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Beek’s Series A and Minu’s Funding Stand Out Among the Week’s LatAm Rounds

Beek Mexican platform Beek, a type of Audible for the Spanish language, announced a US$13 million Series A led by...

February 3, 2023

Big Wave of Layoffs This Month: These Were the Latam Startups With Significant Cutbacks

January was a month of significant layoffs in the global tech sector, with Silicon Valley giants—Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon—starring...

January 27, 2023

Luciana Reznik (Cedalio) On Why You Don’t Need To Understand the Blockchain to Benefit From It

Luciana Reznik spent more than 10 years building a company. She managed to sell it successfully, and when everything indicated...

January 26, 2023

The Intelligence Behind Runway

AI has been around since our earliest stories. According to Greek mythology, Talos was a bronze giant who guarded the...

January 20, 2023

Colombian Fintech Klym, Formerly Omnilatam, Raises US$27 Million

Colombian SME financing fintech KLYM, formerly Omni Latam, announced today a US$27 million investment round led by JPMorgan and the...

January 19, 2023

Nubank Obtains US$150 Million Loan To Strengthen Its Presence in Colombia

Brazil-based Nubank, one of the world’s largest digital banks, announced a US$150 million loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...

January 18, 2023

Amplifica Capital Closes Its First Fund: US$11 Million Targeting ‘Female First’ Startups

Almost two years after its birth, Amplifica Capital, the first VC in Mexico to invest in startups led by women...

January 17, 2023

Colombian Unicorn Habi Obtains Us$6 Million Loan To Acquire Low-income Housing

Less than a year after becoming the first proptech in Latin America to achieve unicorn status, Habi obtained a US$6.3...

January 12, 2023

HealthAtom, a Platform for Clinics, Raised US$10 Million To Continue Growing in LatAm

HealthAtom, cloud-based software for clinics and health centers to manage their business, announced a Series A for US$10 million. This...

January 9, 2023

Fintech Startup Aviva Raises US$2.2 Million To Bring Credit to Nano-businesses

Mexican fintech Aviva announced a US$2.2 million pre-seed round led by venture capital fund Wollef. Also participating were Newtopia VC,...

December 20, 2022