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Kaszek Ventures leads US$10M Series A in proptech La Haus

Contxto – Investment in the house! Okay super lame, sorry. But it’s true. Today Colombian proptech La Haus announced it...

June 16, 2020

Facebook’s WhatsApp debuts payment service in Brazil

Contxto – Social media behemoth Facebook is debuting a highly-anticipated feature in Brazil. Through its Facebook Pay service and Cielo—a...

June 15, 2020

Female founders to pitch for Silicon Valley accelerator

Contxto – Save the date female founders of Latam! On June 18, Women’s Startup Lab (WSLab), an accelerator from Silicon...

June 15, 2020

The 5 mistakes driving users to ditch your app

Contxto – So you’ve got a startup, you may even have a nifty app and a good amount of downloads,...

June 15, 2020

Startup nocnoc landed a knockout partnership with marketplace Mobly

Contxto – Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s Uruguayan startup nocnoc who’s expanded its ops in Brazil. Through its recent partnership...

June 15, 2020

Rappi launches into livestream business boosted by Colombian pop star Manuel Medrano

Contxto – It would appear that Rappi will leave no industry unexplored. Besides food and package deliveries, processing payments, and...

June 13, 2020

Mexico wants to fuse its antitrust regulators into one… How could it help (or hurt) startups in Mexico?

Contxto – In an effort to save the federal government some mullah, last Wednesday (10), Mexican Senator Ricardo Monreal proposed...

June 12, 2020

Crypto regulations in Colombia are put on the back burner

Contxto – In human behavior, often when something is undesirable but a person does not wish to discard it entirely,...

June 12, 2020

AWS has taken Brazil, so Google Cloud has expanded into a new Latin American country

Contxto – The race among tech corporations to dominate cloud-based services in Latin America continues. Earlier this year, Amazon Web...

June 12, 2020

Mexican government rolls out initial open banking regulations

Contxto – Last week Mexico’s National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) published the first set of regulations regarding open banking...

June 12, 2020