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Latin Leap VC arrives in LatAm to invest US$25M in startups

In a context of uncertainty in the startup ecosystem due to macroeconomic problems that took force in 2022 and the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Latin Leap arrives in Latin America with a US$25 million fund targeted at early-stage companies.

It will mainly focus its investments in the fintech, healthtech, edtech, proptech, and mobility tech sectors of startups from Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Chile. There will be less capital for late-stage startups and more activity in early-stage ones.

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Latin American startups on the Global Foodtech 500 list

March 23, 2023

Forward Fooding, a collaborative platform for the food and beverage industry based in Barcelona, recently published the fourth edition of the FoodTech 500 ranking. There are 26 Latin American startups are among the startups that are transforming the food industry globally, according to this list. Companies that appear in this list are Instacrops (Chile), Pink Farms (Brazil), Todos comemos (Colombia), Perfekto (Mexico), Puna Bio (Argentina), Nude (Brazil), Appjusto (Brazil), Xilinat (Mexico), Food to save (Brazil), MightyGreens (Brazil), Dyfferent (Peru), Nutri Co (Peru), Micobytes (Chile) and others.

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Salesforce Launches Industry-Specific AI Capabilities

September 10, 2024

Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime.  In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds.  It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.

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