Risk, compliance, fraud, sales, marketing and automotive were the areas of the companies chosen to receive mentoring and training
Neoway, the largest Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence company in Latin America, and B3, the Brazilian stock exchange, announce the nine startups selected for the first class of Smart. Those chosen to participate in the business booster program aimed at startups were DealerSites and Autoforce, from the automotive market; Minds Digital, Data Rudder and VAAS from the fraud industry; Velotax, Gofind sales and marketing; and Perinity and Kronoos, which work with risk and compliance.
“The chosen startups have a validated business model and have already reached a maturity level conducive to being scaled and that is what we will do. Our goal is to find companies that are in line with the universe of Neoway and B3 so that they can possibly receive a contribution and create offers in partnership with us”, highlights Guilherme Mendonça, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Neoway. The selected businesses will now undergo a process that involves mentoring, training, exchange of experiences, infrastructure and networking.
ACE Cortex was responsible for developing the methodology and operationalized the entire selection process of the nine winning startups among the 200 entries from all regions of Brazil. The program will feature mentoring from Neoway, B3 and partner executives, access to more than 700 B2B customers, Google Cloud credits, use of offices in São Paulo or Florianópolis, among other exclusive benefits.
“The goal is to foster the technology ecosystem, leveraging innovative companies. Strategically, this edition will have companies that showed more synergy with the sectors in which we operate. One of the reasons is because, at the end of the program, the participants, in addition to all the benefits, may be contemplated with investment or even be acquired, both by Neoway and by L4”, comments Pedro Meduna, co-founder of L4 Venture Builder, a investment capitalized by B3 to select projects that will have a shareholding in the stock exchange.
Smart is an initiative equity free, that is, a percentage of the company is not required for its participation. For more information about mentors, mentees and the opening of registrations for the next batch, visit www.smartpotencializadora.com.br
