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Brazil carpooling startup sells to Chinese giant Didi for reported $1 billion

Ride-sharing competition is heating up in Latin America as a major purchase in Brazil should shake up the playing field against Uber. Brazilian startup 99, a ride-hailing app considered a major rival of Uber in Latin America, was recently bought out by Chinese ride-sharing platform Didi Chuxing, which has already pushed Uber out of its

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How the Carvajalino sisters conquered Cartagena

The hustle on the Colombian coast is front and center wherever you go from an arepa de huevo on the beach to chocolates on the bus and the Carvajalino sisters are no exception. Raised amongst the ochre coloured houses of Barranquilla and Cartagena.

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Brasil-rooted recruitment company Talentify receives Cielo investment

An increasing number of companies gather in Latin America. The competition to attract, engage and retain highly skilled individuals is becoming stronger by the day. Cielo, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) company that operates in 12 Latin-American countries, didn’t want to miss the train. It made a ‘significant’ investment in Brazil-rooted talent acquisition technology company Talentify.

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Spanish startup scene publication Novobrief acquired by ESPACIO incubator

Today, January 18th, Latam.Tech’s media incubator and parent company, Espacio Incubator, announces it has acquired Novobrief.com, a media publication dedicated to startup and entrepreneurial news in Spain. Through the acquisition, Espacio aims to promote the publication’s growth and to give a voice to Spain’s tech scene.

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Cobuilding platform looks to Latin America for the next big exponential startup

In the age of hyper-connectivity, you don’t have to be in Palo Alto to develop the next world-changing algorithm. In an era of digital inclusion, where information and powerful technologies once available only to huge organizations become more accessible everyday, and no-name startups burst on the scene to compete with industry giants, the little guys

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Change the world, drink righteous-flavoured coffee

If not hindered by drought, plant diseases or other obstacles, the average coffee farmer makes a meagre $3/day. Luckily, some brave companies stand up to not only question but also change the rules of the game.

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South Summit – Pacific Alliance

South Summit – Pacific Alliance brought the most innovative entrepreneurs of the region together with important international investors in a competition that crowned 4 winners. The first edition of South Summit – Pacific Alliance took place in Bogota on December 1st.

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Latam.Tech’s media incubator Espacio announces launch of new publication – En Serie

Espacio announced this morning the launch of their newest project, En Serie. The online publication will be focused on keeping up with the latest films, series, and everything related to the exciting world of visual entertainment. The project, which began to take shape at the end of 2017, aims to respond to the demands of contemporary

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Gender equality and food sovereignty growing hand in hand

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees, and in the past, Fair Trade has ineffectively tried to support farmers with gender equality. “If food sovereignty is to have an intellectual future within critical agrarian studies, it must reconcile the inherent contradictions of the ‘we are

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Swipe Right for a New Job

Worldwide, startups work eagerly to change the design of tomorrow’s job market. And they are ready to come up with a new standard, edging out the classic job application.

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