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Methodology

How companies qualify, how we rank them, and what the public data can tell you. The formula below applies to the 10 November 2026 edition.

As of 10 November 2026.

Who can be in the published 50

  • The headquarters, founding team, or primary market is in Latin America. A US entity can remain when the team or the ecosystem being scored is in the region. The country on the row is that ecosystem.
  • Stage is pre-seed through Series A. A Series B round is included only when the company is still clearly early. Household scale-ups are outside this list.
  • At least one of these is true: an equity round in the last 18 to 24 months, a place on a current-year Early Stage 100 (or an older edition that a later source re-verified), or a confirmed public job board.
  • A published row needs a real name, a country, and a one-line description. The website stays blank when it could not be verified.

v1 score, maximum 100

Month-only dates count as the first of that month. Year-only dates count as 1 January of that year. Debt, warehouse lines, and credit facilities are not the round.

SignalPointsHow it is scored
Recency of the last equity round0–4040 within 6 months; 30 within 12; 20 within 18; 10 within 24; 5 for an older dated round, or a known stage with no date; 0 if there is no round or the company is bootstrapped.
Size of the last equity round0–3030 for at least $20 million; 24 for at least $10 million; 18 for at least $5 million; 12 for at least $2 million; 6 for at least $500,000. Amounts are USD integers from public reports.
Investor quality0–2020: a16z, Benchmark, Greenoaks, Khosla, Kaszek, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, Accel, Index, General Catalyst, Bessemer, Greylock, Coatue, Tiger Global, Bain Capital. 16: Monashees, Canary, Valor, Y Combinator, Quona, Goodwater, Base10, Lux, Headline, ALLVP, NXTP, SoftBank, Prosus, QED, Framework, Atlantico, Diffusion, Cometa, First Round. 12: any other named institutional investor. 0: none, or angels only.
Open roles on a verified public ATS0–1010 for 20 or more roles; 8 for 10–19; 6 for 5–9; 3 for 1–4; 0 when there are none or the board is unverified. Only Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, and Get on Board count, and only after the board identity matches the company.

Ties break by last equity amount (higher first), then last-round date (more recent first), then name.

How to read the data

  • This edition does not include team size, 90-day headcount growth or investor-following data.
  • Missing information is left blank; we do not estimate headcount from LinkedIn.
  • An em dash means the field was not published. A verified open-role count of zero is shown as zero. Those are different.
  • We count roles only when we can confirm that the public careers board belongs to the company.

When the list changes

  • We aim to update the ranking monthly. The current edition remains dated 10 November 2026 until a new edition is published.
  • Roles posted on Meaningful Jobs follow the board's own listing window. That inventory is separate from this rank.

Sources

Third-party lists and press are credited as inputs. Naming them does not imply a partnership, a co-publish, or an endorsement.

Meaningful Jobs is operated by Meaningful. This ranking is an editorial snapshot, not a recommendation to invest or a promise of open roles.