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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Mike Smith’s a bit older than the age of your average college student, but he and two other cohorts from Syracuse University (Ian Dickerson and Frank Taylor) have already launched Centscere , a startup that takes your Facebook and Twitter activity and turns it into charitable bucks. All hail small (and local) business.

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

TechCrunch

The startup is measuring the number of transactions, connected institutions and active users on our platform. In that process, it came in contact with the central bank and the local ACH, and then won an RFP to automate Colombia’s payments infrastructure. Image Credits: Minka. Notably, Mastercard is also an investor in the company.

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Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Dock closes on $110M in funding, now valued at over $1.5B

TechCrunch

Today, Dock operates 65 million active accounts through relationships with more than 300 clients. The company says the number of total monthly active accounts it processed in December 2021 was up 55% year-over-year to 48.4 Meanwhile, its number of active digital banking accounts climbed by 380% year-over-year.

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Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?

TechCrunch

Co-founder Sacha Michaud believes these markets are currently underserved, and Glovo has found the right opportunity to work with local restaurants, bringing them online to reach new customers in a bid to “make everything, within all towns and cities, available to everyone.” million people.

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

Problem: Today with more than 300 members, The Code remains lean with just two staff and 35 regionally dispersed local representatives across 35 countries, while providing maximum impact. s slavery and trafficking activity. It also provides data to help focus preventive and rescue efforts for victims.