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Kriptos Raises US$3.1 Million To Address Sensitive Data Breach

Artificial intelligence startup Kriptos, which automates classifying and identifying companies’ sensitive information, raised an investment round for US$3.1 million, led...

June 15, 2022

Ualá Launches Its First Financial Education Platform in Mexico

Whenever a new fintech with B2C services arrives in Latin America, it is common for them to say that one...

June 9, 2022

Payment Platform Kushki, Latam’s Newest Unicorn and the First From Ecuador

The payments platform Kushki was valued at US$1.5 billion in its latest round of financing, an extension of its Series...

June 7, 2022

‘Rework’, by Magdalena Maino (Depto51)

REWORKJason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson2010     I read it about five years ago, but I always flip through it...

June 7, 2022

Talently Raises US$3 Million in a Seed Round To Increase its Presence in Latam

In addition, the startup is launching a platform that promises to reduce recruitment costs by up to 50%. Talently, which...

June 2, 2022

Platanus Ventures Increases to 15 The Number of Startups it Will Invest in by 2022

After Platanus Ventures announced last October that it would raise its investment ticket in startups to US$100 thousand, the Chilean...

May 31, 2022

User Authentication Startup Truora Acquires Brazil’s ZapSign

Although the transaction amount was not disclosed, the Colombian user authentication startup Truora announced today that it had acquired the...

May 31, 2022

Camila Russo and the Crypto Crisis: “Those Who Suffer the Most Are the Ones Who Are Looking to Make Quick Profits.” 

“It doesn’t scare nor surprise us,” says Camila Russo regarding the shakeup that the crypto world has had during the...

May 31, 2022

Lucas Melman (Betterfly): “There Is No Other Company Doing What We Are Doing”

Only three unicorns have emerged from Chile so far: Cornershop, NotCo, and Betterfly, which only joined the club last February...

May 25, 2022

Nowports, A New Unicorn From Mexico

Nowports, a Mexican logistics company from Monterrey, Nuevo León, has secured a US$150 million Series C investment, making it the...

May 24, 2022