When the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation announced startup support initiative Start-Up Brasil last year, there was little doubt that...
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South Florida’s entrepreneurial community has a brand new gathering place: the Miami Entrepreneurship Center (MEC261), a coworking space and entrepreneurial...
TOTVS Ventures has made its first investment outside of Brazil, leading GoodData’s US$22 million Series D round.
Back in May, the Silicon Valley startup community got a bit of a shakeup when 1-800 CONTACTS, a giant in the contact lens biz, went after eyewear e-commerce...
RedMas, the digital advertising division of Cisneros Group, has opened offices in Chile and Mexico. Enrique Sampson and Lorena Sánchez will manage RedMas’...
500 Startups has announced the startups that will take part in its sixth acceleration program. This group of 27 startups is especially diverse, including 22...
e.Bricks Digital, the digital business development arm of Grupo RBS, will now be funding Brazilian and U.S. companies alike. Yesterday, the organization...
TareasPlus, a startup dedicated to helping Spanish-speaking students learn math and science via online videos, has announced the launch of a new facet of its...
Leading Latin American mobile publisher Movile is helping people connect with two Wi-Fi apps: Free Zone and WifiPass. The first, Free Zone, scans for nearby...
The United States ranked seventh in the World Economic Forum’s 2012-2013 Global Competitiveness Report. This marks a two-spot fall from its fifth-place...
ReachLocal, a leading digital marketing service provider for SMEs, has launched operations in Brazil. The company has opened the doors of its new office in São...
e.Bricks Digital has announced a new deal with ZoeMob, a mobile family safety service that helps parents monitor their children’s locations and activities...
Wayra’s Mexican division has a new partner: Startup Labs. The seed fund organization will sit in on Mexico City pitches to help Wayra Mexico select its next 10...
This year’s SXSW is underway in Austin, bringing together thousands of attendees from every corner of the globe – including Latin America. This in mind, uShip...
Visual collaboration application Mural.ly has debuted some new and improved features, announcing enhancements and improvements to the tool as well as paid...
Brazilian Zoop has been one of the most talked-about, award-winning startups of 2013 thus far. The company racked up wins at the PuntaTech 2013 LatChallenge...
At last September’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, more than 30 Brazilian startups showed their stuff in the Brazilian Pavilion. In fact, nine even took...
Mobiliz is looking to change the mobile payment market, one parking spot at a time. Founded in 2008 by Alejandro Diego and Martin Castañon in Miami, Mobiliz...
In today’s globalized economy, the environmental footprint of each and every one of us reaches far beyond our local communities, countries and even continents...
With the search for this year’s PS10, out list of the top 10 startups in Latin America, already underway, we thought we’d take a look back at last year’s...
Brazil’s HFPX Participações closed out a busy 2012 squeezing in one last investment in Giver, an online platform dedicated to the sale, distribution and...
With 2013 just barely underway, Brazil-based startup ContaAzul already has reason to celebrate. The company has closed a Series A investment round. Entities...
When Seth Zalkin co-founded Astor Group in 2004, he wasn’t looking to build a giant multinational corporation or take over the world. After a career peppered...
Anjos do Brasil hosted its first national conference last week in São Paulo. Cassio Spina, the man at the head of the organization, opened the event with a...
In June of this year, developers Juan Penagos, Diego Ramirez and German Montoya joined forces to create Mango Tree, a Colombian idea generation company powered...
Rumblings of investments for Emprego Ligado began in September, when the Brazil-based startup revealed that it had secured deals with several local and global...
Creo que está siendo un buen momento para las redes sociales y la política, al menos en los Estados Unidos. El equipo del recién reelecto presidente Obama...
Leading Brazilian technology startup Predicta has made the jump and taken it to the streets in north of the equator, officially launching its latest product...
With an investment worth US$100 million from BRZTech Holding, Brazil-based Realtime has launched in the United States. Realtime is a set of tools for websites...
We’ve largely pegged PulsoConf as a meeting of technological minds of the Americas – a bridge between Latin America and Silicon Valley that will bring together...
