The past two years have been a tough time to be a kid. If you walked through a city park anywhere in the world in the latter months of 2020 and early 2021 you most likely saw this evidenced by the heartbreaking scene of playground equipment wrapped in caution tape, with advisory signs posted about
Since Latin America’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 appeared in Brazil on February 26, the official number of cases ballooned to 65,000 in mid-April, with many experts predicting actual numbers much higher due to lack of testing and under reporting across the region. Many factors make Latin America — along with other developing regions of
In September 2015 all nations adopted the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a target in 2030. At the same time, questions remain. How can we ensure government and business devise ways to achieve the SDGs with a good outcome for the planet and human mankind? What is the role of public-private partnerships? This topic
During the recent blackout, Venezuelans experienced a lifestyle long forgotten by modern society. A lifestyle without TV, radio or any modern forms of entertainment. As highlighted by Radio Ambulante’s episode, this resulted in many Venezuelans turning to games and social gatherings in order to have fun. However, this result is one of the few silver
From Rappi to UberEats, food delivery apps have swept across Latin America. But PanalFresh from Bolivia has a very different mission: It is not just about convenience, but helping to reduce the wild inequality among those who grow what comes on Bolivian dinner plates. PanalFresh allows small-scale farmers to sell and distribute their fruits and
Apptite is the Brazilian startup aiming to take the everyday stress of preparing meals out of an average week. The app aims to connect local chefs with hungry customers looking for healthy, home-cooked food from Monday to Friday. The idea behind the service came about as a result of a local chef who had her own
Recently named one of 2018’s top 35 entrepreneurs for the Spanish MIT Technology Review, Brazilian-born Matheus Goyas is the brains behind AppProva, the application designed to improve students’ chances of achieving success in their exams at school. Since co-founding the app in 2012, Goyas has played an important role in the digital transition of Brazilian
“My pregnancy tracking app shows me which fruit size the baby is now”, one of my millennial-born friends and mother-to-be told me the other day – followed by an Aubergine emoji on Whatsapp, of course. Not surprisingly, technology is on its way to completely transform parenthood with a set of complex algorithms and colorful apps.
The Seedstars Latin America regional summit begins today, December 4, in Lima, Peru. Having been scouted out by the Seedstars Team, the 12 chosen startups from Latin America will now have the opportunity to participate in the Seedstars Growth Bootcamp, which starts today as part of the Summit. As part of the bootcamp, startups will receive
Although they speak the same language as innovation giants Brazil and Portugal, the entrepreneurs of former Portuguese colonies have long since struggled to acquire funding, due to the developing nature of both their countries and startup ecosystems. Support for entrepreneurship in Lusophone Africa is notably lower than across the rest of the continent, which can