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

APRIL 21, 2022

Even the giants in the industry aren’t immune. That’s why the whole industry has become more rational. We have now become fully gross profit positive on a group level for our local business across all of our countries after 12 months of operations. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile.

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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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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. But startups are also solving local problems. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. Many startups are Silicon Valley clones.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2020

Australians visiting their local Google homepage are presented with an ominous pop-up which warns that “the way Aussies use Google is at risk” and “their search experience will be hurt by new regulation.” Since then, the news and media industry have been hit hard by the pandemic. Screenshot: Google. Screenshot: Google.com.au.

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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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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

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

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

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

JULY 21, 2021

It has also since completed “multiple” acquisitions of local brands operating across a variety of industries, such as beauty, fitness and home goods. It plans to use the new capital mostly to continue acquiring e-commerce brands across Mexico, Brazil and Colombia as well as to do more hiring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The remote-first fintech started in Argentina and has since launched operations and offices in Brazil and Mexico with plans to also expand to Chile and Colombia. Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

So far, the company partners with media buying and advertising agencies and works with over 100 local and multinational brands across Africa, the Middle East and South America in the automotive, healthcare and technology industries. Fergany also said Convertedin is eyeing South Africa and India too. “We

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Regions like northeastern Brazil, one of the worlds notable cocoa-producing areas, are grappling with increasing aridity a slow, yet unrelenting drying of the land. This is not just Brazils story. Cocoa is made from the beans of the cacao tree, which thrives in humid climates.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

This brings a well-known, and controversial, feature in the podcasting industry to Spotify, making the app more on par with other popular players, like Apple Podcasts. The charts will be available in 26 countries, including the US, Mexico, the UK, Brazil, and Germany. The two initial podcast charts will be called Trending and Top.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

We’ve reported on some of those wholesale marketplaces recently, including ZAX , which connects sellers to buyers in Brazil, Morado for Colombia’s beauty industry, Novi , for sustainable goods, JABU in Africa and GudangADA , doing something similar in Indonesia. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2020

Facebook is planning to expand its dedicated news section and says it is “considering” the UK, Germany, France, India, and Brazil as possible recipients, it announced Tuesday. Its News Feed algorithm and ad business have proven devastating for the industry, particularly for local news publishers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The fact that Amazon has invested in a LatAm infrastructure provider for the financial services industry is notable. One year ago, the central bank [of Brazil] launched an instant payment solution. With the latest raise, Pismo has now raised a total of $118 million in funding. Banks and fintechs were scrambling,” Josua told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Procuring items to fill the shelves of local stores is not an easy task in Latin America. What does Brazil’s new receivables regulation mean for fintechs? Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds. In contrast, the United States has large foodservice companies, like Sysco, U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid a global coffee crisis caused mainly by climate change. It’s also working with communities to revive the coffee industry and scale up production. “Coffee needs peace.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Before founding Pillow, Roy and KM explored web3 while working at identity verification and AML software provider HyperVerge, while also holding jobs in the traditional finance industry. In some countries where Pillow has partnered with local, compliant on-ramp service providers, users can also buy crypto with their local fiat currency.

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TechNode

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2022, iMile expanded its operations to Brazil and Mexico. Currently, with an operation center in Shenzhen and a technology center in Hangzhou, it collaborates with US e-commerce giant Amazon, a local e-commerce platform in the Middle East called Noon, fast-fashion brand Shein, and Alibabas logistics arm Cainiao.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Historically, Brazil and increasingly as of late Mexico, have received the bulk of venture dollars from venture investors. Today, Buk has over 4,000 clients that hail from a variety of industries in Latin America, including educational institutions, investment banks, fast food chains, law firms and others.

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TechNode

MAY 28, 2024

The city could also leverage its mature exhibition facilities and experience [] to provide a platform for cooperation and exchange between Chinas NEV industry and overseas markets,” said Norman Sze, vice chair of Deloitte China in a press release (our translation).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The country was the first in the region to implement a law specific to the sector, and Mexican fintechs account for nearly 20% of total venture investment in the industry throughout Latin America. Mexico has been — and still is — leading the fintech charge in Latin America. There are no signs that fintech in Mexico is slowing down.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The farming industry spends tons of money on artificial means of reinvigorating soil, but an all-natural solution may already exist: beneficial microbes that have evolved to thrive in extreme environments. Puna Bio , which raised a $3.7 In this case, however, there isn’t even the need to activate latent genes or tweak the processes.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

So to find out what the startup scene in Valencia looks like, we spoke with eight local investors, executives and founders. BIGBAN is a private nonprofit angel investor network based in Valencia, and incubators and accelerator programs continue to proliferate, supported by corporates and local government initiatives such as Startup Valencia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Founded in 2013 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nubank serves more than 34 million customers, making it Latin America’s largest neobank. AutoX, Momenta and WeRide took the stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to discuss the state of robotaxi startups in China and their relationships with local governments in the country.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

If you’re following the ups and downs of the crypto industry, you won’t want to miss this Twitter Space on Monday at 12:00 p.m. Clean your plate : European food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway is selling its stake in Brazil-based iFood to Prosus for up to $1.8 PDT, subscribe here. Fridayyyyyy. PDT/3:00 p.m.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). My summary of where the issue is generally: the developing world and people with disabilities are for the treaty, and rich countries and the publishing industry are against the treaty.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Local NGOs choose what is most needed in their area and apply online for funding. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

What are ways of translating early warning dashboards captured at the global level into local action? Vicki has 14 years of experience in professional services supporting clients across a wide range of industries, including retail, non-profit, healthcare, and financial services. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Eric Munoz.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

Welcome back to The Interchange, the weekly TechCrunch series that looks at the latest — and what’s ahead — in the global fintech industry. Then the next, I have a founder telling me their latest round was preempted by a large venture firm in their industry. It’s an incredible time to be a financial technology journalist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

That same trend can be seen in all kinds of industries, particularly in food. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers. It's about three hundred dollars a year to send a kid to high school in this region of Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

Anna: "Grub" is our word for food that's local, that's sustainable, and that's grown with fairness from all along the way, from the seed to the table. So "grub" became our kind of catchall term for those three things, for kind of the values of local, of sustainable, and of fairness.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It’s always helpful to get inspiration and learn from other organizations in your industry. Timmy came to the National Aquarium after being found on a local beach with a spinal injury. He also has a reputation for flicking sand everywhere – in the food, and into the keepers’ eyes. Draco won, closely followed by Mo, again!

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