Argentina’s Ualá became the most recent Latin American fintech to receive a growth-stage funding ($150 million) from Asian investors, Tencent and Softbank. This marks Tencent’s second round of investment in Ualá, the first coming in April 2019. Tencent also invested $180M in Brazil’s leading neobank, Nubank in 2018. With Ualá,…
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Sioux Falls’ entrepreneurship community welcomed in the Thanksgiving Day holiday by hosting a panel discussion with the founder of vegan food brand Tofurky. Tofurky founder and CEO, Seth Tibbott participated in a discussion hosted by Zeal, Startup Sioux Falls, and the South Dakota Biotech Association on Wednesday. The event at…
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The startup Piurana Agros achieved the worldwide victory of the Inclusive Innovation Challenge in the Access to Technology category, organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “This award goes in recognition to our entire team and, above all, to the thousands of family farmers we are impacting and changing…
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Petr Andrýsek is a Czech entrepreneur who has been involved in e-sport for some time. For the first time he began to break into it when he joined the Madmonq project. That was three years ago, and Andrýsek wanted to help with marketing, promotion and expansion into the United States,…
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The Basque startup Poween devised a smart kit to achieve 30% energy savings in homes The initiative, which has received support from the SPRI Group, leads to cheaper water, electricity and heating consumption. The product, within the Internet of Things sector, controls the consumption through the mobile. Poween is a…
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A British startup is teaching farmers how to grow crops using water from a source which won’t run out – the sea. Seawater Solutions is helping farmers on Scotland’s west coast adapt to the reality of less rain by choosing salt-resistant plants and developing saltmarshes – land flooded by tidal…
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Canadian startup carrier Canada Jetlines has filed a lawsuit against David Neeleman and two of his companies after alleging that Neeleman and his companies derailed Jetlines’ financial plans when they poached Jetlines’ CEO Lukas Johnson. In the lawsuit, Jetlines is seeking $27 million USD in damages as they believe that…
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Platform Calgary and The League of Innovators have joined forces to celebrate the achievements of the startup founders who have graduated from the fall cohorts of the League of Innovators (LOI) Labs in Edmonton, and Junction in Calgary. Founder Showcase takes place November 28, 2019 at the Hilton Garden Inn…
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Gorgias, a startup offering artificial intelligence tools for customer service and support, is announcing that it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Romain Lapeyre told me that the startup is taking advantage of a broader shift as brands are looking to sell directly to consumers,…
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César Hernández, Director of Startup Mexico in Nuevo Laredo and founder of Impulso 4 years ago, reported that ‘Entrepreneurial Impulse’ returns stronger and more structured. About the initiative “It is an initiative that I founded with other colleagues four years ago, today this initiative evolves and what we want to…
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