At Dalus Capital, we have spent years evaluating technology across Latin America, and what we are seeing with AI lately has us very excited. We are looking at the start of a real wave of adoption for businesses across many sectors and stages. Week after week, we analyze dozens of startups in the region using AI across completely different use cases to solve massive, structural problems and deliver tangible productivity gains for businesses.

We are convinced of the disruptive role that AI will play in Latin America. This is not just about copying a global trend, but about applying this amazing technology to skip developmental stages and historical inefficiencies in our region. That is why we are actively backing some of the best teams in the region with both capital and our experience.

I want to share our five most recent AI investments:

• Satellites on Fire: This investment aligns perfectly with our Climate Innovation theme, which is one of the three core investment pillars we focus on at Dalus. The Argentinian startup uses AI combined with ground cameras (where available) and satellite imagery updated every five minutes to provide real-time, early detection of forest fires, even beating NASA’s detection times. With climate change demanding immediate action, their technology acts as a critical tool to mitigate environmental disasters for forestry companies, carbon projects, and governments alike. SoF was co-founded and is led by Franco Rodríguez, an amazing and very young entrepreneur.
• Handle: This platform takes back-office automation to a new level. Handle uses autonomous AI agents to order, reconcile, and process complex administrative tasks like invoicing, starting with the insurance brokerage sector before expanding into logistics and real estate. A key factor here is the leadership. Handle is led by serial entrepreneurs, including Mexican founder Poncho de los Ríos, who previously co-founded the logistics unicorn Nowports. Serial founders are becoming much more common at this stage of the Latin American startup ecosystem.
• Pulpos: Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Latin America have operated with obsolete tools or paper workflows for decades. Pulpos is changing this by bringing AI-reinforced financial management and point-of-sale tools to SMBs. Pulpos’ focus has been on creating a conversational ERP with the easiest user experience for these business owners. Just like Handle, Pulpos is backed by a team of serial entrepreneurs (Franco Silvetti, Frank Martin, and Lucas Cortés) who know exactly what it takes to scale a business in the region.
• Qomplement: Moving data by hand is a massive, expensive brake on corporate growth in Latin America. Qomplement fixes this by deploying AI agents that process documents, emails, and spreadsheets, completely eliminating manual work and automatically updating enterprise systems. The startup was co-founded by Kerim Taray and Andrés Garza, and the startup is part of the Spring 2026 cohort of Y Combinator (YC), probably the most famous and best accelerator in the world.
• metaBIX: Disease outbreaks and microbiological contamination in the agricultural and food production industries cause massive, systemic losses every year. The Uruguayan deep-tech startup metaBIX Biotech is solving this by building an intelligent bio-surveillance platform. By combining non-invasive environmental monitoring with predictive AI, they analyze airborne samples to provide early warnings for biological risks before an outbreak can even start. Co-founded and led by Laura Macció, they are transforming bio-security from a reactive struggle into a data-driven, preventive strategy.

The common denominator across these investments is not just the use of advanced algorithms, but the high caliber of the founders executing these visions.

The opportunity for AI disruption in Latam is just getting started. If you are building an AI startup that solves real-world problems in the region, reach out to us at Dalus Capital. We want to hear from you.