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25 PA R A Ş ÜT SEAN YU Turkey - Fintech M US E M E NT ALESSANDRO PETAZZI Italy - Commerce & Retail PR I CI N G COM PA SS PATRICIO MANSILLA Chile - Enterprise Software & Services PL ATZ I JOHN FREDDY VEGA Colombia - Education Paraşüt is a Software-as-a-Service accounting solution for Turkish small businesses, similar to Xero/QuickBooks Online. The Turkish government has mandated a switch to electronic invoicing and this is the first cloud solution that address the needs of 3 million small businesses and enables them to be compliant with the government mandates. All of the incumbents are old-school, on-premise software packages focused on medium-sized companies. Business owners use Parasut to understand and manage their businesses, as well as to send invoices, track expenses, and collect payments. Parasut was launched in June 2014 and has 8k paying subscribers today. Consumers today are more informed than ever, but too much information can be overwhelming, especially when traveling in a foreign country. When searching for in-destination activities, travelers can easily find the "top 10 things to do in Rome," but discovering unique experiences catered to their individual taste requires hours of sorting through travel sites, blogs, ads, and more. To reduce this search to a matter of minutes, Musement has developed a smart recommendation engine – powered by machine learning – that creates personalized itineraries and destination content based on the user's interests and behavior, helping travelers discover relevant experiences they would not have found on their own. The company is currently serving a global customer base from 100 countries, offering activities in 1,000+ cities, 76 countries, and 8 languages. PricingCompass helps retailers and brands make faster and smarter pricing decisions by providing them with transparent reports on competitor's pricing, product mix, and product availability. Using propietary web crawlers, PricingCompass tracks over 40 million products from 200+ websites and gives clients the tools to effectively position themselves in a highly competitive landscape. Platzi is a leading tech-focused educational platform with a strong user base among Spanish speakers and a growing presence in English. Its professional courses are taught by industry leaders in a variety of areas including web and app development, marketing, design, and business development. Contrary to other online offerings, Platzi's pedagogy focuses on student engagement and interaction. Its classes are livestreamed, allowing for real-time collaboration between students and teachers (a recorded version is also available later on). Students can enhance their learning by participating in team projects and online discussion forums. As a result, completion rates average over 70%, as opposed to single digits in traditional MOOCs. A year after taking Platzi courses, 80% of students get a better job and 10% start their own company.

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