In Grand Rapids, SpringGR pairs affordable business classes with coaches, Spanish-language training and a working kitchen. Its most useful offer may be the help that continues after graduation.
Andrea Campos taught herself to code to fight her own depression. The chatbot she built now fields billions of late-night messages across Latin America - and is quietly testing where an app should stop and a doctor should start.
Idilio TV is a Latin American microdrama streaming app that produces original vertical series with episodes roughly 90 seconds to 3 minutes long, blending the melodrama of telenovelas with the format of TikTok. Founded by Gabriela Tafur and Esteban Ramirez and legally operating as Latido TV SAS, the company uses an AI-assisted production pipeline to make short-form drama faster and cheaper than traditional studios. Available free on iOS and Android, it passed 1.3 million-plus downloads across 50-plus countries within months of launch and raised a $5.5M seed round led by a16z Speedrun with backing from Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, Goodwater Capital, Precursor Ventures and Nubank founder David Velez.