TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

São Paulo-based Nuvemshop has developed an e-commerce platform that aims to allow SMBs and merchants to connect more directly with their consumers. 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. billion in 2023. “In

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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

MAY 5, 2021

Secondly, the company believes the funding makes it the most valuable crypto platform in Latin America. Bitso says its “global-minded” product offerings fit the needs of local customers in Mexico, Argentina and now Brazil, where it just launched its retail operations. The news caught our attention for several reasons.

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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 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

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 Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

But startups are also solving local problems. Our Winner in Rio Crossfy bridges the gap between old and new media by creating a cross platform interactivity – we saw the app in action and it could have easily come out of a Silicon Valley accelerator like YCobinator or 500 Startups.

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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 also received a “large anchor investment” from its management team.

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The Verge

MAY 17, 2021

Most countries outside of the US will be getting lower prices that will be localized to their specific country, starting with Turkey and Mexico on May 20th. Twitch plans to bring localized pricing to “most countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe starting in Q3 2021,” according to Twitch’s blog.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. Its “platform” handles more than 4 billion API calls monthly and hosts more than 30 million accounts, which combined result in over $3.5 billion in transaction volume a month.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the AI arena, Arable s sophisticated analytics platform and award-winning sensor have attracted partnerships with tech giants like Google to help farmers cut water use and improve the health of some 65 crops in 50 countries. This, Arable says, allows it to custom-tailor farming down to the individual field or hyperlocal weather level.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

“With today’s launch, we are introducing our global platform and providing a brand new user experience to millions of fans across Latin America and the Caribbean,” Johannes Larcher, head of HBO Max International, said in a statement. The service will launch with both mobile-only and standard plans. There will be no Caribbean originals.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

He was previously the founder of Canary and Peixe Urbano, and was Facebook’s first employee in Brazil. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile. Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Founded in August 2018, Truora was originally focused on background checks for gigster platforms. The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Eventually, it also wants to expand further in Brazil.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. After that, they can deposit cryptocurrency from their own wallets or another crypto platform by making a transfer to the displayed crypto wallet address on Pillow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

At the same time, Stambolis said it was pretty clear that more developed ecosystems such as Silicon Valley didn’t care much about meeting struggling regions’ local health and development targets. But despite that, Zenysis’s data platform and the government’s vaccine campaign provided a positive outcome. based VC firm 500 Startups. .

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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

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.”. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength. “This analog process requires a lot of manual labor and most often favors large distributors.

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TechNode

MAY 24, 2024

The Asia-Latam Tech Forum featured discussions on trade, investment, innovation, and ideas, providing a platform for stakeholders from both continents to explore avenues for growth and prosperity. Pedroso has worked in various capacities, from law to CFO roles, in Brazil and China.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

JOKR , founded by Ralf Wenzel (the same guy who founded Foodpanda, which later merged with Delivery Hero), promises delivery in 15 minutes or less, with no order minimums, and a selection of products that you might find in the local deli or convenience store. In terms of the workforce, JOKR delivery people are full-time employees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Europe, APAC and Brazil. Just last month, São Paulo–based Dock, which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across LatAm, raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. 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

MAY 12, 2022

The latest such company in Latin America is São Paulo-based Dock , which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region, where demand for financial infrastructure that can help boost inclusion is massive. The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Now the company boasts 65,000 businesses that use its platform providing everything from billing and payment processing to logistics and shipping solutions transacting over $100 million per month in sales. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Trending, which is based partially on the speed of growth in listener numbers, includes 50 rising shows, while Top will be the 200 most popular shows overall and will be localized by region. The charts will be available in 26 countries, including the US, Mexico, the UK, Brazil, and Germany. Both will be updated daily.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Following Nubank’s strategy of launching a bank with colors that are very un-bank-like, signaling that they do things differently, alt.bank similarly launched its first financial product in 2019 — a fluorescent-yellow debit card which the locals have endearingly dubbed, “o amarelinho,” meaning, “the little yellow card.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

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.”. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. For us, this is proof point No.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The new capital will in part go toward accelerating the company’s product roadmap, Lawson said, and helping it expand to Brazil and Mexico, where it has seen “strong inbound interest.” As a result, Osana says it has seen a big bump both in the number of clients and in the usage of its technology platform amongst existing ones.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX , a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform for global merchants, tech giants and other large companies from all over the world. Why online merchants need a new breed of infrastructure fintechs.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Local sources of data are decentralized. More than 100 individual courts house the registration data for their local nonprofit organizations. Learn the local philanthropic sector.

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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

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. association with a scaled platform).

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