AI INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LATIN AMERICAN INNOVATION

Cressência

Buildmoreideas.Testthemfaster.Findwhatcantransformsociety.

We make high-quality business development accessible to the founders and institutions shaping the region's next generation of companies.

Map of Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean are home to 144 million entrepreneurs and independent workers

Most of them fail.

THE PROBLEM

Building and innovating means taking enormous risk when all the odds are stacked against you

Across the region, founders face the same structural odds before they can even begin to grow.

0%

of entrepreneurs finance their businesses with their own resources.

0 months

to learn whether their business is profitable.

0%

of ventures survive beyond their third year.

Fear of failure has become one of the region's most widespread cultural and operational barriers. Among adults who identify a clear business opportunity, an average of 31%-50.6% decide not to act because they fear losing their capital.

Compiled and weighted GEM data for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

INSTITUTIONS

Universities, multilaterals, incubators, governments, and other institutions work to change this reality

Yet their efforts still are not enough.

WHY THE PROBLEM PERSISTS

More than US$9B invested - and it still isn't enough

Just three multilateral institutions have committed more than nine billion dollars to innovation and incubation programs across the region. The capital exists; the delivery model still falls short.

INVESTMENT IN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM (US$ MILLIONS)

IDB
World Bank
CAF
02,0004,0006,0008,000

THREE CHALLENGES NO INSTITUTION HAS SOLVED

01

Cultural adaptation

Most content transfers outside models instead of building locally relevant solutions.

02

Digital transformation

Without disruptive technology, learning cannot scale or reach remote areas.

03

Financial viability

Support organizations depend on volatile public funding to survive.

THE SOLUTION

GROW: AI infrastructure for entrepreneurial ecosystems

GROW is a prompt-less AI development and learning platform. Entrepreneurs do not need to know how to write prompts - or already understand business building. The AI asks the questions and delivers actionable business plans.

G

Guidance

Guides founders step by step: what to solve, what to ask, and what to do next.

R

Research

Researches the information founders need to make confident decisions.

O

Optimization

Reduces time, cost, and effort while improving the quality of each result.

W

Workflow

Turns the work into repeatable modules, tasks, deliverables, and validations.

HOW GROW WORKS

From simple questions to a complete business plan

The MVP is live and in testing with clients and partners. GROW combines current language models, assigning each one to the task and outcome it handles best.

1

Modules and units

Cressência provides structured building blocks; each organization combines them into the program it needs.

2

Lessons

Each unit teaches the concepts and tools founders need. Institutions can use, adapt, or replace the content.

3

Questionnaires

Founders answer structured questions about their business, creating the input GROW needs for analysis.

4

Reports

Specialized prompts and models produce reports, analysis, and recommendations that mentors can review.

EARLY FEEDBACK

GROW multiplies the impact of the entrepreneurial ecosystem

GROW structures the founder journey while expanding the capacity of the institutions supporting it. These are the clearest insights from early institutional partners.

Incubators

  • Standardizes mentoring with one process and one evaluation standard.
  • Multiplies mentor capacity by moving explanations into the platform.
  • Scales programs without scaling mentoring hours at the same rate.

Entrepreneurs

  • Provides structure: what to learn, what to do, and what comes next.
  • Turns every lesson into direct work on the founder's own business.
  • Reduces friction so ideas can be validated faster.

Both

  • More consistency. Fewer resources. Better results.
  • High-quality reports powered by different specialist models.
  • One platform replaces the cost of multiple AI subscriptions.

THE SCALE THESIS

What if a society generates one million ideas every year?

When experimentation becomes affordable, a society can radically increase its chances of discovering something extraordinary.

1,000,000 ideas
100,000 experiments
10,000 ventures
1,000 large companies
100 high-impact companies
10 innovative companies
1 company capable of transforming society

MARKET SIZE

A US$8.6B market - and only the starting point

TAM

US$8.6B

144 million entrepreneurs in Latin America at the annual value of AI-accessible consulting.

SAM

US$1.2B

Digitally active founders plus NGOs, incubators, and universities across the region.

SOM

US$28M

A three-year target through early penetration of Spanish-speaking markets.

This estimate does not yet include national entrepreneurship funds, technical-cooperation budgets from CAF, IDB, and UNDP, or public education investment.

Global consulting is a US$343B market. Cressência serves the founders that McKinsey, KPMG, and Deloitte do not reach: entrepreneurs without large amounts of capital.

BUSINESS MODEL

Recurring revenue at three levels

A monthly SaaS subscription sized to each institution, from small incubation programs to large-scale education projects.

Tier 1

10-99 users

$20 / user / month

$200-$1,980 monthly ticket

Product-led growth through free tools that convert teams into paid programs.

Tier 2

100-999 users

$15 / user / month

$1,500-$14,985 monthly ticket

Methodology content, webinars, and focused LinkedIn outreach.

Tier 3

1,000+ users

$10 / user / month

$10,000+ monthly ticket

Direct B2B sales with a dedicated commercial team and 3-6 month cycles.

2026 FINANCIAL PROJECTIONS

A clear path to break-even

The month-by-month model projects active users and cumulative cash flow from October 2026 through July 2028.

Total active users
12,00010,0008,0006,0004,0002,0000Oct 26Nov 26Dec 26Jan 27Feb 27Mar 27Apr 27May 27Jun 27Jul 27Aug 27Sep 27Oct 27Nov 27Dec 27Jan 28Feb 28Mar 28Apr 28May 28Jun 28Jul 28
Cumulative cash flow (US$)
300,000200,000100,0000-100,000Oct 26Nov 26Dec 26Jan 27Feb 27Mar 27Apr 27May 27Jun 27Jul 27Aug 27Sep 27Oct 27Nov 27Dec 27Jan 28Feb 28Mar 28Apr 28May 28Jun 28Jul 28

Oct 2026

Launch

Oct 2027

850 active users

Apr 2028

Break-even

Jul 2028

11,500 active users

April 2028

$155 monthly profit at break-even

THE ROUND

Raising US$261,000 for 10% equity

The investment covers the first 18 months of burn through break-even and funds the complete development of product phase one.

US$261,000

10% equity

5.09x projected MOIC

Estimated at month 22 using a 7x enterprise valuation

  • Team and talent: approximately seven people by the end of year one.
  • Product: all four modules in phase one developed.
  • Customer acquisition: approximately 850 users by the end of year one.

$0.10

Share price

$158K

Projected Jul 2028 MRR

$1.9M

Projected Jul 2028 ARR

$13.2M

7x ARR valuation in Jul 2028

FOUNDING TEAM

A company built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs

Sebastián Volcán

Sebastián Volcán

  • Corporate lawyer
  • Business development consultant
  • National representative for Venezuela - IBA
Camila Colmenares

Camila Colmenares

  • Economist and AI ethics specialist
  • WEF Global Shaper - Madrid Hub
  • WEF speaker - Davos 2026
  • M&A deal origination advisor
Rafael González

Rafael González

  • CTO and full-stack software architect
  • AI orchestration and MCP specialist
  • UI/UX and user-experience designer