Colombia Startup 2018 is now underway having announced the final eighteen startups for their summit this November. The finalists were chosen from 300 startups that applied and will be offered the chance to present their innovative ideas before investors in the hope of scaling them to new heights. The startups run through the gamut of
Recently voted the 4th most attractive Brazilian startup to work for by LinkedIn, Docket is the online platform that allows for fast and affordable document registrations. As a business, its three main aims are to facilitate finding, managing and analysing documents. Having received acceleration from Google Launchpad, the three-person team that started out in 2016
Is the belief that professional and personal lives should be kept separate outdated? Startups across Latin America are working to prove so. For years, research has suggested that employees who did not establish a clear boundary between their work and home lives were less likely to be able to relax and switch off in their
In this series we look to the graduates of Founder Institute’s Bogota program. Among the many accelerator programs in Colombia, Founder Institute Bogotá was originally brought to the country by Alan Colmenares in 2009. The program is back after a five year hiatus, under new director Mads Schmidt Peterson. “I am proud to present the
With Brazil gripped by economic crisis and financial growth at an all-time low, numbers of Brazilians flying both nationally and internationally have significantly reduced in recent years. This drop in air travel and general lack of disposable income has created a demand for holiday discounts and bargains that Belo Horizonte-born entrepreneur Max Oliveira spotted early
With the amount of geographic info available constantly increasing, data collection technology is developing at unprecedented rates. On a global scale, the Geographic Information System (GIS) market was valued $9,835.50 in 2017 and is predicted to grow by approximately 10% within the next five years. However, the team at AmigoCloud noticed that the use of
E-commerce giant Amazon is in talks with the Chilean government to house and mine huge quantities of star data generated by the country’s state-of-the-art telescopes. Reuters reported that the potential agreement could have benefits for both parties. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera is looking to reduce Chile’s economy on copper mining, of which it is the largest producer in
Taking the Brand India image worldwide, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is partnering with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) to organise the eighth edition of its flagship event, the India-Latin America and
Last week, nearly 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate and government representatives gathered together in Lima, Peru for the country’s largest entrepreneurial capital event, the Peru Venture Capital Conference. The annual event aims to bolster the country’s budding startup ecosystem by creating opportunities for its eager new generation of founders. Sitting among the crowd, the energy
The ecommerce foundation launched the Latin America ecommerce Report 2018 on September 6th which highlighted the continent’s position as one of the top regions in the world for ecommerce growth. One of the reasons behind this growth is both the increased population and the higher rate of internet penetration across the continent, with an average of 59