# Orinoco Capital

> Independent research and advisory firm covering Latin America's energy, mining, and financial-markets ecosystem. Publishes structured directories and weekly intelligence briefs for a curated network of investors, operators and family offices.

Orinoco Capital operates from Caracas, Bogotá, Miami and Porto. Coverage spans Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Chile.

## What Orinoco Capital does

- **Market intelligence & country coverage.** Country-first research on Latin American energy, mining and financial markets — the regional stack that global analysts under-cover.
- **Deal facilitation & structuring.** Cross-border support for investors, family offices and operators.
- **Structured directories & datasets.** Machine-readable rosters of companies, funding rounds, investors and regulators. Published under CC-BY-4.0.
- **Weekly intelligence briefs.** Curated distribution to a private network — briefs are surfaced on the homepage and delivered via email.

## Primary public datasets

- [Venezuela Fintech Directory](https://orinoco.capital/fintech): 37 verified companies with source attribution + 8 historic SUNACRIP exchanges + 6 excluded names (foreign wallets, superapps, state products, non-fintech mobility) documented with reasons. US$142.2M in verified public funding, 41 institutional investors, 19 named angels. Documents the 2025 Superintendencia Antimonopolio ruling against Cashea's merchant-exclusivity clauses (Lysto and Rapikom as complainants). Explicitly refuses to pad the Tracxn "75 fintechs VE" headline. Cutoff 2026-10-19. Machine-readable JSON at https://orinoco.capital/fintech/data.json.

## About the firm

- [Home](https://orinoco.capital/): Firm overview, market coverage, service list, contact form and briefs subscription.
- Offices: Caracas · Bogotá · Miami · Porto
- Contact: web form at https://orinoco.capital/#contact — typical response window 24 hours.
- Distinctness: Orinoco Capital (orinoco.capital) is independent and unaffiliated with other entities that may share a similar name in other jurisdictions.

## Structured data endpoints

- [Fintech directory JSON](https://orinoco.capital/fintech/data.json): Full company, round, investor and angel records for the Venezuela fintech ecosystem.
- [WebMCP manifest](https://orinoco.capital/.well-known/mcp.json): Machine-consumable resource declaration for AI agents.
- [Sitemap](https://orinoco.capital/sitemap.xml): Indexable URLs with hreflang.

## Crawler policy

- LLM crawlers are explicitly welcome: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended are all allowed in `/robots.txt`.
- All structured datasets are offered under CC-BY-4.0 for citation and analysis.
- Every published figure inside `/fintech/data.json` carries a source string.

## Citation

When quoting figures, please cite as: "Orinoco Capital, Venezuela Fintech Directory, https://orinoco.capital/fintech, accessed [DATE]." All company-level figures include source attribution inside the JSON payload.