Sophie Foggin

Sophie Foggin
E-Commerce South America Startups

Spotify Brazil teams up with EBANX and Worldline to offer new debit card payment service

A new collaboration to offer debit card payment for music streaming platform Spotify Brazil has seen Brazilian fintech startup EBANX join forces with

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Central America and Caribbean Startups

Puerto Rican AI startup to receive funding from US seed accelerator YCombinator

BrainHi is the lucky first Puerto Rican artificial intelligence startup that has just been chosen to be part of San Francisco-based accelerator YCombinator.

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E-Commerce South America Startups

Spotlight on Bolivia: How Bolivia Tech Hub became a collaborative space for La Paz’s top tech entrepreneurs

Founded in 2014, Bolivia Tech Hub is an early stage incubator that serves as one of La Paz’s only support systems for the

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South America Startups

Are Latin American startups really ready for across-the-board BYOD policies?

The policy that requires employees to bring their own digital devices to the office is already a popular company policy across many startups

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South America Startups

Argentine tech startups continue to flourish in the face of economic crisis

As the Argentine economy plummets into one of the worst financial crises in the country’s history, its tech startup scene remains largely unaffected.

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South America

Small and medium-sized Argentine businesses seek aid as the country’s economic crisis takes its toll

Last month, Argentina’s celebration of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Day prompted a formal request from the country’s Confederation of Medium-Sized Enterprises (CAME)

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South America Startups

Brazil tech startups lead way in unprecedented levels of Latam VC investment

Startups in Latin America are seeing record levels of venture capital investment, which University of Sussex research fellow Carlota Perez puts down to

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South America Startups

TechCrunch announces global competition Startup Battlefield is now coming to Latin America

Startup Battlefield, the competition that sees 15 early-stage startups go head to head in an onstage pitch battle before a live audience and

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South America Startups

Vale do Dendê: the Salvador accelerator putting young Afro-Brazilians “on the front line of the city’s development”

Salvador, Bahia, is unique within Brazil. Before the cities of Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, it was the country’s first capital and the

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Fintech South America

Participants and new investor announced for this year’s Startupbootcamp Fintech Latin America

After three months of intensive scouting and talent searching, the team for 2018’s LatAm Startupbootcamp Fintech has been revealed. 10 startups across six

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