Sensor Tower: Temu's MAUs in Latin America grew 143% YoY to 105M in H1 2025; Mexico, Chile, and Uruguay want to tax low-cost imports to protect local businesses
Bloomberg :
AWS says it will invest $4B to build its first data centers and cloud infrastructure in Chile, set to open in H2 2026, and try to use water just 4% of the year
Amazon's cloud computing division will invest $4 billion to build its first data centers and other cloud infrastructure in Chile …
Santiago, Chile-based Toku, which helps businesses accept consumer payments, send payment reminders, and more, raised a $39M Series A led by Oak HC/FT
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes :
Chile-based Xepelin, which offers B2B payments, financial info, data models, and more to SMBs in Latin America, raises a $111M Series B led by Avenir and Kaszek
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Chile-based Houm, which uses AI to help users find the optimal rental or sale price of a property based on similar properties nearby, raises a $35M Series A
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ycombinator , @levynews , and @bayareawriter Tweets: Y Combinator / @ycombinator : Santiago-based startup @HoumLatam (W21), helps homeowners rent and sell pro...
Chile-based Buk, which offers HR management tools for Latin American companies, raises $50M Series A at a $417M valuation, its first outside funding
Chile's Buk, which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million …
Chile-based Betterfly, which lets companies offer digital benefits to reward healthy habits, raises $60M from SoftBank and others at a $300M valuation
Eduardo Thomson / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bloombergau Tweets: Bloomberg Australia / @bloombergau : SoftBank makes its first foray into Chile by taking part in a $60 million funding round for Betterfly, ...
China's Didi Chuxing expands in Latin America, launches ride hailing services in Valparaíso, Chile and Bogotá, Colombia
this week it started a much-anticipated expansion into Chile and Colombia to double its Latam markets (also Mexico and Brazil) https://techcrunch.com/...
PitchBook: VCs invested ~$8B in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Pakistan in first 10 months of 2018, 40% more than in all 2017
Entrepreneurs such as Sidra Qasim and Waqas Ali exemplify the increasing ease of accessing venture capital from the developing world.