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MOL acquires Robobiz to improve consumer complaint processing—with Artificial Intelligence

Contxto – Lawsuits are expensive, long, and tedious processes within the legal system. To make matters worse, Covid-19 has further...

September 1, 2020

The roadmap for autonomous delivery bots and drones in Latin America

Contxto – When we envision the future, drones and autonomous vehicles are often a critical part of that picture. So...

September 1, 2020

Green agtech and foodtech can help bring 22.5 million jobs to Latin America

Contxto – Latin America could become quite the powerhouse in terms of job creation in the future. A recent study...

August 31, 2020

Fewer dead bodies to prod: Changing healthcare with VR tech

Contxto – Almost all careers call for practical experience—but none more so than medicine. Unfortunately, budget constraints and growing demand...

August 31, 2020

A bit of light shined on rumored US$300 million Nubank round

Contxto – Dang nabbit Nubank. It’s hard to keep up with you lately.  Almost a week ago the Brazilian fintech...

August 27, 2020

US$17 million loss was planned, says Nubank CFO

Contxto – In the spirit of transparency, fintech Nubank recently published its financial results for the first half of 2020...

August 26, 2020

Kestraa wants to move import-export processes onto the cloud with US$2.7 million round

Contxto – Behind every imported product you own, multiple stakeholders were involved as were dozens of emails and at least...

August 24, 2020

Despegar wants to take flight with US$200M investment and fintech acquisition

Contxto – Has the time come for travel platform Despegar to take off again? Today (21), the publicly-traded company presented...

August 24, 2020

Following accounting scandal, Wirecard sells ops in Brazil to PagSeguro

Contxto – Following a scandal of tampered accounting books, the dismantling of German Wirecard’s global operations has begun. Today (21)...

August 21, 2020

EBANX’s Leve to connect e-commerce US vendors with Brazilian consumers

Contxto – Whaddya get when you cross a fintech unicorn with a large e-commerce market? An international logistics company. Enter...

August 21, 2020