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DeltaX wants to digitize the Andean region’s trucking sector

TechCrunch

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. Millions of tons of cargo are transported each year via the Pan-American Highway and its branches across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay.

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Italy’s Commerce Layer raises $16M led by Coatue for its headless commerce platform

TechCrunch

This latest Series B round is being led by Coatue Management, with general partner Caryn Marooney (who has led comms at Facebook, among many other high-ranking comms roles) taking a seat on Commerce Layer’s board. Previous investors Benchmark and Mango Capital also participated.

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See3 Celebrates Blog Action Day

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Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

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Before her time in Sacramento she worked for environmental NGOs throughout Arizona, California, and Bolivia. Isabella Gonzalez Potter. Policy Associate, The Nature Conservancy. Isabella received her B.S. in Environmental Science with a minor in Latin American Studies and her M.S.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

And indeed I did go back and documented the Durga festival, and the Kali festival, and many other festivals all over the world that honored women for their spiritual lives, and accomplishments, and roles, and rights of passage. There had never been a book about festivals that honored women. Celebrating Women was book number two.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

In an interview with Security Editor Zack Whittaker, Twitter CISO Rinki Sethi talked about the modern role of a chief information security officer and how the next generation of CISOs can stay ahead. Finally, the world has realized that Latin America has size,” Claure, a native of Bolivia, said this week at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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