Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

These partners include the Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille (NLB), the Hoerbuecherei des OSBV Talking Book Library in Austria, and the Dorina Nowill Foundation in Brazil.? Our Bookshare team has also been working on a special project with Qatar’s Mada Assistive Technology Center to add Arabic-language books to the collection.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

TechSoup Brazil teamed up with the UN Foundation, IBM, BrazilFoundation, and others for the Social Good Brazil International Seminar held on November 6 - 8 in Florianopolis, Brazil. Check out Social Good Brazil's Facebook page for photos from the event. Social Good Brazil also has an Scoop.It

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

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

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

As we celebrate Pride Month, we asked our team to share their thoughts and sentiments in commemorating this important month and movement. We are working on building a diverse team and ensuring that each member of the team that joins us feels their voice is valuable regardless of their identity. GAY RIGHTS!!

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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. InstaCarro plans to use its new capital in part to capitalize on the shift and “aggressively” expand its reach within Brazil. Notably, U.S.-based

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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.” In Brazil alone, e-commerce sales grew 73.88% in 2020, but Toledo said there was much room for improvement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. We are also moving to be an embedded finance company.”.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. Warren will continue to expand in Southeast Asia, while focusing on other developing regions with large domestic markets, like South America (starting with Brazil). It recently closed a $1.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Its more than 300 clients include 10 unicorns, two out of the three biggest banks in Brazil and companies such as iFood, Claro, Cielo, Loggi, Ebanx, QuintoAndar and OLX, among others. The company is also examining the possibility of expanding outside of Brazil to all of Latin America. . ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Brazil’s new fintech startup Cora raised $10 million on the strength of its founding team. Last year, Cora got its license approved from the Central Bank of Brazil, making it a 403 bank. The combination of these factors makes Brazil an especially attractive market for Cora to launch in and disrupt,” Kostov told TechCrunch.

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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

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

JUNE 14, 2021

He’d brought on two co-founders, assembled ambitious engineering and operations teams, raised $2 million in seed funding from Sequoia and Kaszek, rented a tiny office in São Paulo, and was armed with a mission to deliver the kind of banking services that customers in a market as large and lucrative as Brazil’s should expect.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Then it came to light that there wasn’t a dedicated team at Twitter for accessibility — instead, the company asked employees to volunteer their time on top of their usual work to focus on accessibility. Twitter also plans to start testing voice DMs soon, starting in Brazil.

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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

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. The region has seen explosive growth as of late , with a maturing startup scene in Brazil in particular. In 2020, Loft also entered the mortgage business by acquiring one of the largest mortgage brokerage businesses in Brazil.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

There are some big names not featured — sorry, Bayern Munich fans — but the list is impressively global, with popular teams from Europe, alongside squads from the US, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. Today, the developer unveiled the new “kickoff set,” which lets players swap between 23 different kits. Inter Milan. Seattle Sounders FC.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Brazil will be the first country included in that test. The product team designed an “in-line recording experience to make it easier to send these messages as part of the natural conversation flow,” so that’s one difference from the current audio tweets interface. He shared the news. through a 20-second voice message. “We

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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

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. Brazil doesn't have a tradition of personal philanthropy, and there are no tax advantages to making donations.

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The Verge

APRIL 25, 2021

Curiously, Neymar isn’t sporting jerseys for either the Brazil national team or his club, Paris St. Germain, despite the fact that licensed team kits were introduced earlier this year. You can check out Neymar’s accessories in the image below.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Diego Dzodan, Luciano Freitas and Vitor Zaninotto founded Facily in 2018 with a mission of “eliminating the barriers of traditional e-commerce to provide low-income populations in Brazil and throughout Latin America better access to affordable products.”. Image Credits: Facily.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. Managing Partners Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni run the region’s investment team. Operating Partner Alex Szapiro, also head of Brazil for SoftBank, leads the fund’s operations team.

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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

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 30, 2021

People often ask me: How are consumers different in Brazil? What this tells us is that foreign investors would do well to keep a sharp eye on emerging opportunities beyond heavily covered markets like Brazil and Mexico. Every top university in Brazil has a pool of angels. Only disrupt when it adds value.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swap operates in its home country of Brazil, and is looking to use its capital to expand the use cases it serves there. Looking ahead, Storf notes that its customers are expanding to other Latin American countries so it will be a natural evolution to grow into new markets outside of Brazil.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

“In Brazil, Instagram is very popular, too, so many restaurants are using Instagram as a channel with us,” he said. OlaClick, which also counts Y Combinator among its backers, today has a presence in more than 20 nations, but identifies Brazil, Mexico and Colombia as their core markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This caught the attention of second-time entrepreneurs Bruno Ballardie and Fernando Zanatta, who started ZAX in 2019 to develop a platform that unites freight, delivery and payments tools to connect sellers and buyers in Brazil. ZAX’s addressable market for B2B transactions, just in Brazil, is estimated to be BRL 2.4 trillion, or $445.6

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

With their first fund, they backed over 29 companies in 12 sectors across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Its first fund was split 65% in Brazil and 35% in the rest of the region, and Lemann expects to do a more even split of around 50% in Brazil and 50% in Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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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. In a written statement, Lauren Morton, partner at QED Investors, said, “We were immediately impressed by the vision and execution of the Zubale team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For decades, Brazil has had a huge credit problem. To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. Looking ahead, the Open Co team is refreshingly transparent regarding financials.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 18, 2022

Collaboration across data science, business, and IT teams throughout the AI lifecycle also greatly impacts AI success. Lenovo Brazil needed to equalize the supply and demand for laptops and computers among the Brazilian retailers that received thousands of Lenovo products each week. They were also resource constrained. Rodrigo Bertin.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

It is, in particular, good for agencies who want to deliver faster results or for non-technical departments that need to iterate faster but depend on centralized engineering teams to implement everything, according to Costa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Widen, who is Swedish, moved to Brazil about 10 years ago for personal reasons, and while there, was pitched the idea of FinanZero by Webrok Ventures, an investment company focused on bringing Nordic innovation to Brazil. .

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