AI

Cornershop co-founders Oscar Hjertonsson and Daniel Undurraga led an angel investment in Kredito, a microcredit platform targeting rideshare drivers in Latin America. (eBankingNews) Con el fin de ayudar a segmentos…

HandTalk, a real-time translation platform for Brazilian sign language, received a US$750k grant from Google.org as one of 20 global winners of the Google AI Impact Challenge. (Press Release) Google…

Crabi, a Mexican auto insurance startup, raised a US$1.3m seed round led by an undisclosed family office, with participation from Redwood Ventures and angels. (Contxto) Crabi, una empresa mexicana de…

EDP Ventures made its first Brazilian investment in Delfos, an intelligent maintenance platform applying AI to the energy industry, participating in a R$1.5m round with Bossa Nova Investimentos and BMG…

MercadoLibre acquired Machinalis, a startup applying machine learning to product recommendation. Machinalis emerged from the math & computation department at la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).

Criatec 2 made undisclosed investments in Spume, a big data deep learning startup, and Auvo, a field management software platform.

Wevo is a Brazilian ecommerce cloud integration platform that raised its first funding in an undisclosed Series A investment from Cventures Primus and Omnilink founder Cileneu Nunes. In this interview, co-founder and CEO Diogo Lupinari discusses the company’s critical pivot in 2014 and its global ambitions.

Yogome es un startup mexicano de edtech que levantó una ronda de US$6.6m serie A. En nuestra entrevista con Manolo Diaz, CEO y co-fundador de Yogome, nos explica cómo se construye una marca global de edtech, la razón por la cual dirigen su marketing hacia los padres, y los planes que tienen para lanzar productos para escuelas y maestros.

Canary and Yellow Ventures invested R$1.5m in Gupy, an HR platform digitizing the recruitment and new hire selection process for Brazilian businesses. (Startupi) Tornar o processo de seleção de talentos…

ALLVP led a US$1.5m follow-on investment in Apli, a Mexican startup connecting workers to flexible job opportunities, with participation from IGNIA, Soldiers Fields Angels, and Social Capital. Apli was accelerated at…