Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

TechSoup Brazil teamed up with the UN Foundation, IBM, BrazilFoundation, and others for the Social Good Brazil International Seminar held on November 6 - 8 in Florianopolis, Brazil. Check out Social Good Brazil's Facebook page for photos from the event. Social Good Brazil also has an Scoop.It

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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.? 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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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

That’s why we’re beyond excited to host the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) Global Finals on July 22 starting at 9:00 a.m. (PT). So, without further ado, meet seven of the world’s best purpose-driven startups as they vie to be crowned the Extreme Tech Challenge 2021 global winner. Register here for your free ticket.

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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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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

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. 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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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 Warren’s current clients include Estonian cloud provider Pilw.io

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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

MAY 24, 2021

“This investment is only the beginning of our journey in creating a new industry ecosystem and we will carry out this mission with global partnerships.” ” For SoftBank, this is one of the firm’s bigger edtech investments — others have included Kahoot ( $215 million ), Unacademy in India and Descomplica in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. A mix of new and existing investors also participated in the round, including Advent, Altimeter, DST, Silver Lake, Soros, Tarsadia, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Caffeinated, Fifth Wall, Monashees, QED and Vulcan, among others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy was originally headquartered in Brazil, and since much of the startup’s R&D is still located in the country, and it has a significant presence there, the company was still considered for the SoftBank Latin America Fund, officials say. The company plans to use its new capital to “significantly accelerate” its global expansion.

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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

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. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch.

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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

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. Managing Partners Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni run the region’s investment team. each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x for QuintoAndar and 3.5x

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The Benetech team has already accomplished great things for our users, but there is so much more we can do. Our team presented at multiple sessions at the recent RightsCon Silicon Valley conference , which brought together human rights defenders, security experts, and tech executives.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

In addition to students, he says the platform is being used by teachers, professors, trainers and corporate members — i.e. to create content to share with their own students, team members, course participants, etc., The new funding will be put toward product development and supporting the platform’s global expansion, per Khudir.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Tiger Global led the round and was joined by new investors, including DFJ Growth Fund, the social impact foundation, ZOMA Lab; athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer; and musician and DJ Questlove. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. We are excited to partner with Matias and his team. billion valuation.

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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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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

There are some big names not featured — sorry, Bayern Munich fans — but the list is impressively global, with popular teams from Europe, alongside squads from the US, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. Today, the developer unveiled the new “kickoff set,” which lets players swap between 23 different kits. Inter Milan.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises $250M at a $2.2B Rounding out the team are Nicolas Berman, former VP at MercadoLibre, Santiago Fossatti, Andy Young and Mariana Donangelo. In recent years, there has been an explosion of global investor interest in Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. “We All our major competitors are global players,” Josua said. To this point, it has invested with no sales team and very little marketing effort, according to Josua. One year ago, the central bank [of Brazil] launched an instant payment solution.

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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. . Before joining 99, Mansano was the operations manager for Uber in Brazil. Image Credits: Mara. “It’s

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

A slew of other investors participated in the round, including existing backer MAYA Capital and new investors such as Village Global, Clocktower Ventures, Magma Partners, Gilgamesh Ventures, Rally Cap Ventures and Alumni Ventures Group.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

More global investors are backing startups in the region and certain sectors in particular, such as fintech, are exploding. Global investors are not only pouring money into companies. Volpe also received a “large anchor investment” from its management team. They’re also investing in funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. billion in 2023. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“If you’re going to get acquired, chances are you’re going to spend a lot of time with corporate development teams,” says Graham. GMT, Managing Editor Danny Crichton will host a conversation on Twitter Spaces with Eric Dean Wilson, author of “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management , the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 Lee Fixel is leaving Tiger Global. A year ago, Tiger Global, which employs 100 people altogether, was reportedly managing $36.2 billion in capital commitments. billion in assets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

It is, in particular, good for agencies who want to deliver faster results or for non-technical departments that need to iterate faster but depend on centralized engineering teams to implement everything, according to Costa.

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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 trillion, or $445.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

JOKR’s team consists of people who created both foodpanda and Delivery Hero, so from the outside at least, they have the chops to build a big business. The round was led by led by GGV Capital, Balderton Capital and Tiger Global Management. The round comes three months after the company started operations in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Those customers include Rappi, Clara, Bancolombia, Adelantos, Mercado Libre, Didi, Homie and Global 66. The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Eventually, it also wants to expand further in Brazil. Today, 70% of the company’s leadership team are women and 45% of its staff are women.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also participated in this round. We are helping global enterprises on their digital journey, so they can grow and scale without economically prohibitive upfront costs while empowering their talent to focus on driving their business forward. Don’t hate on low-code and no-code.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Also participating were VNV Global, RDIF, Flashpoint Venture Capital and others. million couriers and operates in 10 countries, including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam. They have succeeded in going global; becoming competitive in 10 new international markets.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Currently, Kuona operates in the United States, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador and just opened an office in Brazil. It counts on its list of 15 to 20 customers global entities like Coca-Cola and OXXO convenience stores. The new investment gives Kuona around $7.2 million in total funding.

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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. While Spanish-speaking Latin America is driving some of its revenue, it is Brazil where Ambar is most present, Balbinot said. Three of these are located in the U.S., C commitment. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Cars are significantly more expensive in countries like Brazil than in the U.S. In 2020, the startup saw its number of customers grow by more than 70%, and it now has more than 11,000 users in Brazil and Mexico. These global trends will provide greater access to millions of drivers in the region,” Sobel said.

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