The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

WhatsApp is piloting a new business directory in São Paulo, Brazil that lets users find local shops and services with a presence on the app, the service’s head Will Cathcart has announced. Reuters reports that the test will include thousands of businesses in the city. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) September 15, 2021.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Clubbi , a Brazilian business-to-business resource for small food retailers, brought in $4.5 He saw how fragmented and analog the commerce business was, resulting in difficulty reaching a large retail base. million in seed funding to expand across the country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 15, 2010

I'm now on the road for more than 5 weeks on combo business trips and family vacation. As I headed out the door, I ran into Scott Rains and we had a picture taken of Scott in his Brazil jersey (after the U.S., I'm a big Brazil fan too). Tags: Rains Brazil Bookshare. I can tell World Cup fever is really hitting!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Also participating in the round were Xochi Ventures, First Check Ventures, Magma Capital and GV Angels as well as strategic angels including Rodrigo Xavier (former Bank of America CEO in Brazil), Beth Stelluto (formerly of Schwab), Gustavo Lasala (president and CEO of The People Fund) and Brian Requarth (founder of Viva Real). .

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The Next Web

JUNE 12, 2014

Andrea Boetti is a Business Development Manager at Fortumo, helping web and app developers and digital content merchants build out their monetization strategies for emerging markets. Yet many of the big digital content distribution platforms like Pandora and Netflix are not available in countries like Brazil, Turkey and India (Spotify just.

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Wired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Meta's Waterworth Project will provide internet connectivity on five continents, with landing points in India, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. While this may not trouble U.S. per month).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Cayena founders Gabriel Sendacz, Pedro Carvalho and Raymond Shayo believe injecting technology into procurement will make the process much simpler for food preparation facilities, like restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens, in their home country of Brazil and across the region. Image Credits: Cayena.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. InstaCarro plans to use its new capital in part to capitalize on the shift and “aggressively” expand its reach within Brazil. The pandemic forced us to reinvent our business model.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

We allow businesses to increase user acquisition, reduce onboarding dropoff, provide 360 customer support and even sell their services, with minimum tech requirements from their end,” said co-founder and Maite Muniz , who serves as the startup’s chief product officer and is a former McKinsey consultant.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

billion in capital, with investors such as Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Ribbit Capital, Kaszek, QED Investors and others, At that time, Nu had 40 million users across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that Nubank had turned its first-ever half-year profit in its home market. We’ll know soon enough.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.” In Brazil alone, e-commerce sales grew 73.88% in 2020, but Toledo said there was much room for improvement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Nubank co-founder and CEO David Velez and Cedar co-founder and CEO Florian Otto (and former CEO of Groupon in Brazil) also joined in the round. million to bring healthcare benefits management services to Brazil. In the medium to long term, Mitchell said the team views Pipo as a local business rather than a global one.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Many people are unaware that Brazil has the largest Black population in any country outside of Africa. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital. Like counterparts in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak recently soft-launched in Brazil, and this new round of funding will be used to build out the Brazilian market and beyond, said Carlos García Ottati, Kavak’s CEO and co-founder. When you’re building a business here [Latin America], you need to build several businesses because so many things are broken,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Its more than 300 clients include 10 unicorns, two out of the three biggest banks in Brazil and companies such as iFood, Claro, Cielo, Loggi, Ebanx, QuintoAndar and OLX, among others. The company is also examining the possibility of expanding outside of Brazil to all of Latin America. . Its investors are, naturally, bullish.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Brazil’s new fintech startup Cora raised $10 million on the strength of its founding team. Last year, Cora got its license approved from the Central Bank of Brazil, making it a 403 bank.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The investment follows a $225 million Series B investment , announced in September, that put the Mexico- and Brazil based-company at an $850 million valuation. Today, Merama has more than 180 employees and a portfolio of 20 brands across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. At the same time, the agency’s e-commerce clients were running into challenges as their businesses grew. Southeast Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud markets , is an important part of Warren’s business.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Brazil’s QuintoAndar, which has developed a real estate marketplace focused on rentals and sales, has seen impressive growth in recent years. Ribbit Capital Partner Nick Huber said Quintoandar has over the years built “a unique and trusted brand in Brazil” for those looking for a place to call home.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Buying and selling residential real estate is a complex business, no matter where you live. But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. The region has seen explosive growth as of late , with a maturing startup scene in Brazil in particular.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. Last year, Cora got its license approved from the Central Bank of Brazil, making it a 403 bank. Our business must gain trust in order to gain volume.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. 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. billion in 2023. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

For one, Mara was founded by Danilo Mansano and Ariel Lambrecht, the latter of whom was one of the co-founders of 99, a mobility startup that became the first unicorn in Brazil after being sold to Didi for $1 billion in 2018. . And third, its business model of going offline to acquire a customer is also unique and compelling.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. Meanwhile, Grandes says there are 1 million restaurants in Brazil, which presents a big opportunity to go downstream. “It

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

The ACCC believes the proposed law addresses “a significant bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and Google and Facebook.” Australia doesn’t seem to think that’s enough, though.

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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 particular, its growth in Brazil is increasing exponentially.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 18, 2022

Enabling AI in the supply chain empowers organizations to make decisions with confidence, adjust business practices quickly, and outpace the competition. AI enables manufacturers and retailers to innovate across their operations and maximize business impact. Senior Business Development Manager, Latin America, Lenovo Brazil.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay , a Brazil-based fintech that allows users to top off their prepaid cell phones online, announced this morning that they’ve closed their $70 million Series C. The company, which operates solely in Brazil, was launched in 2010 by Miami-based serial entrepreneur Rodrigo Teijeiro, who is co-founder and CEO. . Unlike in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

When Pedro Conrade started Brazilian digital bank Neon in 2016, he was a 23-year-old business school student who was frustrated with the service and costs associated with traditional banking in his country. “I Conrade claims that Neon was the first digital bank in Brazil to not charge any fees — monthly or transaction, or otherwise. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 The company has built a data-driven financing platform aimed at giving businesses access to non-dilutive capital to finance their growth via revenue-share financing. Customers include Dr. Jones, CapaCard and Foodz, among others.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The round was co-led by Brazil-based Echo Capital and Oria Capital , with participation from TPG Capital , Argonautic Ventures , and others. Talking to TechCrunch, Balbinot explained that the startup plans to use the proceeds to boost the digitization arm of its business, for which it sees a strong need across Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Keeping a small sales business afloat in Latin America can involve long bus trips to find new products, lack of working capital and payment difficulties. We saw a huge opportunity to help people make a great business,” Ballardie told TechCrunch. ZAX’s addressable market for B2B transactions, just in Brazil, is estimated to be BRL 2.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Something strange is afoot in Brazil, and it promises great changes for how merchants get paid. But first, some background: Unlike in the rest of the world, when a credit card is used for payment in Brazil, the merchant does not receive the funds owed to them all at once.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Arena founder Paulo Martins grew up in Brazil playing video games, an industry that thrives on building communities among the players. Later, he came to the U.S., where he was an early employee at Hulu, helping the streaming TV service grow to over 7 million subscribers and $1 billion in revenue.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Silva argues that the proposed regulation will lead to a “dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.”. The initiatives in Brazil and Germany are reportedly not affected.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

While the company is based in São Paulo now and operates across Brazil, PicPay originally launched in Vitoria in 2012, a coastal city north of Rio. million to social projects in Brazil. Fintech is one of the most popular sectors in Brazil today, because there’s a lot of room for improvement in the region.

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