Argentine startup Blended wins 2019 Seedstars Global Competition
LatAm List – This year’s winner at the Seedstars Global Competition was Federico Hernández, CEO of Argentine edtech…
Brazilan real estate tech startup, Loft, valued at $370M
LatAm List – Loft, a Brazilian startup that is reinventing the real estate market, has just been valued…
Groupon Peixe starts off 2019 with a new CEO
LatAm List – Peixe Urbano appoints Ilson Bressan as Groupon’s new CEO starting February 2019. He will be…
Satellogic will launch 90 satellites under Chinese contract
LatAm List – Satellogic, an Argentine company that specializes in geo-spatial analytics, announced that it will launch 90…
After US$500M investment, iFood reaches 12.3M monthly orders
LatAm List – Latin America’s food delivery leader, iFood, has been growing fast since raising what may have…
How CatMyPet turned a US$4K loan into a US$500K business
LatAm List – Starting a business with a high-interest bank loan in Brazil is a risky bet. However,…
Update: iFood’s latest round beats all Latin American startup fundraising for 2016
LatAm List – We originally reported that iFood, Brazil’s largest delivery app, had raised US$400M from Naspers and…
Airbnb generates over US$380M in revenue to Brazilian hosts
Airbnb entered the Brazilian market prior to the World Cup in 2014. The room and apartment sharing platform…
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…
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.…