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The Bogotá Blockchain Hub targets companies that implement or develop this expertise.
Coordinated by private and non-private entities, the fund’s price range is USD 8,800 million.
The Bogotá Mayor’s Workplace introduced the opening of 4 packages that will finance revolutionary actions. One in every of them, that of the Bogotá Blockchain Hub, will have a price range of USD 2,800 million and will be allotted to 100 startups devoted to blockchain expertise.
The Bogotá Innovation, Know-how and Artistic Industries Fund (FITIC) will have a complete funding of USD 8,800 million and it will be organized by the District Secretariat for Financial Growth (SDDE). As well as, the Jorge Tadeo Lozano College, iNNpulsa (the Colombian authorities’s entrepreneurship and innovation company), Biointropic (a non-public entity devoted to biotechnology tasks) and Tribe Accelerator Singapore (an Asian firm that develops blockchain expertise) will collaborate in its implementation.
Every of the 100 beneficiary companies might obtain between 10 and 50 million {dollars}. Registration will be open from June 25, though there will be a pre-registration from the 21 of that month. These excited by collaborating might apply for his or her tasks at http://www.desarrolloeconomico.gov.co/fitic. In the meantime, the winners will be introduced on August 20.
In response to the FITIC official website, the target of the Bogotá Blockchain Hub is to “strengthen the competitiveness of companies from numerous sectors that implement or develop this expertise of their enterprise mannequin, to boost their progress by the technology of options and connections with worldwide allies ».
As well as, the FITIC will embrace three different packages: Progressive Inexperienced Companies, Bogotá Design and Atmosphere. In whole, the mayor’s workplace expects to learn greater than 1,200 small and medium-sized companies from the town.
The principle goal of the initiative, which emerged in 2018 and has already delivered greater than USD 25 million in sources to greater than 400 companies, is to “choose probably the most revolutionary and disruptive concepts and tasks that present the best contribution to the answer of the principle issues of the town and the restoration of the financial system, to coach, help and accompany them within the improvement of their companies.
Up to now, “the companies which have participated in FITIC report a rise in gross sales of 137% on common, due to coaching, financing, visibility and entry to contacts generated by the packages,” they stated from the company.
The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, stated on this regard: “We need to make Bogotá a benchmark in innovation and a sensible metropolis. With these 4 FITIC packages we will assist these companies and entrepreneurs who’re in search of new options to reply to present and future challenges, in addition to these generated by the fourth industrial revolution. We’re not solely trying to overcome this disaster, however to return out stronger for the longer term ».
Colombia promotes the event of FinTech
The nation in northern South America already has a journey in selling expertise companies. To such an extent that there are already others who’ve begun to repeat their initiatives; Such is the case of Peru, which additionally opened a regulatory sandbox of FinTech companies just like the one which Colombia carried out on the finish of 2020, as reported by CriptoNoticias.
Alternatively, already within the area of hypothesis, Colombia appears to be excited by studying concerning the strategy of adopting bitcoin as a authorized foreign money that occurred in El Salvador lately. On this sense, this medium stated {that a} presidential adviser is in talks with Jack Mallers, one of many promoters of the Salvadoran bitcoin legislation.
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