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Brasil-rooted recruitment company Talentify receives Cielo investment

An increasing number of companies gather in Latin America. The competition to attract, engage and retain highly skilled individuals is becoming stronger by the day. Cielo, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) company that operates in 12 Latin-American countries, didn’t want to miss the train. It made a ‘significant’ investment in Brazil-rooted talent acquisition technology company Talentify.

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Cobuilding platform looks to Latin America for the next big exponential startup

In the age of hyper-connectivity, you don’t have to be in Palo Alto to develop the next world-changing algorithm. In an era of digital inclusion, where information and powerful technologies once available only to huge organizations become more accessible everyday, and no-name startups burst on the scene to compete with industry giants, the little guys

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Sunny in foggy times: IT in Latin America

Many North American companies consider Latin America as a region with high-performance software developing teams, able to compete with any region in the world in terms of best practices, quality and performance. Though there are also still some challenges.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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