Powering Up: Startbull
With our release some months ago of our API we hoped that we could be able to power up platforms, web services and even applications so they all could benefit from the open data on the web. For this task we developed several methods and technology that would allow others developers to connect into Junar's engine (more info here).
Our first partner to start taking advantage of our API was Startbull, a colombian startup aiming to bring investment education and knowledge where people could learn how to invest with others (crowd sourced) in Latin America.
As a startup, Startbull couldn't afford paying Bloomberg or other similar platforms for the data of Stock Markets, data that was available on the web but difficult to extract and use. Instead they turn to Junar to help them with the quest: Using our collection tool we where able to give them data streams they needed and use them through our API to get all market information for Chile, Colombia and Perú. This data is being pulled directly from the Stock Market websites and real-time (not with the 20min delay bloomberg has on LATAM stock market) into their own platform.
" Junar has been crucial for us, not only because of the data they deliver, but also because of the excellent data management tool they have developed on their API. " Santiago Pineda-Startbull
Today Startbull keeps growing it's platform, just completed the StartupChile program and just went finalist on Innova Brasil 2011.
