After raising US$65 million last February, according to Crunchbase, Jüsto announced that they would begin to expand throughout Mexico into several states including Jalisco, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Baja California, and Nuevo Leon. What we didn’t know is that they also had their sights set on going beyond the country: reaching Brazil and acquiring Freshmart in […]
Sandra Pérez
Periodista de tecnología y negocios basada en México. Escribí para Fortune en Español y Muy Interesante.
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Q&A | There is a Great Opportunity to Improve Delivery UX in Mexico: Tavo Zambrano, CEO, Skydropx
Once you click on the “Buy” button and your transaction is approved, you’ll most likely immediately start refreshing the page to see if your order is on the way. But while online shoppers normally expected it, offering this minute-by-minute tracking visibility is not as straightforward as it sounds. This is precisely what Skydropx, a logistics […]
Posted inMéxico
La Haus Accepts First Real Estate Transaction With Bitcoin in Mexico
Last November, Colombian proptech La Haus announced it would accept Bitcoin for real estate investments in Mexico. It didn’t take long: today, the company announced its first sale in Bitcoin. An apartment at Palais Tulum, a residential complex in the Mayan Riviera, Quintana Roo, was sold for 5.78 ₿. The buyer is a resident from […]
Posted inMexico, News
La Haus will accept Bitcoin for real estate investments in Mexico
Colombian proptech La Haus continues to attract attention. This time, it’s not just because of its high-profile investors like Jeff Bezos, but because the company will now accept Bitcoin for investing in real estate projects in Mexico. The project will begin in La Haus’s Kahaal real estate development that is underway in Playa del Carmen, […]
Posted inArgentina
Lemon partners with Visa to offer cashback rewards in crypto
The Buenos Aires’based fintech Lemon has partnered with payments giant Visa to bring a new product to life: the Lemon Crypto Card. The card allows you to buy and pay with a 2% cashback in Bitcoin. With the new card, Lemon says it wants to make the use of cryptocurrencies more mainstream. This is Lemon’s […]
Posted inMexico, News
Women tend to be better investors, but “they don’t believe it”: Mario Valle Reyes
According to a study from Finder, of the number of investors in Mexico – which does not exceed 1% of the national population –11% are women and 14% are men. This difference is partly explained by the gender gap that impacts women’s wages. They earn 14% less than men when performing the same job, according […]
Posted inBrazil, News
Nubank files to launch IPO on U.S. and Brazilian stock exchanges
Through its parent company, Nu Holdings, Nubank confidentially filed a F1 registration application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States, as well as the Reference Form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) in Brazil, for its proposed Initial Public Offering (IPO). While the company plans for the IPO to take […]
Posted inTechnology
The most promising fintech opportunities in LatAm
While placing an order through Mercado Libre, I was thinking that it is already very easy to pay on any e-commerce platform, no matter how big or small it is. This is because there are more fintech companies offering multiple payment solutions. This sector has been buzzing for more than 10 years, Rubén Galindo, CEO […]
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Conekta and Tiendanube create a strategy to boost SMEs sales
One of the recurring problems faced by bricks-and-mortar small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is to sell online. Not all of them can deal with the cost and friction of many e-commerce platforms and payment methods. This is precisely what has led Conekta, a Mexican payments company, and Tiendanube, an e-commerce storefront and logistics provider based […]
Posted inColombia, News
More financial services for Gen Z coming to LATAM
What would you have done with a debit card before you became an adult? I think I would have used it to buy concert tickets online. Growing up, I had just a couple of financial services: savings account at the bank and a card that pretended to be a debit card, but really wasn’t. For […]