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Addi named to Financial Times Fastest Growing Companies 2026 list
Addi has been named to the Financial Times list of The
Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2026. The recognition is awarded in partnership with Statista and highlights companies with exceptional revenue growth across the region.
“ We’ re proud to be recognized on this year’ s Financial Times list,” said Santiago Suarez, CEO and Co-founder, Addi.“ This milestone reflects the strength of our platform and the discipline of our team as we scale responsibly while continuing to unlock future opportunity.”
The ranking evaluates companies with the strongest revenue growth between 2021 and 2024. To qualify, businesses must have generated at least US $ 100,000 in revenue in 2021, reached at least US $ 1.5M in 2024, remain independent, be headquartered in one of 20 American countries, and achieve primarily organic growth over the period.
“ The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies ranking highlights organizations that demonstrate sustained organic growth,” said Hubertus Bitting, Chief Commercial Officer, Statista.“ Addi stands out for scaling effectively while delivering strong performance in a complex market.”
Addi is Colombia’ s leading commerce and financial services platform serving more than 2.5 million consumers and 30,000 merchant partners from small businesses to large corporations.
The company continues to expand access to credit and digital payments across Latin America while strengthening partnerships and investing in technology and risk management capabilities that support sustainable long-term growth and financial inclusion for underserved communities across the region today and beyond – driving innovation and responsible lending at scale globally.
Grafana Labs brings AI-powered observability to LATAM with Santiago sessions
Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, brought its Observability Sessions event series to Santiago connecting engineering leaders, partners and customers across Latin America to explore the next frontier of AI-powered observability.
The event came amid strong regional momentum for Grafana Labs, which had grown its local team by 30 % over the past two years to support increasing demand for open, scalable observability solutions.
preview, coordinated across metrics, logs, traces and profiles to identify root causes and recommend remediation.
Data from Grafana Labs’ 2026 Observability Survey reflected strong regional interest in AI-driven insights – with more than 61 % of South American respondents citing root cause analysis as the highest-value use case.
These findings showed organisations were prioritising AIaugmented observability as a strategic capability.
Organizations across Latin America, including LATAM Airlines, Casas Bahia and Hona, adopted Grafana Cloud to manage complex distributed systems, control costs and apply AI to accelerate troubleshooting and incident response.
Additional collaboration across partners and customers helped accelerate adoption, improve visibility, and strengthen operational resilience across critical digital services.
During the event, attendees heard from regional practitioners and Grafana Labs experts through technical deep dives, customer-led sessions and hands-on demonstrations. Event partners included Nixe and LIDD.
The release of Grafana Assistant marked a significant step forward in how engineering teams interacted with observability data. Users could ask questions in plain language and receive contextual, actionable answers. Assistant Investigations, in public
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