Franklin Templeton and XP Asset Management invest $39.9M in Brazil’s Rebel
LatAm List – Rebel, a Brazilian online personal loan platform, recently announced its second public offering of regular…
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…
Chilean Crowdfunding platform, Red Capital, receives $3M investment
LatAm List – RedCapital, a Chilean crowdfunding platform, has received $3M in investment from HCS Capital. RedCapital allows…
Google announces its Launchpad Accelerator program in Mexico
LatAm List – Google seeks to fuel innovation in the Latin American ecosystem through its Launchpad Accelerator in…
MercadoLibre acquires machine learning startup Machinalis to improve recommendations
LatAm List – When you go on to MercadoLibre to try to buy a drill, you will immediately…
Google to invest US$140M in Chilean data center expansion
LatAm List – Chile’s president Sebastian Piñera announced earlier this month that Google would be expanding its sole…
Colombian marketing startup Fluvip receives US$4.5M Series A investment
In a story brought to our attention by LAVCA and originally reported by PulsoSocial, Colombian influencer marketing platform…
Peruvian IT startup Quantum Talent raises seed round from Wayra
LAVCA reports that Quantum Talent S.A.C., a Peruvian startup that helps companies recruit IT and tech talent, recently…
Chilean monitoring startup Ceptinel raises US$1M
Ceptinel is a real-time monitoring service that uses machine learning and Complex Event Processing (CEP) to help companies…
Colombian on-demand fashion startup, Ropeo, gets boost from Y Combinator
In a story originally reported by TechCrunch, Ropeo, an on-demand fashion startup based in Bogotá, has seen 90%…