TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Earned wage access (EWA) platforms that allow workers to withdraw their earnings on demand instead of waiting until payday are proliferating around the world. On average, more than 50% of employees at wagely’s enterprise clients use it multiple times throughout the month to track their daily earnings and access their earned wages.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

So she built an application to provide access to mental health tools for Spanish-speaking people and began testing it with a small group. With that money, she hired a developer to build a chatbot for her app, which was mostly being used via Facebook Messenger. I was left with nothing,” Campos says. Image Credits: Yana.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Earnipay , a fintech that provides flexible and on-demand salary access to income-earners, has raised $4 million in seed financing led by early-stage venture capital firm Canaan. A few individual businesses have sought to tackle this problem internally and allow employees to access their daily salaries as they work for it. 250 ($0.5)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. Kavak, which was founded in 2016, is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. The startup’s offering was live in Mexico and Canada and today launched in Colombia, the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year. The Mexico City-based company already is live with over 100 merchants, including Steve Madden and Ben & Frank. This captive consumer base is crucial to building the network that is Nelo.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Kueski , a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has secured $202 million in equity and debt funding. He was motivated after he, his friends and family experienced difficulty in getting access “and how terrible the user experience was in accessing financial services in Mexico.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In Mexico in particular, cash remains the dominant method of payment with an estimated 86% of all payments being in the form of cash. According to one recent study , Mexico topped the list of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. And for the founders of Mexico City-based startup Stori , they spell opportunity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Miferia , a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. Mexico doesn’t have a Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. Valued at $10B, Nubank launches it’s Nu credit card in Mexico.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population has the ability to invest in the capital markets felt unfair.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So while we can get in an uproar about the various ways Robinhood may or may not be acting responsibly, it can be easy to forget that not everyone in the world has the same access to potentially making — or losing — money via trading as we do. In Mexico in particular, there are far fewer banks than the thousands the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this month, Citibanamex — Mexico’s second-largest bank — announced that it is building new APIs to allow fintech companies real-time access to information like its services and ATM locations. Mexico has been — and still is — leading the fintech charge in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

CEO Andre Lawson told TechCrunch he was inspired to start Osana Salud because an estimated 50% of Latin America does not have access to quality healthcare. Our vision is to enable affordable and accessible healthcare for every person in Latin America by leveraging technology,” Lawson said. But primarily, it will be used for hiring.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The traditional process of buying, insuring and financing cars across emerging markets can be challenging, and it defeats the purpose of building an all-around car shopping experience. The company is an online marketplace that connects customers looking for flexible access to long-term cars with its partners, offering car subscriptions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In countries such as Mexico, it’s a much more difficult and less common endeavor. In fact, less than 20% of the population has access to a form of credit, with just an estimated 10% having credit cards. We all come from middle class families here in Mexico. Getting a credit card is something most Americans take for granted.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We knew the racing sim was going multiplatform , and now we have a legit date when players will be able to race around a digital replica of Mexico. Additionally, the PS5 build allows gamers to purchase all of the same car packs, including the Hot Wheels and Rally Adventure expansions. That's for you and your wallet to decide.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. By year’s end, La Haus intends to be in every major metropolitan area in Mexico and Colombia. . Image credit: La Haus.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Manuel Rodriguez Dao, co-founder and CEO of Mexico City-based Meru.com , and co-founder Federico Moscato, learned this the hard way when they were sourcing goods for another company and faced problems, among them getting the items that were originally offered. It also has fintech partners to assist with financing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today. When Klar originally started, its mission was to become the “Chime of Mexico.” On top of that, only about 15% have access to formal credit. “ But in Mexico, it’s a different story. ‘We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The startup’s goal with its developer-first API platform that can be used to access and interpret end-user financial data is to build better, more efficient and more inclusive financial products in Latin America. Instead, Belvo wants to build a finance API, which takes in more information than is normally collected by such systems.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Mexico City-based B2B software and payments company provides three products, VendorPlace , P-Card and PorCobrar , for managing cash flow, optimizing access to smart liquidity, and connecting small, midsize and large businesses to an ecosystem of digital tools. In total, Yaydoo has raised $21.5 million, Almaguer told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Kavak , a Mexico City-based startup that operates a pre-owned car marketplace in Latin America, announced today that it has raised a massive $700 million in a Series E round that more than doubles the company’s valuation to $8.7 The startup currently has 40 logistic and reconditioning hubs in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The co-founders want to bridge the gap in technology-enabled financial services that they found in Mexico. Colyer worked for G2 after a stint at Stanford, eventually moving back to Mexico and working on a micromobility startup called Uva Scooters. What sort of tweaking was needed? Regarding the company’s $3.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Habi says its mission is to “empower” low- and middle-income consumers in the housing sector by providing access to liquidity and information “in a market where data is limited and the majority of homes are not listed online.” The startup currently operates in more than 15 cities in Mexico and Colombia.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The main observation of differences between Silicon Valley and emerging tech hubs in the rest of the world is access to early stage seed funding and international press. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS. Many female entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Growing up in Mexico City, Pamela Valdes says she was a bullied child who was inspired by stories her parents told of other bullied individuals, such as Bill Gates, who went on to be very successful. Today, 60% of Beek’s users are from Mexico, 10% are U.S.-based Those stories my parents told me in a way created my reality,” she said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale. Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round. In the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

CEO and co-founder Aaron Polhamus said he, Miguel Arroyo and Jaime Rodas were driven to start Mexico City-based Vest in December 2020 because of their belief that while Latin Americans work hard for their savings, “historically their savings have not worked hard for them.”. Image Credits: Vest. It is valued at $22 million, post-money. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For Greg Isenberg , a growth advisor to TikTok and former head of strategy at WeWork, entrepreneur homes are a signal of what the foreseeable future of building could look like. Michael Houck , a former product manager at Airbnb and Uber, rented a home in Tulum, Mexico in May 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The startup has also partnered with Coursera to provide access to UBITS courses in the B2C market. UBITS offers companies an annual subscription per user so that they pay to give their employees unlimited access to a virtual content library and live sessions. The company also received a strategic investment from Stanford University. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 27, 2015

Of course, Mexico might well beat both the USA and Canada, but Mexico is in the Latin America group at WBU. We also hope to lend our Bookshare online library infrastructure to developing world countries not currently able to build their own online library at this time. I joke that I’m the geek advisor to the activists.

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The Verge

MAY 30, 2021

Tesla is building a factory in Texas to make some of its cars, but when it’s up and running, the cars made there may have to go on a roundabout journey to get to Texan buyers ( via The Drive ). It’s also a little embarrassing for Tesla, which decided to build a factory in the state without securing a deal to sell its cars there.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Six years after the launch of the Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform Bitso , the company revealed it has closed on $62 million in financing to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom investors expect to hit Latin America. . He thinks that access to stablecoins will lead the way.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

Intel already has US factories across several states including Oregon, New Mexico, and Arizona. To help reverse the shift, the US Senate approved a $52 billion subsidy package for the chip industry last June which would offer grants to companies building new US factories, but it is yet to pass through the House.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While it is remote first, Mundi does have operations in Mexico City. The startup built its platform from scratch with the goal of underwriting SME exporters in Mexico. Unless you are a big exporter, you can’t access modern financial services like debt/working capital, instant payments, FX hedging,” Dollaku wrote via e-mail.

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