Andrew Ng’s companies expand to Colombia
LatAm List – Andrew Ng, former CEO of Coursera and founder of the Google Brain project, recently opened…
Edools and EADBOX merge to create edtech HeroSpark
LatAm List – The founding partner of EADBOX, Nilson Filatieri, and the founder of Edools, Rafael Carvalho, have…
Colombian startup Slang changes how professionals learn English
LatAm List – Slang, an app co-founded by CEO Diego Villegas and machine learning expert Kamran Khan, is…
Platzi raises $6M from Foundation Capital
LatAm List – Platzi, an online education platform founded by Guatemalan Christian Van Der Henst and Colombian John Freddy Vega,…
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…
U-Planner raises largest round by a Chilean tech company in 2018
LatAm List – U-Planner is a Chilean software that helps universities optimize their resources and develop predictive models…
YC-alum, UBits, receives investment from Silicon Valley fund
LatAm List – UBits has come to be known as the Netflix for corporate training. With more than…
Mexican edtech startup, Yogome, shuttered due to fraud
LatAm List – Yogome, the educational videogame startup that raised US$26.9M from Seaya Ventures in March 2018, recently…
Argentine edtech startup selected to compete in Seedstars competition in Switzerland
Seven startups competed at Buenos Aires coworking space HIT Tecno for the chance to battle for US$1M in…
Quero Educação, a Brazilian educational marketing platform, invests in Silicon Valley Startup
Quero Educação is an educational marketing platform that helps schools capture and maintain their students. Breaking with the…