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Welcome to our weekly newsletter covering the latest news and trends in the Latin American Artificial Intelligence startups scene.
Former Latin American Presidents promote regional development: AI and geopolitics to be discussed
A forum of former Latin American presidents convened in Paraguay for a two-day Forum of Ideas last week to discuss issues including economic development.
The forum is an initiative of the Latin American Presidential Mission (MPL), which is made up of more than 30 former presidents of South and Central American nations.
Topics covered included Latin America’s economic model; the green recovery and sustainable development; digital economy; dollarisation in Latin American countries; artificial intelligence; and geopolitics.
In the Mexican territory, the logistics sector in retail and wholesale emerged as the main recipient, obtaining approximately 56% of risk investment in the field of AI.
Tomorrow (20 July), the Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT) will be hosting a Lunchtime Learning session, focusing on trade in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Vía MercoPress
Quick News
These are the 10 energy startups that will receive US$3 million from ISA and Rockstart. ISA and Rockstart are joining forces to accelerate energy startups and provide them with unprecedented opportunity. The collaboration between the renowned Latin American electric sector company, ISA, and the prestigious startup accelerator, Rockstart, has led to the creation of the first acceleration program dedicated to early-stage energy ventures. (Contxto)
InvGate receives US$35 million to revolutionize the IT business sector. This is the first institutional funding round for InvGate following a year-on-year growth of 60%. The invested capital will be used to continue investing in its platform, which includes state-of-the-art automation and AI-based features. (Contxto)
Platzi launches a call for early-stage startups in Latin America. The renowned edtech platform, Platzi, has launched a call for Latin American startups in their seed stage. This initiative, called Platzi Startups Latam 2023, aims to accelerate the growth of the region’s most promising emerging companies and support them in their investment search process. Moreover, Platzi will offer participating startups more than US$ 200,000 in technological tools, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Notion, Stripe Atlas, Hubspot, Carta, Miro, and many others. (Conxto)
Chilean startup will receive US$ 150,000 from Google's Latino Founders Fund. The startup will also get up to US$ 350,000 in Google Cloud credits. In addition, the winners will have access to all the expertise of Google's mentoring program, which will allow them to improve the product and add technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. (Forbes)
Regcheq secures funding round of US$ 2M. Regcheq, a Chilean SaaS startup, secured a funding round of US$ 2M led by Taram Capital, with participation from Grupo Sable and Consorcio. The capital raised will support Regcheq’s expansion into Brazil and its recent entry into the Mexican market. (Startups Latam)
How much does artificial intelligence bring to the financial sector? This technology, said Federico Kalos, Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Bunker DB, has transformed marketing practices, especially since the pandemic, where we are witnessing a generalized and significant acceleration in the digitalization process. [La Opinión]
AI Education
Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy. online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will show you how to capitalize on the value automation offers. It explores the potential of robotics, natural language processing, and machine learning (ML), and equips you with the knowledge and confidence to include them in your business strategy.
University of Denver Master of Data Science online. The DataScience@Denver curriculum prepares learners to design tools that collect, evaluate and interpret data to inform critical decisions. Through rigorous, mathematically-based coursework, learners master advanced concepts to tackle the world’s most important big-data challenges.
Harvard University: Data Science: Machine Learning. You will learn about training data, and how to use a set of data to discover potentially predictive relationships. As you build the movie recommendation system, you will learn how to train algorithms using training data so you can predict the outcome for future datasets.
Food for Thought
Ethics and AI in Venture Capital. Sameed Musvee and Doug Griffin share their thoughts on the role AI plays in fund operations, balancing the tension between ethics and profitability and give advice to founders in the AI space. (VC Lab)
Jobs
Director Research Operations @J. D. Power (expected to work hybrid)
Ingeniero de Datos Sénior (Kafka) @Coderland (expected to work remotely)
Chief Financial Officer @Spring Professional (is expected to work face-toface)