Fundación Banco Nación y Endeavor Argentina entregaron el Premio a la Innovación con Impacto 2026 Diario Sur Noticias, Chile.
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 | 15:53
Banco Nación’s headquarters, in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires, filled up on the morning of October 29 with founders, investors and executives from the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The occasion was the Innovation with Impact Award, a competition that since its creation has sought to find, among hundreds of startups, those that manage to turn technology into concrete results for the economy.
The road to that day had begun months earlier, with a call for applications that ended up surpassing the two previous editions: 550 startups applied, a record for the competition. Of that pool, only eight reached the final stage and had the chance to present their projects, in person, to the jury waiting for them at the bank’s headquarters. Fintech, employability and agtech were the sectors that concentrated the finalists, showing the diversity of fields where measurable, impact-driven innovation is being sought today.
Selection criteria
The jury evaluated the finalists on their ability to scale the business, generate measurable economic impact and sustain a model with concrete results with clients, beyond the product development stage. Among the eight finalists, the award went to a proposal focused on the technological modernization of the financial system.
The winning company
The winner was N5, a company that develops a platform that lets banks, insurers and other financial institutions update their systems without replacing the core technology they already have in place, adding business modules and artificial intelligence agents on top of that existing infrastructure. According to the information provided, the company is present in 18 countries and works with institutions such as Santander, Mastercard, Itaú, Zurich and Banco do Brasil, where it reports 53% higher sales productivity. That combination of regional scale, major clients and measurable results was, according to the award’s organizers, what tipped the jury’s decision among the 550 applicants.
The view from Chile
The recognition took place in Buenos Aires, but the award-winning business model has an open chapter in Chile. The country is moving toward Open Finance adoption ahead of 2027 under the Fintech Law, passed in 2023, in a financial system that, together with Brazil and Mexico, is among the most mature in the region. For Chilean banks and insurers, the challenge posed by this transition is not only regulatory but technical: integrating open data into their core systems without sacrificing security or speed of response to the customer, the same problem the award-winning platform addresses.
What the award includes
As part of the recognition, the winner receives USD 15,000 for the development and scaling of its project, strategic mentoring from the Endeavor network and access to Banco Nación’s business networking program, with the stated goal of supporting the growth of technology companies with prospects in the Argentine economy.
Sources
Ecosistema Startup — N5, startup que moderniza bancos, gana premio en Argentina
Contexto Tucumán — N5 ganó el Premio a la Innovación con Impacto 2026
Diario Huarpe — La startup N5 ganó el premio de Banco Nación y Endeavor Argentina
La Gaceta — Entre 550 startups, N5 ganó Premio Innovación 2026
