TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak recently soft-launched in Brazil, and this new round of funding will be used to build out the Brazilian market and beyond, said Carlos García Ottati, Kavak’s CEO and co-founder. It took me six months to buy the car, and then the car had legal and mechanical issues and I lost most of my money,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay , a Brazil-based fintech that allows users to top off their prepaid cell phones online, announced this morning that they’ve closed their $70 million Series C. The company, which operates solely in Brazil, was launched in 2010 by Miami-based serial entrepreneur Rodrigo Teijeiro, who is co-founder and CEO. . Unlike in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

And yet, the company needs a lot of money in its bank account to expand to more countries. but also in France, Brazil, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc. But why do investors want to hand over more and more money? “At While Checkout.com didn’t actually need to raise to stay alive, Pousaz says VC firms are a form of validation.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

WhatsApp is piloting a new business directory in São Paulo, Brazil that lets users find local shops and services with a presence on the app, the service’s head Will Cathcart has announced. I'm excited we’re starting to pilot a local business directory within @WhatsApp. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) September 15, 2021.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But startups are also solving local problems. Startups are aiming for a global, not local market. It was surprising many startups are aiming for a global, not local market. In Rio we stayed with the founders of Resolveai, an Uber clone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I’ll be talking about how individuals and NGOS can have a great impact by building relationships online and inspiring their networks to take action – whether volunteering, giving money,or educating others. Given that I am in Brasil, I wanted to participate and experience local activities. No problem.

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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. In Brazil, it grew 40% last year but is still underpenetrated, representing less than 10% of retail sales. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Firms such as SoftBank, Tiger Global Management, Tencent, Accel, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors are pouring money into LatAm. ” Local VCs are raving about the human capital in the region, but for some global investors, the appeal of Latin America extends beyond the talent to the general populace.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Global investors are not only pouring money into companies. 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

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He was previously the founder of Canary and Peixe Urbano, and was Facebook’s first employee in Brazil. versus Brazil. Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. More posts by this contributor. Latin America’s second wave of digital transformation. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Eventually, it also wants to expand further in Brazil. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The pandemic failed to slow the momentum of venture capitalists pouring money into startups, but Chicago stands out as an “outlying benefactor of accelerating venture capital activity and the rise of remote investing,” Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim write for The Exchange. As its startup market accelerates, Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Although Facebook is declining to say how much money it’s expecting to pay as part of the scheme, The Guardian reports that some publishers are expecting to make millions of pounds a year from the service, at a cost to tens of millions of pounds to Facebook overall.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Unlike typical sustainability program funders and carbon credit firms that just move money around, ZFP collects funds directly and deploys them on projects it manages like a general contractor, ensuring their legitimacy. If scaled nationwide, this opt-out model could turn food and utility consumers into a vast revenue base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

As a SaaS business, Pismo mostly makes money by charging transaction fees. One year ago, the central bank [of Brazil] launched an instant payment solution. For some context, at the beginning of this year, it was doing less than $1 billion per month in transaction volume, according to CEO and co-founder Ricardo Josua.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Operating as Nuvemshop in Brazil and Tiendanube in the rest of the region, the company has offices in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, with plans to expand into Colombia and Peru in 2021. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

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. While the majority of transactions are still done in cash, there are still over a billion cards in the region. The company currently has about 15 employees, 11 of which are engineers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Moar money for underrepresented founders : Natasha M reports that Kapor Capital is under new leadership and just closed its largest fund to date. I want to start my own company or at least earn money through a side hustle. Dear Sophie: Can I start a company or a side hustle on a TN visa? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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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. Coffee as a way out of poverty Still, for locals, the coffee represents a chance at a better future.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Quiet Capital, Preface Ventures, FJ Labs, AforeVC and K50 Ventures also put money in the latest round, which brings Osana’s total raised over its lifetime to $26.5 Most software vendors are small or medium-sized local vendors, who have not crossed into other Latin American geographies, Taneja pointed out.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold, according to Vélez, provides low-cost payment terminals that enable businesses to accept link payments and other local payment methods with no monthly point-of-sale fees. . In fact, he noted that in Colombia, cash still represents over 80% of transaction volume versus 35% in Brazil and 30% in the United States.

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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. Interestingly, a group of founders from unicorns such as Rappi, Kavak, Konfio, GBM, Ualá and Brex also put money in the round. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Anish: If you were building a startup five,10 or certainly 15 years ago, most of the work in focus was very local, meaning you were what we call ‘default local.’ But the problem of course, is that even though software is global, money is very much local. TC: I think that’s an interesting point.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2022

The company says it’s currently working with over 5,000 businesses across Mexico, Brazil and Colombia with ambitions to double that number by year’s end. These terms can be used by the lender to block the startup from either drawing down the money or creating a default after the money has been drawn.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Five more that caught our eyes and ears: Culling card : Uni, India’s pay-later cards startup, plans to temporarily suspend its card services in the South Asian market following the local central bank’s guidelines on digital lending, Manish reports. Safeheron secures $7 million to make those keys safer , reports Rita.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

More than a year into the global remote revolution, now is a good time to reflect on the country’s fintech journey, the local players that are having the biggest impact and what lies ahead for the industry. There are no signs that fintech in Mexico is slowing down. Mexico has long nurtured its fintech ecosystem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Authors are fighting over how much money they get: it’s clear that they are being paid. And, it’s not even clear the authors would get more money short-term by locking out disabled people. We need domestic copyright exemptions so that local communities can scan the books they need in their languages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Notably, unique local characteristics challenge a one-size-fits-all approach. For example, BNPL companies based in LATAM must weigh an array of variables included in the risk model differently based on consumer behaviors natively bound to the characteristics of the local market. healthcare, home construction, etc.).

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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. But the company’s regular business has never made money, and it’s losing more lately than historically, which is also pretty rough.” Image Credits: Nigel Sussman. That’s a nice surprise.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Stambolis said the UN’s formula for moving the dial worldwide generally boils down to more money and political will. The big data company has provided its software to partners and governments in Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, Brazil, Vietnam, Mozambique and Pakistan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

She quickly became a national figure with regular appearances on talk shows to discuss the problems with public education in Brazil, despite threats from teachers, administrators, and even fellow students. He has used the money to purchase and distribute bottled water, fruit and other healthy snacks to those in need in his community.

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TechCrunch

MAY 22, 2022

And when conducting due diligence in the acquisition process, Visa’s senior executives reportedly grew alarmed by Plaid’s plans to add “a meaningful money movement business by the end of 2021.”. billion valuation it achieved just under a year ago,” or in the value in the low $30-billion-range, post-money. Read them here.

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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? What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work? Molly’s background spans nonprofits and direct service, including work with small farmers in northeastern Brazil and upstate New York. Eric Munoz.

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