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35 S K Y S P E C S DANNY ELLIS Smart Cities US, LatAm, Europe Raising $16M The wind industry spent $28B on operations and maintenance (O&M) in 2018. SkySpecs is transforming the wind energy industry through digitization, automation, and AI-based repair planning and analysis. SkySpecs optimizes the O&M of wind turbines with autonomous drones and a custom data management, analysis, and predictive planning software called Horizon. SkySpecs has inspected over 13,000 wind turbines in 9 countries, both onshore and offshore, with plans of an additional 16,000 in 2019. A 15-minute automated inspection can save months of downtime and millions in repairs. S I S N O V A PAULINO DECANINI Healthcare LatAm Raising $15M SisNova is a health insurance company focused on prevention and increasing access to insurance by offering affordable policies and programs for individuals, families, and enterprises. SisNova provides comprehensive medical coverage, including preventive and primary care, consultations, and medical care of major economic impact. SisNova's provider network includes 5,750 doctors, 1,400 laboratories, 6,350 pharmacies, and 530 clinics and hospitals. The business has been growing at triple digit rates for the past three years in a row. S U N C U LT U R E SAMIR IBRAHIM Agriculture Africa Raising $13M SunCulture develops and commercializes life-changing technology that solves the biggest daily challenges for the world's 570M smallholder farming households. Sunculture was the first company to commercialize solar irrigation in Africa and is the only company that bundles technology, services, and financing for smallholder farmers in the region. SunCulture combines its smart solar-powered irrigation technology with an IoT platform, wireless sensors, and advance machine learning algorithms. As a result, SunCulture is able to predict trends and optimize perfomance in real-time and offer affordable, easy-to-understand precision farming tools that were previously unimaginable for a smallholder farmer. T O R R E ALEXANDER TORRENEGRA Enterprise Software US, LatAm, Europe, MENA, Asia, Africa Raising $40M The $1.2T recruiting and staffing industry is ripe for disruption and centralization. Torre is building the global platform that will enable everyone to find fulfilling professional opportunities easily.