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Inter-American Development Bank will use US$600,000 to help small Mexican farmers through blockchain

Contxto – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced that US$600,000 are tagged to finance small agriculture farmers in Chiapas using...

November 29, 2019

Mendelics debuts at-home DNA test in Brazil, meuDNA, potentially opening a Pandora's genome

Contxto – From Portuguese to Japanese to Amerindian to African ancestry, Brazil is known, alongside South Africa, as a rainbow...

November 29, 2019

Mexican weex wallet is now Mibo and the neobank competition is heating up

Contxto – If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or in the case of Mexican neobank,...

November 29, 2019

Rappi 101: A quick review of how the last-minute delivery app got to where it is

Contxto – Pay no heed to what seems to be Rappi's trudge through the murky waters of controversy. On a...

November 28, 2019

Brazilian sales engagement news results in marriage of Exact Sales and Resultys

Contxto – Can you hear the wedding bells? It is the result of a sales engagement between Brazilian SaaS (Software...

November 28, 2019

Nubank debit payments for Spotify and Netflix from December 9

Contxto – Just yesterday, Brazilian fintech Nubank revealed that NuConta cardholders can look forward to making monthly debit payments for...

November 27, 2019

Brazilian tax breaks for startups in the works… hopefully

Contxto – The Brazilian government wants to beef up its startup ecosystem. The proverbial old-school, best-practice handbook dictates that this...

November 25, 2019

SoftBank leads US$140 million round in VTEX to fulfill global expansion goal

Contxto – "All your customer experiences. A unified commerce platform". This is the claim headlining VTEX's product description page. The...

November 25, 2019

Brazilian insurtech Pitzi raises over US$14.2 million boosted by QED Investors and WTI

Contxto – From top secret to public knowledge, Brazilian mobile insurance provider Pitzi recently revealed that it raised R$60 million...

November 20, 2019

Grow Mobility scraps Yellow app, combines rentals with Grin and Rappi platforms

Contxto – As per usual, changes are afoot at Grow. The mobility startup was born from the January 2019 merger...

November 19, 2019