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Why Do Startups In Latam Need Alternative Paths to Liquidity

*By Carlos Naupari Back in 2014, I took a job at Easy Taxi in Mexico as Country Manager with no...

January 26, 2022

Vest Launches Zero-Commission App For Latam Investors To Trade On Nasdaq and NYSE

Vest, a company created by entrepreneurs from Mexico and the U.S., has launched a Latam-focused app for commission-free trading in...

January 26, 2022

Colombian Startup Tul Raises US$181 Million To Digitize Hardware Stores

Tul is a startup dedicated to optimizing the construction materials supply chain. It focuses specifically on digitizing hardware stores. Yesterday,...

January 13, 2022

Uber Eats Exits Brazil; Cornershop Takes Center Stage

Uber, which launched its Uber Eats home delivery platform in August 2014, recently announced that they will discontinue this service...

January 11, 2022

Alaya Capital, Which Has Invested in Betterfly and Houm, Will Allocate An Additional US$100M to Latam

The Argentinian venture capital firm Alaya Capital launched a third US$100 million fund to invest in Latin American startups. The...

January 3, 2022

Nowports closes a US$60m Series B round led by Tiger Global

Digital cargo company Nowports announced a new US$60 million investment round, one of the largest Series B in Latin America...

December 29, 2021

Belvo and Visa Partner To Grow Latam’s Open Finance Ecosystem

Belvo, a Mexican platform that links app developers with their end-users, announced their partnership with Visa. According to a press...

December 16, 2021

Kavak Makes Two Strategic Decisions Before The Year Ends

Kavak kicks off the week with a strategic series of news. The first is that they completed the acquisition of...

December 2, 2021

Cybersecurity Company Hackmetrix Raises US$1.5M in a Seed Round Led by Cometa Ventures

Chilean cybersecurity company Hackmetrix announced a new seed round of US$1.5 million led by Cometa Ventures. Amador Holding, Hero Capital,...

November 29, 2021

Castor raises $1.8 million to offer pay-on-demand

In a bid to increase banking penetration in Latin America, Mexican fintech company Castor closed a $1.8 million pre seed...

November 12, 2021