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South Summit – Pacific Alliance

South Summit – Pacific Alliance brought the most innovative entrepreneurs of the region together with important international investors in a competition that crowned 4 winners. The first edition of South Summit – Pacific Alliance took place in Bogota on December 1st.

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Latam.Tech’s media incubator Espacio announces launch of new publication – En Serie

Espacio announced this morning the launch of their newest project, En Serie. The online publication will be focused on keeping up with the latest films, series, and everything related to the exciting world of visual entertainment. The project, which began to take shape at the end of 2017, aims to respond to the demands of contemporary

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Central America and Caribbean Mexico Regions South America Startups

Gender equality and food sovereignty growing hand in hand

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees, and in the past, Fair Trade has ineffectively tried to support farmers with gender equality. “If food sovereignty is to have an intellectual future within critical agrarian studies, it must reconcile the inherent contradictions of the ‘we are

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South America

Cultivando Futuro is answering the data needs of Colombian farmers

“Data! Data! Data!” begins the quote from Sherlock Holmes, “I can’t make bricks without clay!” It is this sentiment that Colombian farmers are quickly grasping.

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South America Startups

Swipe Right for a New Job

Worldwide, startups work eagerly to change the design of tomorrow’s job market. And they are ready to come up with a new standard, edging out the classic job application.

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Beyond Fair Trade: What you need to know about LATAM’s AgTech shift

An estimated ten million small-scale farmers, working less than ten hectares of land, across 80 countries work to produce 70% of the world’s coffee according to Co-op Coffees. Sometimes the efforts of the complex Fair Trade network are complementary, but all too often they are contradictory in their guiding fair trade and financial standards. Regional competitions

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South America Startups

The differences between hiring candidates in Brazil vs the US

Brazil’s recent recession has impacted an inevitable change, one which will provide a steep learning curve to the employment market.

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Why one company used Latin America as a launch pad to jump into the US market

This month, global product development company intive became the envy of many a starry-eyed startup. The European company, which co-creates software-based solutions for enterprise customers, announced it was setting up development teams in the US, and hiring software developers for its new offices in New York and Silicon Valley.

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South America Startups

StartUp Weekend: Sao Paulo Blockchain 2017

December 8-10, 2017 saw the second global StartUp Weekend event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was organized by Bruno Diniz and a number of other community leaders. Bruno was elected the President of the FinTech Committee for ABStartUps in November 2016 and named the #1 influencer of Fintech in Brazil in December 2016, who was interviewed before and after the

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E-Commerce South America Startups

Argentina’s economic turnaround has bred two startup programs in Buenos Aires

From 2014, when The Economist wrote the article, “The tragedy of Argentina: A century of decline” to today, with Argentina having the 3rd largest venture capital market for deals in Latam, Argentina has experienced a massive economic turnaround in just a few short years. This week’s Mody’s rating upgrade from B3 to B2 has added to the

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