Covid-19
‘All stores are zero’: Latin America’s budding start-ups in virus survival mode
‘It's bread and water until the sun shines again’
20 April 2020 - 19:42
Mexico City — The chief executive of Colombian food technology start-up Muy had expected to spend the past few weeks gearing up to raise a dollop of fresh funds from venture capital firms for an ambitious expansion plan.
Instead, Jose Calderon was busy shuttering all 40 of the company's restaurants in Mexico and Colombia as the coronavirus outbreak forced lockdowns across the region...
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