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Cornershop’s struggle with Uber acquisition: Chile approves the union, only Mexico’s verdict to go

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – US mobility giant, Uber, is trying to purchase a majority stake in Chilean-Mexican last-mile delivery...

June 1, 2020

Stone acquires healthtech Vitta and invests in 3 other startups

Contxto – Fintech Stone is making its debut into healthcare (sort of). Expanding its scope, the Brazilian company bought Vitta,...

May 28, 2020

Escale buys Cobmax, proving CX is more important than ever

Contxto – Customer acquisitions startup, Escale, acquired customer-acquiring Cobmax (say that three times fast) and made the announcement last Monday...

May 27, 2020

Brazilian retailer, Via Varejo, acquires fintech Airfox

Contxto – More often than not, it’s banks that buy out fintechs. But this time around it’s a little different....

May 25, 2020

VTEX makes acquisitions to add logistics and AI services to e-commerce platform

Contxto – Certainly startups in e-commerce are among the big winners of the coronavirus pandemic. Reliance on digital means to...

May 21, 2020

Why Mercado Libre & Despegar are destined to opposite fates

Contxto – Like a classic romantic novel, Despegar and Mercado Libre seem to be destined to inversely correlated fates, at...

May 13, 2020

8-figure acquisition of architecture platform, ArchDaily, explains how (and what) new media is kicking ass

Contxto – It’s not which fish is bigger, it’s which one has the bigger appetite. The latest international acquisition of...

May 6, 2020

Squid buys Duopana to enter new frontier in influencer marketing

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Influencers (apparently) need their space. But not to distance themselves from their followers. Au contraire,...

April 27, 2020

Trust busted! Mexico’s anti-monopoly body fines WeWork and SoftBank US$138,000

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Like a crummy telenovela, Cofece—Mexico’s anti-trust institution—walked in to find that San Francisco-based, WeWork, and...

April 27, 2020

Colombian fintech Avista tenders to an oft-ignored market after aqui-hire of IdeasLab

[wd_hustle id=”InArticleOptin” type=”embedded”/] Contxto – Colombian fintech Avista has been busy lately. First, it raised a debt financing round for...

April 22, 2020