TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

The firm started raising two months ago and already secured $35 million in commitments and cash in hand. 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.

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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. In total, the startup has raised $13 million. Its customer-facing product includes features that are commonplace in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 last week, Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques and BBG Ventures’ Nisha Dua explained how founders should allocate their recently raised dollars in today’s environment. It’s easier to raise and harder to spend these days, because there’s such a high demand for talent.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Agrotools , a Brazilian-based technology and intelligence company for agribusiness, raised $21 million (BRL 100 million) to value the company at around $94 million, according to the company. Brazil’s agriculture sector is a $24 billion industry and Agrotools said it has analyzed over 4.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 “It’s resistant to acids and bases.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

The restaurant industry was thrown for a loop two years ago when the pandemic kept people at home. 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.” Fudo is now among them, having raised $7.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In total, NotCo, with roots in both Chile and New York, has raised more than $350 million, founder and CEO Matias Muchnick told TechCrunch. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green. We are excited to partner with Matias and his team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Bitso may already be the dominant cryptocurrency platform in Latin America boasting 1 million users (primarily in Mexico and Argentina) and is one of the only platforms to be licensed under the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). . “It’s not going away.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Since 2011, Kaszek has backed more than 120 companies, which the firm says collectively have raised more than $15.5 Image Credits: Kaszek Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Fund II will explore options to raise additional capital,” SoftBank said in a statement. It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x for QuintoAndar and 3.5x

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. For instance, e-commerce giant MercadoLibre launched in Argentina around the time eBay was emerging.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The announcement came after concerns were raised by the Antitrust Division that the directors dual roles on both the Epic and Tencent boards violated Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which stipulates that an individual cannot serve on the boards of multiple competing companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The idea for the company came a couple of years ago when Cavasotto and Andres Arslanian, CTO, worked as volunteers for a Microcredits NGO in Argentina. Emi focuses on large and enterprise customers, those needing to hire thousands of workers in retail, light industrial and distribution positions. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

trillion retail industry at a massive inflection point. That included $1 trillion flowing via e-commerce and the industry as a whole advancing five years in a matter of 12 months during the global pandemic. Intuitivo, an Argentina-based AI and computer vision startup, raised $7.8 We profiled them previously.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. “We Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The farming industry spends tons of money on artificial means of reinvigorating soil, but an all-natural solution may already exist: beneficial microbes that have evolved to thrive in extreme environments. Puna Bio , which raised a $3.7 which between the three account for 80% of the market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”-

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Chris Hughes Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Who Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo. All Rights Reserved

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Business is booming in Latin America: Startups raised $9.3 With so many companies raising significant funds in a short time, competition to find a high quantity of high-quality workers is fierce. AI companies have garnered some of the most attention in Latin America this past year, raising a total $862.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

That’s quite a wide range — and sounds sky-high — but Costanzo says it’s reflective of the equally high inflation rate in Argentina, the country where Uils first launched. Regulatory scrutiny could be coming if the BNPL industry’s trajectory in the U.S. ” Image Credits: Uils. is any indication.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B. For example, a study last year by Cambridge University suggested that just one cryptocurrency — Bitcoin — consumed more energy annually than the entire country of Argentina. It’s certainly a thought. Swappie bags $40.6M

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

million pre-seed round, a big one for the region, to try to make some sense of an unorganized and outdated industry where buyers are distrustful of sellers. Moving from A to B in Uno, Dos, Tres : Christine reports how Argentina-based startup ClicOh raises $25 million to bring Amazon-level logistics to e-commerce businesses in LatAm.

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Futurism

APRIL 16, 2025

The vast majority of Antarctic tourists depart for the Southern Continent via cruise ship out of Ushuaia, Argentina, dubbed the "end of the world." Though Argentina's hugely-privatized economy is showing small signs of growth, its population hassuffered with poverty levels as high as 57 percent this year.

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