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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

Nestlé and Angel Ventures are hungry for foodtech, launch US$100 million fund

Contxto – Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico aspire to be a fearsome foursome for their entrepreneurs through their regional trade...

November 28, 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

The pitch decks of 20 Latin American startups that raised over US$1 million

Today we had our Morning Coffee with Katie Griffing, co-founder of Launchway Media Contxto – Raising startup funding in Latin...

November 28, 2019

Ainnovar, the University of Chile’s incubator, offers good money… with a few hoops to jump through

Contxto – High-impact, early-stage Chilean startups specializing in biotech, science, communication, and information technology have until December 8 to apply...

November 28, 2019

Peruvian edtech Laboratoria and IBM will train more than 500 women in IT

Contxto – The world needs more women in IT. Take note: this isn’t just a matter of inclusion. It’s also...

November 28, 2019

Argentine agrotech S4 collaborates with IBM to get food on the blockchain

Contxto – Productive risk management for crops is S4’s specialty. So now, according to Cointelegraph, this Argentine startup will now...

November 27, 2019