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Uber-backed mobility fintech Moove acquires Brazil’s Kovi, takes ARR to $275M
Uber-backed Moove, an Africa-born mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers across six continents, has…
Stablecoins are finding product-market fit in emerging markets
Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to more than 100…
YC alum Mendel, a ‘Ramp for LatAm enterprises,’ raises $35M Series B
Mexico City-based Mendel has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Corporate spend…
Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets
A new venture firm aims to prove that the most successful startup ideas don’t have to be born or scaled…
Revelo’s LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI
While many tech companies are mandating that their employees return to their offices, and putting an emphasis on building in-person…
Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once…
Ecuador Bonds Slide After Noboa Reform Setback
Brazil’s hugely successful digital payment system Pix turns five. BY LATINVEX STAFF Just as investor sentiment was picking up in…
Latin America: The Next Investment Grade Countries
Business groups express support for USMCA in letter to USTR. BY LATINVEX STAFF Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Paraguay…
U.S. gains in AI race as Gulf nations ditch China for chips
The Middle East just became the newest battlefield in the U.S.-China artificial intelligence war. The Commerce Department’s approval of 70,000…