Remove Business Remove Chile Remove Rate
article thumbnail

What Apple is doing with 25,000 acres of former cattle pastures in Brazil

Fast Company Tech

It’s the first step in a larger effort that will eventually restore 741,000 acres of degraded land across Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. “It’s faced a rate of loss that’s fairly extreme,” says Will Turner, senior vice president at Conservation International’s Center for Natural Climate Solutions.

Brazil 140
article thumbnail

SumUp raises $895M in debt to double down on its B2C payments business

TechCrunch

SumUp , a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments, invoices and other services — is itself powering up in a big way. and basing their service around small card payment dongles that attached to phones or tablets.

Business 120
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Kaszek Ventures leads a $15 million round in Chilean asset management startup, Fintual

TechCrunch

Fintual is an automated passive investment platform that allows the average person in Chile or Mexico to invest in mutual funds containing ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), investment vehicles that aren’t as well known, or as readily accessible in Latin America. After the exit, he admits he was a bit lost in life. .

Chile 93
article thumbnail

Uber to become the sole owner of grocery delivery startup Cornershop

TechCrunch

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement that the company’s grocery and new verticals business has exceeded a $3 billion annual bookings run rate for this year. Cornershop, which is headquartered in Chile, was founded in 2015 by Oskar Hjertonsson, Daniel Undurraga and Juan Pablo Cuevas. and Canada.

article thumbnail

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure startup Kushki lands $100M at a $1.5B valuation

TechCrunch

“The only things that changed were the economics and speed of business.”. Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency.

Ecuador 118
article thumbnail

Skydropx taps new funding to expand logistics automation across Latin America

TechCrunch

Enter Skydropx , a Mexico City-based logistics management company that enables businesses to create an end-to-end automated delivery experience for customers that includes over 250 shipping options, track notifications via WhatsApp, estimated delivery times and return management.

America 98
article thumbnail

For LatAm payment orchestration startups, market fragmentation is a blessing in disguise

TechCrunch

Only 19% of Latin American adults own a credit card, and 70% of credit cards in Brazil, Argentina and Chile can’t be used internationally. Since the onset of the pandemic, Stripe observed that fraud rates at businesses in Latin America were 97% higher than in North America and 222% higher than businesses in the Asia Pacific.