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Enterprising Endeavor: 20 years later, the global institute continues to foster high-impact companies in Colombia

On the 20th anniversary of the Endeavor Entrepreneur, a global leader in high-impact entrepreneurship around the world, we talked to Managing Director Adriana Suárez on the evolution of the model and the success it has brought across the world. The Endeavor model was launched in 2006 in Colombia and 12 years later Adriana Suárez stands

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South America

Indian Program ITEC Trains Colombians in Current Technologies in India

On April 1, ITEC Day was celebrated in several countries. ITEC or Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Program is a bilateral program, which has been providing scholarships to deserving candidates in developing countries including Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and many more. Colombia has been one of the nations that has benefited from several ITEC programs. Training

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South America Startups

Superplayer: the Brazilian startup rivalling Spotify to provide a soundtrack to the skies

Affordable Brazilian airline Azul teams up with Brazilian startup Superplayer, allowing passengers to stream music in the air. The music streaming service was launched in 2013, just a year before Spotify officially launched in Brazil. Co-founder and software engineer Cássio Goldschmidt devised the idea of an online music catalogue whilst working on a project in

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South America

Blockchain and the Environment, an Alliance for the Future

If Blockchain is the future, could it save the Earth too? Last week, The Economist published a video about how blockchain technology could help save the Amazon forest. The video shows that through encryption, the world could maintain a traceable digital fingerprint of every living creature in the Amazon. The Amazon Bank of Codes is

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E-Commerce South America Startups

Brazilian Startup Yellow Gathers $9 Million for its Dockless Bikes

Brazilian startup Yellow has acquired a seed funding of $9 million for its dockless bike-sharing service; the first of its kind in Brazil. Yellow was founded by Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas, who are also the co-Founders of 99, along with Eduardo Musa, the former owner and CEO of Brazilian bike manufacturer Caloi. “As local

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South America

Argentinian startup Papumba launches Papumba Academy to help make learning fun

Papumba, an educational company that creates child-learning apps for mobile devices, has recently announced the launch of Papumba Academy, a mobile Pre-School Academy designed to help kids under 6 learn while playing. The app provides a Play-based early-learning curriculum designed to unlock a child’s potential while playing and exploring, encouraging young ones to enjoy the processes of

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E-Commerce South America

Bogotá Poised for Foro 3C KineTICa Empressarial

April 12 and 13 are the dates that Bogotá will host Foro 3C ‘KineTICa empresarial: la fuerza del cambio’ a conference on a concept that companies are looking to adopt more and more in the face of rapid change. Such companies understand that constant evolution is important in order to progress in sync with the times

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Microsoft South America

Chile’s Imagine Lab accelerator opens for the 8th generation

In recent years, Chile has been recognized as a country rapidly ascending the global startup scene, along with a small number of other South American countries such as Peru. One reason for this surge in popularity is the country’s enviable selection of accelerators, one of which is the rising accelerator, Imagine Lab, which is helping

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Fintech Startups

ICOs Around the World Fund Startups

Are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) the new IPOs? Well they have one thing in common, they haven’t won a lot of confidence in general on being introduced into the market. An ICO is like a fusion of an IPO and crowdfund, but investing in an ICO will give you crypto-tokens generated by the firm instead

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Microsoft South America Startups

Microsoft student competition Imagine Cup transforms students’ entrepreneurial thoughts into reality

Microsoft Argentina announces Imagine Cup 2018, the global student competition for innovation and tech project development, that provides a platform to help young students from around the world convert their ideas into a startup.

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