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Trainer’s Notebook: #Tech2Empower Peru

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Greetings from Cusco, Peru! I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. The workshop was developed by several women who work at Google.

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Kushki, an Ecuador-based fintech, raises $86M to build financial infrastructure in Latam

TechCrunch

and build a company that was more valuable in Ecuador than we had built in the U.S.,” Unlike many other fintechs in Latam that are out to help the unbanked, Kushki works behind the scenes building the tech infrastructure that companies like Nubank use to transfer money. We never thought that we would return home [from the U.S.]

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Orchata raises $4M, aims to build a ‘Gopuff for Latin America’

TechCrunch

After honing his startup skills in San Francisco, he returned to Mexico with the idea of building a software company. This is similar to what is going on around the world, but there is a huge opportunity to bring convenience, to be the Gopuff for Latin America, and we want to build it first in the region,” Garcia said.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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Tiger Global backs Favo, which is building an easier way for Latin Americans to order groceries online

TechCrunch

Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network. “I I came back and knew that this is what I wanted to build,” Ponce said. Favo launched in Peru in 2020 and then Brazil. When he learned about social commerce from a friend, he traveled to China in 2019 to see it firsthand.

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Traveling the world, meeting startups: What We learned

The Next Web

Many hackers are using M-Pesa’a API to build products and services on top of the platform or as a opportunity to innovate around SMS. Much like the encouragement of European immigrants to voyage to America in the 1900s to build population and skill base. The journey continues, to sponsor please mail hermione@thenextweb.com.

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Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’

TechCrunch

“We also already have exclusivity with 60% of the food delivery marketplace, which has enabled us to build a moat around the market. Plans for the new funding include user acquisition — the company has close to 200,000 registered users already — and to expand in Peru and Chile by August.

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