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
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
Grin is the mobility startup that has Mexico City’s dwellers scooting about the city with an easier, quicker and more sustainable travel option. Latam.tech spoke to the team behind Grin to find out more.
At some point in life, almost everyone will have experienced the debilitating effects of a foodborne illness. Whether an under-cooked chicken kebab, an E. coli infested salad or some toxic fish, a good day can quickly become a loathsome frenzy of vomiting and diarrhoea caused by poorly prepared or poorly kept food. Since 2009, the
Each year, almost a third of all food produced worldwide is wasted. A shocking figure, especially when considering that globally 870 million people are chronically undernourished. Colombia is no exception. 9.76 million tonnes of food is wasted on an annual basis, which would be enough to feed the city of Bogotá for an entire year. Meanwhile, 5 million people are
Christine Chang is the programme director at the innovation programme Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech Mexico City and will soon be speaking at Finnovista’s 2018 Miami Finnosummit for Latin American fintech startups. Latam.tech spoke with Chang on innovation and fintech in Latin America. After seven years in the New York City rat race, Chang decided to study
Made in Mexico, Fuckup Nights boast the best of the worst mistakes entrepreneurs have ever made. It was not so long ago that the founder of the Mexican Museum of Design received a loan from the United States. In pursuit of medical treatment, he then travelled to California in order to have a pacemaker fitted
According to recent market research, the diaper market in both the US and Latin America was valued at approximately US $19 billion in 2017 and is expected to reach US $25 billion by 2023. As the world’s population continues to increase, the arrival of training diapers, cloth material diapers and swimming diapers is set to
Not only is Brazil the largest country in Latin America, as well as the only Portuguese-speaking one, but it also boasts one of the region’s leading e-commerce markets. According to the latest Statista business intelligence report, Brazil’s e-commerce market is expected to reach values of almost $21.3 billion this year and $31.7 billion by 2022. One