LATIN AMERICA • FOOD & BEVERAGES

Eat Cloud: The Startup that Leverages Technology to Minimize Food Waste and Reduce Hunger in Colombia

EatCloud is a startup that reduces food waste and fights against hunger, generating social, economic, and environmental impact

GLOBAL • FINANCIAL SERVICES

How to Raise $1.2m in Funding (Mesfix Case)

As Mesfix raised its latest round of $1.2million, Seedstars wanted to get back in touch with Felipe Tascon, co-founder and CEO of Mesfix, and get the inside scoop!

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

How One Platform Helps African Artists Pave Their Way to Success

Recently, Chidi’s startup Publiseer, a digital publishing platform for African authors and artists, has become one of the winners of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize by the Human Security Division (Switzerland).

LATIN AMERICA • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

Meet TÓTAL Report — a Regtech Company Participating in the Expansion Program Colombia

The first month of the Expansion Program Colombia organized by Seedstars, MinTIC and APPS.CO is coming to an end, and we want to introduce you to some of the promising startups from Colombia participating in the program this year.

AFRICA • TECHNOLOGY

eCampus: Using the Power of AI in Employee Training to Eliminate Poverty in Africa

In 2020, one more great startup joined the Seedstars community – eCampus – as the winner of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize by the Human Security Division (Switzerland).

AFRICA • INVESTMENT

What’s Your Why: Salum Awadh

What kind of startups, Salum, CEO of SSC Capital from Tanzania, is looking as an investor and entrepreneur?

LATIN AMERICA • TECHNOLOGY

Three Continents, One Data-Driven eCommerce Startup and a Baby | Ann Pichestapong

In this episode, we meet Ann, founder and CEO of DataCue, who not only launched her own company but did it with her husband as her co-founder whilst travelling across Central and South America for their honeymoon!

AFRICA • HR

How Giraffe is Using Mobile Technology to Fight Unemployment in South Africa

We continue our alumni story series with an interview with Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, a fully-automated digital recruitment solution that gives medium-skilled job seekers access to opportunities for free, and enables businesses to recruit high

AFRICA • SUPPLY CHAIN

Vaccination Done On Time: How CowTribe Is Helping To Boost Ghanaian Economy

CowTribe started with a simple conversation in a car when Peter offered Alima a lift one day. Strangers a few minutes before, they already knew that this acquaintance was not a coincidence and would grow into something bigger.

ASIA • HEALTHCARE

CMED Health and Their Way to Making Bangladeshi Nation Healthier

This time, we had a talk with our alumni in the healthcare industry – CMED Health, a Bangladeshi startup that is focusing on preventive healthcare.

GLOBAL • REAL ESTATE

Making Bolivia Your Home: How Soon-To-Be-Unicorn UltraGrupo is Shaping Bolivian Real Estate

UltraGrupo has just secured $520,000 in second-round funding and is going to scale its products to other markets

GLOBAL • FINANCIAL SERVICES

What’s Your Why: Gwendolyn Regina

With 14 years under her belt as an entrepreneur and a media and technology expert, Gwendolyn Regina has found an interest in exploring the question “What is a good question?”.

LATIN AMERICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

What’s Your Why: Sergio Contreras

Sergio Contreras, CEO & Founder of inteliBPO, wants to break a common stereotype in Latin America.

GLOBAL • ADVERTISING & MARKETING

What’s Your Why: Espree Devora

Meet Espree Devora, founder of WeAreLATech, who was the keynote speaker at the Seedstars Summit CEE and hear her answers.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • ADVERTISING & MARKETING

What’s Your Why: Vincent Tresno

Meet Vincent Tresno, founder and a growth hacking advisor at Tresno Digital (Switzerland) who shares his vision of entrepreneurship and gives us examples of his favourite tools to strategize over the business growth.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • TRAVEL & TOURISM

What’s Your Why: Zolko Batmunkh

Why did Zolko choose the path of an entrepreneur? What makes him move forward? Get the answer in our next ‘What’s Your Why’ episode with the founder of IHotel (Mongolia) Zolko Batmunkh.

ASIA • MOBILITY

What’s Your Why: Marcus Tran

AN VUI is creating an impact as the first technological company in Vietnam that features a comprehensive software system for the passenger transport. We caught up with Marcus Tran, CEO of AN VUI, to examine his whys.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

What’s You Why: Daria Kroshkina

Why Daria, founder and CEO of StudyFree, can’t settle? What drives her and what motivates her every day? Hear Daria’s answers in our next ‘What’s Your Why’ episode!

AFRICA • AGRICULTURE

AgroCenta CEO on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship in Ghana

Winning the vote of the entire jury, AgroCenta from Ghana was crowned the Seedstars Global Winner of the 5th edition of Seedstars Summit.

ASIA • ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

What’s Your Why: Emir Nurov

What is Emir Nurov from Singapore passionate about?

LATIN AMERICA • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

What’s Your Why: Andreana Castellanos

What if one meeting can define what you want to do in your life?

LATIN AMERICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

How RebajaTusCuentas is Making Mortgage Loans More Affordable in Latam

Having a cosy home and a place where you can build your future with your family is a dream of many people.

AFRICA • ENTERPRISE

Rebecca Enonchong: To Be an Entrepreneur You Have to Be Crazy

“If a black African woman could succeed in America in 1999, then all the entrepreneurs across the world can succeed!”, Rebecca Enonchong, tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of AppsTech and iospaces.

GLOBAL • ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

Amar Inamdar: Clean Energy as an Opportunity for Impact

Amar Inamdar, Managing Director of KawiSafi Ventures, gives us a brief intro into the history of energy technology and how it made possible for people to access power without a very expensive grid and fossil fuels.