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SoftBank, General Atlantic bet US$107M on facial biometrics startup, Acesso Digital

Contxto – Humanity's biggest nemesis in 2020, Covid-19, has highlighted the importance of facial recognition technology. As a result, startups...

September 22, 2020

Rede Vistorias closes US$1 million to scale survey platform for real estate industry

Contxto – Investing in real estate can be a high-stakes game. Consequently, it's important that decision makers have every bit...

September 22, 2020

Brokerage platform Ideal raises US$18.4 million with Kaszek Ventures

Contxto – Brazil continues to be a hotbed of investments in investment startups. Today (21), Ideal, a brokerage platform announced...

September 21, 2020

Amazon is scaling operations and services across Latin America

Contxto – E-commerce giant Amazon has been very busy in Latin America as of late.  Earlier this month, it announced...

September 21, 2020

Visa Everywhere Initative announces 10 startup finalists

Contxto – The Covid-19 pandemic and social-distancing measures have left a big dent on small and medium-sized businesses. To help...

September 18, 2020

BeGreen raises US$3 million to open more urban farms in Brazil

Contxto – Food waste is often the outcome of transporting fruit and veggies from rural areas to supermarkets and restaurants...

September 18, 2020

iFood acquires SiteMercado as e-grocery competition intensifies

Contxto – Delivery de Mercado—iFood's marketplace of restaurants and supermarkets—grew 240 percent last August when compared to March of this...

September 18, 2020

Fintech Quanto closes US$15 million to give open banking power to the people

Contxto – Brazil will begin rolling out its open banking regulations as of next November. And as the date rolls...

September 17, 2020

Latin America's startups are beating old and new Covid bureaucracy with legaltech

Contxto – If citizens in Latin America have a government-related issue to address, they have to jump through plenty of...

September 14, 2020

Goldman Sachs leads US$22.5 million investment in fintech iugu

Contxto – Collections departments have their work cut out for them: endless accounts and invoices to keep track of and...

September 14, 2020