With an average of 550,000 new businesses starting each month, raising your head above the crowd, and getting brand visibility in today’s crowded startup ecosystem is becoming a real challenge. After investing blood, sweat, tears and a shed load of capital in their projects, every startup out there wants to spread the world about their
The ecommerce foundation launched the Latin America ecommerce Report 2018 on September 6th which highlighted the continent’s position as one of the top regions in the world for ecommerce growth. One of the reasons behind this growth is both the increased population and the higher rate of internet penetration across the continent, with an average of 59
ESPACIO announces today the launch of LATAM.tech, an English-language news publication devoted to startups and innovation around Latin America. This will be the space where Latin American entrepreneurship and innovation can have their say. Although enthusiasm and optimism runs high among many of the ecosystems, the numbers still don’t match up on a global scale
Latam.tech introduces a new column today called Non-Starters: a dedication to terrible startup ideas that have no chance of getting off the ground. At a time when fake news has begun to dominate the headlines, Latam.tech has decided that if we can’t beat ‘em, we might as well join them. The result is ‘Non-Starters’, a
As a journalist, Girish Gupta was expected to make sense of the numbers behind the story. Now behind a new app, DataDrum, that tracks crucial data in countries like Venezuela, Gupta talks to Latam.tech about why he’s banking on data. Having left England for Latin America in 2010, Girish Gupta aimed to cut his teeth on
Fifty years is a long time, and especially so under imposed isolation. Cuba’s economic freeze from the international community may be starting to thaw but citizens’ conservative approach to resources is unlikely to alter. Cars can always be repaired and appliances always fixed on the island nation. It is this mentality – this resolver – which is
In a world where time has never been more valuable, AI clinical assistant Bot M.D. is on a mission to make doctors’ lives as easy as possible. The smartphone app pushes telehealth to its technological limits, using artificial intelligence to provide instantaneous responses to clinical questions and automatically transcribe doctors’ notes. Thanks to funding and
This weekend the globally-renowned robotics competition, Robotex, landed in Medellín, giving the city’s young tech enthusiasts the chance to showcase their mechanical and programming skills. Hosted by Robotex and Colombian company Kinetics, the two-day event saw 25 teams undertake five different challenges, designed to test a broad range of skills in the rapidly evolving field
Residents, tourists, taxi drivers, or just in town for a business meeting, Google Maps or Waze might tell you what the fastest route is, but is it also the safest? And if you fall victim to street violence, can you connect to the police in one click? To find out, Latam.tech spoke with Base Operations,
Colombian-born Rappi has just become the most recent member of the exclusive club of Latin American ‘unicorn’ startups, joining the likes of Mercado Libre, Globant and online travel agent Despegar.com. With large contributions from VC firms DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, Rappi finished a final funding round at the end of this September, meaning