Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 14) 96% regularly vote in local and national elections and 37% donate to political campaigns. 15) 9% donate stock and/or mutual funds to NPOs, NGOs, and charities and 6% donate to Donor Advised Funds (DAFs). By Region: Africa – 12%. Asia – 26%. Europe – 6%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Increased access to online and mobile giving technology in Africa, Asia, and South America will likely grow these numbers significantly in coming years. 67% volunteer locally, 9% volunteer internationally, and 56% attend fundraising events. North America. View: Giving Trends in North America Data Sheet. South America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate. and across the Americas, Afro-Brazilians have long struggled for socio-economic equity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. Warren’s seed funding also included participation from Lemonade Stand and angel investors like former Nokia vice president Paul Melin and Marek Kiisa, co-founder of funds Superangel and NordicNinja.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Success Story: Hispanic Scholarship Fund: From Luminate CRM to Nonprofit Success Pack. Francis College + Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Latin America’s second wave of digital transformation. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. More posts by this contributor.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Zero Foodprint takes the top slot, for funding regenerative farming through a model so simple, it becomes radical: Restaurants, grocers, and food companies are asked to contribute 1% of consumer purchases to directly fund farm conversions. Read more about Zero Foodprint , honored as No.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Merqueo , which operates a full-stack, on-demand delivery service in Latin America, has landed $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Dark stores are traditional retail stores that have been converted to local fulfillment centers.” EU or China, for example. billion in 2023.

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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. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

“We are true believers in the fact that the world needs a new Amazon, a better one, a more sustainable one, one that appreciates local areas and products.” Today the fast-growing grocery and retail delivery platform has closed a whopping $170 million Series A funding round. Latin America and Europe. Latin America and Europe.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Photo: Gravity Water] Wright first started thinking about the potential for rainwater harvesting on a trip to Central America in college. But in Taipei, in heavy storms, the local water supply often quickly becomes polluted. He realized that access to clean drinking water was a challenge even in areas with abundant rain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Three months after announcing a $4 million seed round , Venezuelan delivery super app Yummy is back with an $18 million Series A round that will accelerate the company’s proposed expansion throughout Latin America. Yummy was started by Vicente Zavarce in 2020 and has amassed over 200,000 registered users so far. “We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While important, this factor wasn’t universal but was vital for campaigns focused on crisis relief or specific fund-raising event promotion. The money funded the development of 22 new drugs and over 100 research projects worldwide. The Rainmaker Campaigns ALS Association – “Ice Bucket Challenge” St. Online Donations – St.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Tono Mandly doesn’t consider his company, Riogrande , an e-commerce aggregator, but instead as one whose mission is to build local brands, through acquisition and incubation, for the emerging middle class of Latin American consumers. They come from backgrounds that include Rocket Internet and Delivery Hero. “We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

Donations triggered by: Email (11), social media (7), local, personal connection to nonprofit (4), experience through travel (3), print appeal (1). Another nonprofit timed out twice (on two different days) during the donation processing and the donation was never completed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform. Convertedin is led by a world-class team in which we have tremendous confidence as the company embarks on its next stage of growth in MENA and Latin America.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. One difference between SIV II and the first fund is that it can writer bigger checks. Another criteria is to back local founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

But Latin America stood out thanks to its comparatively high crypto adoption: According to Kim Grauer, head of research at Chainalysis, Latin America has consistently captured between 8% and 10% of global cryptocurrency activity. As a consumer market, is Latin America currently being served more by homegrown or foreign companies? .

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In Central Texas, a bitter fight over a $1 billion water project offers a preview of the future for much of the state as decades of rapid growth push past the local limits of its most vital natural resource. But all of these solutions remain years from realization. In 1998, Gangnes moved from Austin to rural Lee County.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Even startups directly impacted by COVID-19 are seeing green shoots , while local entrepreneurial scenes are growing as investors learn to write checks over Zoom. Startups are raising fresh capital amidst a pandemic — and then raising again ( and again ). But, while that’s a fortuitous narrative, it’s not the full story. For some.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Pegasus Tech Ventures , a firm that helps corporations launch startup investment funds, announced a new partnership with Japanet today. Japanet’s plan is to “both co-develop solutions with earlier-stage startups over time, as well as help later-stage startups localize and deploy in the Stadium City,” said Uzzaman.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. 99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America. Sixty-two percent of the sector is dominated by small and local last-mile providers,” he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ricardo Sangion previously launched operations for Facebook and Pinterest in Latin America, before joining operator-led global investors TheVentureCity as partner for first-ticket investments in the region. There has been significant hype around Latin America’s startup success. Ricardo Sangion. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to a McKinsey report, most African countries have experienced double-digit insurance growth in CAGR in local currency over the last five years, thus positioning the region as the second-fastest growing for insurance globally after Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Perhaps that’s why Sixty8 Capital , a firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, smack dab in the middle of the country, has chosen to launch a new $20 million fund aimed at providing early stage funding for underrepresented founders. Indy-based High Alpha Capital launches new $110M fund.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia , Europe , Africa , Latin America and elsewhere. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. but far less so in Latin America, such as 360 degrees virtual tours, online booking for showings and appraisals and pricing data for properties.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

The Latin America startup ecosystem is having a great year, with mega-rounds being announced at breakneck speed and new unicorns minted almost monthly. ” Local VCs are raving about the human capital in the region, but for some global investors, the appeal of Latin America extends beyond the talent to the general populace. .”

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CauseVox

MARCH 17, 2025

Picture this: a sunny day, a beautifully manicured golf course, and a group of enthusiastic golfers ready to tee offall while raising funds to support your nonprofit’s mission. Home Page The home page (as displayed in the Scouting for America example above) should showcase key details like date, location, and fundraising goals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With the recent funding, Atommerce plans to enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning technology for its platform and invest in digital therapeutics specialized in mental illness. Atommerce plans to enter Japan in the first half of 2022 and aims to penetrate North America as early as year-end. Image Credits: MiNDCAFE app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The latest such company in Latin America is São Paulo-based Dock , which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region, where demand for financial infrastructure that can help boost inclusion is massive. The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Those backers include Kaszek Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, SoftBank Latin America Fund and DILA Capital, among others. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

to emulate and localize. As they find product-market fit, they start to look to Asian tech companies for inspiration while morphing them to suit local needs. SoftBank, whose portfolio contains many of these Asian tech giants, invested heavily in Rappi’s previous two rounds and now has a $5 billion fund dedicated to the LatAm region.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By March 2019, we had launched SoftBank in Latin America with an initial commitment of $2 billion, which was worth more than the entire industry at the time. Latin America became the fastest-growing VC region globally, and the market expanded to $16 billion in 2021. Foreign capital will only cover a portion of these funding needs.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. That is when we started PideDirecto, to enable local businesses to scale their direct-to-consumer sales channels,” Fawzi said. “We

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