TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Digital House CEO and co-founder Nelson Duboscq.

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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

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

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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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Digibee , a low-code integration platform, is doing what all low-code integration platforms are apparently doing right now: raising funding. Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also participated in this round. The company today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. 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. Pipo Saude raises $4.6

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

A supplemental post to 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits , the statistics listed below can guide your nonprofit in creating and maintaining a successful social media strategy. billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

That’s just tiny fraction of the $125 million that online events platform Hopin raised last fall — in fact, a recent Equity episode suggested that Hopin might be the fastest growth story of the current startup era. “We don’t intend to compete with platforms in the B2C market.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Today, a startup that has built a platform that helps them produce and monetize their work is announcing a big round of funding that underscores just how lucrative and big the creator economy has become. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021. million people. million people.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Fintech Brex first partnered with Weav , a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, last summer. Besides expanding its global reach, the technology that Brex is acquiring will help accelerate the fintech’s connectivity of its platform, Dubugras said. to knit together a universal API for commerce platforms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you have a LinkedIn profile with your digital resume and hundreds — if not thousands — of professional connections. You don’t hang out and spend meaningful time there,” said Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a new professional networking platform that just closed a $2.75

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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

AUGUST 24, 2022

South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. Carrefour and Indofood. and Europe.

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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

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

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

MARCH 22, 2021

São Paulo-based Nuvemshop has developed an e-commerce platform that aims to allow SMBs and merchants to connect more directly with their consumers. 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. The proof is in the numbers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform. This was the main idea at this time as we saw a huge problem where there was no analytics platform for the offline store or a retargeting mechanism.”.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This caught the attention of second-time entrepreneurs Bruno Ballardie and Fernando Zanatta, who started ZAX in 2019 to develop a platform that unites freight, delivery and payments tools to connect sellers and buyers in Brazil. ZAX’s addressable market for B2B transactions, just in Brazil, is estimated to be BRL 2.4

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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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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 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.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company’s platform serves more than 90,000 merchants across Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina, ranging from direct-to-consumer (DTC) upstarts to more established brands such as PlayMobil, Billabong, Colombraro, Zaira Beauty, Osram, Lolja, Vitabe and StrappyCo. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. Historically, Brazil and increasingly as of late Mexico, have received the bulk of venture dollars from venture investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

OlaClick, a young startup that is helping these restaurants sell online and collect money digitally, announced on Thursday it has received backing from scores of investors, including Gradient, Meta and Delivery Hero. “In Brazil, Instagram is very popular, too, so many restaurants are using Instagram as a channel with us,” he said.

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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 19, 2021

Founded in 2016, Pismo has racked up a list of big-name customers, including Banco Itaú (one of Brazil’s largest banks), BTG, Cora, N26 and Falabella. Its “platform” handles more than 4 billion API calls monthly and hosts more than 30 million accounts, which combined result in over $3.5 billion in transaction volume a month.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Latin America is home to a growing base of digital users, enabling regulation and reforms, and vibrant small businesses. The next two funded fintech categories are credit and digital banking. Investors are enthused about the future of insurance, payments, and digital banks. Image Credits: Briter Bridges & Catalyst Fund.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Andre Maciel, Gregory Reider and Milena Oliveira are the fund’s founding partners, and are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. So far, it’s backed Uol Edtech, a subsidiary of Grupo Uol that aims to redefine the digital learning experience in Brazil. . “We He launched Volpe in 2019 primarily with SoftBank’s backing. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Six years after the launch of the Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform Bitso , the company revealed it has closed on $62 million in financing to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom investors expect to hit Latin America. . The company’s first port of call will be Brazil. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The latest such company in Latin America is São Paulo-based Dock , which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region, where demand for financial infrastructure that can help boost inclusion is massive. Meanwhile, its number of active digital banking accounts climbed by 380% year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. The end goal is to help these businesses — such as digital banks — grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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