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Contxto – Fintechs continue to bring flexibility to the financial system of Latin America and investors are fueling the change. Today (22), Movile announced it led a US$11.4 million round for Brazilian fintech Zoop. The B2B startup will use the investment to speed up its ability to deploy its digital payment, banking, and credit solutions.  […]

Welcome to our new The Exclusive deep dive content about our Latin American ecosystem. We’re giving our registered newsletter users a sneak-peek of these soon-to-be paid for articles. powered by Typeform Contxto – Covid-19 made restaurants real sick—of established last-mile delivery options. Now, in a bid to cut out the middle-app, restaurants and tech are […]

Contxto – OMNi is a Costa Rican startup that operates in Central America and the Caribbean. It claims to have developed the first super-app in the region, offering e-bike sharing services, a neobank, and soon ride-hailing and digital payment solutions.  In correspondence with Contxto, David Luza Echeverría, Executive Assistant at OMNi, said he believes that […]

Contxto – What a week it must have been over at Mexican logistics startup, iVoy. When your users’ data has been potentially compromised, you have a lot to do. Last Tuesday (28), news broke that it was among a series of companies to experience a data breach. In the process, a reported 127,432 account users’ […]

Contxto – Uber has been looking to acquire startups lately. It’s still awaiting regulatory approval in Mexico to buy Chilean-Mexican grocery delivery startup, Cornershop. More recently it announced it’s buying San Francisco’s Postmates. But it’s not alone in this shopping spree.  Sources at Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (14) that German Delivery Hero may still have […]

Contxto – Death and trastes (dirty dishes) seem to be the only certainties in life during the Covid-19 pandemic. Everyone is looking to keep afloat as best they can, but where there is a struggle to survive there are clashes between competing interests. Related article: Cornershop and Domicilios.com to clash with Rappi for Colombia What […]

Contxto – Marketplace InstaAgro closed a seed investment for US$600,000. Rolesis Holdings, a family office, led the round. The startup’s target market are small farmers in Brazil who use the platform to buy supplies from manufacturers. InstaAgro’s value proposition is to offer users a more accessible and varied array of farming supplies, as opposed to […]

Contxto – The 2020 Mother’s Day ordeal continues for food delivery platforms in Colombia. On May 10th, their services were overloaded with work. That led to delays in orders, charges for services that weren’t carried out, delayed refunds, to name a few. Now to add to platforms’ woes, Colombia’s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) […]

Contxto – Couriers for Rappi, Uber Eats, and Glovo have a bone to pick with their respective food delivery platforms in Argentina. And they let them and the country’s Ministry of Labour Employment and Social Security know last Friday (8) when they hit the streets in an organized protest.  These deliverers asked for better salaries […]

Contxto – Mother’s Day came and went. And it’ll certainly be one for the history books. For the first time ever, it was celebrated under conditions of pandemic-induced self-isolation. And this unusual circumstance was felt by last-mile delivery platforms throughout Latin America. So much so that many were overwhelmed by requests and platforms shuttered and […]