Inoovi is the Brazilian crypto startup hoping their IVI tokens can link football fans and cryptocurrency. The startup identifies football fans as the effective ‘investors’ of the sport: buying merchandise, tickets to matches and in turn generating billions in sales per year, keeping the game alive. Similarly, cryptocurrency investors are what help sustain the digital
A new collaboration to offer debit card payment for music streaming platform Spotify Brazil has seen Brazilian fintech startup EBANX join forces with payment services company Worldline. Previously, the music streaming service’s premium subscription was limited to those in the country who had a credit card or used the boleto bancário. This is a traditional
The Peru Venture Capital Conference (PVCC), the country’s largest entrepreneurial capital event, will hold its second annual conference in September 11th, 2018 at Lima Convention Center. This year’s iteration is expected to attract more than 800 attendees, connecting all of the most important players involved in Peru’s up-and-coming startup ecosystem with local and international investors. Organized by BID
BrainHi is the lucky first Puerto Rican artificial intelligence startup that has just been chosen to be part of San Francisco-based accelerator YCombinator. Originally part of government-funded Puerto Rican accelerator Parallel18’s fourth generation of startups, the country’s native BrainHi works as a virtual receptionist for health service providers. The startup aims to provide a service
Founded in 2014, Bolivia Tech Hub is an early stage incubator that serves as one of La Paz’s only support systems for the city’s tech community, helping entrepreneurs to learn, develop and collaborate on new projects. From her temporary base at this year’s LatAm Internet Governance Forum in Argentina, Pamela Gonzales, co-founder of the Tech
Entrepreneurs in Chile are turning to AI to shake up the way we eat. Since 2015, a Santiago-based startup named NotCompany – or simply NotCo – has been combining Artificial Intelligence with food-science to create innovative plant-based foods, in response to the increasing strain that the meat and dairy industries are putting on the planet’s
The policy that requires employees to bring their own digital devices to the office is already a popular company policy across many startups in Latin America, where thriving tech ecosystems in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Chile have grown at alarming rates over the past few years. The result has seen a demand for employees to
As the Argentine economy plummets into one of the worst financial crises in the country’s history, its tech startup scene remains largely unaffected. With its very own Distrito Tecnológico, an area of Buenos Aires established in 2008 dedicated entirely to innovation, technology and knowledge development, Argentina’s capital city is bursting with startups. In order to
For Latin America, the UK might not be the number one location to enter a new market given its distance and the clear language barriers. However, one pair of entrepreneurs has seen great opportunity in this island nation given the recent events of Brexit. Now that the UK is parting from the EU, and Trump
Startups in Latin America are seeing record levels of venture capital investment, which University of Sussex research fellow Carlota Perez puts down to maturing phases of the digital revolution, reported Techcrunch. As the technological revolution naturally reaches the stagnant phase of its cycle, core markets for internet users become saturated, meaning investors have been moving