Odd Industries

Contxto – Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, many households in Mexico bought their groceries online for the first time. An odd experience for some, a neat one for others, and if you’re Mexican Justo, it’s primetime for raising funds and scaling. Last Thursday (1) news broke that the online grocery delivery startup closed an additional […]

Contxto – The lines between industries are getting blurrier in Brazil.  Magazine Luiza, a major retailer and e-commerce platform recently bought AiQFome, a food delivery startup. Meanwhile, iFood—a food delivery startup owned by Movile—is now playing the role of fintech with the launch of a prepaid card and account for its restaurant partners. As competition […]

Contxto – The government in Chile had inaugurated its 5G lab “WOM,” in March of this year. These facilities were enabled to encourage startups to research and develop products using the “next level” in mobile network connectivity.  And to keep up with that momentum, authorities almost immediately launched a competition to help scale startups working […]

Contxto – “Small but spicy”, says a famous turn of phrase. And so, it is fitting that a little while after my last post about my go-to choices for Mexican startups to keep an eye on, here’s my take on startups in Chile—the spiciest medium-sized player on the Latam innovation and technology scene. Indeed, these […]

Contxto – In Mexico, Guadalajara is a city that’s pulling a lot of strings to ramp up its startup ecosystem.  For one, it’s made efforts to draw in multinational corporations like Hewlett Packard and Jabil. In 2012, the government launched its Digital Creative City (CCD) project to attract innovative industries like design, mobile app development, […]

Contxto – Multiple weeks of evaluation have resulted in the announcement of the upcoming Google Launchpad Accelerator in Mexico City. Although we mentioned in a previous version that there will be 10 Latin American startups participating in the winter batch, now there will only be 9 from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, as well as […]

Contxto – Last Tuesday, Chilean AI startup Odd Industries received a US$2 million investment, according to a recent press release. With new funding comes aspirations to fuel its development and expansion. In Summary Founded in March 2018, the company has already secured a significant amount of funding. While stakeholders remain undisclosed, we know all of […]