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Cristina Etcheberry

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Booth, H. (2026, September 30). Cristina Etcheberry. TIME. https://time.com/collection/time100-next/2026/cristina-etcheberry/

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TIME · collected 2026-09-30 · by Harry Booth

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Cristina Etcheberry co-founded Toku in 2020, a platform that facilitates recurring payments for businesses across Latin America. By 2025, Toku handled $8 billion annually and had over 500 corporate customers including Chevrolet and major insurers. The company recently raised $48 million in Series A funding, the largest ever for a woman-led startup in the region. Toku's latest innovation is an AI agent that uses various communication methods to collect overdue payments and arrange repayment plans, significantly reducing unrecoverable debts.
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Cristina Etcheberry, a native of Santiago, Chile, co-founded Toku in 2020, which handles about $8 billion annually for over 500 corporate customers, including major companies like Chevrolet, and insurers such as Zurich and MetLife. Toku aims to simplify the process of collecting recurring payments by integrating with various banking systems. In March 2023, Toku launched an AI agent that uses WhatsApp, email, or voice calls to chase missed payments and arrange repayment plans, reducing unrecoverable debts by up to half. Etcheberry quickly expanded her platform into Mexico City, where she relocated within days of the decision. Toku raised a record-breaking $48 million in Series A funding for a woman-led startup in Latin America in 2025, positioning it for significant future growth.

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Who wrote this

Harry Booth
6 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction
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2026-09-30 · assertive framing · Cristina Etcheberry
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2026-09-15 · TIME
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2026-09-10 · TIME
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Topics

Chevrolet MetLife Santiago Toku Zurich

Subjects

Toku ORG · 4× Chevrolet ORG · 1× Chile GPE · 1× Cristina Etcheberry PERSON · 1× Etcheberry ORG · 1× MetLife ORG · 1× Mexico City GPE · 1× Santiago GPE · 1× WhatsApp ORG · 1× Zurich GPE · 1×

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In March, Toku launched an AI agent that not only chases payments over WhatsApp, email, or voice, but can also arrange repayment plans—which the company says has reduced unrecoverable debts by up to half.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-30
🔮 Like technology, the Santiago, Chile native moves fast, decamping to Mexico City less than a week after deciding Toku would enter the country.
2026-09-30 · TIME
Cristina Etcheberry · assertive framing

Claims (6 extracted, 0 hedged)

Cristina Etcheberry is helping businesses across Latin America collect recurring payments without friction. asserted
businesses → help → friction
Toku, a platform she co-founded in 2020, handles about $8 billion annually for more than 500 corporate customers, including Chevrolet and major insurers like Zurich and MetLife. asserted
she → co → Zurich
Toku aims to free businesses from chasing missed bills and matching payment records across disconnected banking systems. asserted
Toku → aim → systems
Like technology, the Santiago, Chile native moves fast, decamping to Mexico City less than a week after deciding Toku would enter the country. asserted
Toku → move → country
In 2025, it raised $48 million in a Series A, the largest ever for a woman-led startup in the region, and Etcheberry has big plans for the platform’s future. asserted
Etcheberry → raise → future
In March, Toku launched an AI agent that not only chases payments over WhatsApp, email, or voice, but can also arrange repayment plans—which the company says has reduced unrecoverable debts by up to half. asserted
company → launch → half
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