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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 – Startups in Paraguay are as interesting as this often ignored corner of the Latin American ecosystem is. Yet, there is a common trend to be seen as in the rest of the region. It was one we detected almost exactly a year ago when we wrote a market map of fintech startups in […]

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. Contxto—Politics, football, and Tesla’s current stock price all have one thing in common with SoftBank—Latin America’s largest foreign investor—; you should never mention them in conversation unless […]

Contxto – Every year, over 462,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer across the Americas. Of these, nearly 100,000 will die. These grim numbers seem to leave little room for hope, but luckily Latin America has a host of breast cancer startups looking to stop the disease in its tracks.  So, to mark Breast Cancer […]

Contxto – Some might think that the story of fintech in Latin America is that of an underdog: A rebellious bunch of disruptors playing by their own rules and trying to conquer a game as old as time. However, the most recent strategy adopted by challenger banks doesn’t portray them as dissidents – in fact, […]

Contxto – “I truly believe in the molding, values, and lessons you learn through sports regardless of whether you’re a high performance athlete or not.” This is the vision former Olympic swimmer Thiago Pereira is bringing as a team member for Bossa Nova’s newest investment project. This past Thursday (1), the Brazilian venture capital fund […]

Our ecosystem is on the move and so are our Market Maps. Don’t get caught off guard and sign up for this, and even more, content moving to our upcoming premium platform, New Money: powered by Typeform Contxto – The concept behind what logistics startups in Mexico do may seem easy to glean at first. […]

Today’s Soapbox opinion was written by Jia Li Tan, an Investment Professional at ALLVP. Contxto – On September 16, Mexicans around the world celebrate “Día de la Independencia”; the anniversary of the country’s independence from Spain.  It is the day when the whole of Mexico celebrates and takes a day off work. It was on […]

Contxto – Strap Technologies wants to change the way its users explore the world. Through a wearable device, the Mexican startup wants to help blind people gain more independence. Its product isn’t available for shipping yet—users will have to wait until the summer of next year. Strap Technologies’s device Unlike the thin cane commonly used […]

Contxto – In Chile, Corfo, ACHS, and the startup Burn to Give have partnered to provide a aid to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) struggling to help their own struggling workers during Covid-19. The pandemic recession is hitting countries hard, and the smallest and weakest the hardest. This is both in terms of working folks as […]