New legislation accelerates e-scooter expansion in Buenos Aires
LatAm List – Last week, a bill was passed to regulate e-scooter traffic and rentals in Buenos Aires,…
Visa and Rappi sign LatAm digital commerce partnership
LatAm List – Visa recently announced a multi-year partnership agreement with Rappi, the leading on-demand delivery platform in…
Rappi partners with Sanofi to offer healthcare services
LatAm List – Rappi, a Latin American on-demand delivery startup that recently reached unicorn valuation, has diversified its…
Latin America’s Five Most Competitive Industries for Startups in 2019
Fund managers in Latin America often review 3-5 applications for investment every day. Most of these startups can…
Rappi acquires Mexican fintech Payit
LatAm List – Rappi, a last-mile delivery platform that became Colombia’s first unicorn in 2018, recently announced that…
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…
The ILO wants to regulate the gig-economy popularized by Uber and Rappi
LatAm List – In a recent report, the International Labor Organization (ILO) recommended that countries establish social protections…
Glovo seeks to build Latin American tech center
LatAm List – In a story brought to our attention by Reuters, Spanish delivery startup, Glovo, will soon…
YC-graduate UBits lands in Peru
LatAm List – UBits, an online corporate training platform born in Colombia, recently announced that they would expand…
2018: The Year Latin American Startups Hit the Gas – And Didn’t Let Up
It’s been a year since we founded LatAm List to share Latin American tech news with the English-speaking…