mattilda

Mattilda is a Mexico City-based fintech company that serves as a specialized financial partner for private educational institutions across Latin America. Founded in 2022, the company provides a B2B SaaS platform that streamlines financial management and administrative processes for private schools in Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador. Mattilda's core offering combines payment processing, automated collections management, factoring services, and credit lines specifically tailored for the education sector. The platform enables parents to pay tuition fees digitally through various methods, including integration with neobanking solutions such as Nubank and MercadoPago. By automating collections and assuming the risk of non-payment, Mattilda helps schools stabilize their revenue streams and improve cash flow management. Schools using the platform report achieving an 85% collection rate compared to the market standard of 70%. The company addresses a significant pain point in Latin America's private education sector, where schools face average default rates of 7% and delinquency rates of 30%. In Mexico alone, over 33,500 private schools serve more than 3.6 million students. Mattilda has raised over $29 million in total funding, including a $10 million seed round led by FinTech Collective and a $19 million Series A, with participation from investors including QED Investors, DILA Capital, GSV Ventures, Picus Capital, and Emerge Education. In three years of operation, the company has impacted over 130,000 students across more than 200 educational institutions. The platform also features Matti AI for artificial intelligence-powered financial management and has partnered with Santillana, an academic content platform serving over 2 million students in Spanish-speaking Latin America.