Founded by emerging market fin tech entrepreneur and former Bridgewater employee Emma Sánchez Andrade Smith, JEFA is the digital bank for women. Out of nearly 1.4 billion unbanked people on the planet, 1.3 billion are women. JEFA creates new onramps for women across Latin America to access financial services, and is backed by Foundation Capital, Magma and Two Culture Capital.

Read about JEFA in TechCrunch. JEFA was acquired by Tala in 2023.