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Alaya Capital, Which Has Invested in Betterfly and Houm, Will Allocate An Additional US$100M to Latam

The Argentinian venture capital firm Alaya Capital launched a third US$100 million fund to invest in Latin American startups. The...

January 3, 2022

The Latam Startups in Which SoftBank Invested During 2021

Several factors can explain the recent increase in the number of Latin American unicorns. The injection of capital from investors...

January 3, 2022

What’s Happening in Latam in 2022, According To Regional Investors

Nobody has a crystal ball to see the future. However, and using another fantastic analogy, there are crumb trails that...

December 30, 2021

Tiendanube Creates An E-commerce Investment Fund

In 2021, the startup received two investment rounds that led it to become an ecommerce unicorn in Latin America

December 16, 2021

Q&A | If You Win The Mexican Market, You Win a Third of Latam: Alan Karpovsky, Co-founder, Mendel

The announcement came in early December: Mendel, a Mexican corporate card and expense management company, raised US$35 million in a...

December 7, 2021

Blockchain.com Acquires Crypto Firm SeSocio, and Expands In Latin America

Just a few days ago I wrote in Contxto about how DeFi, or decentralized finance, is having its big moment...

December 2, 2021

Swvl Acquires Argentinian Startup ViaPool and Plans IPO via SPAC

ViaPool was created 10 years ago in Argentina as an alternative solution to public transport. It was launched in Chile...

November 18, 2021

Lemon partners with Visa to offer cashback rewards in crypto

The Buenos Aires’based fintech Lemon has partnered with payments giant Visa to bring a new product to life: the Lemon...

November 8, 2021

Fintech startup Pomelo raises $35M Series A led by Tiger Global

Fintech company Pomelo had just raised a $9 million seed funding round a few months ago, but has already announced...

October 21, 2021

Argentine Wimet rewrites office space rules post-Covid

Contxto – 2020 might very well be remembered as the year we swapped suits for sweatpants. The Covid-19 pandemic has...

October 15, 2020