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South Africa’s Planet42 gets $30M for its car subscription service, Mexico expansion

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Planet42 claims that of all the customers served so far, 89% would have had no other means of gaining access to a personal vehicle. Autochek and Moove are other companies offering similar services in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. In Mexico, that number is 7 million. Planet42 founders (Marten Orgna and Eerik Oja).

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Wagely, an Indonesian earned wage access and financial services platform, raises $5.6M

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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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A ransomware attack took a New Mexico jail offline, leaving inmates in lockdown

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A ransomware attack last week has left an Albuquerque area jail without access to its camera feeds and rendered automatic door mechanisms unusable. As first reported by the Albuquerque Journal , visitor access to the Metropolitan Detention Center was completely suspended as the jail was put into lockdown.

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T-Mobile’s free mobile service for first responders is now available

The Verge

T-Mobile’s offer of free mobile service for first responders for 10 years is now available, CEO Mike Sievert announced today. The program, officially called “Connecting Heroes,” provides free access to the company’s network over the next decade for members of state and local public and nonprofit law enforcement, fire, and EMS agencies.

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Announcing the 2021 Open Data Project!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To view the data, please take the survey, and once submitted, you will be provided instant access to browse and download the data by region and by country. ? Service providers to the nonprofit sector can analyze the data for emerging trends and use the data in their content marketing strategy (blog posts, reports, webinars, etc.).

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Early-stage Mexico fintech Aviva is making loans as easy as a video call

TechCrunch

That’s where Castro said he saw how well technology could help people access financial services that were previously out of reach. He met his co-founders David Hernandez and Amran Frey at Konfio, and, along with Israel Garcia, started Aviva , a Mexico-based fintech startup focused on bringing working capital to unserved communities.

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Aplazo takes in $27M to increase adoption of BNPL in Mexico

TechCrunch

Prior to Aplazo, Peña lived in New York and worked at Morgan Stanley investing in credit in Mexico, while Wieland had been launching businesses across Latin America after spending time at companies like Uber and Lime. However, credit penetration in Mexico is low, less than 10% , due to lack of trust in the banking system, he added.

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