Goldman Sachs returns to bet on a Latin American startup of financial technology, providing a secured loan of up to 100 million dollars to the Mexican Konfío. The transaction will help Konfío, which provides uninsured working capital to small and medium-sized businesses, to lend approximately $ 250 million over the…
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The Colombian foodtech venture, Muy Tech, continues to grow in Latin America and has already taken an important step towards achieving this goal. Recently this company managed to get the attention of a large investor worldwide who injected significant capital that will help this startup to fulfill its expansion plans.…
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Buguroo, TAPP Water, StudentFinance, Helloteca, Berdac, The Beemine Lab and Neki are startups that have captured the attention of several private investors to develop new business lines and expand markets. Buguroo The Spanish cybersecurity company, specialized in cutting-edge technology for the detection and prevention of online fraud, based on Deep…
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China’s pivot to Africa Three African fintech startups; OPay, PalmPay and East African trucking logistics company Lori Systems, closed large fundraises this year. On their own, the deals aren’t particularly notable, but together, they expose a new trend within the African startup ecosystem. This year, those three companies brought in…
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It is a cloudy and cold morning in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. An unprecedented competition in the technology-based entrepreneurship sector is getting ready to start in the corporate building of Wayra, Telefónica’s startup accelerator. The host, along with six other investment funds specialized in these types of projects,…
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For a local startup, Argentina’s crisis is bad news, but at the same time the export of its services offers them coverage that few small and medium-sized companies have today. This is stated by Leandro Sabignoso, co-founder partner of Auravant, a technology-based company aimed at the agricultural sector (AgTech) that…
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Despite its great potential and wealth of commodities, Latin America needs to move forward to facilitate controls and reduce bureaucracy to attract more investment, a task that Brazil has been trying to meet this year’s new reforms, Luciana M. said. Cossermelli Tornovsky. The lawyer spent the last 18 months preparing…
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This was stated by Gabriela Ruggeri, managing partner of the Kamay Ventures corporate investment fund, at MITA GDS at the MITA GDS event. Venture capital investment has quadrupled since 2016 in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); last year 7 unicorns were created in the region, distributed in Argentina, Brazil,…
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Is it possible that the US Federal Reserve’s decision to tighten its balance sheet contributed to bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market losing steam in 2018? If so, what should crypto investors expect from the independently-run central bank in the future? Mati Greenspan, the senior market analyst at trading platform…
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How to bring food to the customer, all dealers who want to sell online goods must consider. The Berlin logistics start-up Fliit offers a platform for this, where dealers can find suppliers. The startup is now receiving ten million euros in venture capital for the concept. The investors The Maersk…
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