Why Aindez came to Monterrey

On May 26, the Eduardo Garza T. Innovation and Entrepreneurship HUB opened in Tec de Monterrey's Monterrey Innovation District.

I took part in a panel moderated by Juan Pablo Murra Lascurain, rector of Tecnológico de Monterrey, together with Dan Cabral of XiA'H and Marco López of Bnext. The question for me was direct: if we started in Chile, what did we find in Monterrey to keep building from here?

That day I also had the chance to present Aindez to Eduardo Garza T., the building's donor, and his family.

Go where the customers are

Aindez was born in Chile a couple of years ago, but always with Latin America in mind. I think that's something entrepreneurs have to do: go where the customers are and to the best place to build the company.

Through my partner we met a Monterrey company and ran a pilot with it, while I was still in Chile. The pilot went very well, and its owners decided to invest in Aindez as angels. That's when we talked about making Monterrey a lab to grow toward Latin America.

A Chilean soccer player had already shown that a Chilean can do very well here. We set out to make sure he wasn't the only Chilean to stand out in Monterrey.

Talent and an aligned environment

In Monterrey we found talent. Two people on our team are Tec students about to finish their degrees.

And we found the HUB, a space where all the incentives and factors are aligned for a company to grow. Startups are fragile when they begin, and anything can put them at risk. That's why an environment that brings talent together with accelerators like Powertrain Ventures, which has backed us from the start, matters so much.

What I hope people find when they walk into the HUB

The moderator closed with a question for the three of us: what do we hope a student, an entrepreneur or an investor will find when they walk into the HUB a year from now?

My answer was connections. For a foreigner who arrives in a country without knowing anyone, it is very valuable when people introduce you: "look, this is Manuel, he has a startup and he's looking for customers".

When I arrived in August 2025, from one day to the next they introduced me to Luis "Wicho" González, director of the Computer Technology Engineering program, and got me a meeting. I couldn't get that even at my own university in Chile.

Thanks to Wicho, Eduardo and Felipe came to work with us.

What Aindez does

Aindez is an artificial intelligence solution for the large employers of the next decade: staffing, outsourcing and specialized services companies that manage thousands of workers.

Today we already work with customers, not just pilots, and we closed a round with angel investors.