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.” Image Credits: InEvent.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Even the giants in the industry aren’t immune. It has a new AI-powered app that taps into a customer’s past shopping behaviors to provide product personalization and a new partnership with the decarbonization platform Plan A, with the goal of becoming the “first climate-positive instant-delivery grocer.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Jio Platforms is investing $200 million in Glance, which serves media content, news and casual games on Android handsets’ lockscreen, the two said Monday, the latest in a series of bets from Mukesh Ambani’s empire as it looks to expand its offering to more than 420 million telecom subscribers it reaches in the South Asian market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Specifically, Osana Salud is building an API-connected infrastructure to help the region’s healthcare industry offer a patient experience that offers “greater convenience, outcomes and value,” Lawson told TechCrunch. It also gave the industry the opportunity to show the benefits of a “virtual first” approach, he added.

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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.” It boasts a customer list that includes the large Brazilian fashion chain Riachuelo, and its platform integrates with others including VTEX, Magento and WooCommerce.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

The latest such neobank to emerge is New York-based Daylight , which describes itself as the first LGBTQ+ digital banking platform in the United States. There is a digital bank in Brazil with a similar mission called Pride Bank ). Which neobanks will rise or fall? Others that have emerged include Greenwood , First Boulevard and Cheese.

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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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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. million people. 10 VCs say interactivity, regulation and independent creators will reshape digital media in 2021. million people.

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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

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 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

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

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 25, 2021

In 2020, 28,000 students across Latin America used its platform. The company projects that more than 43,000 will take courses via its platform in 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 CEO and co-founder Nelson Duboscq.

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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.”. Hence, the reason why Merak Capital backed the firm. “We

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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

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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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

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). This is a crucial point.

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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. They needed to either invest in more data scientists or find a platform that could automate modeling and forecasting steps. Rodrigo Bertin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Daasity raises $15M to help companies leverage e-comm data : Daasity is a startup that helps customers aggregate their information from various e-commerce platforms (Amazon, Shopify, etc.), “analyze it and push it to marketing channels to optimize customer experiences based on insights from a historical performance,” TechCrunch writes.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Japan is one of the largest education markets and has enormous potential to grow in the Japanese edtech industry that still relies on the conventional in-person education system, a spokesperson at Riiid told TechCrunch. The Japanese remote learning industry was estimated at $2.6 Canada, Brazil, and Vietnam. .

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The fact that Amazon has invested in a LatAm infrastructure provider for the financial services industry is notable. 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. billion in transaction volume a month.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. trillion industry by 2025 , with the biggest gains being made in Brazil and India. Amit Anand. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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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. Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Bitso, a Mexico City-based crypto exchange, is pledging to buy carbon offsets for every bitcoin transaction on its platform to compensate for the cryptocurrency’s environmental toll. The exchange plans to do so by buying tokenized “credits from conservation projects in the Amazon Forest in Brazil.”. So, will it work?

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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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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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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Instagram will share an “industry standard” 55 percent cut with creators, Justin Osofsky, Instagram’s COO, tells The Verge. Osofsky says to ensure that ads are only shown with brand-friendly content, creators will have to adhere to an Instagram monetization policy , which differs from the usual content policies on the platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta’s neobank for consumers in India — Jupiter — has raised $45 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore and Mumbai-based startup gears up for its platform’s public launch in about a month. If you really want to change the banking industry, you cannot operate from the side.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. VTEX, dLocal) and in Brazil. Another interesting data point is that the cumulative market cap of Latin American unicorns has already more than doubled.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The startup was founded earlier this year to build a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America. 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. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you combine these pain points, it is obvious that the market needs a central platform solving these issues around product discovery, inventory and working capital.”. “This analog process requires a lot of manual labor and most often favors large distributors. That’s where Miferia, founded this year, comes in.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Aiming at the revenue potential of these growth markets, the main international players in the world of digital content distribution – such as Amazon, Apple and Google – are racing to enhance their platforms with non-English content. Spanish publishing is one of the hottest digital battlegrounds.

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