2. BUENOS AIRES CITY WEEK IN SILICON VALLEY
The most promising innovation companies of Argentina will participate in the first Trade Mission to Silicon Valley, organized
by the Buenos Aires City Government, between February 28th and March 4th.
This trade mission, leaded by the Minister of Economic Development, Mr. Francisco Cabrera, has the aim of building a close
relationship with the local ICT community, improving skills, creating new business and investment opportunities, promoting
Buenos Aires new Technology District, and identifying the latest trends in technology innovation and entrepreneurship in
Silicon Valley.
The thirteen Argentinean ICT companies delegation was selected by an expertise evaluation committee composed by
representatives from Endeavor, Global Tech Bridge, Plug & Play Tech Center, Palermo Valley, INC Latinamerica, National
Technology University (UTN-FRBA) and IAE Business School. This delegation includes companies from different sectors
as social games, mobile aplications, internet monitoring, online marketing, social plataforms and software technologies.
2011 Trade Mission Main Objectives:
- Create a close and long term relationship between the City Government of Buenos Aires and Silicon Valley ecosystem
- Promote Buenos Aires Technology District and the benfits to all ICT-related companies that settle therein.
- Encourage partnerships agreements between companies from Buenos Aires and The Valley.
- Increase opportunities for investments by VC in the ICT community of Buenos Aires
- Improve IT investment skills between the community of SV and Buenos Aires.
3. Buenos Aires Technology District
Benefits:
Municipal tax exemptions for 15 years in the case of SMBs and domestic companies and 10 years in the case
of international companies .
Current situation:
70 companies already settled - 8483 HHRR - 107, 262 m2
Buenos Aires Technology District: an investment opportunity.
• Strategic Location: The Technology District is only 15 minutes from the downtown area in Parque Patricios District.
• Extraordinary development potential: Parque de los Patricios neighborhood used to be an industrial area, full of
factories and logistics warehouses which are currently unused; thus, the selected area offers a great amount of inhabited
buildings which can perfectly be recycled and are extremely suitable for hosting high-tech companies and related universities.
• Accessibility: Parque de los Patricios was chosen as the Technology District seat because of its excellent accessibility
among other advantages:
• 19 bus lines connect the District with the rest of the City and the metropolitan area.
• CASEROS H Subway Line Station is already working and 4 new stations will be ready in the
next two years crossing across the District.
• 25 de mayo Highway connects the Technology District with the main accesses to the City in a
just a few minutes.
4.
5. ACTIVICA S.A.
Silvia Pichetto
www.activica.com
spichetto@activica.com
PARTNERS:
Javier Diez: 40%
Diego Lijavetzky: 40%
Gonzalo Berra: 10%
Federico Welz: 5%
Employees: 5%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
President & CEO: Javier Diez
General Director: Diego Lijavetzky Activica is a technology company which specializes in the design and
CFO: Gonzalo Berra development of custom software solutions for corporate training. Its business
CTO: Federico Welz model is based around providing products and services to large corporations
(BtoB) with a boutique style; highly customized, innovative and exclusive.
INDUSTRY:
Education, Gaming, Software Activica´s clients are mostly companies with more than 5000 employees, with
operations in multiple locations, and which seek to train their employees as
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: quickly, efficiently, and cost effectively as possible. The use –or proper use,
Current: 25 rather - of e-learning technology can achieve all of this; with the most avid and
When we started: 1 recurring consumers of elearning being Heavy Industry, the Pharmaceutical
At end of first year: 6 Industry, and the Financial Services Industry.
At end of third year: 15
Activica´s main business offerings are installation and administration of Learning
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: Management Systems (LMS), development of Training Modules and/or Virtual
Mercado Magazine: R+D in Social Networks Simulation; and Educational Technology strategic consulting hours. All of these
Servicio Satelital S.A: R+D Iphone/Android apps products and services are offered in the shape of monthly agreements or on
Sofrecom Argentina: R+D Digital TV demand. Development, Project Management, Marketing and sales; all activities
take place at our Buenos Aires based Development Center.
As human resources are key to our business, Activica seeks to attract and
retain in the company the best resources in the highly competitive IT industry.
In order to do so, Activica has signed cooperation agreements with Universities
and IT chambers, and has maintained from the start employee benefit
programs which include state of the art medical coverage, language classes,
telecommuting options, and company ownership.
6. ALTODOT
Antón Chalbaud
www.altodot.com
anton@altodot.com
PARTNERS:
Antón Chalbaud 33%
Matías Paterlini: 33%
Claudio Cohen: 33%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Antón Chalbaud
CTO: Matías Paterlini Nowadays the company is mainly focused on Social Apps development for
COO: Claudio Cohen external clients on a custom project bassis. Some of our clients are direct
CFO: Ramiro Mazzeo clients (such as Turner Television, Mercadolibre, FOX, etc.),
Advertising/Interactive Agencies, and Startups (some of them from Silicon
INDUSTRY: Valley actually, like Bump),
Social Marketing, Facebook Applications, e-Commerce
Since the first day our goal was to generate a profitable and cashflow positive
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: business to be the ground of our future product development. In this product
Actual: 12 we are planning, we’ll be applying the knowledge we acquired by doing
At the start of activities: 3 custom proyects for clients. Our products will solve common marketing
At the end of year: 12 necessities we have seen in the market over this year of operations, with over
At the end of the third year: 18 100 projects completed.
We want to make it easy for small companies and agencies to have access to
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: Social Applications without having to pay for a custom development each time
N/A they need something.
The first products we’ll be launching are:
- An e-commerce aplication that generates a catalogue on facebook with the
information you have on your own site on your products.
- A suite of applications focused on acquiring FANS or “LIKES” by using
applications in an intelligent and easy going way.
We’ll charge something between USD 15 and USD 150.- on monthly fee basis
to use this apps.
7. BINARIA
Matias Travizano
www.binariagroup.com
mat@binariagroup.com
PARTNERS:
Matias Travizano
Martin Minnoni
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Matías Travizano
CTO: Martín Minnoni TARANTULA’s mission is to revolutionize the market research industry by
democratizing and empowering the understanding of how audiences born and
INDUSTRY: evolve over time.
Internet, Technology
TARANTULA technologies are designed to retrieve and collect publicly available
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: information from the social networking sites and to creatively process it through
Actual: 2 data and graph mining proprietary technologies in order to identify and
At the start of activities: 5 categorize audiences and track its temporal evolution.
At the end of year: 6
At the end of the third year: 15 TARANTULA targets the 500+ million people that regularly use social networks.
Our focus is on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS:
N/A Our product is TARANTULA Insights, the Google Insights for audiences.
By using TARANTULA Insights you will be able to answer in seconds questions
like “How did the Golfers Audience change in the last year”, or “What is the
difference between the mean tenure time of C-Level executives in NY vs. LA”.
8. CLICKBUNKER
Fernando Cuscuela
www.clickbunker.com
fcuscuela@clickbunker.com
PARTNERS:
Fernando Cuscuela 50%
Leandro Armas 50%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Fernando Cuscuela
CTO: Leandro Armas Clickbunker is a result-oriented Online Marketing agency. After two and a half
years of operation, it positioned itself in the market thanks to an excellent
INDUSTRY: combination between creativity and performance.
Online Marketing, Social Media, Search Marketing, Online
Media Planning and Web Analytics Considering that the big groups of agencies and companies really need the
know-how in new media and raw material to offer ideas from the online world,
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: our aim is to catch its attention generating, apart from the excellence of our
Actual: 12 services, an innovative product focused of Social Media and ROI.
At the start of activities: 2
At the end of the first year: 4 Thus, it emerges the need to generate SRM. Social Relationship Marketing. A
At the end of the third year: 20 “one to one” tracking and communication system, with the users that belong to
the social network ecosystem, and those that can be interacted with through
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: relationship marketing actions, allowing to attract and foster customer loyalty,
Alliances/Partners: Latinvia. Contributes with know-how as well as to dimension the ROI of actions.
and customers of: E-commerce. E-business.
The business model will be based on a licensing system, or SaaS, according
Form an alliance/Associate: Intellignos: Analytics, to the customers´ needs, through which free service could be given to a
Research. Doppler: Email Marketing Platform. Grupo definite “freemium” amount of users, and as usage enlarges, a fee will be
Pexo: Reddemails (reliable databases) charged per amount of system usage.
The investment will be mainly based on financing, promoting and regionalization
of the product. Being an innovative and unique product in the market, success
would be granted, estimating to obtain ROI in a maximum period of 4 years.
9. EMPREWARE
Agustin Badano
www.empreware.com
agustin.badano@empreware.com
PARTNERS:
Agustin Badano: 51%
Julio Crivelli: 32%
Fernando Aguilar: 9%
Otros: 8%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Agustín Badano
COO: Fernando Aguilar Empreware is a developer of web based small business applications with focus
in LATAM.
INDUSTRY:
Web based aplications for small businesses. We have developed Empreware Business Plan, a software that has been used
by more than 7000 individuals in LATAM.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES:
Actual: 3 We’re planning to develop a new online application to help small business
At the start of activities: 0 owners to keep track of their finances. The business model would be a
At the end of year: 11 monthly payment of USD 25,00.
At the end of the third year: 25
We beleive that the software as a service businss is growing very fast in
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: LATAM, and that we have the opportunity to establish as the #1 app in small
Nextperience. We established a partnership in wich they businesses financial management, such as Intuit (www.intuit.com) did in USA
help us with online marketing campaigns while they with Quickbooks.
transfer us the know how. Nexperience is one of the top
online marketing agencies in Argentina. We also have Our team has experience in designing, programming and selling software
partnerships with local Business Scholls, Universities and applications in the internet, as we demonstrated with our business planning
institutions that work with entrepreneurs. software.
Our vision is to build a portfolio of online applications for small businesses,
reaching clients in LATAM, USA and Europe. By achieving this we could be
acquired by big internet and/or software companies looking to improve their
product portfolio and their presence in LATAM.
10. JUNGLEBAT
Marcelo Tribuj
www.junglebat.com
mtribuj@truelogic.com.ar
PARTNERS:
Martin Kornblum
Marcelo Tribuj
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
Executive Producer: Martin Kornblum
Network Development Manager: Marcelo Tribuj Junglebat Game Studios (JB) is a company dedicated to producing,
Technology Manager: Federico Sabater developing, encouraging, sponsoring, marketing, financing and publishing
games for Windows Phone and Xbox 360.
INDUSTRY: Our business model is based on creating revenue based on a flexible model
Mobile Games & Entertainment with 3 core business units:
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: JB developed games: Our idea is to be interactive and to create innovative,
Actual: 6 massive and fun games. We created a development model where we function
At the start of activities: 2 on minimal fixed costs. Freelancers and international developers will join their
At the end of year: 8 efforts to create amazing games for a low cost.
At the end of the third year: 20
Sponsored games: If we love a game, we will ask the developer/s to add it to
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: our sponsorship program. Once included in our network, we will start marketing
Microsoft Corporation S.A. it in recommended engines; translate it into different languages, launch new
More than one hundred game developers / designers / creative and design initiatives, then test and market it through social networking
testers around the globe. sites, public relations and relationship marketing programs.
We look forward to add a partner to accelerate the
company growth. Incubating games: We form alliances with micro-studios or developers to
create new and exciting games. We define the game business model for that
game and assist them in different ways: financially, creative and design,
development and gameplay perspectives. We publish the game and manage
its positioning in the market. We own the game completely and will pay a
percentage of revenues generated to the incubated studio/developer.
Something important: For those games that massively succeed in the market
(at least 1 million downloads) we will create its version for other mobile
platforms such as iOS and Android.
Junglebat is built around a core team of entrepreneurs, mobile strategists,
technology masters and games lovers.
11. KEEPCON
Matías Rozenfarb
www.keepcon.com
matias@keepcon.com
PARTNERS:
Matias Rozenfarb
Adrian Lisenberg
Julio Guzman
Dan Rozenfarb
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Matias Rozenfarb
CTO: Adrián Lisenberg Keepcon’s goal is to provide comprehensive moderation services, based on
COO: Julio Guzman the automation of the content moderation process for web sites 2.0. We focus
Head of R+D: Dan Rozenfarb on a global market integrated by all the websites that allow the general public to
openly publish multimedia content, such as comments, blogs, images, video,
INDUSTRY: audio, or any mix of these elements.
Social Marketing, Internet technology & services
Our company specializes on the moderation of contents, using a Business
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Process Outsourcing model established upon state of the art technology.
Actual: 20
At the start of activities: 3 Since 2008, Keepcon provides companies with a cost-effective software
At the end of year: 12 solution to moderate the UGC on their websites. With Keepcon’s proprietary
At the end of the third year: 18 technology, companies that once employed teams of 25+ to censor content
can now outsource all moderation services for a fraction of the cost. With total
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: UGC on the internet expected to grow by over 500% over the next four years,
Universidad Nacional del Sur (National South University) Keepcon represents a timely business in a nascent market.
Modera Media (Spanish content moderation company)
Keepcon offers three primary services:
1) automatic content moderation, (2) platform licensing for external manual
moderation, and (3) outsourcing of manual content moderation, the last of
which is ideal for clients with limited human resources. Keepcon’s clients
benefit by not having to invest the time and money needed to develop a
content moderation platform or hire a moderation team (in the case of
outsourcing). Clients also benefit from Keepcon’s quality assurance
mechanisms and gain valuable insights regarding traffic and content
generation. On a day-to-day basis, clients can focus on their core business
and have confidence in Keepcon’s 24/7 support and multilingual team
(Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, and French).
12. MINDSET STUDIO
Franco Breciano
www.mindset-studio.net
franco.breciano@mindset-studio.net
PARTNERS:
Franco Breciano 40%
Hernan Liendo 40%
Key Management 10%
Socio Financiero 10%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
COO & CTO: Hernan Liendo
CEO: Franco Breciano Mindset seeks to connect people around the world through engaging apps &
Studio Manager: Matias Baldini games with a social component, designed for advertising and entertainment.
INDUSTRY: Both industries are going through a transition as a result of the arise of new
Social Gaming, Advergaming, Social Apps. media such as social networks, smartphones and tablets. As a result,
consumer habits have changed and brands need to adapt to this new era.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES:
Actual: 15 Company strategy:
At the start of activities: 4 Current term: create social games & apps for brands, publishers and media
At the end of year: 8 companies. Position the company . Acquire know-how.
At the end of the third year: 15
Medium term: continue to work for other companies, and as a proof of concept
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: launch the first social games in social networks such as Facebook, Orkut,
Strategic: IAB – Cessi MySpace or other platforms that may arise.
Technological: Adobe – Rackspace
Academic: UTN – UADE – UNQ Long term: stop working for brands and continue to grow a proprietary portfolio
of social games & apps. Build an increasing user base and start generating
revenues by means of virtual goods and upgrades. This revenues will be
destined to the generation of new products for our porfolio.
It’s worth to notice that the company has it’s own Research & Development
team capable of delivering innovation, pushing the barriers of what is possible
and surprising the end consumer.
13. SIA INTERACTIVE
Gustavo Hojman
www.siainteractive.com
gustavoh@siainteractive.com
PARTNERS:
Simonovich Family 100%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Adrian Simonovich
COO: Fernando Flischfisch Based in Argentina, SIA Interactive is a leading interactive marketing company,
CFO: Gustavo Hojman focusing on development of videogames for advertising purposes
Head of Flare3D: Ariel Nehmad (“advergames”), as well as other interactive media solutions. Since 2002, SIA
has begun an international expansion and has implemented projects for leading
INDUSTRY: brands or its agencies in more than 20 countries. The Company has been
Videogames, Advertising received the Sadoski Award in two opportunities in recognition of its
contribution to technology innovation. The company has been included in the
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Software Law (Law 25,922) which provides significant tax benefits for software
Actual: 46 development companies and has been certified under ISO 9001.
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: The Company has two business lines:
Microsoft, Adobe, Samsung A) Development of video games ("advergames") and other interactive solutions
for promotional activities.
B) Flare3D.
Development of video games ("advergames") and other interactive solutions for
promotional activities: The Company is a pioneer in the development of
advergames in Argentina and has successfully sold its solutions abroad. In
addition, SIA has specialized in multi-touch technology and developed
integrated hardware, software and content solutions, such as the interactive
vending machine for Coca Cola (the first of its kind in Latin America).
Flare3D: Flare3D is an engine to develop 3D graphics in Flash Player. Flare3D
beta version has been presented recently at the Adobe Max Conference in Los
Angeles. The goal is to create an “easy-to-use” product for the community of
3D designers and developers. We have been in close contact with Adobe
engineers in the development of this product.
We are currently seeking investors to (a) grow the business of video games
and interactive solutions and (b) develop Flare3D as a commercial product.
14. SOCIAL METRIX
Martín Enriquez
www.socialmetrix.com
menriquez@socialmetrix.com
PARTNERS:
Martin Enriquez: Founder
Gustavo Arjones: Founder
Juan Manuel Damia: Founder
Francisco Lemos: Founder
Michael Lato: Angel Investor
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Martín Enriquez
CTO: Gustavo Arjones Socialmetrix provides international companies the tools to listen, analyse and
Data Insights: Juan Manuel Damia engage their customers through social media, and improve their ROI in online
UI&Data Visualization: Francisco Lemos marketing.
INDUSTRY: We are providers of Social Media Monitoring, Analysis and Engagement to 3
Social Media, Web Analytics, Social Media Monitoring customer segments:
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Global Corporations: Brand and product monitoring, competitive analysis,
Actual: 12 online market research and active Social CRM.
At the start of activities: 4
At the end of year: 5 Marketing Agencies: Social media marketing ROI analysis, strategic planning,
At the end of the third year: 12 market research and ad planning.
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: Government & Political Parties: Topics and issues monitoring, candidate
Global Marketing & PR Agencies such as HAVAS Digital, tracking, government crisis management and trend detection
Starcom Media Vest and WPP. They partner with us as a
sales channel while they also act as clients by using our Proven Market Leader in Latin America
platform to provide insights to their clients. We look for - First to develop product offering in social media monitoring
partnering with big agencies with strong focus on Social - Only vendor with multilingual, multicultural offering
Media Marketing and Online Reputation Management. - Brand recognition with a reputation for quality service
- 16 Active large corporate clients
15. TARINGA!
Hernán Botbol
www.taringa.net
hernan@taringa.net
PARTNERS:
Alberto Nakayama: 33%
Matias Botbol: 33%
Hernan Botbol: 33%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Hernán Botbol
CEO: Matthias Botbol Taringa Music will form a revolutionary online platform that will base its work on
CEO: Alberto Nakayama two main pillars: the music and the human and social relations generated by
the consumption and use of it. Music Portal aims to provide a permanent
INDUSTRY: solution and high impact on the market for online music.
Internet, Music, Streaming
The site will give users access to catalogs of record companies associated
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: through two models. "Radios" and "on demand. " In all cases, the music will be
Current: 4 accessible through "Streaming " not be possible to download or local storage.
At the start of activities: 8 Music Portal is the main and permanent source for online music consumption
At the end of the first year: 16 in the region.
At the end of the third year: 30
The platform will come from the hand of Latin America's most visited site in the
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: world: Taringa.net, (that can be visited each month by more than 80 million
Allied companies: Warner, EMI, Universal, Sony - Digital people) and will base its work on the social is now driving the phenomenon of
Content Contribution. (Music) Web 2.0.
Potential allies: Allies potential to add value through
income generation through advertising and through the There is a market-niche that has not been exploited, with an enormous
sale of suscipciones. In a second Estapa will expand the potential to generate significant benefits for the stakeholders of the companies
platform to new media devices. involved. Currently, some sites have started projects that timidly try ePlot
Google: Advertising - Android, Google TV. Streaming market, however, either do not have enough users, or because they
ISP Providers in the region: Sell suspcripciónes. failed to provide a platform friendly enough, or for various reasons, did not
Business Communications: Sell subscriptions. generate a tool to achieve mastery the new business.
Platform's mission is to generate a radical change in how consumers access to
music content over the Internet, is expected to cover the largest possible
number of users, and generate revenues and profits at all levels
16. vFOUND
Alejandro Sewrjugin
www.vfound.com.ar
alejandro@vfound.com.ar
PARTNERS:
Alejandro Sewrjugin: 82%
Crispin Sheridan: 10%
Luis Siquot Ferré: 2%
Margaux Caffa: 2%
Alejandro Pablo Sewrjugin: 2%
Osvaldo Cataldi: 2%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Alejandro Sewrjugin
CTO: Luis Siquot Ferré vFound is a technology company focused on developing software solutions to
Director, Social Media, PPC & SEO Technology: Margaux increase online website visibility (Search Engines, Social Networks) for its
Caffa customers. The VFOptimizer is the first real-time SEO Optimization Engine
Director, Operations: Silvio Pini available in the marketplace (released in 2010), is the first SaaS module
Director, Sales & Administration: Osvaldo Cataldi produced by the company.
INDUSTRY: Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art online marketing software that covers
Technology, Web 2.0 the latest internet trends and support core marketing activities to increase
website reach, visibility and profit by turning prospects into sales. vFound’s
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: core business is understanding technical and business patterns in the market
Actual: 7 and building software packages to help companies and individuals increase
At the start of activities: 3 online visibility and exposure.
At the end of year: 5
At the end of the third year: 7 We have developed a vFound proprietary algorithm that provides insight into
online competitiveness for any website. Based on this algorithm, we created
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: the VFO and will be releasing additional niche software products throughout
Target Latino (Atlanta, US, Reseller), Acronym Media 2011. Future plans include the creation of niche algorithms to optimize daily
(NYC, US, Reseller), Acclaro (NYC, US, Reseller), SCI work and presence in social networks, including Twitter and Facebook, by
(Global, Reseller), Matchcode (Global, Reseller), combining each into one integrated solution.
Wormhole IT (joint projects, Reseller), Smowtion (Reseller),
Three Melons (joint projects), SocialMetrix (tech provider), The VFOptimizer is a SaaS solution (cloud computing) that helps any web page
Thet (joint projects), Perception Group (Reseller). Future: rank within the first results of major search engines in just 3-simple steps and in
Comcast (US, Reseller), BT Telecom (UK, Reseller), just a matter of minutes.
Telefónica (LATAM, Reseller), Translations.com (Global,
Customer/Reseller), I-Prospect (Global,
Customer/Reseller), Mindshare (Global,
Customer/Reseller)
17. VURBIA TECHNOLOGIES
Juan Lhehmann
www.vurbia.com
jlehmann@vurbiatechnologies.com
PARTNERS:
Thomas A. Beckett: 30%
Colleen M. Beckett: 30%
Athanasios I. Kouroussis: 20%
Juan C. Lehmann: 20%
MANAGEMENT TEAM: BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
CEO: Colleen M. Beckett
CMO/CSO: Juan C. Lehmann Vurbia's vision is to be recognized as a leading global provider and the
CTO: Athanasios I. Kouroussis Latin-American referent for cloud computing services by making infrastructure
and value added services dead simple and transparent. Consequently, we will
INDUSTRY: allow organizations of all sizes forget about infrastructure and focus on their
Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as a Service core business resulting to a leveling of the playing field and a better Internet.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: Vurbia Technologies is the premier IaaS provider in Latin America. We deliver
Actual: 6 innovative, simple, integrated infrastructure and value-added services that
At the start of activities: 5 contemplate the full spectrum of our customers' needs. Universal and
At the end of year: 12 transparent auto-scaling, automatic re-configuration and collective intelligence
At the end of the third year: 30 are the pillars of our world class IaaS service.
ALLIANCES / PARTNERS: IaaS consists in getting physical servers and develop a software layer known
Softlayer – Main provider for infrastructure co-location. as virtualization, which allows to abstract the physical hardware from the
We’ve signed a strategic collaboration agreement through Operative System and the application running on them. This way infrastructure
which we get infrastructure provisioning with prefered time can be scaled and unscaled in minutes making your infrastructure fit your
response and special prices, Additionallly, Softlayer has computing capacity needs at all times and paying for what you use by the
decided to delegate their customers in spanish-speaking hour. In consequence, our customers turn fixed capital expenses into variable
Latin America to Vurbia. operative expenses, enjoying unprecedented flexibility and economic
convenience.
Computing capacity consumed is measured by the amount of processors,
RAM memory, storage and IP addresses used by the hour plus the
transference in GB and the optional backup services. This way any customer
can get his website / application up and running for less than 10 cents of a
dollar the hour.