As Enaex and Engie filed the environmental paperwork for one initiative, GNL Quintero, Enagás and Acciona Energía announced a US$30 million investment to build a plant at the GNL regasification terminal.  

This Wall Street giant became interested in Chile after its Central Bank authorized the internationalization of the Chilean peso. Its main goal is to support its clients in foreign exchange operations.  

The Argentine company has inaugurated a 43,000 m2 storage space, which will be used in its entirety for the electronic commerce of the products of millions of companies, SMEs and startups.  

The Chilean company that manufactures plant-based products has been valued at US$1.5 billion. After raising US$235 million in a new financing round, CEO Matías Muchnick talks about the three priority areas that lie ahead.   

While foreign companies represent less than 10% of the total number of companies in Chile, they represent 51% of the total taxes paid, 30% of the formal job market, 65% of exported goods and 85% of the country’s exported services.

Job sources are expected to come from new recycling plants, compost trucks and product repair services.  Besides, Chile is leading the way to develop the value chain associated with a sustainable packaging industry. In this context, InvestChile and Fundación Chile are organizing the webinar ‘Plastic Recycling Infrastructure: Investment Opportunities in Chile.'

This project aims to improve the performance of Camanchaca salmon farm, keeping in consideration variables such as salmon production capacities, demand and price. 

This is the third Chinese financial institution to arrive in Chile and its mission is to support Chinese companies in foreign trade and investment.

Financial support, contacts, incentives and international relations are some of the benefits received by national startups when supported by these entities that are showing increasing interest in investing in new projects in the region.  

In order to contain the arrival of new COVID-19 variants, foreign non-residents will remain prohibited from entering Chile. Chileans that hold a Pase de Movilidad (mobility pass) will be able to leave the country.  

These are free, online programs for people who are unemployed or self-employed.  The courses are intensive, last from 2 to 4 months and help people to switch over from any trade or profession to IT programming and design.

Between 2014 and May 2021, 14,215 investor visas have been issued. Of these, 53% have been issued to Chinese nationals. This number coincides with the increase in Chinese investments in Chile.  

The company, backed by Norwegian and Irish capital, will add solar and wind projects with a 1 GW production capacity to its portfolio through a US$ 1.5 billion investment. 

The Danish toy brand plans to invest US$2 million in opening stores across Chile. The 133-square-meter store in Concepción will be the company’s ninth store in Chile.  

The Scale VC Program, promoted by Endeavor and InvestChile, aims to impart knowledge to Chilean investors, connecting them with foreign investment funds so they can share experience and expand their networks, thereby accelerating venture capital investment in Chile.

Chile will be the first Latin American country to benefit from Starlink’s satellite internet services. The project consists of a constellation of satellites designed to provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to parts of the world that were previously unreachable by this type of technology.

The group will invest US$40 million in a new plant in the Ñuble Region through its Chilean subsidiary AgriChile, thereby increasing its production capacity.

Highview Enlasa’s first liquid air energy storage plant in Latin America will rely on a CRYOBattery system with 50MW/500MWh capacity and will be located in the Atacama Region of northern Chile.

Chilean companies like NotCo, Cornershop and Betterfly have already held remarkable investment funding rounds in their short lives as they have attracted attention from large international investment funds.

Chilean company StatKnows is the creator of Recyclame (Recycle Me), a platform that uses artificial intelligence and blockchain technology to cross check bar code information from plastic bottles so that the passage of bottles through the entire value chain can be managed.