Nxtp Labs, Latin America's leading private accelerator
“Nxtp Labs shows the strength of the tech ecosystem in Latin America“. It is the busiest private accelerating program in the region, and probably the most prestigious one to be accelerated in. Founded in 2011, it settled first at Buenos Aires. It now has offices in most of Latin America’s tech hubs: Chile, Brazil, Colombia, […]
Startup Weekend Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina has been the most prolific tech hub in Latin America for the last 20 years. Actually, most of the largest tech companies of Latin America are from Argentina. In the early 2000’s, the 10 top tech companies were all Argentinians. Even lately, 4 of them are still argentinian according to Martin Vivás, facilitator at […]
The emergence of an incubator ecosystem in Uruguay
Is a business incubator the best way to help startups to cope with their day-to-day challenges? To help them grow and become sucess stories that will make other local entrepreneurs dream? This is a recurrent question in Latin America, where almost every single country has realized the need to become a hub for entrepreneurs, if […]
Moneero, the plumbers of the mobile payment system in Uruguay
We met the founders of Moneero, a mobile payment company, a while ago. They are currently working on a universal payment platform that reduces transaction costs dramatically, through internet and mobile phone, using new and open technologies like bitcoin and open transactions. Thanks to them, residents of Montevideo are already able to carry a whole […]
A chat with NewsCred, the best funded startup from Bangladesh
NewsCred is typically this kind of “nugget” we find while travelling in emerging markets. We usually take a list of countries, try find out the best tech event there to meet people and get to understand how the startup scene and working. And then you have big, unsuspected discoveries like a startup from Bangladesh with […]
Meeting with the Uruguayan developer community at TechMeetUp Uruguay
One would not expect such a small country as Uruguay to be of interest when it comes to technology matters. We actually got proven it’s a start-up scene to look at very closely in the future after attending TechmeetUp, one of the main event of the local tech community, gathering most developers, hackers and tech […]
El Mashrou3: when a Reality-TV show support entrepreneurship in the emerging markets
While in Dhaka, Bangladesh for Innovation Xtreme, we’ve met with Asim Haneef (LinkedIn, Twitter), a British TV producer and Director of Global Development for Bamyan Media. He helped in particular to launch and popularise “El Mashrou3”, a reality-TV show promoting entrepreneurship to a mass-market audience in Egypt, with successful developments in other emerging markets such […]
Top startups in Bangladesh and Dhaka (2015)
Better late than sorry, as we say in French. Here’s our report on the the Top startups in Bangladesh and Dhaka, following our attendance at Innovation Xtreme, the first event fully dedicated to the startup scene of this 160m population country of South Asia, neighboring India and Myanmar. Top startups from Dhaka and Bangladesh 2015 […]
Pakistan startup accelerator Invest2Innovate's founder shares her story
While in Dhaka for their tech event Innovation Xtreme, we’ve met with Kalsoom Lakhani, the founder of Invest2Innovate, a startup accelerator based in Pakistan. You’ve read our opinion on neighboring Bangladesh earlier on: we’re extremely positive about this frontier market which has the energy, the 160m population and the growth to be a very exciting […]
Shajgoj, a online community platform for Bangladeshi woman, in Bengali language
While attending and speaking at Innovation Xtreme in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we’ve met Shajgoj co-founder Milky Mahmud. In a nutshell, Shajgoj is an online community platform for women, with the particularity to be in Bengali language exclusively. Addressing women in a 250 million population Bengali speaking market In the early 2013, while researching about startups, […]
