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26 ENTREPRENEURS A LT O JORGE NAZER | JORGE WELCH Smart Cities LatAm Raising $10M Geo Research by Alto is the leading company in location intelligence and predictive analytics in Latin America. Geo provides a platform where customers can choose any location to obtain geointelligence data in real-time. Their clients span many industries; from retailers using population and mobility data to drive decisions on where to locate a storefront, to Utilities companies combining data on water rights with data on electric easements to inform territorial planning. Geo serves more than 300 customers, including Walmart, Starbucks, Apple, and Adidas, with profitability since day one. Geo is raising to implement an aggressive internationalization strategy and consolidate the Geo-Intelligence market as well as to create new innovative products. A M B A R BRUNO BALBINOT Smart Cities LatAm Raising $50M Ambar is aiming to solve the affordable housing crisis in Brazil by designing prefabricated and modular housing solutions, which greatly reduce the cost, resources, and labor typically associated with construction. Ambar has delivered 120K housing units to date. The company has been growing 100% YoY since 2013, and is backed by e.bricks and TPG Art. A R A B I A W E AT H E R EHAB AL-SHURAFA Enterprise Software MENA Raising $10M ArabiaWeather is the leading provider of weather forecasting and decision support products and services in the MENA region. In addition to keeping its 70M daily users informed, the company offers weather decision-support solutions to businesses in media, air travel, insurance, oil and gas, agriculture, retail, and other sectors that are affected by weather. These sophisticated decision-support solutions help businesses reduce costs, enhance safety, and drive efficiencies in their operations. Enterprise clients include Al Jazeera, Abu Dhabi Airports Company, Air Arabia, Abu Dhabi TV, Qatar Airways, Uber, Samsung MENA, and Riyadh Municipality, amongst others. ArabiaWeather is backed by Silicon Badia, Jabbar Internet Group, Dash Ventures and Wamda Capital.