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This Week in Startups: SoftBank Opens New Fund for Latinos and Perfekto Closes Due to Lack of Capital

This has been a week of stark contrasts. Among the positive developments, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank announced a new fund....

May 19, 2023

Platanus Ventures Unveils its Sixth Cohort of Startups, Each Garnering a $100,000 Investment

For the selection process, the accelerator used artificial intelligence to examine the business models still popular in the region.  ...

May 18, 2023

This Week in Startups: Mimo Live Sales and Pluria Receive Capital, While Merama Sues Chilean Company

Brazilian live shopping startup Mimo Lives Sales received funding from Cencosud Ventures, the corporate venture capital unit of Chilean retailer...

May 5, 2023

This Week in Startups: Clara and Fairplay Raise Million-Dollar Rounds, and Unicorns Make Alliances

In 2022, financing through venture debt and credit lines for startups increased by 94%, according to Endeavor and Glisco Partners...

April 28, 2023

Clara Raises US$60 Million in a Round Led by GGV Capital

Clara, the Mexican corporate expense management unicorn in Latin America, today announced the closing of a US$60 million investment round...

April 26, 2023

Major Investment in Habi and Seed Capital for Instaleap and Kala Stand Out Among Recent Funding Rounds in in Latin America

Global venture capital funding and deals continued to fall in Q1 2023, as revealed by the market data platform CB...

April 24, 2023

Buentrip Ventures Announced Fund With an Emphasis on Ecuadorian Startups and Support From IDB Lab

BuenTrip Ventures, which started in 2016 as a community for entrepreneurs and since 2021 is a VC, announced the opening...

February 8, 2023

Beek’s Series A and Minu’s Funding Stand Out Among the Week’s LatAm Rounds

Beek Mexican platform Beek, a type of Audible for the Spanish language, announced a US$13 million Series A led by...

February 3, 2023

Juan Pablo Lafosse on How ‘NFTickets’ Could Change the Travel Industry

In 2022, Juan Pablo Lafosse traveled more than 400,000 miles by plane, but this is not new for the entrepreneur...

February 1, 2023

Expanding to Mexico: What Startups From Other LatAm Countries Need To Know

Life changed for Benjamín Santa María in 2022. He is the founder and CEO of Reversso, a startup that solves...

January 11, 2023