Soy Puente

What Soy Puente does

Soy Puente (Fundación Soy Puente) is a Chilean non-profit foundation, headquartered in Santiago, that repairs donated used notebooks and deploys them as free, public computer laboratories in geographically isolated communities. Founded with its first site in 2019 on Isla Meulín in the Chiloé archipelago, the organization has expanded to at least eight laboratories across Chilean island, border, and urban-periphery communities — plus one international site in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya — collectively serving several hundred users through free internet access, homework support, digital literacy workshops, and connectivity to the broader world in locations where the State and commercial telecom operators rarely reach.

The foundation's operating model centers on a refurbishment pipeline: individuals and companies donate decommissioned notebooks, which Soy Puente repairs internally and redeploys with 4G and Wi-Fi connectivity inside rural schools, neighborhood association halls (juntas de vecinos), and community centers. Each laboratory is established in partnership with a local institution — most notably the Amani Kibera Center in Kenya, which provided physical space and ongoing community access for the international deployment. Reported beneficiary outcomes include 120+ active users at the Visviri laboratory and 100+ families served with 25 students receiving a three-week digital literacy program at the Kibera laboratory.

Soy Puente provides all services free of charge to end users and is funded exclusively through individual and corporate donations processed via recurring MercadoPago subscriptions, with separate donation flows for used PCs and monetary contributions. The foundation operates with a lean team of approximately 6 employees and has no disclosed institutional investors, grants, or programmatic revenue, positioning it as a community-driven philanthropy rather than a commercial enterprise.

Name

Soy Puente

Legal name

Fundacion Soy Puente

Website

https://soypuente.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Soy Puente is a Chilean non-profit foundation that refurbishes donated notebooks and deploys them as free public computer laboratories in geographically isolated communities across Chile and Kenya, serving end users with internet access and digital literacy training.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Inclusion Services

akta.pro primary industry

Education Access & Quality (International Development) (BPAGABAE)

Keywords

• Computer refurbishment services
• Digital inclusion programs
• Community computer labs
• Non-profit technology access
• Used notebook repair

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Soy Puente is a non-profit foundation that repairs donated notebooks and deploys them as free, publicly accessible computer laboratories in remote and isolated communities. It operates laboratories in underserved geographies across Chile and Kenya, equipping each site with refurbished hardware, internet connectivity, and basic digital literacy training, with the goal of providing digital access and inclusion to populations excluded from state or commercial digital infrastructure.

Product overview

Soy Puente is a Chilean foundation that operates as a dual-purpose service: (1) it repairs and refurbishes donated used notebooks, and (2) it deploys these repaired computers as free, public computer laboratories in remote and isolated communities in Chile and internationally. The organization's core offering combines hardware refurbishment services with community technology access programs, creating computer labs in rural schools, community centers, and neighborhood associations across locations including the Chiloé Archipelago, Visviri, Kibera (Kenya), Chaitén, and La Pintana.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Public Computer Laboratories (Laboratorios de Computación Públicos y Gratuitos)

Quantifiable outcome

• 5 computer laboratories created across Chiloé archipelago islands
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Amani Kibera CentercoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership with Amani Kibera social center in Nairobi, Kenya to establish a computer laboratory serving over 100 families in one of Africa's largest informal settlements. Soy Puente provided 15 repaired computers and 3 weeks of digital literacy training to 25 students, while the center provided the physical space and ongoing community access.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Close the Gap: Belgian non-profit that refurbishes donated IT equipment and distributes it to educational, medical, and social projects in developing countries. Operates an almost identical value chain — donated hardware in, refurbished labs out — and serves comparable end beneficiaries.
• Computer Aid: UK-based non-profit that refurbishes donated computers and deploys them in schools and community organizations across Africa, Latin America, and the developing world. Closely comparable operating model — donated hardware, refurbishment, partner-led lab installations — and the most direct international peer to Soy Puente.
• InterConnection: Seattle-based non-profit that refurbishes donated computers and ships them to NGOs, schools, and libraries in the developing world. Same mission, same inputs (donated hardware), same outputs (community-access computer labs), and a directly comparable scale of operations.
• World Computer Exchange: Non-profit that collects and refurbishes used computers and ships them to schools and community centers in developing countries, paired with digital-literacy training. Directly comparable to Soy Puente on the full stack: hardware collection, refurbishment, international deployment, training.
• Camara Education: Irish-founded non-profit that refurbishes donated computers and delivers digital literacy teacher training in schools in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Highly comparable mission and delivery model (refurbished hardware + education deployment), serving similar community computer-lab use cases.

Regional players

• Fundación Computación para Todos: Latin American non-profit programs that refurbish and distribute computers to underserved schools and communities in the region. Comparable regional scope, though limited public information on its current scale. Listed as a regional peer rather than verified direct peer due to limited data.
• TechnoServe: International non-profit focused on economic development in Latin America and Africa, including digital-inclusion and education initiatives. While broader in scope (poverty alleviation rather than hardware-led), it operates in similar geographies and engages similar rural community ecosystems in Chile-adjacent regions.

Broad incumbents

• Goodwill Industries International (Dell Reconnect partnership): Operates a national e-waste and refurbishment infrastructure including the Dell Reaccept/Reconnect drop-off program, diverting millions of used computers from landfill. A broader incumbent that operates upstream in Soy Puente's hardware-input supply chain and could compete for the same corporate IT-refresh donations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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