Experts from Top Global VC Firms Announce Outstanding Startups won at Burning Heroes Startup Awards LATAM

The Burning Heroes StartUp Awards has once again proven to be one of the main events highlighting the hidden gems anong early-stage startups. This year’s awards celebrated entering Latin America with showcasing Preauth, Presto LatAm, and Bionirs taking top honors in their respective categories.

“Latin America’s rapidly growing tech ecosystem and diverse talent pool is becoming increasingly attractive for global venture capital. The region offers untapped markets and a supportive regulatory environment, creating significant opportunities for driving economic growth and addressing societal challenges. At Burning Heroes, we are happy to participate in fostering these ecosystems and facilitating global connections.” – Anna Deynego, Founder of Burning Heroes Founders Association.

The event provided a platform for fostering connections between venture capitalists and high-potential startups. Every participating startup had the chance to gain visibility. Selected top-12 startups got the opportunity to pitch in front of investors from leading VC firms, including Khosla Ventures, Flourish Ventures, Startup Wise Guys and others. The final on-line pitch panel took place on June 4, 2024. Participants competed in three categories: Best Startup, Best Product, and Best Business Model.

Best Startup: Preauth

Preauth was awarded the Best Startup category, recognized for its innovative guarantee management service. Preauth has revolutionized how businesses handle guarantees by utilizing credit card preauthorizations and other assets as collateral. This technology empowers merchants and individuals to retain available credit lines on their customers’ credit cards, helping them manage deferred payment promises or other guarantee needs.

Luis Chau, CEO at Preauth, winner of Burning Heroes Startup Awards LATAM’24

Best Product: Bionirs

The Best Product award went to Bionirs for their pioneering work in early breast cancer detection. Bionirs developed MamoRef, a cost-effective, light-based solution that is both non-invasive and woman-friendly. This innovative product leverages advanced technology to detect breast cancer at an early stage, providing a more accessible and less intimidating option for women. MamoRef has the potential to significantly reduce the number of breast biopsies and to make life-saving medical solutions accessible to a broader population.

.

Pamela Pardini, PhD, CEO at Bioniris, Winner in the ‘Best Product’ Cetegory of Burning Heroes Startup Awards LATAM’24

Best Business Model: Presto LatAm

Presto LatAm won the Best Business Model category for its groundbreaking approach to credit in LatAm countries with low penetration of credit cards. Presto LatAm addresses the financial needs of those who may not have access to traditional banking products. Starting in Bolivia in 2024 Presto became the most issued credit card in the country with 13% monthly growth.

Presto Team, Winners in the ‘Best Business Model’ Cetegory of Burning Heroes Startup Awards LATAM’24

The Startup Awards Latam is part of a global series of pitch events hosted by Burning Heroes, a global non-profit association founded in 2022, is dedicated to supporting early-stage startups, investors, and IT talents. Since its inception, the association has organized 12 events including online startup awards, industry contests, offline pitch competitions, and a conference, spanning the USA, UK, EU, APAC, Africa, and LATAM.

About Author

Do not keep compromising on your favorite tasty meals just to lose a couple of pounds that will inevitably come back once you give up on them. There is now a new way to start losing weight instantly without having to stick to keto-friendly meals. The lifestyle/ health and wellness company, Limitless, created a product that could take away pounds of fat as well as the hassle that usually comes with it. There are already so many diet pills on the market that promise the same results as this product but none of them have been able to match the results of Keto Trim. This new type of product uses effective potential from the keto diet and is able to turn it from a strict carb counting diet to basically the new lazy keto diet.  Usually, if you wanted to reap the benefits of ketosis you would need to maintain the keto diet.

Entering ketosis is the process of changing your body’s metabolic state so that it stops seeking the carbs in your food for energy and starts using stored body fat for energy. In order to convert your body over you must eliminate all carbs from your diet for a number of weeks. The foods that must be avoided include sugar, grains, starches, fruit, beans, legumes, root vegetables, condiments, fats, alcohol, and sugar-free diet foods. If you are asking yourself, “what can I eat on keto?”, well the list of what you can eat is very slim. You spend a lot of time looking for keto dinner recipes, keto restaurants, keto food lists as well as keto desserts, and keto breakfast. This requirement makes the ketosis process much harder which leads to most people giving up the entire diet.

Limitless decided to perform the extensive research necessary in order to create a product that provides such solid results. KetoTrim works by cutting out the keto diet and providing your body with the necessary conditions to enter ketosis. These keto weight loss pills use their unique ingredient, Keto BHB (Beta-hydroxybutyrate), in order to make the ketosis process faster and easier than it could be done with any diet. 

Going through ketosis using these keto BHB capsules starts off by taking two pills a day, thirty minutes before a meal. Throughout the first two months, your body will begin to get used to burning stored fat for energy which is when it will enter the instant fat burn stage. By the third month, it will be burning fat at a much faster rate than ever before which is when you will start to see truly impressive results. By your fourth month, you will already have achieved your dream body and should only be taking the keto diet pills to regulate how much ketosis there is in your body and to keep your appetite under control. There has never been such a reliable and safe product to give anyone that keto boost necessary to shave off the extra pounds. Lots of big media sources like Muscle & Fitness or Men’s Journal have already featured this product for how effective it is for losing weight. 

Having to wreck your brain over what you are going to eat that falls within the parameters of your diet has to be one of the hardest parts of weight loss, but you no longer need to do it. Put your time and effort into a product that will actually get you that dream body that you have been seeking for years. If you are weary in the slightest bit, Limitless provides a complete 100% satisfaction guarantee so that their customers can feel confident in their purchase. Many customers have already shared their inspiring stories telling how they claimed their dream bodies in a couple of weeks.

About Author

In the wake of banning ads for masks on its foundation in March, Facebook will start permitting publicists to advance non-clinical masks beginning Wednesday.

In March, Facebook said it would preclude advertisements for clinical face masks like N95 respirators. It likewise denied covers that take after clinical covers, similar to face covers and bandanas.

The company said this was a push to ensure against tricks, misdirecting clinical cases, clinical gracefully deficiencies, accumulating and expanded costs, rehearses that multiplied across advanced advertisement systems and online stores as individuals attempted to purchase veils to secure against the coronavirus — alongside con artists attempting to benefit off them.

In mid-March, Facebook likewise said it was restricting promotions and trade postings for hand sanitizer, surface sterilizing wipes and Covid-19 test packs. Those things will even now be disallowed from publicizing.

“Many health authorities now advise wearing non-medical masks – and in some places masks are required for activities like taking public transportation or visiting a store – and we’ve seen people and businesses of all sizes working to fill this need,” Rob Leathern, Facebook’s chief of item the board, said in a blog entry Facebook intended to distribute Wednesday.

Facebook said mask advertisements will currently be considered those that are non-clinical evaluation, gave they’re not showcased clinical, wellbeing or counteraction claims. The organization said non-clinical covers incorporate those that are carefully assembled, reusable, made out of family textures or refashioned materials.

The company additionally specified that sponsors would require a past filled with publicizing on Faecbook for in any event four months so as to advance non-clinical masks.

In the previous days of the pandemic, clinical specialists have attempted to caution against healthy individuals purchasing masks so it doesn’t make a hardware lack for clinical laborers as individuals mixed to buy them.

Be that as it may, the direction around veils has changed: The CDC has since suggested wearing material face masks in open settings where other social removing measures are hard to keep up.

The quick spread of COVID-19 made a significant test for online advertisement organizations that have been intensely censured as of late for permitting the spread of falsehood, to a great extent identified with policy driven issues and decisions.

About Author