O-lab Inc, OZARU and HackÜ: EdTech Ventures Win TecPrize

• The award recognizes solutions that are working to close workforce skills gaps in Latin America through the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
• The 10 finalist ventures presented their proposals at the IFE Conference 2026.
• The EdTech ecosystem at the Institute for the Future of Education of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Educational Group provides ongoing support and mentoring.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, 28 January 2026.- As part of the IFE Conference 2026, the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) of the Tecnológico de Monterrey Educational Group announced that O-lab Inc, OZARU and HackÜ are the winning ventures of the TecPrize 2025. The winning solutions are working to close workforce skills gaps in Latin America through the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

First place went to O-lab Inc (Colombia), a workplace simulation engine and AI tutors focused on skills-based learning, developed by Diego Guerrero; second place went to OZARU (Mexico), an AI copilot to optimize the work of frontline teams, led by Guillermo Garza; and third place went to HackÜ (Colombia), a gamified microlearning platform for deskless workers, led by Juan Miguel Salazar.

The three winning projects will receive a support program designed to strengthen their impact and scalability. In addition, the winners, together with the seven finalists, will take part in 3 months of support and an bootcamp on impact measurement. The award provides a cash incentive of 30 thousand dollars for first place, 20 thousand for second place, and 10 thousand for third place.

As part of the program benefits, one of the three winning projects will be admitted to the USC Education Technology Accelerator at the University of Southern California – Rossier School of Education, strengthening its international reach.

About TecPrize

For six years, TecPrize has brought together entrepreneurs, startups, and interdisciplinary teams to co-create responses to real educational challenges through collective intelligence, cross-sector dialogue, and access to networks for knowledge, mentoring, and experimentation. In its sixth edition, the program received more than 140 proposals from 20 countries, reflecting the region’s growing educational innovation ecosystem.

The award has established itself as a platform for educational innovation: winning and finalist projects have raised more than 4 million dollars in capital, reached more than 2.5 million learners, and one finalist startup has achieved an exit/acquisition, demonstrating the potential of solutions when they have the right environment to grow.

TecPrize is an open innovation initiative of the Institute for the Future of Education that seeks to activate talent, connect ideas, and create pathways for high-impact educational solutions to find the conditions they need to transform learning and work in Latin America and the Caribbean.

About the Institute for the Future of Education (IFE)

The Institute for the Future of Education (https://tec.mx/en/ife) is an interdisciplinary research institute at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Its mission is to improve people’s lives by transforming higher education and lifelong learning around the world. The Institute creates, disseminates, and applies research-based educational innovation to improve learning ecosystems and practices, engaging in a range of activities, including research, educational technology entrepreneurship, consulting, impact projects, advocacy, and community development worldwide.‍

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