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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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil is a country riven with economic contradictions. Financial transactions that would take days to process in the United States through ACH happen instantaneously in Brazil. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. Back to School in Brazil. Even in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Merqueo CEO and co-founder Miguel McAllister knows a thing or two about the delivery space in Latin America, having also co-founded Domicilios.com, a Latin American food delivery company that was bought by Berlin-based Delivery Hero and later merged with Brazil’s iFood. Image Credits: Merqueo. It must be doing something right.

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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

MAY 5, 2021

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. Daniel and the entire Bitso team is passionate about taking the mystique out of crypto. In particular, its growth in Brazil is increasing exponentially.

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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. Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. billion in 2023. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“If you’re going to get acquired, chances are you’re going to spend a lot of time with corporate development teams,” says Graham. In a detailed post, she shares several action items that will help marketing teams leverage their email analytics so they can “continue delivering personalized experiences consumers crave.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services. million to put locals to work over their phones. Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Eventually, it also wants to expand further in Brazil. Today, 70% of the company’s leadership team are women and 45% of its staff are women. It was the combination of the team that was at the core,” he said. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Volpe also received a “large anchor investment” from its management team. 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. In this year’s Latin America Digital Transformation Report , the investment team at Atlantico chronicles how the region leaves in its rearview mirror a decade-long boom in tech value creation. versus Brazil.

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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

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, Viguera told TechCrunch that some gig-economy companies in Latin America are issuing their own cards that allow workers to cash out at small local shops. Specifically, Belvo plans to hire more than 50 engineers in Mexico and Brazil by year’s end. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

clients “have some sort of global operations.” “Now, if you use Brex, you can actually operate as if you were a local company with a local card.” British neobank Revolut launched in Brazil, its first country in Latin America, offering customers a global bank account and crypto investments, Silicon Republic reported.

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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

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

To this point, it has invested with no sales team and very little marketing effort, according to Josua. One year ago, the central bank [of Brazil] launched an instant payment solution. The startup has scaled from a team of 40 in March of 2020 and now has over 250 employees, 85% of which it says are technical talent.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The social media giant says it’s already partnered with over a dozen publishers for the service including Guardian Media Group, Reach (who’s titles include the Daily Mirror , Daily Express , and local publications like the Manchester Evening News and the Liverpool Echo ), The Economist , and Wired and GQ publisher Conde Nast.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

As VP of product at crypto wallet BRD, which Coinbase acquired in November last year, Conduit CEO and cofounder Kirill Gertman experienced firsthand the challenges of finding vendors that would provide the backend tools that his team needed to build its user-facing product. Conduit’s team on a video call Image Credits: Conduit.

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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? Shayo expects to double the team of 60 by the end of the year. Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds.

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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. Its team of 750 employees, up from just over 100 in mid-2020, is composed of 70% product and engineering staff, and the company has offices located all over the world, with staff located in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To do this, the Pillow team has to tackle a couple big issues. In some countries where Pillow has partnered with local, compliant on-ramp service providers, users can also buy crypto with their local fiat currency. You would need a strong technical background to transact seamlessly in crypto,” they said.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

These join existing publishers announced by Facebook in December , including The Guardian , The Economist , The Independent , Wired , Vogue , and local news sites from publishers like Reach. Image: Facebook. The tab features a mix of curated and personalized stories. Image: Facebook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! As an official Salesforce Silver Cloud Alliance Partner, Kovida.IS

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“We thought this is the way to capture value, so we started working on everything from creating the pipeline, team, tools and understanding the specifics of doing the acquisition.”. After acquisition, the Quinio team focuses on increasing sales, operations efficiency and optimizing cost structures.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This past year, its team of scientists and academics have worked on initiatives with 24 partners across America, putting some 41,000 conventional acres in transition to regenerative. Rodales skill at inventing creative ways to win over stubborn farmers is now coming in handy as it furthers the burgeoning new cause of regenerative agriculture.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

So he teamed up with COO Jorge Lopez to found the company to help change that. 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.” Lee Fixel’s Addition is also an investor.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But this won’t be a permanent reduction in headcount: Waze says it plans to hire a commensurate number of people for its technology and engineering teams in the months to come. That includes the US, the UK, France, Brazil, and Mexico. Our goal is to try and help as much as possible and ease this process for them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The startup says it will also continue to grow its local presence and team in EMEA. Online credit Marketplace FinanZero raises $4 million in a new round led by Swedish investors to further expand in Brazil . Robinhood veterans’ fintech, Parafin , raises $60 million funding round .

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

This philosophy extends to its fintech team. 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.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion years, to optimize nutrient uptakes such as nitrogen or phosphorus,” explained co-founder and CEO Franco Martínez Levis on behalf of his team. Levis said the first move the company will make with this cash infusion is launching their soybean treatment in Argentina, then expand to Brazil and the U.S.,

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