Author: Sebastian Naranjo
Every fortnight we compile a list of important news updates and events covering the Americas FINTECH, MFGTECH, CLNTECH, and AGRTECH sectors. For a downloadable copy of America’s Issue #37 FINTECH With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises
Every fortnight we compile a list of important news updates and events covering the Americas FINTECH, MFGTECH, CLNTECH, and AGRTECH sectors. For a downloadable copy of America’s Issue #35 FINTECH Brazilian fintech Cora raises $26.7M for SME banking solutionsCora, a
Every fortnight we compile a list of important news updates and events covering the Americas FINTECH, MFGTECH, CLNTECH, and AGRTECH sectors. For a downloadable copy of America’s Issue #34 FINTECH Mastercard accelerates deployment of digital first solutions in Latin America
Earlier this month, Javier Darío Fernández, executive director of Ruta N, a tech incubator and joint venture with the Colombian city of Medellin, announced that the Chinese ecommerce giant, Alibaba, would be signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to officialize
Every fortnight we compile a list of important news updates and events covering the Americas FINTECH, MFGTECH, CLNTECH, and AGRTECH sectors. For a downloadable copy of America’s Issue #33 FINTECH Homebrew backs Higo’s effort to become the ‘Venmo for B2B
Last month, Mercado Libre, the Argentinian e-commerce giant, launched a courses platform tailored to offer training to their sellers. Through a combination of face-to-face and online interactions, learning takes place both at their offices in Saavedra, Buenos Aires, and through
Rappi, a Colombian delivery startup, launched RappiBank and Rappi Travel, as part of its effort to continue developing a multipurpose ecosystem. According to the company, this step is part of its natural evolution. Since it already operates in nine countries
On January 7th 2021, MadeiraMadeira, a Brazilian homeware marketplace, became the first unicorn this year in Latin America, with its latest investment round of USD 190 million. Led by the Latin American investment fund of SoftBank, contributors to the compounded
German-based Wunder Mobility, a leader in the global transition to sustainable movement, announced it will power the car-sharing services, Kinto Share, for Purdy Group in Costa Rica. As the first carbon neutral certified automotive company in Latin America and a
With over three million active users, Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency and payment platform Crypto.com is looking to expand into Latin America. At the end of October 2020, the company announced they were hiring Filomena Ruffa as the new Latin America manager.