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19 GESTO FABIANA SALLES Brazil F YO ALEJANDRO LAROSA Argentina Disrupting the status quo in the $4.1B insurance brokerage market in Brazil, Gesto is a new world insurance agent that allows large corporates to offer competitive benefits while controlling costs. Driven by an AI-powered platform, Gesto's platform allows employers to choose the best health schemes for their employees and negotiate better rates. The results are increased employee satisfaction and health costs decreased by up to 25%. With over 3M individuals on the database, Gesto hopes to transform the Brazilian health market, impacting over 10M lives, and increase revenues by over 10x by 2020. Based in Rosario, Argentina, FyO (Futuros y Opciones) is the largest physical marketplace for agricultural goods in the world. FyO provides real-time market information and financial and commercial services to agricultural producers (95% of its clients are farmers). Additionally, FyO's website is the only internet portal in Argentina focused on agribusiness. The site receives over 500,000 hits/month and serves a client-subscriber base of over 60,000 farmers. HEALTHC ARE A SSET NETWORK KYLE GREEN United States GLOBALSHOPEX RAIMUNDO MARTINEZ Chile One of the most surprising reasons for America's crippling healthcare costs is the $765B dollars' worth of unused supplies or "medical surplus" that hospitals throw out every year. Kentucky-based Healthcare Asset Network (HAN) is an asset recovery and alternative sourcing platform that allows healthcare systems to buy and sell high-quality excess medical inventory, supplies, and equipment at competitive rates via its desktop and mobile applications. Operating in the $15.6B U.S. medical surplus market, HAN has grown its customer base to 400 independent facilities and over $15M in asset value within three years. Most recently, HAN partnered with the American Surgery Centre Association (ASCA), which will promote the platform in 2,800 surgery centers across the US. GlobalShopex is a cross border e-commerce solution, which enables small and mid-sized US merchants to accept and ship orders to over 200 countries. GlobalShopex has developed an easy-to-integrate technology which calculates international shipping, duties and taxes at checkout to avoid any surprises upon delivery. More than 300 small and mid-sized merchants in the US currently use the GlobalShopex solution. The company has established partnerships and developed plug-ins with the largest e-commerce platform providers, including Magento, Shopify, Yahoo, Volusion and PrestaShop.