Aware is an app that provides situational awareness for women. The B2C app gives women who enjoy going out, information about the safety of a place or area and the people at that location. The information is based on the experiences shared by other users. The app alerts users when they enter an unsafe area, recommends protective measures, offers a live virtual companion, and prompts them to share information about people and places. Users can also upload photos to identify potentially dangerous people.

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Barras produces and markets a premium soap made with natural ingredients only. The B2C e-commerce startup created a formula for soap that combines five vegetable oils with natural minerals and skin-safe scents. Unlike other soaps, Barras’ soap does not irritate the skin nor trigger allergies, and it fits into a normal skincare routine.

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Cuela connects coffee growers with coffee-loving consumers. The B2C e-commerce startup promotes local specialty coffee growers and roasters, positions Puerto Rican coffee among the finest in the world, and enables trade between the brands and coffee lovers living on the island and abroad. Through its subscription model and e-commerce platform, Cuela has become the main distribution channel for most local specialty coffee growers whose brands are not for sale in supermarkets or online stores.

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Door It Yourself set out to solve three problems: the number of people, amount of time, and money that it takes to install a door. The B2B/ B2C startup designed a door hinge that allows a person—homeowner, handyman, contractor, interior decorator, anyone—to install a door by themselves, without requiring help. The hinge design makes it possible for users to install a door in less time than it would take them to install it using a standard hinge but at a fraction of the cost.

Guariké is empowering farmers to transform agriculture through technology. The B2B startup’s product, Yukeio, is a farm management information system comprising five software applications that help users perform all management functions in one place. Farmers and ranchers often struggle to manage their daily operations and administrative tasks, which makes it more difficult for them to manage their production and harvest their crops on time. Yukeio enhances traceability and improves operations.

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GAMA is using the power of tech to enhance education delivery to children with special needs at home, schools, and clinics. Telecubes, the B2C/ B2B startup’s audio-visual software platform, enables multiple teams to manage, report, analyze and share student progress with a minimal investment. Telecubes features individualized programs, personalized behavioral data collection, synchronization with video timeline for accurate visual feedback, video on demand, and real-time reports, tags, and streaming.

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Guilty is a B2C online clothing rental and resale platform. The platform targets working women who often feel that they have “nothing to wear” even with a closet full of clothes. Social media exposure and a more casual dress code at work have made it necessary for women to add variety to their wardrobes. Buying new clothes to be worn a handful of times is too expensive. With Guilty, women can rent clothes, use them and return them—and also buy them—thus continuously refreshing their wardrobes.

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Inmigración Virtual provides accessible online immigration services for Hispanics. Traditional law practices charge high legal fees to cover overhead and other expenses. Few have websites in Spanish, and most immigration forms are in English. Usually, an attorney does not get involved with clients until the end of the process. To tackle these and other issues, this B2C startup developed a virtual practice headed by attorneys who provide legal and immigration services tailored to Hispanic immigrants.

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Libros787 is an online bookstore that sells books mostly written by Puerto Rican authors. Typically, the buyers are Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in the US. These readers lack choices when it comes to buying books from companies that represent Hispanics and understand their culture. This B2C startup wants to become the top source of Spanish-language books for sale and offer Puerto Rican and other Hispanic authors a platform that helps them sell their books to buyers anywhere in the world.

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This B2B startup offers software designed to increase employee engagement, inclusion, and productivity. Murmuratto comprises idea management software, organizational culture consulting services, and project management. It aligns idea gathering efforts with company vision, goals, and needs through a local network or web-based software accessible through Wi-Fi-enabled devices, allowing employees to submit ideas in seconds. Murmuratto replaces ineffective archaic suggestion boxes and spreadsheets.

Omics Global Solutions is tackling diabetes kidney disease with prevention. The B2B startup has developed an ELISA test, INNOVATIO ND2, that identifies the risk of developing diabetic nephropathy (DN) in Type 2 diabetes patients up to four years in advance. It is the first diagnostic and prognostic test for this condition in the world. Currently, 80% of DN patients are diagnosed at stage V- extremely late. Omics is marketing the test primarily to endocrinologists, clinical labs, and diabetic patients.

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Piezas Rush provides appliance parts and services via an e-commerce platform, targeting consumers and businesses equally. Piezas Rush helps homeowners extend the life of their appliances by giving them access to a quick and reliable way to find repair parts and services, accessories, and appliance cleaners. The only of its kind in Puerto Rico, the platform connects distributors, technicians, and homeowners and offers 24-hour delivery or same-day pickup as well as installation by vetted technicians.

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B2C startup Seed Law provides an educational online platform for the Latin music industry. Music entrepreneurs, producers, and independent artists often lack the knowledge required to navigate the industry successfully. They do not fully understand the music business, contracts, copyright law, music royalties, and other aspects of the industry. As a result, millions of dollars in royalties go unclaimed. Seed Law’s platform makes it possible for users to launch, grow and protect their music business.

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Tasty Smart produces 100%-vegan baked goods that are as indulgent as they are healthy. The B2C/ B2B startup is tackling a common problem: the lack of tasty snacks available to consumers seeking healthier options. People tend to believe that if something tastes good, then it’s bad for you, and if it tastes bad, then it must be good for you. With its plant-based, gluten-free products, Tasty Smart wants to prove that you can have the best of both worlds: a smart snack that is both tasty and healthy.

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Countless companies ignore valuable information or spend large sums of money for advice that’s answerable by their own data. Meanwhile, many marketers lack data insights to make informed decisions beyond their intuition. To address these issues, ABEXUS developed two marketing analytics products. Profile Finder takes user-provided profiles and finds similar profiles throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Profile Generator uses clients’ data to build detailed customer profiles for each datapoint provided.

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Beauty 911 was designed for professional women and others who don’t have time to spend hours in a beauty salon waiting to receive a basic service. It’s an online platform that allows users to search providers in the area and book appointments (up to two hours before) to receive the services they need at home, the office or the location of an event. Beauty 911’s marketplace comprises numerous providers that specialize in a variety of services, such as hair styling, makeup, manicures and pedicures.

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Findit is an online platform that allows real estate professionals and homeowners to post unlimited property listings on its website at no cost and that automatically matches the properties with potential buyers or renters. Findit’s competitors usually charge listing fees, limit the number of listings and require users to have a real estate license. Findit also offers a premium plan for a monthly subscription that includes access to property market value data, property rankings and professional profile.

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Poor lifestyle choices and habits are driving healthcare costs up by about 8% a year, urging employers and healthcare plans to invest more than $50 billion annually in wellness programs designed to lower the health risk of employees and increase retention. Fitverz is a platform that connects employees with wellness providers and tracks their habits. Every activity is tracked, providing companies with utilization data for business intelligence and profiling data for better retention strategies

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Kiwi Financial helps underbanked Hispanics and those with checking accounts but little or no credit to build credit. These customers usually rely on predatory lenders to cover recurring and unexpected expenses. The company offers affordable short-term unsecured installment loans and credit builder loans that enable users to save and build credit. Unlike traditional financial institutions, Kiwi Financial can approve customers using alternative data without relying on traditional credit scores.

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LICK is a direct-to-consumer startup that designs and sells environmentally friendly pet-related products such as pet apparel, accessories and wellness products. The business is founded on a data-driven hybrid ecommerce structure that relies primarily on an online infrastructure while leveraging partnerships and a lean pop-up model to deliver experiences that highlight the brand. Its direct-to-consumer model helps it control distribution, connect with consumers and quickly incorporate product feedback.

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PsychConnection is a tech company focused on providing easy-to-use affordable technological solutions for clinical practice. The company developed Mente Serena, a mental health web-based app, one-stop-shop solution that enables mental health professionals to update their practice and take care of their patients while saving in overhead and administrative costs. Unlike most of its competitors, PsychConnection’s business model is focused on the therapist as the customer rather than the patient.

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Sirena Patterns merges fashion and technology to create a platform that helps fashionistas and entrepreneurs build a solid fashion business regardless of their location or fashion education. The company sells printed and digital patterns, sewing notions, fabric and sewing kits and offers online courses on a variety of fashion and sewing topics. Sirena Patterns is the only bilingual company on the island that provides patterns in PDF and printed formats, and that offers online courses and free tutorials.

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Uva! is a delivery company that connects customers to small- and medium-sized merchants. Users can order food, groceries and other retail products through the Uva! mobile app or website and have them delivered easily to their location in an average time of 45 minutes. The company also provides a new sales channel for merchants that they can use to expand their reach and digital footprint. Uva Group has developed a second product called Uva Fleet that can connect any sales process to Uva’s fleet.

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Through a customer discovery and market study process, WATRIC Energy Resources discovered three main reasons why houseplants die: underwatering, overwatering and lack of care. Most solutions to this problem focus on water reserves that require users to remember to refill the reserves and mobile apps that send notifications that users regularly ignore. WATRIC created an automatic watering planter using condensation technology that turns moisture in the air into liquid water to maintain plants hydrated.

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BookSloth is building a platform designed to enhance reading and facilitate book discovery and connections between like-minded book lovers. Users can discover new books, customize their shelves, compare and recommend books to other readers, follow users and join book clubs. Publishers can target their ads and track campaign performance. BookSloth can work with creators in all the stages of book publishing, from authors and publishers to reviewers and bloggers.

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CINCO is quality management software designed for the life sciences industry. The web-based software uses Quality Risk Management to assess, organize, analyze and trace quality information on specific risks related to patients and drug products. It provides paperless traceability of every critical-to-quality aspect of a drug or medical device to enable transparent quality decisions at every moment. It also provides data visualization and reports to support audits from regulatory agencies.

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FiberWolf performs security assessments and provides managed security services such as monitoring, incident response, training, firewall management and cyber security intelligence. It specializes in MSSP, UNIX Systems, cyber security, high-performance and availability systems. and cloud disaster recovery. The company plans to develop a product (Deepmind) that could input all threat intelligence from customers and perform actions based on this intelligence.

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Insu Health Design provides a solution to bio-medicine storage in times of disaster, power outage and travel. Insu Portable is a battery-powered cooling system that maintains bio-medicines at required temperatures for three to five days, potentially weeks, without relying on electricity. It uses strong insulation properties and features an interchangeable and rechargeable battery with a USB port for multiple charging options (car outlet, wall outlet, small solar panel).

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Local Guest is a women-powered startup that offers authentic sustainable tourism experiences, product development and marketing services to key tourism stakeholders. Local Guest works closely with local communities and entrepreneurs to build a new tourism ecosystem based on sustainable development practices. Its marketing services help connect tourism experience providers with travelers seeking transformational experiences.

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Momentum Creative Lab created Gardien, a system to alert caregivers when a child has been left in a vehicle. The system uses cutting-edge technology to cover almost every scenario that could lead to such an unwanted event. The company’s latest product, Gardien Daycare, will be re-launched with new features such as a mobile app for parents and a new administrative web console that facilitates the recording and sharing of day-to-day activities.

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Pratian’s AgroBeads provide slow-release technology that reduces the frequency of irrigation to as low as once a month, helping growers reduce labor costs and avoid high capital investment in infrastructure. The slow-release mechanism enables growers to maximize fertilizer efficiency while reducing water consumption in irrigation. AgroBeads has shown potential to provide higher yield or better quality of agricultural products.

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Raincoat provides natural disaster insurance policies for home, business or potential loss of income that pay instantly after a loss by automating the pricing, triggering and payout processes. Instead of relying on an adjustment process, which can take years and result in no payout, Raincoat applies data science and numerical modeling to pay based on modeled losses. Customers get paid within 24 hours of an event without having to file a claim or deal with claims adjusters.

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Skootel provides scooters that users can unlock and rent using their smartphones. The vehicles are dockless—not limited to pick-up and drop-off stations. Every scooter has a built-in GPS, active LTE connection allowing Skootel to track where and how it’s used. Users end their rides by taking photos of the scooters to show where they parked them. The scooters are inspected, charged and maintained at night and placed at strategic locations based on rider traffic and demand.

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Synchrolog is a SaaS that monitors errors in web applications by recording user sessions on web browsers, web server logs and detailed error information. Its goal is to increase precision and reduce the amount of time and resources necessary to find, understand and fix errors. Synchrolog provides information that allows developers to replay the session that triggered errors and figure out what happened before, during and after the error.

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