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Contxto – On October 9, 2020, the Mexican government took a break from its regularly scheduled Earth-bound matters to make an announcement that took many by surprise. Latin America was launching a unified regional Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE, as it is known in Spanish). The landmark agreement was signed alongside Argentina, making […]

Contxto – Moova, the self-proclaimed Airbnb of urban logistics startup from Argentina, duplicated its annual turnover expectation thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.   While the lock down forced many businesses to drastically change their ways in order to survive, some others like Moova benefitted from the conditions introduced by this global crisis. The company’s CEO, Antonio […]

Contxto – Humanity’s biggest nemesis in 2020, Covid-19, has highlighted the importance of facial recognition technology. As a result, startups working with these types of solutions have been drawing funding as of late. Though none more so than Brazilian Acesso Digital. Yesterday (21), news broke that SoftBank and General Atlantic co-led an investment in Acesso […]

Contxto – StartUp Chile announced its first generation of companies for its “Growth” accelerator. Launched in July of this year, the program aims to help more mature startups in Chile scale.  Besides mentoring and networking opportunities throughout the 12-month acceleration, selected startups are eligible to raise up to CLP$60 million (~US$77,000) in funding. For its […]

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 – You may think a deep-dive into pet startups—pettech—in Latin America might be a bit on the niche side. But, consider this: What […]

Contxto – The Covid-19 pandemic and social-distancing measures have left a big dent on small and medium-sized businesses. To help them recover, this year’s Visa Everywhere Initiative competition, alongside Finnovista, focused on startups from Latin America helping these businesses bounce back.  And this year it received over 300 applications, which was then shaved down to […]

Contxto – It might sound weird in an article about whether you should develop an app for your startup, but: Are you familiar with Dunbar’s Number? It stipulates the number of relationships that we can really sustain at once: 150. British anthropologist, Robin Dunbar, studied non-human primates and came to the conclusion that there is […]

Contxto – The cat’s out of the bag, people. Today (4) news broke that Petlove bought fellow Brazilian startup Vetus for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is part of Petlove’s plan to remain competitive with the likes of other Brazilian e-commerce platforms specializing in pet products like Petz and Cobasi. This acquisition is quite strategic […]

Contxto – While it had already invested in two startups, Fliper and Antecipa, XP Ventures—the new corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of asset manager XP Inc.—is officially declaring its launch into the world. And it has R$8 billion (~US$1.5 billion) of its own capital at hand to invest in startups. XP Ventures is in it […]

Contxto – Freshly funded with US$3.8 million from its Series A, BeeJobs is planning its upcoming launch into two Latin American countries this Friday (21). Throughout its three-year-run, the startup has worked with over 1,500 businesses distributed among Brazil, Mexico, and Romania. Now it’s chosen Colombia and Honduras as its next destinations because of their […]