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Road freight transport has just won a new ally: the Frete.com group, which becomes a new unicorn in LatAm

ZAK aims to unite fintech and SaaS and be a sub-acquirer for restaurants starting in Brazil and expanding in LATAM.

This news was seen coming since last March, when Mercado Libre announced it would invest $10 billion reais (about $1.8 billion) in Brazil to expand its logistics network; 150% more than in 2020. Today, this investment is materialized in Mercado Envios Extra, an on-demand delivery app. Aside from Argentina and Mexico, Brazil is one of […]

The Buenos Aires’based fintech Lemon has partnered with payments giant Visa to bring a new product to life: the Lemon Crypto Card. The card allows you to buy and pay with a 2% cashback in Bitcoin. With the new card, Lemon says it wants to make the use of cryptocurrencies more mainstream. This is Lemon’s […]

EdTech Aprende Institute raises $22 million to expand its presence in Spanish-speaking markets. Valor Capital Group led the investment round and raised $27 million in financing. Aprende Institute, a platform specialized in providing professional education online, closed a series A-II investment round for $22 million, reaching $27 million dollars in total financing. Valor Capital Group […]

Contxto – A new solar energy startup has joined the major leagues in Chile’s increasingly influential renewable energy sector. In the ranks of great companies like Inti Tech and Belinus, Sunai—a new solar power generating company—has just won big in Demo Day Platzi. Sunai is a platform that manages solar energy by collecting real time […]

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 – In an ideal world, accounts receivable departments always have a steady cash flow because customers pay for everything immediately. But most businesses know all too well that that’s rarely the case (if ever). In general, large companies are bulky enough to withstand these irregularities, while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can struggle. Startup […]

Contxto – Insurtech in Colombia has been growing continuously and steadily over the past few years. However, these insurance startups have not grown as fast as other financial services. But why do you think that is?  The reason may well be because of the naturally more conservative nature of the industry. This makes giant insurance […]

Contxto – If citizens in Latin America have a government-related issue to address, they have to jump through plenty of bureaucracy. To make matters worse, Covid-19 has put administrative offices in a fix. Social distancing means people can’t be cramped into waiting rooms as per their usual annoying protocol. In that sense, officials are sprinting […]