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Brazilian digital auto marketplace InstaCarro revs up with $23M in funding

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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. Notably, U.S.-based

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Ukrainian startup Zeely raises $1M for SMB growth app aimed at US, UK, Brazil, Mexico

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Zeely’s users are so far spread across the US, UK, and emerging markets such as Brazil and Mexico. Zeely’s team of 11 consists of Bondarenko and co-founders Dmytro Samoiliuk (CEO) and Yaroslav Samoiliuk (COO). It’s a great product and already has very convincing traction.” It’s a great product and already has very convincing traction.”

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Digital restaurant startup Zak orders up new capital on mission to be ‘Toast of LatAm’

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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. The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. We are also moving to be an embedded finance company.”.

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Bookshare International Now Serves Thirty Countries

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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.? Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection.

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Sequoia leads $5M pre-seed in Egypt’s 1-month-old digital bank Telda

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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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How Nubank’s CX strategy made it one of the most loved digital banks

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He’d brought on two co-founders, assembled ambitious engineering and operations teams, raised $2 million in seed funding from Sequoia and Kaszek, rented a tiny office in São Paulo, and was armed with a mission to deliver the kind of banking services that customers in a market as large and lucrative as Brazil’s should expect.

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Brazil’s idwall raises $38M for identity validation platform

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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. “Our Image Credits: idwall.

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