TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nuvemshop has seen the number of merchants on its platform surge to nearly 80,000 across Brazil, Argentina and Mexico compared to 20,000 at the start of 2020. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. This requires an on the ground local knowledge to make it all work. The proof is in the numbers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

The Latin American startup market, once among the hottest in the world , is cooling. But its slowdown is far from uniform; some countries are surviving the downturn far better than others, data reveals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. For instance, e-commerce giant MercadoLibre launched in Argentina around the time eBay was emerging. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors. Investors should look for younger markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

For instance, volatility is less of a deterrent to crypto adoption in countries such as Argentina, where legal tender isn’t exactly reliable. When its economy minister resigned on Twitter on July 2, everyone knew that the local currency would plummet against the dollar.

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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. Local payment methods account for 68% of online sales, and, depending on the region and merchant networks, merchants must integrate dozens of payment service providers.

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Google’s News Showcase, a program wherein the search giant pays to curate news content from publishers, has launched in the UK and Argentina. will start curating content for News Showcase, many of them local newspapers that do not have the same resources that many larger, national papers have to invest in their digital transformation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Argentina-based, yet fully remote, startup was founded in 2019 — just a few months before the pandemic. Most software vendors are small or medium-sized local vendors, who have not crossed into other Latin American geographies, Taneja pointed out.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

The statement explains that it happened during a software update, but the company claims it only affected a small number of users: just 712 people across the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina. All of our user video data is stored locally on the users’ devices.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S. brokerage operating in Latin America, it can offer global equities while operating in several countries without requiring local licenses, unlike most local offerings in the region, the investor points out. Image Credits: Vest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Bitso says its “global-minded” product offerings fit the needs of local customers in Mexico, Argentina and now Brazil, where it just launched its retail operations. Bitso’s customers rely on the technology for everyday uses from receiving remittances to engaging in international commerce.”. Image Credits: Bitso.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable investment APIs and widgets so businesses in Latin America can build and offer fully digital investment products, like local mutual funds, ETFs and stocks, to their customers. The products are also compliant with local regulations.

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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. It is focusing on localized content as an initial moat, but long-term it thinks that employers need a simple way to track employees as they learn, retain and engage with new skills.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In particular, the company will be focusing on acquiring new customers and product listings as well as expanding to other countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile “through a combination of M&A and greenfield operations,” according to Dagnoni. So what exactly has driven so much growth for Mercado Bitcoin?

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan. – All Final Settlements to be taxed as per local requirement. According to a source, the majority of the layoffs will come from the company’s Dubai and Pakistan offices.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, Viguera told TechCrunch that some gig-economy companies in Latin America are issuing their own cards that allow workers to cash out at small local shops. But it’s seeing “a lot of opportunity” in other markets in Latin America, especially in Chile, Peru and Argentina, Viguera told TechCrunch. “In

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina. The company’s last round of funding, an $7 million seed, was announced just eight months ago.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

The startup — also backed by Y Combinator — touts that its site features over 50,000 listings and has more than 1 million monthly unique active users in Argentina and Mexico. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The Plenary content was a creative jigsaw puzzle, a creative collaboration curated by Derek Humphries and hosted by Marcelo Iniarra , from Argentina. The stage had a 22 meter screen with side screens that had a camera on the speaker and full tech team at the back of the house. All in all one of the most amazing experiences I ever had.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The company will also expand its staff — at 33 people today — to over 100 by the end of next year as it begins looking for brands outside of Mexico in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina. E-commerce is expected to grow another 30% this year, Juan Gavito said.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Waze is also closing offices in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, as it seeks to bring more focus in countries where its business is growing. We will continue servicing these countries via increased investments in Waze Local Starter, supported by our SMB teams in our main sales hubs.

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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. The company has now raised a total of $70 million since its inception in 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

where most people have a cell phone plan through a major carrier, in Brazil — a country where the minimum wage is currently $1,100 reals per month (roughly $202 USD) — many people must buy calling cards at local shops to add credit to their phones, which allows them to avoid a monthly recurring bill. Unlike in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These critters already operate at peak performance, reliably producing nitrogen, phosphorus or performing other tasks at rates or under conditions that local microbes balk at or tire out quickly in. In this case, however, there isn’t even the need to activate latent genes or tweak the processes.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In addition, Parallel18 released a talent app for freelancers, students and professionals to find and apply to work with local international startups. Giving local populations more opportunities to start small online businesses would stimulate new income streams to support their families and communities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. Presently, the company has 1,936 employees, with offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City. Dock is now the biggest, most modern fintech partner available in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Notably, Italy’s privacy watchdog slapped ChatGPT with a local stop-processing order earlier this year — which led to a brief break in service while OpenAI rushed out with disclosures and controls. Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Co-founder Sacha Michaud believes these markets are currently underserved, and Glovo has found the right opportunity to work with local restaurants, bringing them online to reach new customers in a bid to “make everything, within all towns and cities, available to everyone.” million people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

.” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico. Samira — while declining to give Astro developers’ average salary compared to U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The startup says it will also continue to grow its local presence and team in EMEA. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. -based companies as customers already, Alloy announced it has now expanded its platform to 40 countries across North America, EMEA, LatAm, and APAC.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. CABA, Argentina: El Festival de Innovación y Tecnología Social. Friday, June 12, 2015. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Abidjan NetSquared Group Monthly Meetup.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

There are digital literacy trainings for women springing up in Bangladesh, Internet cafés for women opening doors in Argentina, and women leaders in Kenya prototyping mobile apps that send out alerts if a woman’s safety is threatened. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Our app caught fire on the Russian AppStore and we hurried to localize the app’s user interface as well. Later, we used Fiverr translators for the German and French localizations ($5 each) and ran it by some native speaking friends to make sure all is well. If you do that, it will be a major headache to localize later.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

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. based company, which has a database of over 20 billion facial images, was grabbing them and using them without permission in a breach of local privacy laws.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

based company to stop processing locals’ data. The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.) The DPA has given OpenAI a deadline — of April 30 — to get the regulator’s compliance demands done.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2010

Then I stumbled upon The Great Good Place while browsing in my local library. is more germane to public civility than is the third space which is useful in local community building. iii] “One Meter Square” in Sacco, Graciella, M2 , Museo Castagnino + MACRO, Rosario, Argentina, 2009. [iv] New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

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