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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. Originally part of government-funded Puerto Rican accelerator Parallel18’s fourth generation of startups, the country’s native BrainHi works as a virtual receptionist for health service providers. The startup aims to provide a service

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South America

NXTP Labs accelerating regional investment boom

Technology entrepreneurs in Latin America are enjoying a financing bonanza. In 2017, investment in venture capital within the tech sector reached $1 billion, double the amount of 2016, according to data from the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA). This trend is set to continue as international and regional investors continue to

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South America

Spotlight on Bolivia: Evo Morales “re-engineers” lithium project in time for 2019 elections

Bolivia wants to become the Saudi Arabia of lithium. The government, led by President Evo Morales, has shelled out almost $500 million over the past 10 years with the aim of developing an internationally competitive lithium industry and profiting from the country’s vast reserves of the metal – estimated at one quarter of all lithium supplies

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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 city’s tech community, helping entrepreneurs to learn, develop and collaborate on new projects. From her temporary base at this year’s LatAm Internet Governance Forum in Argentina, Pamela Gonzales, co-founder of the Tech

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South America Startups

Chilean startup NotCompany looks to AI to disrupt the agro-industry

Entrepreneurs in Chile are turning to AI to shake up the way we eat. Since 2015, a Santiago-based startup named NotCompany – or simply NotCo – has been combining Artificial Intelligence with food-science to create innovative plant-based foods, in response to the increasing strain that the meat and dairy industries are putting on the planet’s

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Mexico Uncategorized

Young Deportees Given The Opportunity To Grow Mexico’s Tech Scene

A Mexican social enterprise is pioneering a support network for youths that have been deported from the United States. The group Hola Code aims to support predominantly younger deportees that have had to leave America and the schooling system they are accustomed to along with families and friends, for their new homes in a country

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South America

Spotlight on Bolivia: Can Bolivia capitalise on its lithium resources?

In the Andean Altiplano, beneath the expansive white salt flats in southern Bolivia, lies one quarter of the world’s  lithium reserves. Since 2010 Bolivia, one of Latin America’s poorest countries, has been trying to develop a competitive lithium industry in an attempt to capitalise on the booming global lithium market, which has been fuelled by rapid advancements

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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 in Latin America, where thriving tech ecosystems in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and Chile have grown at alarming rates over the past few years. The result has seen a demand for employees to

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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. With its very own Distrito Tecnológico, an area of Buenos Aires established in 2008 dedicated entirely to innovation, technology and knowledge development, Argentina’s capital city is bursting with startups. In order to

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South America

Mexico’s war on fake news turned to technology in recent election

Since the end of last year, the American President has tweeted the term ‘fake news’ upwards of 73 times. It’s a phenomenon that has garnered worldwide momentum as Trump continues to launch direct attacks at the institutions traditionally pitted to protect the liberty of free speech. On the contrary, Rolling Stone pointed out that the

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