TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The latest funding will enable the company to expand into Argentina and the United States. It also plans to monetize the underlying technology it is building that automates brand management and supply chain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Nuvemshop (also known as Tiendanube in Spanish speaking countries) aims to give entrepreneurs a way to build and grow online businesses. The company currently has more than 600 employees and offices in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

In the run-up to the conference, we caught up with Gomes to find out about what it’s like to do business in Brazil, how foreign companies should approach the market, and what we can expect from his talk. TNW: Beyond Brazil you expanded into Argentina in 2011. Business in Brazil is much less objective than in markets like US.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The remote-first fintech started in Argentina and has since launched operations and offices in Brazil and Mexico with plans to also expand to Chile and Colombia. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. “It Image Credits: Pomelo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

When the firm heard that the other Tuna co-founders were starting a business that was applying some of the optimization methods they had created at Peixe Urbano, but for every company, they saw it as an opportunity to get involved. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Enter Skydropx , a Mexico City-based logistics management company that enables businesses to create an end-to-end automated delivery experience for customers that includes over 250 shipping options, track notifications via WhatsApp, estimated delivery times and return management.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Only 19% of Latin American adults own a credit card, and 70% of credit cards in Brazil, Argentina and Chile can’t be used internationally. Since the onset of the pandemic, Stripe observed that fraud rates at businesses in Latin America were 97% higher than in North America and 222% higher than businesses in the Asia Pacific.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Business transformation is hampered by different parts of one’s life being managed by different silos, each of which looks after one vertical slice of life,” said Berners-Lee in a statement. The startup has signed contracts with governments of Sweden, Argentina and Basque, TechCrunch reported earlier.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. He expects to have 50% of its business coming from the U.S. Muchnick also wants to establish more patents in food science — the company already has five — and to explore a potential intelligence side of the business. over the next three years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Merama partners with e-commerce product sellers in Latin America by purchasing a stake in the businesses and working with their teams to help them “exponentially” grow and boost their technology while providing them with nondilutive working capital. It is currently focused on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

In Fudo’s case, the Argentina-based company offers a web-based restaurant operating system and point-of-sale software that brings together a restaurant’s operations into a centralized “hub.” Today, the company has a team of more than 70 employees in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The funding will be deployed into areas including expanding its business in the U.S., Toward this vision, we just acquired a digital platform from Argentina to support the rural producer weather risk management and corporations risk assessment.”. Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. There is so much innovation and disruption taking place in Latin America, and I believe the business opportunities there have never been stronger. There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Beeflow’s business model is two-fold. The startup was founded by Matias Viel, who is from Argentina, and is mostly operational in Latin America and the West Coast of the U.S., Combined, these Beeflow products have increased crop yields for farmers up to 90 percent. with plans to expand to the East Coast and Mexico.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The firm’s investments have largely concentrated in Brazil and Mexico (the two startup hotspots of the region) and Colombia but the firm has also backed startups based in other countries in the region such as DigitalHouse (which was formed in Argentina), NotCo (originally founded in Chile) and Kushki (launched first in Ecuador).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

The company claims that more than 22% of 18 to 25-year-olds in Argentina have a Ualá card. Over 1 million users invest in the mutual fund available on the Ualá app, which the company claims is the second largest mutual fund in Argentina in number of participants. At the time of its Series C raise in November 2019, it had issued 1.3

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. Aside from the required infrastructure, labor conditions and ease of doing business, etc., industry in Tanzania.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Clearly, the company’s business model seems to be working. The startup currently has 40 logistic and reconditioning hubs in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. That compares to more than 2,500 employees and 20 logistics and reconditioning hubs in Mexico and Argentina at the time of its last raise in April.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing. Fifty percent of its business comes out of Brazil, 30% from Argentina and the remaining 20% in the rest of Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

Playvox founder and CEO Oscar Giraldo founded the company in 2012 and has been quietly building it into an international business with brand name customers like Dropbox, Electronic Arts and Wish. The acquisition brings together two companies with similar missions to provide a more complete customer service solution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Demand for crypto assets and crypto-enabled financial products have soared in popularity both for individuals and businesses in the region, according to Bitso, which aims to be “the safest, most transparent, and only regulatory compliant platform” in Latin America. In some parts of the world, crypto is associated with speculation.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Privy: online advertising for small/medium-sized businesses. accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

The pair both had experience in technical sales and recognized the challenges of using spreadsheets to manage their business. Our tool can help them automate the mundane tasks and put the focus on high-value tasks to actually win more business,” he added. Its developers are based in Argentina, for example. . “As

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Patiño said that 80% of their revenue comes from Argentina, and the capital resources will help them grow their 21,000 student base to other countries. Per CEO Diego Olcese, the round will lead to “aggressively scaling” an offering that now accounts for half of Crehana’s revenue: Crehana for Business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. He returned to Argentina and explained the idea to a few of his colleagues, who also were fascinated and became his co-founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Latin America’s startup scene has attracted troves of venture investment, lifting highly-valued companies such as Rappi and NuBank into behemoth businesses. Currently, Henry has graduated 200 students and is working with 600 students across Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. Now, VCs are giving Henry some cash to do so.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America. Regarding LPs behavior, Suarez said via email that LPs were wondering if business fundamentals in LatAm were strong. It’s been a busy day for new funds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Prior to joining SoftBank, Camhaji was a business development principal at Amazon, establishing strategic partnerships with fintechs in Latin America. Similarly, most businesses are underserved by modern software solutions,” Nyatta told TechCrunch. There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Marietti, who is from Argentina, was working in food tech and saw that modern delivery services were only able to offer limited food options and pricing, and was a trade-off between convenience and variety. CookUnity combines the ready-to-eat meal category with a chef-focused business model that provides restaurant-quality meals at home.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

In fact, the evolution of business shares far more similarities across countries than we might expect. This is not very different from the timeline of businesses in other markets such as the United States. For instance, e-commerce giant MercadoLibre launched in Argentina around the time eBay was emerging.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

We are a far more AUM-focused business, both philosophically and in terms of how we are building our product roadmap for 2022… Although things may get rough in the short term, historically speaking, time is the investor’s friend.” It was introduced to Vest by one of its portfolio founders, Carlos Garcia. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

So while Belvo’s goals are “similar to the overarching goal[s] of Plaid,” co-founder and co-CEO Pablo Viguera told TechCrunch that Belvo is not merely building a banking API business hoping to connect apps to financial accounts. Latin America is massively underbanked and unbanked so the more data from more sources, the better.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

It’s been a very busy 18 months for SWVL leading up to this news. SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. – B2C business is also expected to be contribution margin positive before the end of 2022.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

But when Strauss searched for a solution in LatAm that would fit the needs of businesses in the region, he came up empty — so he decided to build it himself. Eventually, Strauss hopes to expand the product across the LatAm region to businesses in Uruguay, Peru, Argentina and other countries that face similar challenges.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As with all OSS projects that may succeed, its goal is to offer something useful to the market as open code and build a commercial business atop what’s generally available. It’s worth noting that Chicago-based AutoCloud is a standard startup of the day in that it has a team in multiple locations, including Argentina and Chile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Few are seeing venture capital come their way in recent months, save for companies such as Una Brands and Razor , which may allude to how well Wonder Brands developed its business model. We’ve achieved remarkable results, generating over $100 million in annualized revenues with an annual growth rate exceeding 100%.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. Geographically, Kaszek has been most active in Brazil and Mexico, and has also invested in teams based in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.

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