Start-Up Chile

Start-Up Chile is a public business accelerator based in Santiago, Chile, founded in 2010. It aims to attract world-class entrepreneurs to establish their startups in Chile, utilizing the country as a launchpad for global expansion. Recognized as one of the largest and most diverse accelerators worldwide, Start-Up Chile accommodates up to 160 startups annually through two distinct programs: a pre-acceleration initiative for startups with female founders and a seed program for startups with less than three years of development. The accelerator focuses on various sectors, including e-commerce, software, social media, education, clean technology, advertising, applications, and information technology, fostering innovation and entrepreneurship within the region.

Patricia Hansen

Director, Acceleration

Sebastián Díaz

CEO

Past deals in Design

Gohaus

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Gohaus is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance home furnishing and renovation experiences for homeowners. By acting as a virtual decorator, it provides users with customization tools, personalized product recommendations, and moodboard visualizations that reflect real-time stock availability. The platform connects with retailers to ensure that users receive up-to-date information on product availability and purchasing options. Additionally, Gohaus employs a predictive data model that categorizes products into various decorative styles, aligning them with the needs of both customers and partnering companies. This approach not only empowers homeowners to realize their design visions but also enables businesses to reach a broader audience by connecting them with qualified professionals for home improvement projects.

Bhauss

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Most project owners have difficulty finding high quality affordable architects. And most architects have difficulty finding projects and generating income. This means that the demand of projects could be met by the supply of architects, yet they almost never connect. Other players like hardware stores give more value to the process but the disorganization makes it difficult for all the parts to be aligned. Our solution is an open innovation platform with AI for architecture. With AI we help you discover your needs and tastes. You then give specific information about the project and a challenge is launched to architects. Once finished you receive several design ideas. A DL algorithm analyzes the render and gives you a shopping cart with the items to execute the winning design. We use a competition format to give clients several solutions with different perspectives of architectural knowledge. We are creating an ecosystem around the projects of common users to bring together small players such as young architects and industry stores. Our MoodBoard algorithm, doesn't only center on taste but also on needs. Most give curated inspiration, but we go one step back helping you understand what you are looking for and one step further in giving you actual professional solutions applied to your specific project. Bhauss has global potencial, since a good design is important anywhere you live, after all it affects your quality of life.

7 Generation Games

Grant in 2018
7 Generation Games, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Santa Monica, California, specializing in the development and sale of educational video games. The company focuses on creating games that enhance learning in subjects such as multiplication, division, geometry, probability, and fractions. In addition to its primary offerings, 7 Generation Games provides supplemental resources for educators, including movies, PowerPoint presentations, curated historical photos, and other relevant materials that also incorporate Native American culture. Their 7 Gen Blocks platform streamlines the game development process for curriculum publishers, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with creating custom educational games. This innovative platform enables educators to access actionable analytics in near real-time, further enhancing their teaching capabilities and student engagement.

Object Information

Seed Round in 2018
Object Information operates as a platform for object information modeling throughout its life cycle. Starting with conceptualization and design, involving architects, designers and/or engineers with customers or other nontechnical stakeholders. During construction or manufacturing using the same model, ensuring information fidelity. Finishing in maintenance/operation where models are vinculated to sensors data.

imagiCase

Pre Seed Round in 2018
imagiCase allows tangible and expressive coding, built by girls for girls. The platform pairs with the imagiCase devices, a phone case with an embedded LED matrix that can be programmed to display any text or pattern. This way users learn to code through customizing their accessory.

Invitta

Seed Round in 2018
Invitta transforms plastic waste into a high-performance construction material for manufacturing sustainable urban furniture for space implementation adapted to the social environment by involving the community in the process, reconnecting them with their common spaces and fomenting the recycle process. This same furniture with identity is available for the private market.

7 Generation Games

Grant in 2017
7 Generation Games, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Santa Monica, California, specializing in the development and sale of educational video games. The company focuses on creating games that enhance learning in subjects such as multiplication, division, geometry, probability, and fractions. In addition to its primary offerings, 7 Generation Games provides supplemental resources for educators, including movies, PowerPoint presentations, curated historical photos, and other relevant materials that also incorporate Native American culture. Their 7 Gen Blocks platform streamlines the game development process for curriculum publishers, significantly reducing the time and costs associated with creating custom educational games. This innovative platform enables educators to access actionable analytics in near real-time, further enhancing their teaching capabilities and student engagement.

Sentio VR

Grant in 2017
Sentio VR is a leading provider of an immersive cloud-based collaboration platform tailored for the building industry. The company specializes in enabling architects and designers to present their work in virtual reality, facilitating a more engaging and interactive experience for clients. By integrating with popular design software such as Autodesk Revit and SketchUp, Sentio VR allows users to easily upload and share their designs across various devices, including wireless VR headsets. The platform enhances design reviews by enabling stakeholders to experience models at a 1:1 scale and supports real-time collaboration through features like annotations and measurements. Serving thousands of architecture, engineering, and construction firms globally, Sentio VR aims to transform client presentations and project workflows, ultimately improving decision-making and client satisfaction in the design and construction process.

Sentio VR

Seed Round in 2016
Sentio VR is a leading provider of an immersive cloud-based collaboration platform tailored for the building industry. The company specializes in enabling architects and designers to present their work in virtual reality, facilitating a more engaging and interactive experience for clients. By integrating with popular design software such as Autodesk Revit and SketchUp, Sentio VR allows users to easily upload and share their designs across various devices, including wireless VR headsets. The platform enhances design reviews by enabling stakeholders to experience models at a 1:1 scale and supports real-time collaboration through features like annotations and measurements. Serving thousands of architecture, engineering, and construction firms globally, Sentio VR aims to transform client presentations and project workflows, ultimately improving decision-making and client satisfaction in the design and construction process.

Trakto

Seed Round in 2014
Trakto is a pioneering online design platform based in Latin America, specializing in the creation of marketing and sales materials. Its user-friendly software enables individuals and businesses to design a variety of content, including eBooks, business cards, flyers, social media posts, and presentations, with ease. Trakto offers a comprehensive suite of 100% editable templates that feature professional designs, allowing users to customize according to their specific needs or to create original content from scratch. This innovative approach simplifies the design process, making it accessible to both experienced designers and those without design backgrounds, thereby enhancing efficiency and creativity in marketing efforts.

Fleck - The Bigger Picture

Seed Round in 2014
Fleck - The Bigger Picture is a mobile application that offers daily curated inspiration from a diverse global community of artists, designers, and makers. The app is designed to provide users with creative ideas and insights, fostering a connection among individuals interested in art and design. Featured by Apple as a 'Best New App,' Fleck aims to inspire creativity and innovation through its carefully selected content. The app is available for free on iOS devices, enhancing accessibility for its audience.

Disenia

Seed Round in 2014
Disenia is an e-commerce platform focused on providing a curated selection of high-quality design products from Latin America. Aimed at design enthusiasts, the company connects consumers with expert designers through a carefully curated inventory, ensuring that only the best products are featured. Disenia’s unique user experience is designed to facilitate a seamless and simple purchasing process across various devices. By prioritizing both product quality and customer experience, Disenia aspires to become the leading destination for design products in the region, appealing to the tastes of even the most discerning design lovers.

Dextr

Seed Round in 2013
Dextr is a usability-based virtual keyboard for smartphones and tablets. It is targeted at a range of users who form the "mobile-only generation". Dextr is designed to deliver a simpler text input experience across a range of touchscreen apps. Its novel and patent-pending features include an alphabetic layout, buttons designed to map to the size, shape and spacing of a human fingertip, and a range of layouts to suit the full range of text input styles -- from one finger to two thumb to one-handed/five-fingered. Dextr is still currently completing its international alpha testing phase, with a beta launch due in November 2013.

LUMA-iD

Seed Round in 2013
LUMA-iD is a London-based company that specializes in product design and three-dimensional printing services. It offers a range of solutions aimed at prototyping and manufacturing, including technical design, circuit design, and hardware prototyping. Additionally, LUMA-iD provides consultancy in production and design, along with services for intellectual property protection and product certification. By helping businesses navigate the complexities of bringing their products to market, LUMA-iD enables them to safeguard their innovations and distribute their products globally.

My Visual Brief

Seed Round in 2013
My Visual Brief is a web-based tool which facilitates effective communication between designers and their clients during the briefing process. My Visual Brief makes the design process more efficient by eliminating the back-and-forths between a client and a designer. It helps to reduce the time spent on a design project, helps to increase the designer’s profitability and the overall satisfaction of the client.

Slidebean

Grant in 2013
Slidebean, Inc., founded in 2014, operates a web-based platform designed to simplify the process of creating presentations, particularly for startups seeking funding. Based in New York with an additional office in San Jose, Costa Rica, Slidebean offers tools that include pre-filled decks, templates, and fonts, along with AI-driven pitch deck building services. The company's platform has evolved to provide financial modeling, pitch deck design services, and extensive educational resources to help entrepreneurs navigate the fundraising process effectively.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2013
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Pump!

Seed Round in 2013
Lab equipment with cool design, high connectivity & easy-to-share results.

GoPillar

Seed Round in 2013
GoPillar is a web-based platform that connects individuals and businesses seeking architectural ideas with architects worldwide. The company facilitates contests where users can post renovation or construction projects, set monetary rewards, and select winners from submitted designs. This model benefits both homeowners and companies in the real estate market by providing cost-effective solutions for design projects. Additionally, GoPillar offers opportunities for young architects to showcase their talents and gain exposure.

Smart Media Inventions

Seed Round in 2013
Smart Media Inventions is a professional Web Design company providing a full range of Website design, development such as e-Commerce and CMS, SEO and New Media solutions. Smart Media Inventions was founded by Patrick Henze in 2011 and started life recently. Being a relatively small Web Design company, we are contactable, approachable and most importantly we work hard to create the best website solutions that delivers real tangible returns. We are not just a Website Design company; we are people who understand business and work hard at understanding your requirements to create effective solutions to almost any budget. Your website carries your reputation and interacts with your customers 24 hours a day so don't let it destroy your hard-won branding and image. Smart Media Inventions can give you a site that's both visually exciting and deals with the demands of your business without letting anyone down. The world moves so fast, there are always new technologies emerging and it's our job to harness them and make them work for you. We help you to move to new horizons and new markets, to secure new online customers and to have a professional image where it matters - in front of a worldwide audience.

Assmbly

Seed Round in 2013
Assembly is a furniture company that specializes in creating affordable, personalized pieces designed to reflect individual tastes and unique interests. They offer ready-to-assemble products crafted through a combination of digital technology and skilled craftsmanship, allowing customers to acquire custom furniture at accessible prices.

Ynnovable Design

Seed Round in 2013
Ynnovable Design edits with his brand industrial design products of designers all around the world. How does it work? Through talent searching and selection.Development and optimization of products and processes •Outsourcing of manufacturing, controlling quality and the production process. •Production and marketing businesses through key retailers. movable Design edits with his brand industrial design products of designers all around the world.

Americanflat

Seed Round in 2013
Americanflat is an online art gallery that specializes in providing a curated selection of museum-quality wall art at accessible prices. The company focuses on art lovers rather than art investors, offering a diverse range of collections designed to enhance home decor. With a global reach, Americanflat sells artworks to customers across five continents and benefits from extensive printing and manufacturing capabilities through a network of fulfillment partners. This enables the company to deliver curated wall art tailored to various lifestyles, making it a suitable choice for those looking to beautify their living spaces.

JuicyCanvas

Seed Round in 2012
JC is a Print-On-Demand Marketplace powered by Mass Customization & Co-Creation. It is the easiest way to customize and purchase your own unique artworks on canvas, framed prints, t-shirts, wall peels, bags, iphone cases, pillows, and more! We work with trending global artists to license their artwork, and then use our patent-pending technology to convert it into super-easy-to-modify parts. Customers can customize the art to fulfill their personal tastes, print them on plethora of products, as well as share and *sell their remixes to their networks.

t-Art

Seed Round in 2012
T-Art S.A. is an online platform established in 2012 and based in Italy, focused on the Latin American market. The company provides a space for graphic designers, creative artists, and photographers to create and showcase unique t-shirt collections. T-Art manages the entire process, including production, printing, and distribution, ensuring that original designs reach consumers across the region. By connecting talented creators with a broader audience, T-Art aims to foster creativity and innovation in the apparel industry.

Worksurfers

Seed Round in 2012
Worksurfers is an online platform and social network that enables local designers to connect with startups needing their design skills. It provides this services for local designers who look for short-term freelance projects. Worksurfers was based in San Francisco, California, of United States.

Awesome Maps

Seed Round in 2012
Awesome Maps specializes in creating illustrated and themed world maps that highlight various aspects of geography and culture. The company offers a diverse range of map themes, including bucket list maps, surf trip maps, kids maps, west coast maps, snow trip maps, and football maps, as well as blank maps for personal customization. By focusing on visual appeal and thematic representation, Awesome Maps provides users with unique and engaging ways to explore and appreciate the world around them.

Sobresalen

Seed Round in 2012
Sobresalen is a website design company that focuses on delivering high-quality web design services in Latin America. The company aims to connect clients with talented local designers, allowing users to browse selected portfolios and choose their preferred designer to initiate projects. Sobresalen emphasizes the importance of outstanding design as a crucial aspect of business success, ensuring that its offerings align with the latest global trends in web design and marketing. Through its platform, Sobresalen facilitates a streamlined process for clients to access creative expertise, fostering collaboration between businesses and skilled designers.

FormaFina

Seed Round in 2012
FormaFina is an online marketplace for US-based premium design and home decor brands to expand internationally. Access to new markets with strong demand with partner who will take care of exportation and local sales and fulfillment. Willing to give exclusivity and discounts on wholesale prices. Discovery of aspirational, premium, and innovative design products that cannot be found in the local market. Willing to pay a premium. FormaFina was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

MiArch

Seed Round in 2012
MiArch is an online marketplace for architecture and interior design that connects individuals with small design needs (e.g. extra bedroom, home improvements, or wheelchair accessibility) to freelance designers who can solve these needs affordably. Clients select designers using a simple online design generating competition that results in crowd-sourced designs.

Pllop.it

Seed Round in 2012
Pllop.it is a company that specializes in providing an online platform for creating and hosting visually engaging mini-sites. The service allows users to easily combine photos, text, and media to design interactive full-screen displays, making it simple for clients to promote their products and content. Pllop.it aims to streamline the process of translating ideas into digital formats, ensuring that the experience is enjoyable and efficient. The name "Pllop" is inspired by the sound of a pebble dropping into water, symbolizing the simplicity and ease of use the company seeks to embody in its offerings.

Egodeus

Seed Round in 2012
Egodeus is an online brand specializing in original prints created by Uruguayan artists. The company offers a diverse range of clothing designs, featuring over 500 unique prints that cater to various tastes and preferences. By focusing on individuality, Egodeus allows customers to express themselves through their clothing choices, whether they align with current fashion trends or represent personal style. The brand aims to provide convenient access to distinctive apparel at competitive prices, ensuring that consumers can find garments that resonate with their identity.

TuCreaz.com Application

Seed Round in 2012
TuCreaz.com is an online platform that enables designers, artists, and creators to establish virtual stores to showcase and sell their handmade products. Users can easily sign up to create a store, upload their creations, and promote them to a wider audience. The platform not only serves as a marketplace for sellers but also allows buyers to explore various categories, seek inspiration, and discover unique items for personal use or gifting. Additionally, users can interact with one another, set product preferences, and communicate with their favorite designers for custom orders, fostering a community centered around creativity and craftsmanship.

DecoSnap

Grant in 2012
Decosnap.com is a private and exlusive online commuity where design lovers can check&buy the latest trends and find an assorted curated selection of products from top-designers. Decosnap improves the overall home-decor experience providing a unique platform where they can get inspirared, and share their inspiration and opinions with other renowned colleagues from the decor&design community. Designers and brands are hand-picked by our curators and products are selected in order to maintain a careful aesthetic. We provide tools that allow clients to save products to their projects and share them with friends, clients or colleagues. For end users we offer personalized services such as online decor advice, personal shoppers and private interviews with top designers. Photographed “Atmospheres” showing Decosnap’s products serve as inspiration to our visitors.

ZBoard

Seed Round in 2012
ZBoard is made up of mechanical engineers with a passion for skateboarding, snowboarding, and surfing. They come from backgrounds in Robotics and Product Design and are trained in a wide variety of disciplines including CAD, CNC Machining, Computer Programming, and Electrical Engineering. The idea for the ZBoard came to us while brainstorming for their senior project at the University of Southern California. Tired of bikes getting stolen and having to push skateboards up hills and over Los Angeles’ notoriously uneven streets, their goal was clear: design a device that is faster and easier to ride than a skateboard, and more fun and portable than a bike.

Andean Designs

Seed Round in 2012
Transforming Cultural Ethos for Modern Living Our aim is design, produce and sell designer ceramics and other craft based items based on Andean Indigenous culture. We are primarily focusing on ergonomic designs, development & usage local raw materials and incorporating Andean symbols / patterns.

DNART LIMITADA

Seed Round in 2012
DNArt is a new trend in design, using DNA from individuals to sophisticated paintings. Shaping art and modernity. Custom contemporary science and technology. Unique in Chile for Latin America.

Sprout Route

Seed Round in 2012
Sprout Route designs and develops websites. It was founded in 2011 and is based in New York, United States.

Suede Lane

Seed Round in 2012
Suede Lane is an online marketplace focused on offering original designs in fine art, fashion, and interior decor from emerging artists and designers around the globe. The company leverages both human and artificial intelligence to curate a diverse selection of unique goods, making it easier for customers to discover and purchase items that resonate with their personal taste. Suede Lane aims to simplify the buying process by providing an intuitive interface that eliminates the need for customers to have prior knowledge of art or design terminology. Additionally, the company enhances the shopping experience by offering quarterly delivery of curated products directly to customers' doorsteps, allowing them to stylishly personalize their living spaces.

KeyEffx

Seed Round in 2011
KeyEffx is a study of three d animation, visual effects and motion graphcs We are always in search of audiovisual excellence. We have teams of motion capture (MOCAP) to significantly increase the efficiency in both time and quality in character animation are located in Santiago de Chile KeyEffx is a 3d animation, visual effects and motion graphics studio we are always looking for visual excellence. We POSSESS equipment motion capture (MOCAP) to Significantly Increase Both efficiency in time and quality in our character animation pipeline. We are located in Santiago, Chile.

Decurate

Seed Round in 2011
Decurate is a publishing company based in Santiago, founded in 2011 by Jordan Sitkin and Polo Valdovinos. It produces a weekly magazine that focuses on design, offering valuable content that includes ideas and processes related to various design fields. The magazine serves as a platform to connect buyers with designers, featuring stories about professionals who create a range of hospitality design products such as accessories, casegoods, and seating. In addition to its editorial content, Decurate links articles to an online catalog that provides detailed specifications for the featured items, facilitating communication between buyers and designers or procurement agents for product purchases.

LEAFER

Seed Round in 2011
Claan is a creative studio that envisions, designs and builds digital products and applied communication. Claan designs user experience and interfaces for physical and digital spaces: Creates environmental and workspace design, orientation systems and usability concepts for architecture and public spaces. Turns ideas into tangible interfaces, objects, web and mobile apps in a user-centered approach for brands and for themselves. Claan's team loves new challenges and approaches every project in a distinct and tailored way. As visual storytellers, designers, information architects and developers they excel in their field of expertise. Clara Vieira e Andreas Eberharter founded Claan in 2008. The co-founders lived and worked in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Vienna, Austria and Santiago of Chile. The acquired experience is the foundation of global mindset and a strong internationalisation (Europe, USA, South America). Claan works for multinational corporations, startups, institutional and artistic organisations of any kind and size.
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