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Transformify Partners with Laboratoria to Empower Young Women and Girls in Latin America

Transformify

A great number of women in Latin America are unemployed or not employed officially, due to various reasons. Also, according to the UNDP report the women of Latin America and the Caribbean work three times more at home (unpaid work) than men. In 2 years we have trained more than 400 students in Peru, Chile, and México.

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How Start-Up Chile Helps Entrepreneurs and Chile Alike

ReadWriteStart

The Start-Up Chile accelerator was arguably the spark that ignited Chile’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Chilean government, through the development agency CORFO, founded Start-Up Chile in 2010 as a way to bring in foreign entrepreneurs who would galvanize Chile’s transition into an economy built on technology and innovation.

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New Partner Joins #GoRemote - Britcham Chile

Transformify

We’re excited to welcome our newest partner, the British Chilean Chamber of Commerce (Britcham Chile), joining the supporters of the #GoRemote campaign. Britcham Chile specializes in providing market insight and assistance to UK companies wishing to enter the Chilean market.

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Chile’s pollution problems has led to green startups

The Next Web

Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. This is especially true of its tech, an industry where Santiago’s innovations aren’t just making waves in South America, but are attracting some serious global attention. And the best thing about Santiago’s tech?

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

To improve your chance of getting recruited, here are four of the best websites to apply for these elusive programs globally. Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010. Europe, Asia and South America.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. The internet has no barriers when it comes to reaching an international user base and these startups are capitalizing on being able to have a global reach. Governments supportive of technology.

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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

The Next Web

At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through. It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot.

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