Starting Up in Cuba Today: GuiArte, An App to Find Artists

Starting Up in Cuba Today: GuiArte, An App to Find Artists

GuiArte is a mobile app that features a well-assorted directory of professional profiles linked to the cultural realm in Cuba, as well as a section where artists promote their work and performances. This startup aims at fostering, by using new technologies, the...
Cuban-style Reggaeton: Ten Artists to Make You Dance

Cuban-style Reggaeton: Ten Artists to Make You Dance

Just give it a try: at any time of the day, move your radio dial and you’ll sure find at least one Latin American radio station playing the unmistakable rhythm of reggaeton. The musicians can be either from Puerto Rico, Venezuela or Cuban. There are several common...
Cuba is AlaMesa

Cuba is AlaMesa

Where can you eat in Cuba? That’s the basic question answered by AlaMesa (AttheTable) mobile app, with a database that engulfs over 500 restaurants in Havana and several more throughout the country. This app has been described as one of the most interesting...
Starting Up in Cuba Today: Clandestine in Broad Daylight

Starting Up in Cuba Today: Clandestine in Broad Daylight

In Old Havana, a startup named “Clandestina (Clandestine)” catches everybody’s eyes.  Idania del Rio, one of the founders of this project, points out that her idea aims at showing her personal opinion of what design can be and should be. This young entrepreneur...
“Made in Cuba” Videogames: A Reality around the Corner

“Made in Cuba” Videogames: A Reality around the Corner

The videogame industry is growing with an annual rate of 7 percent and sales that will go up to 90 thousand million dollars in 2016. Could Cuba, which is going through an important moment of economic reforms, join that huge industry, not as a consumer, but as a...