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Delivery startup, iVoy, experiences data breach, over 127,000 accounts exposed

Contxto – What a week it must have been over at Mexican logistics startup, iVoy. When your users’ data has...

August 3, 2020

Cornershop forges partnership with Emptor to automate background checks

Contxto – As Chilean-Mexican Cornershop looks to scale throughout Latin America, it needs help carrying out background checks for its...

August 3, 2020

How Latam startups are saving local corner shops

Contxto – No neighborhood in Latin America is complete without at least one corner store. Or tienditas, as we call...

July 31, 2020

ImagineX enters Upward accelerator, raises US$300,000

Contxto – Upward hosts an accelerator program to promote agetechs and proptechs that are innovating our way of living and...

July 31, 2020

David and Goliath, how this YC startup is taking on Rappi

Contxto – “Don’t do it,” acquaintances told Justo founders, Rodrigo Segal and Nicolás López, when they said they wanted to...

July 31, 2020

Why EBANX sees big potential in its payment processing service in Uruguay

Contxto – Fintech EBANX launched operations in its ninth Latin American country, Uruguay, this week. Correspondingly, merchants there will now...

July 31, 2020

Edtech Classpert closes US$965,000 looking to boost content before Covid bonanza ends

Contxto – Even prior to the coronavirus outbreak, Iporanga Ventures had seen potential in edtech Classpert and its online content....

July 31, 2020

Insurtech ARCA closes US$1.2M seed round with Magma and LEAP

Contxto – In Mexico, insurance is viewed as costly and filled with confusing jargon. So the natural thing people do...

July 30, 2020

Edtech Netzun sees 750 percent surge in users, plans to scale in Latam

Contxto – Users’ attraction to online classes has been almost as contagious as Covid-19 in recent months. Correspondingly, edtechs that...

July 30, 2020

Fintech Magnetis closes US$11 million with Redpoint and Vostock Emerging

Contxto – Brazilian’s interest in investing is growing, and venture capital (VC) funds have taken notice. Yesterday (29), investment fintech...

July 30, 2020