Itau Paypal Brazil Partnership

Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco joins forces with PayPal to make online payments easier

By Sophie Foggin September 1, 2018

Officials at online payment service PayPal announced this week that they will be teaming up with...

E-commerce Latin America Brazil Ecuador

Knowing your target market: the key to a successful e-commerce business in Latin America?

By Sophie Foggin August 30, 2018

Not only is Brazil the largest country in Latin America, as well as the only Portuguese-speaking...

São Paulo-based startup Loggi on a mission to “reinvent logistics in emerging markets”

By Sophie Foggin August 24, 2018

In the bustling, hectic and at times overwhelming city of São Paulo, motorbikes are often just...

Uber to open tech center in São Paulo

By Alex Papas August 17, 2018

On Friday Uber revealed plans to invest 250 million reals ($64 million) over the next five years to...

Inoovi IVI VR tokens football Brazil

IVI tokens: Using cryptocurrency to transport fans to a “new era of sport”

By Sophie Foggin August 10, 2018

Inoovi is the Brazilian crypto startup hoping their IVI tokens can link football fans and...

E-commerce Brazil Spotify EBANX

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

By Sophie Foggin August 7, 2018

A new collaboration to offer debit card payment for music streaming platform Spotify Brazil has...

VC investment Latin America Brazil

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

By Sophie Foggin July 25, 2018

Startups in Latin America are seeing record levels of venture capital investment, which University...

Startup Battlefield Latin America Brazil Techcrunch

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

By Sophie Foggin July 25, 2018

Startup Battlefield, the competition that sees 15 early-stage startups go head to head in an...

Vale do Dende Startup Accelerator Salvador

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

By Sophie Foggin July 24, 2018

Salvador, Bahia, is unique within Brazil. Before the cities of Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, it was...

Gimmer Crypto Startup Trading Brazil

Brazilian cryptocurrency trading startup Gimmer launches decentralised trading platform

By Sophie Foggin July 16, 2018

Thanks to the recent launch of automated crypto trading startup Gimmer’s decentralised platform,...