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How does a ride-hailing startup for corporate employees survive the quarantine?

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Uncertainty is the well-known battlefield for founders. In Latin America, even more so.   Nowadays it’s...

April 10, 2020

Here are 2 funding opportunities for startups with products taking on coronavirus

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Governments in Latin America are eager to find solutions to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. And...

April 6, 2020

To track or not to track? The ethical dilemma of monitoring isolation via IoT

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Startup In Loco is giving the government of Brazil a hand in tracking general levels...

April 6, 2020

Government releases app to slow spread of coronavirus… and fake news

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Mexico’s Ministry of Health presented its app to help users during the coronavirus last Wednesday...

April 3, 2020

There is one great equalizer for challenger and neo-banks in Mexico

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedd] Today we had our Morning Coffee with Sam Garcia, Senior Associate at Amplo—a venture fund Contxto –...

April 2, 2020

Delivery startup Yaigo enters Guatemala (and in the nick of time too)

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – The pandemic is putting a damper on many businesses’ expansion plans. But Bolivian delivery startup...

March 31, 2020

Here’s how the Colombian government is managing coronavirus on the streets

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – There are countries in Latin America that don’t want to take any chances with coronavirus...

March 30, 2020

AI: the Robin to doctors’ Batman in the fight against coronavirus?

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedd] Contxto – Artificial intelligence (AI) mixed with triage may just become our greatest ally in this fight...

March 30, 2020

Covid-19 fake news hacks its way onto government blockchain website

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Fake news respects no quarentine.  On March 14, the government in Argentina disclosed that its...

March 27, 2020

Sebastián Díaz steps down as Start-Up Chile’s Director, but why?

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Start-Up (SUP) Chile, a major government-funded accelerator, raised a lot of eyebrows last week. The...

March 17, 2020