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MARCH 3, 2021

And from a business perspective, the Bottomless model has plusses. The startup’s business is a little complex. This unique vacuum-extraction coffee maker is Colombia’s own. As I write to you today, I think that my third bag of decaf has arrived. It’s a neat system. To make that happen, however, is not easy.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to promote financial inclusion by expanding the digital payments ecosystem in Colombia. .

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Founded by Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie and Juan Carlos Narváez, Tül’s technology connects construction manufacturers to the small businesses across Latin America that are responsible for handling half of the inventory for construction jobs in the region, Lafaurie said. And that’s just in Colombia alone, said Lafaurie.

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By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. It’s no secret that corporate donors are invaluable partners for nonprofits. International Paper and FedEx worked together to leverage their core competencies.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The startup’s offering was live in Mexico and Canada and today launched in Colombia, the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole. . Jeeves plans to use its new capital toward its launch in Colombia, the U.K. Customers can also pay back in multiple currencies, reducing FX (foreign transaction) fees. and Europe.

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MAY 24, 2022

Access to global supply chains can be difficult for small businesses in Latin America, but companies like Meru , which raised funding in March to source and import goods between Mexico and China, and now more recently Pandas , are tapping into overseas relationships and technology to make this easier. Pandas B2B marketplace.

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Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual.

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JULY 29, 2021

The financing brings the Bogota, Colombia-based startup’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception. It currently operates in more than 25 cities in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil and has over 600,000 users. Merqueo also reached positive cash flow in Colombia, its most mature market. Image Credits: Merqueo.

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MAY 23, 2022

E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years , the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly will only increase. That demand has enabled clicOH to grow quickly since launching its current business model in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Treinta , a startup that is part of the Winter 2021 Y Combinator cohort , announced this morning that it has raised north of half a million dollars for its bookkeeping and inventory management software aimed at Latin American small businesses. Lockdown in Colombia forced many small businesses online in a hurry.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. Dear Sophie, We co-founded a startup in Colombia, and we’re thinking about opening a sales office in the U.S.! I would be moving, and my co-founder will continue to run our engineering team from Colombia. More posts by this contributor.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In 2017, he started searching for his biological family in Colombia and reconnected with them. York previously worked with Gurtubay, too, in third-party logistics before transferring over the direct-to-consumer e-commerce businesses into Cubbo. Prior to Cubbo, he founded three other startups in San Francisco. Image Credits: Cubbo.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. We want to expand into financial services that power their businesses,” Oschin said.

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MARCH 2, 2022

It was then that we learned about the origins of the Mexico City-based company, founded by CEO Alexis Patjane, who had been running a food truck-making business in Mexico. Meanwhile, 99minutos has 5,000 employees working from Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru, and Patjane aims to reach between 8,000 and 10,000 by the end of the year.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Today, Merama has more than 180 employees and a portfolio of 20 brands across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. “Merama believes several multi-billion dollar brands will be created in LatAm over the next five years.”.

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APRIL 16, 2021

Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. In addition to Colombia, the company already has operations in Mexico and plans to use part of the funding to expand further in the region as well as building out a marketing and sales team, which it hasn’t had thus far. .

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As the neobanking boom has matured into a collection of large digital banks, we’re slowly getting a better picture of the economics of such business efforts. In good news for its peers that may seek to go public, the numbers Nubank has shared seem to make pretty reasonable business sense. The Nubank EC-1.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. We plan to double our team by next year and expand more in Mexico and Colombia.”. Our goal is to position our company as the leading payment orchestrator in Latin America,” Candia added. “We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Small businesses in Latin America got another boost in lending support with the investment of $4 million in Kala , a Colombia-based company building fintech infrastructure for lending. Kala will also continue to focus on Colombia and Mexico this year. Kala charges a SaaS fee and is already bringing in revenue, Alemán said.

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APRIL 12, 2022

“As part of the program, eight companies receive investment as well as mentorship, and ongoing programming to meet their business objectives from Snap.” Ettos — Is making an e-commerce platform for beauty products, supporting inclusive beauty, based in Colombia.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

billion in capital, with investors such as Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Ribbit Capital, Kaszek, QED Investors and others, At that time, Nu had 40 million users across Brazil, Mexico and Colombia. Earlier this month, Business Insider reported that Nubank had turned its first-ever half-year profit in its home market. We’ll know soon enough.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

When the firm heard that the other Tuna co-founders were starting a business that was applying some of the optimization methods they had created at Peixe Urbano, but for every company, they saw it as an opportunity to get involved. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019. “In

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JULY 21, 2021

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. Valoreo aims to help entrepreneurs who may lack the resources and access to capital to take their businesses to the next level. Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia.

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JUNE 7, 2022

“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.

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JULY 8, 2022

People were looking for help digitizing their businesses, and as we started looking into this, realized that brands needed help selling online,” Kafati Santos told TechCrunch. “At During that time, Colombia-based Addi said it was getting into the one-click space after taking in a $75 million extension to its Series B.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. That is when we started PideDirecto, to enable local businesses to scale their direct-to-consumer sales channels,” Fawzi said. “We

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Colombia-based company is taking on some of that inventory burden by providing access to inventory at lower prices and often same-day delivery on thousands of products. The challenge is building a habit and moving from decades of buying on paper to using a phone for core business processes,” he added. “We

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JULY 26, 2021

Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. He expects to have 50% of its business coming from the U.S. Muchnick also wants to establish more patents in food science — the company already has five — and to explore a potential intelligence side of the business. over the next three years.

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MARCH 22, 2021

With more people in Latin America getting used to making purchases digitally, the company has experienced a major surge in business over the past year. These businesses range from direct-to-consumer (DTC) upstarts to larger brands such as PlayMobil, Billabong and Luigi Bosca. This birthed Shopify, which today is worth $160 billion.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. There is so much innovation and disruption taking place in Latin America, and I believe the business opportunities there have never been stronger. There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses.

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MARCH 22, 2022

In Latin America, where being a part of a community is important, we see startups, like Trela in Brazil and Muni in Colombia, bringing people together under a common need — in Muni’s case, the purchase of everyday essentials. Zapt is now Trela; aims to remove the middleman from group food shopping.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

In fact, the evolution of business shares far more similarities across countries than we might expect. This is not very different from the timeline of businesses in other markets such as the United States. Investors in the Andean region cover Peru, Chile and Colombia. Investors should look for younger markets. Meanwhile, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The company, which has dual headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, and São Paulo, Brazil, declined to reveal its new valuation other than to say it is “nearly triple” what it was 90 days ago when it closed on the first tranche of its Series B, and that it is now in the “hundreds of millions” of dollars range.

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APRIL 7, 2021

“In Latin America, 90% of the [used car] transactions are informal, which leads to a 40% fraud rate,” said García, who experienced these challenges firsthand when he moved to Mexico from Colombia a couple of years ago and bought a used car. . “My My budget allowed me to buy a used car, but there was no infrastructure around it.

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MARCH 31, 2022

But when Strauss searched for a solution in LatAm that would fit the needs of businesses in the region, he came up empty — so he decided to build it himself. Eventually, Strauss hopes to expand the product across the LatAm region to businesses in Uruguay, Peru, Argentina and other countries that face similar challenges.

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