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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swap , a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management. Endeavor, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, partners of DST Global, ONEVC, Global Founders Capital and Flourish Ventures all participated in the latest round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

” We’ve also seen this play out with angel investors who have become prominent solo venture capitalists like Olumide Soyombo of Voltron Capital — and globally, Elad Gil and Lachy Groom. Last year, rali_cap raised $2 million, money it has since deployed. “But we’re always open for exceptions,” said Simmons.

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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. “We

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. In fact, he noted that in Colombia, cash still represents over 80% of transaction volume versus 35% in Brazil and 30% in the United States.

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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

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change. The government says companies can operate safely, but warned them to focus on business. “Coffee needs peace.”

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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. The round values Loft at $2.2

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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. “Whereas global providers give a personal touch maybe only to a few big clients in the enterprise sectors.” It recently closed a $1.4

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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

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

JUNE 1, 2021

Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Glade Brook led its $63 million Series C financing, which included participation from Tiger Global Management and Hill House. Facily claims that its app is now one of the top three most downloaded in Brazil, one of the fastest-growing apps in the country (according to App Annie) and the fastest-growing e-commerce food app globally ever.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. Operating Partner Alex Szapiro, also head of Brazil for SoftBank, leads the fund’s operations team. each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. Globalization and the digital transformation of the book industry also stand behind the recent big news in the publishing world about the mega-merger of Penguin and Random House , says Ed Nawotka.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

WhatsApp is introducing a new shopping carts feature that lets you order multiple items with a single message from businesses on the service. The feature will be available globally starting today. Over 175 million people used the service to message a WhatsApp Business account each day as of late October , the company said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Just five months after raising $90M, Brazil’s Nuvemshop announced today it has raised $500 million in a round co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management. Nuvemshop (also known as Tiendanube in Spanish speaking countries) aims to give entrepreneurs a way to build and grow online businesses.

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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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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

Facebook is testing Instagram’s Reels feature in India, Business Insider reports. Business Insider reports that some Instagram users in India have already started receiving Instagram’s new feature in an update, and a Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the company plans to release the feature more widely.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ricardo Sangion previously launched operations for Facebook and Pinterest in Latin America, before joining operator-led global investors TheVentureCity as partner for first-ticket investments in the region. People often ask me: How are consumers different in Brazil? Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels.

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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. CTO Zanatta was founder of Netlolo, a tool that connected clients with global experts, and was also previously CTO for Dafiti and COO for Buscapé. trillion, or $445.6

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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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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

APRIL 22, 2021

The round included participation from a mix of new and existing investors such as DST, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Fifth Wall and QED, among many others. valuation in one of Brazil’s largest venture rounds. Loft plans to use its new capital in part to expand across Brazil and eventually in Latin America and beyond.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the worlds notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity a slow, yet unrelenting drying of the land. This is not just Brazils story. Greenhouse gas emissions: A global catalyst Human-induced climate change is the primary driver of rising aridity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also participated in this round. Launched in 2017, Digibee makes it easy for businesses to build and deploy integration workflows without having to touch any code. and globally,” said Rodrigo Bernardinelli, co-founder and chief executive officer at Digibee. Image Credits: Digibee.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

China is looking beyond natural resources; in Israel, Chinese companies are finding the technological advantage and innovative spirit that can help them compete in their domestic market and ultimately become dominant global players. Some statistics first: according to the OECD, the global middle class will grow from an estimated 1.8

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“The only things that changed were the economics and speed of business.”. Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency.

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