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Colombian technology unicorn Rappi and low-cost carrier Viva Air have announced a deal that will allow Rappi users to purchase flights directly from the Rappi app to Viva’s domestic and international destinations.

Finance Colombia's Loren Moss talks with Duleesha Kulasooriya, executive director of Deloitte's Center For The Edge on how disruptive transformation can benefit developing economies...but the right strategy is the key to success.

Colombian low-cost airline Viva Air this week announced that Rappi co-founder Juan Pablo Ortega Merino, co-founder of Rappi has been added to the company’s board of directors.

Case number 4:2019cv07415 filed in the Northern District of California names Jorge Uribe, Jose David Mendoza, Mauricio Paba Serje and Jose David Mendoza Macanaz as plaintiffs against Rappi, Inc., RAPPI S.A.S. and Simon Borrero Posada.

Earlier this month, according to various eyewitness reports, around 100 independent Rappi delivery contractors burned their trademark orange merchandise totes in front of Rappi’s offices in the north of Bogotá. Rappi delivery contractors are not employees but independent...

The Holberton School, a college alternative for training software engineers, last week announced that it has opened a campus in Medellín, it’s second Colombia campus after opening one in the capital of Bogotá. Holberton provides what it calls “Silicon-Valley grade” peer-learning...

Bogotá based Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has announced an investment of up to $1 billion USD from Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group Corp and SoftBank Vision Fund. The investment marks the largest technology financing to date in a Latin...

Exito plans to monetize its Big Data assets through a program called Puntos Colombia, which has been developed with Bancolombia and will launch in early 2018.

"You need a bunch of other expertise around the table in addition to raw engineering talent," says Casnocha. "There is still work to be done in terms of the human capital."