Visa Everywhere Initative announces 10 startup finalists
Contxto – The Covid-19 pandemic and social-distancing measures have left a big dent on small and medium-sized businesses.…
Uruguay has its first unicorn after US$200M investment in fintech dLocal
Contxto – A couple of months ago we published the 11 startups in Uruguay to keep an eye…
PedidosYa is scaling its delivery-only grocery stores
Contxto – Uruguayan-founded, German-owned PedidosYa is upping its ante in the Dominican Republic. The startup recently announced the…
Uruguay’s Kona expands to Toronto after closing major banking client
Contxto – While Uruguay and Canada aren’t necessarily two countries you’d usually relate to one another, Kona, an…
Why EBANX sees big potential in its payment processing service in Uruguay
Contxto – Fintech EBANX launched operations in its ninth Latin American country, Uruguay, this week. Correspondingly, merchants there…
Rappi to launch (zero fee) platform for restaurants. But, is it really free?
Contxto – Colombian Rappi wants to take its relationship with restaurants to a new level. Yesterday (23), the…
Fintech in Uruguay 2020 (beta)
Contxto – Talk about overachievers. Uruguay has often been proven that big things can come in small packages.…
US$500,000 are up for grabs with online Seedstars World Competition
Contxto – Seedstars, a global competition for early-stage tech startups, is ready to receive submissions. But as these…
MonkeyLearn has landed US$2.2 million to bring AI without code to all companies
Contxto – MonkeyLearn, an Uruguayan no-code and low-code Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup, today (7) announced that it had…
The state of 5G rollout in Latin America
Contxto – The rollout of 5G networks in Latin America isn’t really in the spotlight right now. But…
11 startups in Uruguay to keep an eye on in 2020
Contxto – We know d-Local and PedidosYa are some of the most funded startups in Uruguay, but they’re…
Startup nocnoc landed a knockout partnership with marketplace Mobly
Contxto – Knock, knock. Who’s there? It’s Uruguayan startup nocnoc who’s expanded its ops in Brazil. Through its…
Top 10 tech hubs of Latin America in 2020
Contxto – It’s that time of the year again! StartupBlink has published the latest edition of its Global…
PedidosYa launches dark grocery store in Uruguay
Contxto – Many grocery delivery platforms boast getting goods delivered to your doorstep in one to two hours.…
Marketplace Cambiame offers users a different way of buying and selling dollars
Contxto – Currencies in Latin America have had some wacky days and have depreciated when compared to the…