Struve, who holds a master's degree from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Madrid, Spain · 2015
startup
$42M
B2B cross-border payments infrastructure blending stablecoins with traditional banking rails, positioned as a faster, cheaper alternative to SWIFT for corporate payments.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA · 2021
startup
$20M
Stablecoin-based 'global account' for Latin American users — save in USDC, spend locally, and invest in Bitcoin via a self-custody wallet. Co-founded by Venezuelan entrepreneur Jesus Castillo.
San Francisco, California, USA · 2023
startup
$12M
Stablecoin-powered payments 'super app' for Latin America — peer-to-peer and agent-network crypto on/off-ramp connecting to 70+ local payment channels. Founded by Venezuelan entrepreneur Guillermo Goncalvez Espiga, previously a co-founder of Ethereum Venezuela.
startup
$5.3M
Bitcoin-backed dollar remittance wallet ('Valiu Dollar') for Venezuelan migrants, backed by Y Combinator (S19). Shut down in December 2021, citing Venezuela's dollarization and the shift toward direct crypto/stablecoin adoption — kept here as VC/startup history, not an active company.
· 2018
startup
$1M
Venezuela's first ride-hailing app (cars, motorcycles, tow trucks), since expanded into package delivery, cargo logistics, bus ticketing, and corporate mobility services. Founded by Gerson Gómez and Ramón Rodríguez.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2021 · ~200 people
startup
$450K
ERP and financial-management software for small Venezuelan merchants — sales, inventory, fiscal invoicing, and a credit product; reports roughly 4,200 active customers. Founded by Enrique Rivas, Diego Aponte, and Sebastian Sanchez, who previously built the delivery business Caracas Ron.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2023
startup
Digital bus-ticketing platform for Venezuela's intercity transport network, letting travelers search, book, and pay across 50+ cities. Backed by Venezuela Mobility Ventures.
· 2024
startup
Used-car marketplace and certification service — inspects and certifies vehicles with a 3-month warranty, using algorithmic pricing. Founded by Alberto Vicentelli, a former PDVSA systems engineer. Part of the Venezuela Mobility Ventures portfolio.
startup
Mobile wallet originally built for Caracas parking payments, expanding toward broader cashless use cases. Co-founded by Atilana Piñón, Ramón Ginez, and Félix Fernández; covered internationally (Reuters wire, syndicated) as part of Venezuela's post-hyperinflation digital-payments boom.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2015
startup
E-commerce grocery and pharmacy platform letting the Venezuelan diaspora pay for deliveries to family still in Venezuela. Co-founded by brothers Kevin and Victor Charles with Francisco Martín Toro; went through Y Combinator (S19). Sister product Coco Pago is a stablecoin remittance wallet.
· 2019
startup
Accredited online secondary-education platform for Spanish-speaking youth in vulnerable or displaced situations, operating across Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras. Founded in Caracas as 'UEPA Dawere' by Álvaro González-Alorda.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2016
startup
Cargo and freight-transport marketplace for Venezuela, launched via a partnership between Transporte Cata and the Cámara de Transporte del Centro. Co-founded by Christian Vicario and Agustín Gastel. Distinct company from the similarly-named Flety, despite the name collision in some secondary sources.
· 2023
startup
Cargo and freight marketplace connecting truck owners and fleets with businesses needing transport across Venezuela. Founded by Augusto Chirimelli, named Tech Entrepreneur of the Year at EY Venezuela's 2026 LEI awards. Part of the Venezuela Mobility Ventures portfolio.
startup
B2B payments and treasury tooling for Venezuelan SMEs.
Caracas · 2021 · ~45 people
startup
Consumer financing app that uses the customer's smartphone itself as collateral to offer phone financing, personal loans, and mobile airtime top-ups; reported as Venezuela's most-used financing app after Cashea. Also operating in the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Bolivia.
startup
AI-powered medical-data platform aimed at connectivity-poor areas of Venezuela; described as the first HealthTech startup from the state of Táchira. Co-founded by Nelifer Rangel.
Táchira, Venezuela
startup
Shared corporate-commuter transport — WiFi-equipped buses ('Wawa') and minibuses ('Wawita') pooling employee-shuttle demand across companies. Operates in Caracas, Maracaibo, and Valencia (Venezuela), plus several Colombian cities. Founded by Juan José Pocaterra and María Fernanda Vera.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2021
startup
B2B payments infrastructure for fintechs, remittance companies, and corporates operating in the Venezuela corridor — settles USD/USDT/USDC transfers to bolívar bank accounts in 10–20 seconds with full traceability. Registered as a Money Services Business with Canada's FINTRAC. Co-founded by Freddy Genatios, Mayer Waich, and Mateo Bermeo Motta; a participant in Bitso Business's stablecoin accelerator, 'The Push.'
startup
Health-tech platform aggregating cancer-patient data to improve care coordination in Latin America. Founded by Luis Santiago and Jose Rafael Santiago Sturup; backed by Village Capital, Start-Up Chile, StartUp Health, and Katapult.
· 2016
startup
Web-based prescription-intelligence and claims-management software for health insurers, detecting irregularities in prescriptions; also runs the free consumer app MatchMyRx. Started in Caracas, later relocated its operating HQ to Miami via a Venture Hive and City of Miami Downtown Development Authority grant.
Miami, Florida, USA · 2012
startup
Data and AI 'decision infrastructure' for banks, pharmaceutical companies, distributors, and clinics across Latin America. Founded by Edi de Kida, who returned to Venezuela to start the company after a decade building data systems abroad; operates from Caracas, Miami, San José, and Bogotá.
startup
Queue-management SaaS for retail and government service points, one of Wayra Venezuela's (Telefónica) first accelerator cohort companies. Founded by Ronald Rodríguez; later piloted with Movistar in Mexico City and adopted by BAC Credomatic in Guatemala.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2012
startup
Social-media campaign scheduling and management platform for agencies, accelerated by Wayra Venezuela (Telefónica) in 2015–2016. Founded by José Enrique Martorano; merged into Colombian martech group FLUVIP in February 2024, with Martorano becoming FLUVIP's CTO.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2015
startup
Marketplace connecting online retailers with independent motorbike couriers for same-day delivery across Caracas. One of Wayra Venezuela's (Telefónica's accelerator) first cohort companies.
Caracas, Venezuela · 2013
fintech
Neobank expanding prepaid and remittance products.
Caracas · 2022 · ~120 people
startup
Smart-city SaaS platform (URBO) and IoT devices (Sinapsis) for urban traffic management, road safety, and public security, operating in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, and Ecuador. Co-founded by Juan José Pocaterra — also a co-founder of La Wawa — and named to Forbes México's 2015 '30 Promesas' list of Latin America's most promising companies.