TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Since 2007, the number of publicly listed companies in Brazil has decreased from 400 to just a little over 300. public exits per year; by 2019, even Iran had more listed companies than Brazil. In the past decade, there were 56 IPOs in Brazil and only two were in the software space, both in 2013.

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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. Just how strong of a business set has the neobanking industry managed to concoct with ample capital and plenty of time? 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] Nonprofits have an average engagement rate of 0.066% on Facebook. Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] 53% of nonprofits spend on social media advertising. Rival IQ Social Media Industry Benchmark Report ] Nonprofits have an average engagement rate of 0.623% on Instagram.

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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 company is also examining the possibility of expanding outside of Brazil to all of Latin America. . ” .”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Many people are unaware that Brazil has the largest Black population in any country outside of Africa. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital. Like counterparts in the U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Brazil’s burgeoning startup and exit market: In the wake of Nuvemshop raising a zillion dollars , it was time to sit down and talk about Brazil. After traveling overseas, we went very close to home to speak about the news industry. What happens if secondary investors aren’t as into your product as you are?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. People often ask me: How are consumers different in Brazil? Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Addressing agricultures labor challenges, Seso offers software now used by one-third of Americas 100 largest agricultural employers to streamline the H-2A visa process for migrant farmworkersa workforce the industry relies on heavily, at a time when its become a cultural flashpoint.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., They note that whenever industry wants intellectual property action globally, they only want a treaty: why should people with disabilities settle for a softer alternative?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. While he declined to reveal the amount of the Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round, he said it allowed the company to invest around $40 million in expanding its operations in Brazil this year.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

It already announced a program to pay publishers in Australia, Germany and Brazil back in June.). Since then, the news and media industry have been hit hard by the pandemic. As Google explains in Silva’s full statement and an accompanying blog post , it would rather pay publishers specifically for its Google News products. (It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The Earth Day-timed announcement comes as companies and consumers confront the failure of recycling programs to adequately address the problems associated with plastic waste — and broader issues around the contributions of consumer behavior and industrial production and distribution to the current climate emergency.

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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.,

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DataRobot

AUGUST 18, 2022

Supply chain and logistics industries worldwide lose over $1 trillion a year due to out-of-stock or overstocked items 1. AI has been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution for good reason. Lenovo Brazil turned to DataRobot to build machine learning models at a faster rate, while improving prediction accuracy. Rodrigo Bertin.

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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 Volpe plans to avoid capital intensive industries, even if related to tech.

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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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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. TradeBriefs: empowering Indian professionals through industry expertise and jobs. UniPay: mobile payment platform in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

LanzaJet claims that it can help the aviation industry reach net-zero emissions, something that would go a long way toward helping the world meet the emissions reductions targets set in the Paris Agreement. Through the Raízen joint venture in Brazil, Shell has been producing bio-ethanol for more than 10 years.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Since then, the news and media industry have been hit hard by the pandemic. Under the plans, Google partnered with publishers in Germany, Australia, and Brazil to pay for news content for a “new news experience” due to launch later this year. The initiatives in Brazil and Germany are reportedly not affected.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

The cannabis labor market is growing startups : TechCrunch notes in this story that there are labor platforms being built to help particular industries hire. And now the cannabis industry as well, thanks to Vangst, which just raised a $19 million Series B. Nubank’s present day headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

” Both Recker and Menezes have years of experience in the food industry. Menezes’ food career started in Brazil at one of the world’s largest poultry exporters. “It was clear to me after I was inside the meat industry for so long that it was not going to be a sustainable business in the long run,” Menezes said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Fifty percent of its business comes out of Brazil, 30% from Argentina and the remaining 20% in the rest of Latin America. Digital House also plans to expand its partnerships with technology employers and companies in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. It also is planning some “strategic M&A,” according to Duboscq.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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. Marcelo Claure, Executive VP and COO of SoftBank Group, leads the SoftBank Latin America Funds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

For now, Divibank is focused on Brazil, considering the country is huge and has more than 11 million SMEs “with many growth opportunities to explore,” according to Taboada. Today the team consists of eight employees in Brazil, and that number will likely grow to more than 25 or 30 in the coming 12 months, according to Taboada.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

They reconnected in Brazil after the collapse of Marinelli’s attempt to launch a predictive chronic health condition service called BlueAI. It was there that he saw the shoddy state of affairs of industrial monitoring tools. “Only industries with huge capital can go through that mess,” Marinelli said.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. — Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry. Brazil and Mexico riding the gravy train. Latin America saw a total of $6.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The firm is industry agnostic, with Kazah saying it considers “any industry where technology is playing a transformational role.”. It has people on the ground in its home base of Brazil as well as Mexico, the United States, Argentina and Uruguay. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

We want to transform the entire supply chain for plastic-free packaging in Brazil. But the company is also working with Tembici , a provider of electric bikes in Brazil, to move its delivery fleet off of internal combustion powered mopeds or scooters. Tembici raises $47M Series B to expand its fleet of electric bikes. “We

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Photo by Ricardo Beliel/Brazil Photos/LightRocket via Getty Images. The plots were frequently sold without an official land title designating ownership, driven by the deforestation of the Amazon caused by the Brazilian cattle industry, the BBC found. Did you know you can sell land on Facebook Marketplace? Neither did I.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Over the years, the event has become a relatively low-tech, low-budget showcase for a group of tech investors and billionaire industry insiders to take a look at early stage businesses that could be their next billion-dollar opportunity. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.” Those chemicals.

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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. Since it originated in Brazil, it already has strong brand visibility in the country.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This new growing affair between Israel and China is extremely important to the Israeli technology industry, which is always seeking new markets and lacks capital. On one of these flights I met Eden, the CEO of an Israeli next-gen hardware company focusing on the gaming consuls industry. billion people in 2009 to 4.9 billion in 2030.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. And the company has recently raised another $45 million to consolidate its position.

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