Chile’s UC Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center launched its first version of the UC Mentor Network, a startup initiative. Aiming to develop startups with high potential for scalability and internationalization, the startup support program closed its first call with ninety-nine applications. The initiative offers five mentorships with an assigned expert, an induction session, networking events, and
On the 20th anniversary of the Endeavor Entrepreneur, a global leader in high-impact entrepreneurship around the world, we talked to Managing Director Adriana Suárez on the evolution of the model and the success it has brought across the world. The Endeavor model was launched in 2006 in Colombia and 12 years later Adriana Suárez stands
On April 1, ITEC Day was celebrated in several countries. ITEC or Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Program is a bilateral program, which has been providing scholarships to deserving candidates in developing countries including Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and many more. Colombia has been one of the nations that has benefited from several ITEC programs. Training
Affordable Brazilian airline Azul teams up with Brazilian startup Superplayer, allowing passengers to stream music in the air. The music streaming service was launched in 2013, just a year before Spotify officially launched in Brazil. Co-founder and software engineer Cássio Goldschmidt devised the idea of an online music catalogue whilst working on a project in
If Blockchain is the future, could it save the Earth too? Last week, The Economist published a video about how blockchain technology could help save the Amazon forest. The video shows that through encryption, the world could maintain a traceable digital fingerprint of every living creature in the Amazon. The Amazon Bank of Codes is
Brazilian startup Yellow has acquired a seed funding of $9 million for its dockless bike-sharing service; the first of its kind in Brazil. Yellow was founded by Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas, who are also the co-Founders of 99, along with Eduardo Musa, the former owner and CEO of Brazilian bike manufacturer Caloi. “As local
Papumba, an educational company that creates child-learning apps for mobile devices, has recently announced the launch of Papumba Academy, a mobile Pre-School Academy designed to help kids under 6 learn while playing. The app provides a Play-based early-learning curriculum designed to unlock a child’s potential while playing and exploring, encouraging young ones to enjoy the processes of
April 12 and 13 are the dates that Bogotá will host Foro 3C ‘KineTICa empresarial: la fuerza del cambio’ a conference on a concept that companies are looking to adopt more and more in the face of rapid change. Such companies understand that constant evolution is important in order to progress in sync with the times
In recent years, Chile has been recognized as a country rapidly ascending the global startup scene, along with a small number of other South American countries such as Peru. One reason for this surge in popularity is the country’s enviable selection of accelerators, one of which is the rising accelerator, Imagine Lab, which is helping
Are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) the new IPOs? Well they have one thing in common, they haven’t won a lot of confidence in general on being introduced into the market. An ICO is like a fusion of an IPO and crowdfund, but investing in an ICO will give you crypto-tokens generated by the firm instead