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Latin American Founder Stories

Founder records grounded in Latin American markets, infrastructure, climate conditions, and regional expansion paths.

This location hub preserves founder work in the context of the region that shaped it, including agricultural water stress, local partnerships, and expansion across markets with different operating conditions.

Begin with the defining recordWhen Drought Becomes DataJairo Trad and Kilimo turned irrigation from an intuition-led routine into a measurable decision—then built a market that can pay farmers for conserving water.Read 16 min →

Founder Case Files

Jairo TradTrad helped build Kilimo from a precision-irrigation tool into a basin-level platform connecting farmers who conserve water with companies financing local water security.Kilimo / Cordoba, Argentina

Company Records

KilimoKilimo combines hydrological analysis, satellite and weather data, agronomy, and field implementation to create measurable agricultural water-conservation projects.Climate technology and agritech / Founded 2014

Films

When Drought Becomes DataThe story of a drought, an information gap, and Jairo Trad's effort to make agricultural irrigation more precise through Kilimo.Archive Short / Available

Ledger Records

When Drought Becomes DataJairo Trad and Kilimo turned irrigation from an intuition-led routine into a measurable decision—then built a market that can pay farmers for conserving water.Case File / 16 min

Field Notes

Global Startups Beyond the Silicon Valley PlaybookStartup methods travel more easily than the infrastructure assumptions embedded inside them.Global Founder Context The Geography of InnovationRemote work changed access, but place still shapes capital, talent, networks, customers, and the knowledge a company begins with.Founder Ecosystems

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Keep following the context.

Topic / 5 shared recordsClimate Technology FoundersFounder records where climate pressure, agriculture, water scarcity, and local operating knowledge shaped the company.Location / 5 shared recordsCordoba Founder StoriesFounder records shaped by Cordoba, Argentine engineering, agriculture, and direct proximity to water scarcity.Topic / 5 shared recordsGlobal ExpansionFounder records about entering new markets without assuming infrastructure, customers, regulation, or trust travel unchanged.Topic / 2 shared recordsCultural Product DesignRecords where trust, language, payments, social norms, and local behavior became product requirements.