SOMMOS

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SOMMOS

We are a Bolivian venture legally incorporated in the United States and Bolivia. We specialize in creating new financial solutions that consider the traditional characteristics unique to our region, providing access to collaborative savings and payment alternatives among individuals. We have digitized the “pasanaku” (rotating savings and credit association), offering our users the management of turns and access to additional financial benefits. Furthermore, we have digitized community banking, credit management, and individual scheduled savings.


We have B2B solutions and are committed to working closely with our clients to understand their unique requirements, tailoring our solutions to their specific goals and challenges.

Sep, 2021

A challenge arises

The idea was born with the purpose of bringing financial inclusion to the region through a cultural connection. Our first challenge was to digitize the ‘pasanaku’ (rotating savings and credit association), for which an application was developed to manage groups through mobile devices.

Sep, 2021
Sep, 2022

First round of investment

We have successfully completed a first round of pre-seed capital investment with $150,000 from U.S. funds and investors from across the region.

Sep, 2022
Jan, 2023

New opportunities

In a continuous approach to the people of the region and their needs, we managed to identify new opportunities. We created digital financial solutions for banking institutions and businesses involved in credit sales.

Jan, 2023
Dec, 2023

Second round of investment and internationalization

We secured a $360,000 investment from investors in Peru, the United States, and England. We initiated our internationalization by forming a partnership with MiBanco Peru.

Dec, 2023
Jun, 2024

Operations Consolidated in 2 Countries

We consolidated our operations with 3 active clients in Bolivia and Peru. We integrated our cultural financial solutions with BancoSol (Bolivia), MiBanco, and BCP (Peru).

Jun, 2024

20%

more than 50% of Latin Americans use ROSCA (informal rotating savings and credit associations), moving over $150 billion annually.

25%

of Latin Americans do not trust the formal financial system.

9385+

registered users on our PasanaQ app.

Leading Impact

Our Team

Jhonny Ventiades

Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder


Jhonny is a Systems Engineer, specialized in Data Analysis, and certified as an Android Developer by Google. He has professional experience in India, Egypt, and Bolivia, and has served as a lecturer at two Bolivian universities.


Yara holds degrees in Business Administration and Commercial Engineering, with a master’s in International Business specializing in Project Management from the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña-España. She has previous experience in two startups.

Diego Rojas

Chief Executive Officer
Co-founder


Diego holds a Fulbright scholarship master’s degree from the United States and a dual master’s (Public Policy and Business Administration) at the University of Oxford as a scholar. He is the co-founder and CEO of Tu Beca Bolivia. He was named among the list of the top 100 brightest MBA students in the world in 2023.