Sebastian Vidal’s Grand Plans in Puerto Rico
As US politicians ramped up the rhetoric about building walls to keep Latinos out, Sebastian Vidal of Parallel 18 chose to do the
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Abuelita: Security platform that harnesses the power of abuelas
Big mother is watching. This is the premise of Abuelita, Mexico’s newest surveillance app that harnesses the country’s vital abuela supply. In a
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What’s ailing edtech in Latin America? It might be the teachers rather than the curriculum
Latin America is the fourth largest market in the world for ed-tech but challenges remain which are keeping it from flourishing within the
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Meet Karina Chez. The founder that’s helping entrepreneurs in the Dominican Republic go green
In the dire assessments that climate change reports have given us about our not too distant future, the Dominican Republic doesn’t come off
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Can matter be digitised? Crypto-guru Vinay Gupta is banking on it
Vinay Gupta had planned on a life of meditation and esotericism. A devotee of the Nath Sampradaya movement, the Scotsman Gupta had lived
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Ecuadorean entrepreneur named Latin American Inventor of the Year
Ecuadorean Inty Grønneberg has been named Latin America’s inventor of the year by prestigous university MIT (Massacheussets Institute of Technology). Grønneberg, who is
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New artificially intelligent drones programmed to have anguished existential thoughts when soaring above landscapes
A new drone startup has formed an AI engine so powerful that it can have anguished existential thoughts when soaring high above landscapes.
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Mission Accomplished: TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield completes first Latin American seige
“I think over the next 5-10 years you’re going to see a lot of Silicon Valley VC money in Latin America, especially Brazil.”