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Argentina’s Digital House raises over $50M to help solve LatAm’s tech talent shortage

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Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. Riverwood Capital, a Menlo Park-based private equity firm, and existing backer early-stage Argentina-based venture firm Kaszek also participated in the financing.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

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London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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As edtech evolves, LatAm reskilling platforms raise millions to bring outcomes into the mix

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In the past week, Coderhouse, a live cohort-based learning platform, and Crehana, an on-demand skills development service for the enterprise, both announced financing rounds. Patiño explained how the original online education platforms, also known as MOOCs, are “super accessible,” with low completion rates. Broad but better.

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Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding

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Hub , a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. Then COVID hit, and obviously, as Mangum puts it, digital selling became much more real. As a personalized productivity platform, Hub is designed to help individual contributors manage the sales process.

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Pomelo raises $9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs

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Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital payments all over the world, and Latin America is no exception. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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Nuvemshop, LatAm’s answer to Shopify, raises $90M in Accel-led Series D

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São Paulo-based Nuvemshop has developed an e-commerce platform that aims to allow SMBs and merchants to connect more directly with their consumers. With more people in Latin America getting used to making purchases digitally, the company has experienced a major surge in business over the past year. The proof is in the numbers.

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Ethereum developer tools platform Hardhat becomes nonprofit with donations from a16z and others

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Nomic Labs , creator of popular Ethereum developer tools platform Hardhat , is becoming a nonprofit with the goal of improving the protocol’s developer ecosystem, it announced today. .

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