(Pulso Social) Wayra and MercadoLibre have joined forces to promote up-and-coming entrepreneurs in Argentina. The two announced an agreement to support local technology startups through financing and training. Read more
Wayra and MercadoLibre Partner to Support Argentine Startups
Tags: Accelerators, Argentina, Mercado Libre, Start-ups, Wayra
Israel seeks to fund Technology Projects and Startups in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay (en español)
Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Start-ups, Tech, Uruguay
(Pulso Social) Matimop is the Israeli center for I + D Industrial, an organization aimed at the formation of bilateral cooperation in innovation & development around the globe to close financing arrangements and reach new markets. Read more
Real Estate Platform Properati Closes Seed Round to Expand in Latin America (en español)
Tags: Argentina, IT/Software, NXTP Labs, Real Estate, Venture Capital
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(Pulso Social) Argentine company Properati closed a seed funding deal for its regional expansion. The amount of the investment hasn’t been officially revealed, but we’ve heard it’s around US$200,000 (AR$1 million). Interestingly, the funds are from angel investors who have already invested in Sumavisos.com as well as entities such as U.S.-based GroupArgent and NXTP Labs (where the startup is currently being accelerated). Read more
Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Solapa4
Tags: Argentina, Entrepreneurs
LAVCA spoke with Santiago Gonzalez Venzano, Rodrigo Ramírez, and Tomás Peña, co-founders of Solapa4, who discussed how their company is building a cloud-based platform to help farmers aggregate and make smarter decisions from the large amounts of data collected in the agricultural production process. Read more
Argentina Software Boutique, Zauber, Secures First Time Funding
Tags: Argentina, Deal, IT/Software
(peHUB) April 24, 2012 – Zauber, an Argentina-based software boutique and lab, specialized in Consumer Web, Social Analytics and Big Data projects, has just secured US $1 million dollars from AxVentures-Pymar Fund in its first venture capital financing round.
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Aurus Capital Invests $750K in Taggify, a start-up Chile company (en español)
Tags: Argentina, Chile, Tech, Venture Capital
(La Tercera) March 3, 2012 – The Chilean venture capital fund Aurus, finalized an investment of $750,000 dollars in the advertising technology company Taggify. Taggify, which features innovative ways of integrating advertising content within a contextual advertising system, was one of the winners of Start-Up Chile funds. Read more
