Grin and Yellow merge, raise US$150M to expand across Latin America
LatAm List – Latin America’s two biggest e-scooter startups recently announced a merger deal that will make them…
China exported over US$15.4B in goods to Chile in 2018
LatAm List – Trade relations between China and Latin America have become increasingly close in the past five…
Chile ranked third-most entrepreneurial country in the world
LatAm List – Chile has been recognized in the recent issue of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report…
Purple Dental raises US$1M to scale up into US market
LatAm List – Chilean startup, Purple Dental, developed by Daniel Budnik and Ignacio Rippes, reinvented the classic suction…
Kriptos to launch Santiago office in February
LatAm List – Ecuadorian cybersecurity startup, Kriptos, recently announced that they would open a new office in Santiago,…
Spanish laundry startup Mr Jeff acquires Brazil’s Lava e Leva
LatAm List – After receiving a US$12M Series A from the All Iron Ventures Fund, Spanish laundry startup…
Chilean startup Lexgo prepares to expand across Latin America
LatAm List – Founded in 2017, the Chilean legaltech startup, Lexgo, made it all the way to the…
Update: Chilean banks required to keep accounts open for crypto exchanges
LatAm List – In March 2018, two Chilean cryptocurrency exchanges, Buda.com and CryptoMKT, had their bank accounts suddenly…
Chile’s most successful startups of 2018
LatAm List – La Segunda recently reported on Chile’s top five most successful startups of 2018, based on…
2018: The year traditional businesses in Chile woke up?
This article originally appeared in El Mercurio, written by Nathan Lustig. Will there be more acquisitions this year?…