Startup News – LatAm List

Meet the 3 Argentine startups chosen to join Endeavor

Endeavor is a global organization that seeks out high-impact entrepreneurs and helps them join an international network of investors and entrepreneurs. Three Argentine startups were…

MercadoLibre emits US$800M worth of bonds

MercadoLibre, Argentina’s e-commerce giant, recently announced a US$800M round of debt financing that will be open to regular consumers. These bonds will expire in 2028,…

Colombian fintech Portal Finance closes US$200M lending deal with BTG Pactual

Portal Finance is an invoice-backed finance company that streamlines access to capital for small- and medium-sized businesses in Latin America from its offices in Chile and…

Viajala to invest US$3M into the Mexican market

Viajala is Latin America’s largest travel metasearch website, with more than 3.5 million monthly searches completed in 2018. Mexico is one of Viajala’s largest and…

Here are Brazil’s next potential unicorns

There are now 258 startups across the world that have reached “unicorn” status, or a US$1B valuation. Brazil saw three of its big tech startups…

Jooycar Launches Per Per Mile Insurance with Chilean Insurance Company Consorcio

Jooycar, a Chilean per per mile insurance company with operations in Latin America, added Consorio, one of Chile’s largest auto insurance companies, to its list…

Viajala opens Santiago office and goes after US market

Viajala, Latin America’s largest metasearch company, owes some of its success to the Start-Up Chile program that gave them a grant to take the platform…

SpeakLiz recognized by Seedstars as Ecuador’s best startup

Eight Ecuadorian startups pitched at the recent Seedstars World competition in Quito, but just one was chosen to represent the country. SpeakLiz is an Artificial…

Colombian startup Mambot wins IBM’s BlueCode 2018

Mambot is a Colombian startup that has developed an intelligent Virtual Assistant to improve communication for people with auditory disabilities. Mambot was chosen from over…

Rappi expands to Chile and plans next move in Central America

Rappi was the first startup in Latin America to receive investment from Andreesen Horowitz in 2016. The Colombian delivery company was then accepted into the…