Latin America roundup: SoftBank bets on Brazilian unicorns and Konfio raises $250M for lending plans

Sophia Wood Contributor Sophia Wood is a Principal at Magma Partners, a Latin America-focused seed-stage VC firm with offices in Latin America, Asia, and the U.S. Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm List, an English language Latin American tech news source. SoftBank did not […]

Wikipedia article of the day for September 27, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

The Wikipedia article of the day for September 27, 2019 is Mount Mazama. Mount Mazama is a complex volcano in the American part of the Cascade Range whose collapsed caldera holds Crater Lake (pictured), the nation’s deepest freshwater body, at 1,943 feet (592 m). In North […]

saturnine: Word of the day for September 27, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot

saturnine , adj : (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react. (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy. (comparable, chemistry, archaic) Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the […]