Tag: Latin America

Collaborative Pioneer: Inside Interview with Alejandro Cosentino of Afluenta

Alejandro Cosentino is the founder and CEO of Afluenta. The easiest way to explain Afluenta is… The first and largest peer to peer lending platform in Latin America, where people invest in other people’s projects. The lenders win more and the borrowers pay less. I believe it is the right moment for Afluenta to take off…  Read more

MercadoLibre is Latin America’s P2P online transaction platform – the eBay for LatAm!

TomoClases is a Latin American P2P education platform that allows you to learn what you want and teach what you know

Cumplo is a P2P lending platform from Chile connecting investors with borrowers

Collaborative Consumption explodes in Latin America

At the end of 2010 a Spanish Google search for “consumo colaborativo” only rendered few results, among them this note from the Discovery Channel Latin America and an article on Argentina’s Rolling Stone website (2011), which were mostly focused on American examples. We are now in 2012 and I am pleased to report that collaborative…  Read more

Zazcar is the first Latin American carsharing company based in Brazil