In 2009, Angel Alayón, a Venezuelan economist out of the University of Chicago, created a personal blog and decided it needed more content, stating "I would read things in the New Yorker, or the Atlantic, or Slate, and I would wonder why Venezuela couldn’t have something like that".

[1]Venezuelan journalist and author Boris Muñoz was one of the first to join Prodavinci while Willy McKey is the assistant editor.

[1] Contributors have included fiction writer and essayist Federico Vegas as well as constitutional lawyer José Ignacio Hernández.

[1] According to media protection organizations, Venezuelans "have been forced to find alternatives as newspapers and broadcasters struggle with state efforts to control coverage", with a growing trend of Venezuelans using online news media to bypass government censors.

[1] On 2 March 2022 Prodavinci received the King of Spain International Journalism Award in the category of International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action for their investigation "La promesa rota: el colapso de la seguridad social" (Spanish: The broken promise: the collapse of the social security system).