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Fintual se expande a México mediante su alianza con Invermerica

Contxto – La fintech chilena, Fintual, está dando los primeros pasos en su expansión hacia México. De acuerdo con un...

February 11, 2020

Government in Chile delays Uber’s acquisition of Cornershop

Contxto – Cornershop, the Chilean/Mexican startup, is once again expanding throughout Latin America. On January 20, it finally entered the...

February 11, 2020

AWS tags US$235 million to expand its cloud infrastructure in Latin America

Contxto – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is raising its stake on cloud computing infrastructure in Latin America. Proof of this...

February 10, 2020

Fintech Pago Fácil to enter Peru with US$350,000 to help SMEs

Contxto – Fintech Pago Fácil had been eying the Peruvian market since mid-2019. However, the startup recently revealed it’s tagged...

February 7, 2020

Chilean fintech Global66 raises US$3.25 million for its remittances platform

Contxto – Santiago-based fintech, Global66, raised US$3.25 million in January. The round saw the participation of British venture capital (VC)...

February 6, 2020

Glovo withdraws from 2 more countries in Latin America

Contxto – January 2020 was not friendly towards massive growth startups, as Glovo recently learned.  Near the end of this...

February 4, 2020

Uber is out of Colombia! Some fun facts and serious consequences

Contxto – For many, January couldn’t end soon enough. But February 1, 2020 was a day the Colombian branch of...

February 4, 2020

¡Uber se va de Colombia! Datos curiosos y graves consecuencias

Contxto – Para muchos, enero duró una eternidad. Pero el primero de febrero del 2020, fue un día que la...

February 4, 2020

Chile’s ride-hailing legislation moves forward, Uber isn’t happy

Contxto – In Chile, the Senate’s Commission on Transportation moved the country’s “Uber Bill,” as it’s commonly referred to, along...

February 1, 2020

Latam’s startup ecosystem. How we got here and what’s to come, according to Polymath Ventures

Contxto – Last year, 11 startups from Latin America hit the US$1 billion valuation mark. And steadily, international venture capital...

January 22, 2020