Where LatAm’s most ambitious founders start.
We back fintech and applied AI founders from day zero, with the community, the program and a first check for the best of the Pygma Universe. Our founders go on to exits and Y Combinator. You're next.
We backed them before anyone else.
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Acquired by Exodus ↗
YC F26
YC S26
Latitud
BloqueThe Residency
Orbits
Techstars
Orange DAO
Four ways into
the Pygma Universe.
Pick the door that fits where you are today. You can always come in through another one later.
Pre-seed · SeedJoin the cohort
Six weeks of hands-on building with operators and investors, in the fintech or applied AI track.
SeedTailored program
Already raising your seed? We build the program around your round, GTM and US expansion.
CapitalGet our first check
We want to be your first institutional check. Pygma Universe founders come first, and new teams are welcome.
EcosystemPartner with Pygma
Investors, corporates and service providers: meet the most ambitious founders in LatAm before anyone else does.
How we work
Your first institutional partner. Not your last.
- 01
Add value first
We co-build before any check: unit economics, positioning, ICP, pipeline and US entry.
- 02
Skin in the game
1% program equity means we're accountable for your outcome, not for running a curriculum.
- 03
Get institutional funding
Deck, data room and warm intros to the investors who actually lead fintech and AI rounds.
- ✦
We back Fintech
Stablecoins & cross-border railsEmbedded finance & B2B paymentsCredit infrastructureInsurtech, wealth & compliance - ✦
We back Applied AI
Vertical agents for real workflowsAI-native financial servicesSMB operations automationProprietary data moats
Perks
$220K+
in perks for Pygma founders.
Building in AI?
Up to $370K
in credits, banking and tools.
Google CloudCloud credits
AWS ActivateCloud credits
BlinkaGlobal banking
HSBC Innovation BankingBanking
BrexCards & spend
J.P. MorganBanking
CartaCap table
Davalos MichelLegal · LatAm
MOFOLegal · US
CooleyLegal · US
MiroCollaboration
TallyForms
NotionWorkspace
DeelPayroll & HR
MetalFundraising
StripePayments
Global Founders Program · with Manifest
Built for founders going global.
Together with Manifest, we give founders with a global vision hands-on guidance to build in the U.S.: visas, banking and relocation, plus a community of founders who've already made the move.
In partnership with
↗Visa guidance
Navigate U.S. visa options with Manifest, our immigration partner for founders.
Banking support
Open U.S. accounts and get set up with partners like Blinka, Mercury, Brex and J.P. Morgan.
Landing in the U.S.
Relocation recommendations, warm intros and a home base in our New York and San Francisco communities.
Pygma founders can come from anywhere:
Mexico Colombia Brazil Argentina Chile Peru Ecuador Uruguay Costa Rica Panama Guatemala Dominican Republic Venezuela Bolivia Paraguay El Salvador Honduras Puerto Rico Spain United States and anywhere else with a global vision.
Community
It's not a network. It's a vibe.
We've hosted 200+ events: founder dinners, investor nights, demo weeks and Latino Tech Week. It's where deals start, co-founders meet and the next round gets introduced.
Inside the community
200+ nights like these, and counting.
“Pygma's most valuable asset is the whole network: the other founders, the mentors, all of it.”
“El activo más valioso de Pygma es la red en forma integral: los otros founders, los mentores y todo lo demás.”
Our moat
We see founders first.
Our edge is our data: thousands of founders, every startup that has come through our events and applications, and nine cohorts of results. No outside fund has this map of LatAm fintech and AI.
8K
founders & operators in the community
200+
events hosted across 4+ cities
172
startups accelerated, 148 still active
$39.3M
raised by the portfolio
71%
pre-seed survival vs ~40% industry
+91
average founder NPS, last 3 cohorts
01
Community
8K founders and operators meet at 200+ events.
02
Signal
Every event, intro and application builds our map of who's building what.
03
Program
We take the best into the cohort and work with them side by side.
04
Capital
We write the first check with conviction that no outsider has.
05
Alumni
Winners come back as mentors, angels and customers.
Speakers, mentors & visiting partners
Learn from people who've done it.
Speakers
Sessions with operators and authors founders already follow.
Ash MauryaRunning Lean
Jason YehAdamant Ventures
Luis Andrés EnriquezNazca VC
Enzo CavalieStartupeable
Miguel ArmazaGilgamesh Ventures
Mentors
Matched one-on-one with founders through the program.
Miguel Burger-CalderonBFF
Stella (Jeehyon) Yohex-Orbit Ventures
Sebastian Molina GasmanAccion Ventures
Carlos ChavezBraven
Daniel GarzonCreditop
Visiting Partners
Investors who built and invested in the region, in the room with the cohort.
Jamie RiggsDriven VC
Leandro PisaroniKalei VC
Carlos TorresLIP Capital
Mauricio SuarezItogai
Rafael BarrosoColectivo
Founder voice
+91
Average founder NPS across our last three cohorts.
- PY7+100
- PY8+85
- PY9+89
PY9: 18 of 22 graduates interviewed, zero detractors, an average score of 9.53 out of 10.
“If we hadn't gotten into Pygma, we'd have been toast.”
“Si no hubiéramos entrado en Pygma, estábamos al horno.”
“It makes far more sense to have 1% of 100 people's time than 100% of three people's.”
“Tiene mucho más sentido contar con el 1% del tiempo de 100 personas que con el 100% del tiempo de tres.”
“Pygma put us toe-to-toe with the big players.”
“Pygma nos puso en un tú a tú con las grandes.”
“If you're at the stage I was at, you need this. It's a no-brainer.”
“Si estás en la etapa en la que yo estaba, you need this. Es un no brainer.”
“Pygma is the strategic partner that takes you from 0 to 10.”
“Pygma es el strategic partner para pasar de 0 a 10.”
“I felt they were adding real value, not circling me like sharks.”
“Aquí sentí que me agregaban valor y que no me veían como una oportunidad de tiburón.”
In the press
People are paying attention.
“Descubre cómo esta aceleradora ayuda a latinoamericanos a escalar sus startups”
“El programa que busca emprendedores con ambición global en América Latina”
“La aceleradora Pygma busca a los próximos líderes fintech de Latinoamérica”
“Pygma anuncia PY9: The Future of Fintech, su novena cohorte de aceleración”
Pygma is backed by
Bring the ambition. We'll bring the rest.
The momentum is real and the window is now. Come build with the most ambitious founders in LatAm.