Founded in 2014, Bolivia Tech Hub is an early stage incubator that serves as one of La Paz’s only support systems for the city’s tech community, helping entrepreneurs to learn, develop and collaborate on new projects. From her temporary base at this year’s LatAm Internet Governance Forum in Argentina, Pamela Gonzales, co-founder of the Tech
Entrepreneurs in Chile are turning to AI to shake up the way we eat. Since 2015, a Santiago-based startup named NotCompany – or simply NotCo – has been combining Artificial Intelligence with food-science to create innovative plant-based foods, in response to the increasing strain that the meat and dairy industries are putting on the planet’s
In the Andean Altiplano, beneath the expansive white salt flats in southern Bolivia, lies one quarter of the world’s lithium reserves. Since 2010 Bolivia, one of Latin America’s poorest countries, has been trying to develop a competitive lithium industry in an attempt to capitalise on the booming global lithium market, which has been fuelled by rapid advancements
The policy that requires employees to bring their own digital devices to the office is already a popular company policy across many startups in Latin America, where thriving tech ecosystems in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Chile have grown at alarming rates over the past few years. The result has seen a demand for employees to
As the Argentine economy plummets into one of the worst financial crises in the country’s history, its tech startup scene remains largely unaffected. With its very own Distrito Tecnológico, an area of Buenos Aires established in 2008 dedicated entirely to innovation, technology and knowledge development, Argentina’s capital city is bursting with startups. In order to
Since the end of last year, the American President has tweeted the term ‘fake news’ upwards of 73 times. It’s a phenomenon that has garnered worldwide momentum as Trump continues to launch direct attacks at the institutions traditionally pitted to protect the liberty of free speech. On the contrary, Rolling Stone pointed out that the
Last month, Argentina’s celebration of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Day prompted a formal request from the country’s Confederation of Medium-Sized Enterprises (CAME) for President Mauricio Macri to offer ways to alleviate the crisis they are currently facing. The ongoing currency crisis, which has seen the peso fluctuate considerably against the US dollar over the
In recent years Latin America has experienced a babysitter demand boom, owing to increasing numbers of women entering the workforce. With both parents at work, the task of finding a trustworthy and qualified babysitter can be a long and complicated process, especially when the supply of childminders is limited. Sensing a gap in the market, a
Startups in Latin America are seeing record levels of venture capital investment, which University of Sussex research fellow Carlota Perez puts down to maturing phases of the digital revolution, reported Techcrunch. As the technological revolution naturally reaches the stagnant phase of its cycle, core markets for internet users become saturated, meaning investors have been moving
Startup Battlefield, the competition that sees 15 early-stage startups go head to head in an onstage pitch battle before a live audience and expert judging panel, has announced that this year it will be coming to Latin America. The contest, which will take place at São Paulo’s Tomie Ohtake Institute on November 8, offers the