TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 Bolivia and Brazil, Flourish has developed a solution that features three main modules: . In 2019, it released a B2C version of the Flourish app (c alled the Flourish Savings App) as a pilot for its banking platform, which can integrate with banks through an SDK or an API.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. We were planning on starting to raise money right about now. Image Credits: OctoML.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. This morning, digital real estate platform Loft announced it has closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. This latest financing brings Loft’s total funding raised to an impressive $700 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Digibee , a low-code integration platform, is doing what all low-code integration platforms are apparently doing right now: raising funding. The company today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The company has now raised some $150 million and while it’s not disclosing valuation, CEO and co-founder Micha? Brainly, a crowdsourced homework helper for students, raises $30M to expand in the US. That C round was raised specifically to help Brainly grow in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

QuintoAndar is taking its first steps out of Brazil to open a technology hub in Lisbon, Portugal aimed at attracting technology talent across the pond. The company touts itself as “the largest housing platform in Latin America,” providing selling and rental assistance, and also takes on the risk associated with monthly rental payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Just five months after raising $90M, Brazil’s Nuvemshop announced today it has raised $500 million in a round co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management. That’s up from 20,000 merchants at the start of 2020 and 80,000 at the time of its last raise in March.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

InEvent , a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. CEO Pedro Góes told me that even in a world of more established and better-funded platforms, his team sees an opportunity to break out by focusing on business-to-business events.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2021

Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. 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.”

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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 ). First Boulevard raises $5M for its digital bank aimed at Black America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Hawk AI , a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding. Among its customers are European spend-management platform Moss , U.S. product or geographical data) with dynamic data (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

billion monthly active users of which 65% access the site daily and spend an average of 40 minutes per day on the platform. 35% of nonprofits raised more money than they expected while 23% raised less. 32% raised what they expected.[ 33% raised what they expected.[ Facebook Facebook has 3.05 Similarweb ] 61.7%

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Bitso , a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised $250 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $2.2 For one, it comes just four months after the startup raised $62 million in a Series B round. The news caught our attention for several reasons. Image Credits: Bitso.

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JULY 15, 2021

And today, one such company, Play2Pay , has raised $13 million in a Series A round of funding. Play2Pay was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life, raising its first external capital in June of 2020 — a $7.5 TIM in Brazil, lndosat Ooredoo in Indonesia and U.K. TIM in Brazil, lndosat Ooredoo in Indonesia and U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

Based in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, ELSA announced today it has raised a $15 million Series B, led by VI (Vietnam Investments) Group and SIG. ELSA is also working with language schools in Vietnam like IMAP and Speak Up, online learning platform YOLA and corporate clients including Kimberly Clark, Intel and ATAD.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

You don’t hang out and spend meaningful time there,” said Alex Taub, co-founder and CEO of Upstream , a new professional networking platform that just closed a $2.75 million seed round, bringing their total raised to $3.25 “You don’t go to LinkedIn to meet people. The week before, the guest speaker was U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception. Image Credits: Digital House.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mercado Bitcoin , a Latin American digital assets exchange, has raised $200 million in Series B funding from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. SoftBank pours up to $150M into GBM, a Mexico City-based investment platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. in early 2021, with the U.S.,

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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. Maciel said the fund’s raise was “significantly oversubscribed with firm commitments” and believed to be “ among the best capital raises for a first-time fund in its asset class in Latin America.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. The “fully remote” Jeeves describes itself as the first “cross country, cross currency” expense management platform. Image Credits: Jeeves.

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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. We think the company is poised to build the region’s #1 HR technology platform.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 In 2019, Pipefy raised $45 million from Insight Partners, Openview and Trinity Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The company, in a statement, said it plans to utilize the funds for strategic hiring and further development of its platform.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Today, one of those startups has raised a significant round of funding to help it achieve its goals. Existing backers Edison Partners, Soros Fund Management, Greenspring Associates, Raine Ventures, Greycroft and Expansion Capital also put money in the round, which brings Yieldstreet’s total raised to $278.5 Some context.

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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. Clearbanc rebrands its way into a unicorn. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. With the latest round, São Paulo-based InstaCarro has now raised more than $56 million since its 2015 inception. Mexican unicorn Kavak raises a $485M Series D at a $4B valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ajaib Group , an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades, announced it has raised a $25 million Series A led by Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Li Ka-Shing, and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Fintech Brex first partnered with Weav , a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, last summer. Besides expanding its global reach, the technology that Brex is acquiring will help accelerate the fintech’s connectivity of its platform, Dubugras said. Weav raises $4.3M million seed round as strategic angel investors.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. Tridge, which posted less than $7.4

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

In the latest development, an Opendoor-style startup called Casavo , out of Italy, is announcing that it has raised €400 million (about $410 million currently). Platforms like Casavo’s found a lot of traction for making it easier both to buy and sell in the pandemic climate, he added. As with the pandemic in the U.S.,

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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. For now, the three-month-old company is in its infancy — the pre-product phase, which makes it even more notable that the company managed to raise such a large seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Brazil’s QuintoAndar, which has developed a real estate marketplace focused on rentals and sales, has seen impressive growth in recent years. For one, the valuation – high by any standards but especially for a LatAm company – represents an increase of four times from when QuintoAndar raised a $250 million Series D in September 2019.

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