Why We Invested: Aloi

The Challenge: Turning Manual Tax Processes into a Digital Advantage

With most tax processes still highly manual, digitalization has become a mandatory strategy to reduce risks and ensure efficiency and transparency.  For enterprises in Latin America (LatAm), navigating tax regulations is particularly burdensome, as requirements are often managed through siloed systems that demand integration and auditability, turning compliance into a complex, high-volume challenge.

This challenge is intensifying as tax authorities increasingly target large enterprises as significant contributors, while outdated systems, fragmented processes, and massive data volumes make it difficult for teams to process, analyze, and remain compliant. The LatAm tax software market is growing rapidly, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%, and is projected to reach $5.9B by 2030 (Grand View Research, 2024), driven by regulatory mandates, e-invoicing adoption, and the rising demand for real-time reporting.

Aloi Solution: AI-Powered Automation for Smarter Compliance 

Aloi is building a customizable and robust, AI-powered automation platform that streamlines financial, tax and legal operations for mid-sized and enterprise customers, with a focus on fiscal compliance, and scalable reconciliation workflows.

At its core, the Aloi Audit Engine is a modular system that ingests and processes financial data from ERPs, government agencies, banks, and other internal systems. Built for complexity and scale, Aloi supports multi-entity setups through a configurable, domain-based architecture and offers relevant insights that enable teams to manage their compliance proactively. 

By moving from fragmented, Excel-based workflows to an all-in-one platform, tax teams gain access to clean and well-structured granular data, automating validation, reconciliation, fraud detection, auditing, and tax determination, and ultimately achieving fiscal compliance faster, with greater visibility and efficiency.

Meet the Team Behind Aloi

Aloi’s founding team combines strong experience across fintech, private equity, technology, blending deep experience in product, strategy, and engineering. Pedro Guerrero, Co-Founder & CEO, is an Industrial Engineer whose career spans both financial and technical roles. He has +5 years of experience in private equity (Advent, Nexxus Capital), as well as fintech and product experience at Minu and as an early team member at Cometa and Prima. Pedro holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and was an MBA Fellow at NXTP Ventures. 

Samuel Giraldo, Co-Founder and COO, has led high-growth operations at Rappi, CloudKitchens, and Razo, and holds a BSc and MSc in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. Rodrigo Burgos, Co-Founder and CTO, is a senior technical leader with +15 years of experience building tech companies, including 9 years at Kueski and prior engineering leadership at Telefónica México, with deep expertise in AI, data, ML and scalable financial systems. 

Additionally, the team includes several seasoned senior engineers spanning a PhD in Multi-Agent Systems and over two decades of experience in AI and software architecture, a global Olympiad medalist in Informatics, former CTOs of emerging startups, and senior DevOps and data leaders with deep expertise in scalable, high-availability systems. The team’s diverse backgrounds provide the foundation to build scalable, enterprise-grade solutions while navigating the region’s complex financial and regulatory environments.

Unlocking Strategic Value for FEMSA

At FEMSA Ventures, we stay closely connected with internal teams to identify new opportunities for digitalization, automation, and innovation across FEMSA. Through these ongoing collaborative efforts, we’ve identified a significant opportunity within the tax area of our business units.

As a company that manages large volumes of data and faces a growing need for traceability and regulatory compliance, implementing digital and automation tools to streamline manual processes has become a strategic priority for our tax teams.

We see Aloi as a strategic partner to address these opportunities across FEMSA. We believe that leveraging digital solutions like Aloi enhances efficiency, visibility, and consistency across our financial operations, creating value for our internal teams and, ultimately, for our customers.