8/23/2024 6:46:23 PM How Minka is revolutionizing digital payments in Colombia By Cristobal de Atucha Transfiya, developed by ACH Colombia and powered by Minka's technology, has achieved rapid growth, now processing over 25m transactions...
5/7/2024 6:27:15 PM Leading Colombian bank launches crypto exchange and peso stablecoin By FinTech Collective Colombia’s largest bank, Bancolombia, has entered the crypto business by launching a crypto exchange called Wenia. The crypto platform...
2/21/2024 11:37:44 PM Simetrik raises $55m in Series B funding By Cristobal de Atucha Colombia based financial automation startup raised $55m in Series B funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
11/3/2023 3:56:36 PM Minka founder profile: the Colombian-Croatian behind the real-time payment system By Samantha Wulfson Minka is the technology that supports the Transfiya processes in the case of Colombia. This project became a reality a few years ago when...
3/10/2023 4:06:09 PM Simetrik hosts Limitless Iteration Fest in Bogotá By Samantha Wulfson FTC portfolio company Simetrik, an enterprise SaaS for financial control automation, gathered its team of +250 people from 12 countries...
7/15/2022 4:57:50 PM Rappi mafia: How a delivery startup took over Colombia’s tech scene By Sarah Wolter Data from Marathon Ventures shows that the Rappi mafia has created more companies in less time than other Latin American unicorns,...
2/11/2022 9:20:08 PM Top Latin American exchange Bitso officially expands to Colombia By Carlos Alonso Torras Founded in 2014 in Mexico, Bitso is now officially present in Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador and Colombia.
1/28/2022 4:57:50 PM Argentine fintech 'unicorn' Uala launches in Colombia amid Latam push By Carlos Alonso Torras Argentine digital banking startup Uala announced its launch in Colombia on Thursday, a new frontier for the firm as it expands in Latin...
5/28/2021 2:29:24 PM Regulation and new market players pave the way for financial digitization in Colombia and Mexico By Carlos Alonso Torras From newly financially included users to new fintechs and services seeking financial institution licenses, the pandemic led to...
2/12/2021 6:10:33 PM Open banking in Colombia is getting ready to take off By Carlos Alonso Torras Colombia is working on an open banking regulation expected to be ready in 2022. Regulators hope the API structure will encourage large...
1/14/2021 2:36:42 PM La Haus raises $35m in Series B funding By Sarah Wolter Colombia based real estate tech startup raised $35m in a Series B funding led by Greenspring Associates.
10/9/2020 3:50:10 PM Colombian fintechs fill Latin American banking gaps By Carlos Alonso Torras Investors pour $1bn into an industry spurred by financial inclusion and undeterred by money laundering curbs.
10/2/2020 2:32:22 PM Crowdfunding in Colombia on the rise thanks to more flexible regulations By Carlos Alonso Torras Two years after Colombia released its first regulations for crowdfunding, the country has hardly any fintechs in this niche, but that is...
9/4/2020 7:28:24 AM Colombia using instant payments to drive financial inclusion amid the pandemic By Carlos Alonso Torras Portfolio company Minka partnered with ACH Colombia, the country’s bank-owned ACH operator, to launch Transfiya at the end of 2019....
8/27/2020 1:25:30 PM Habi raises $10m in Series A funding to drive expansion in Latin America By Sarah Wolter Colombia based residential real estate marketplace with automated pricing tech raised $10m in Series A funding led by Inspired Capital.
7/30/2020 11:58:46 PM Instant payments in Colombia: Transfiya transfers multiply By Carlos Alonso Torras Spearheaded by portfolio company Minka, Transfiya, a new system system for instant P2P payments in Colombia, is quickly gaining strength.