Logo Contxto

Brazil

Brazilian facial recognition startup, Acesso Digital, raises US$9.5 million

Contxto – Acesso Digital is a São Paulo-based startup that develops facial recognition technology. And things had been running smoothly...

January 29, 2020

TradeMachine raises equity for its stock investment algorithm

Contxto – Brazilian fintech TradeMachine raised an investment last week for R$2.2 million (over US$520,000) from Brazilian Energhias.  The funds...

January 28, 2020

Atomic Agro developed social media app for farmers, and now raises investment

Contxto – Brazilian agrotech startup Atomic Agro announced it raised R$2.5 million (over US$598,000) this week in an investment round...

January 27, 2020

iFood acqui-hires Brazilian startup for AI talent

Contxto – iFood, the unicorn from São Paulo acquired, er rather, acqui-hired Brazilian startup Hekima for an undisclosed amount. The...

January 27, 2020

In Brazil, Grow isn't growing—it's retreating and making layoffs

Contxto – Grow in Brazil is making a hasty retreat in various parts of the country. The micromobolity giant will...

January 25, 2020

Brazilian Leads2b raises funds for freebie version of marketing platform

Contxto – Brazilian marketing intelligence platform Leads2b is in 4 some money. The startup recently raised R$10 million (around US$2.4...

January 24, 2020

Woot P-400T! First Mexican designed and built military aircraft boosts poor southern state

Contxto – Mexico has just witnessed the creation of a purely Mexican-manufactured military-grade airplane—the Pegasus P-400T V3. This means that...

January 23, 2020

Fintech C6 hits milestone and makes incoming product announcement

Contxto – Another Brazilian fintech to reach a significant benchmark in customer growth is C6. The startup from São Paulo...

January 23, 2020

Brazilian OmniChat raises investment to expand communication API

Contxto – Brazilian communication startup OmniChat announced this week that it's raised a seed investment. While the exact amount wasn't...

January 23, 2020

Latam's startup ecosystem. How we got here and what's to come, according to Polymath Ventures

Contxto – Last year, 11 startups from Latin America hit the US$1 billion valuation mark. And steadily, international venture capital...

January 22, 2020