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Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. Nowports raises $5.3 million to become Latin America’s digital shipping answer to Flexport.
Mercuryo , a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 Cryptocurrency assets can then be used to process global money transfers, mass payouts and facilitate acquiring services, among other things.” . It also plans to “gradually” expand to Africa, South America and Southeast Asia.
Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 million since its 2015 inception. Insight led that round. .
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