TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Z1 , a Sao Paulo-based digital bank aimed at Latin American GenZers, has raised $2.5 Put simply, Z1 is a digital bank app built for teenagers and young adults. In its early days, Z1 is focused on Brazil but the startup has plans to expand into other countries in Latin America over time. “Z1 million in a round led by U.S.-based

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He was previously the founder of Canary and Peixe Urbano, and was Facebook’s first employee in Brazil. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. Atlantico Digital Transformation Index 2021 LatAm. More posts by this contributor. in 2021 from 2.3% in 2020 for LatAm as of August.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.? After books are scanned and uploaded into the digital Bookshare library, they are still used in their printed form by readers around the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

11am IST (Dublin): Digital Charity Lab (Ireland). 10am BRT (Rio de Janeiro): Doare (Brazil). Schedule of Twitter Takeovers on September 26: 10am AEST (Melbourne): Pro Bono Australia. 9:30am IST (Ahmedabad): NGOBOX (India). 9am PDT (Long Beach): Funraise (United States). For help with time zones, RSVP on Facebook or use TimeandDate.com.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Born and raised in Brazil, Barroso got his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro and pursued his Ph.D. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1990s before joining Google in 2001. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California.

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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 more digitized companies become, the more client expectations grow — and market competition grows stronger,” Ando said. Image Credits: idwall.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Brazil-based startup is creating tools for developers of growing e-commerce brands to create high-performance digital experiences. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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. Also, the opportunity in Brazil is just so large. “We Pipo Saude had raised $4.6 Pipo Saude raises $4.6

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Digital Trends

MARCH 21, 2021

Apple has been fined in Brazil over its decision to stop shipping a wall charger with the iPhone 12, which launched last fall.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Over the past year, there has been a surge of newly formed digital banks aimed at specific demographics. The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States. There is a digital bank in Brazil with a similar mission called Pride Bank ).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Back to School in Brazil. Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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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. Its sheer number of users makes Nubank the largest digital bank in the world in terms of customers. Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Digital banks have enormous potential in the region. Today, a newly launched one, Telda is announcing a $5 million pre-seed round to digitize how Egyptians save, send, and spend money. However, a fter his experience using N26 while visiting a friend in Berlin in 2015, his eyes opened to the possibilities of digital banking in Egypt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

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. With the checking account, customers have the ability to sending and receive money as well as pay bills digitally.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

At the time, Brazil didn’t have ownership restrictions on this product segment like it did with banking, but new rules were coming into force in just a few months in May 2014 that would block a company like Nubank from launching. Additionally, you could only use credit cards to shop online in Brazil, because debit cards weren’t accepted.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2009

TechSoup Brazil , a collaborative effort of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN) and TechSoup Global, was launched has just officially launched after many months of planning. If you work with nonprofits or NGOs in Brazil or want to learn more, check out their site (in Portugese). Welcome, Brazil! but not quite.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to promote financial inclusion by expanding the digital payments ecosystem in Colombia. . It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If It also processed “31x” more transactions in 2021 than it did in 2020.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil is a country riven with economic contradictions. Financial transactions that would take days to process in the United States through ACH happen instantaneously in Brazil. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

This year, QuintoAndar expanded operations into 14 new cities in Brazil. Its rental platform is live in 40 cities across Brazil, while its home-buying marketplace is live in four (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre) and seeing more than 10,000 sales in annualized terms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. This morning, digital real estate platform Loft announced it has closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. Currently it is only available in a few cities in Brazil, such as São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. .

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The feature is powered by Novi, Meta’s digital wallet that launched as a pilot six weeks ago , with payments made using Pax Dollars (USDP) , a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar issued by Paxos. There's a new way to try the @Novi digital wallet. This would integrate with a Facebook-developed digital wallet called Calibra.

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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. What does Brazil’s new receivables regulation mean for fintechs?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 13, 2013

His career began in 1992 when he worked in the financial market at Banco Nacional in Brazil. Today, digital repositories of knowledge replace the physical. Like a dictator who commissions his own statue, we do not need to erect little digital statues of ourselves. Death of digital content.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

PicPay operates largely as a financial services platform that includes a credit card, a digital wallet similar to that of Apple Pay, a Venmo-style P2P payments element, e-commerce and social networking features. “We million to social projects in Brazil. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mercado Bitcoin , a Latin American digital assets exchange, has raised $200 million in Series B funding from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Startups in this class come from far and away, including Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, India, Japan, Italy, Latvia & Estonia, Spain, and Taiwan. Instamojo: marketplace to sell your digital creations with just one click. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil. Iconfinder: site for icons.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He was previously the founder of Canary and Peixe Urbano, and was Facebook’s first employee in Brazil. Latin America’s second wave of digital transformation. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. Distinctively, Latin America has not suffered through this hangover from digital adoption.

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

Nearly exactly one month ago, digital real estate platform Loft announced it had closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. Not only are more people open to transacting digitally, more people are looking to buy versus rent in the country. “We At the time, Loft was valued at $2.2

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Microsoft says it’s gone door-to-door replacing routers compromised with the Trickbot malware in Brazil and Latin America, hoping to squash an international hacking group. But Amy Hogan-Burney, general manager of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, told The Daily Beast that Trickbot remained a “continuing challenge.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

But in markets like Brazil, the idea is still considered relatively novel. We spent two months studying possible paths, talking to people and investors in the United States, Brazil and Mexico, until we came up with the idea of creating an insurance company that can modernize the sector, starting with auto insurance.”. Here in the U.S.

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