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

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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. “We have very stable cash flow, which allows us to take on debt,” he said in an interview.

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1Doc3, a Colombian telemedicine startup, raises $3 million

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Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. I’m on a nice MacBook for this interview, but that’s not the case of most people in LatAm,” said Javier Cardona, co-founder and CEO of 1Doc3. The pandemic has made telemedicine video visits in the U.S.

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

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“Since then, we have just gotten more ambitious and continued to grow so we needed more money to fuel more growth,” Schwarzkopf said in an interview with TechCrunch. The only things that changed were the economics and speed of business.”. Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile.

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Powered by local stores, JOKR joins the 15-min grocery race with a $170M Series A

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JOKR’s team consists of people who created both foodpanda and Delivery Hero, so from the outside at least, they have the chops to build a big business. Right now it’s live in nine cities across Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, as well as Poland and Austria in Europe. Latin America and Europe.

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Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick

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Customers are then able to interact with these restaurants on WhatsApp and Instagram and place their orders, explained José Rico, co-founder of OlaClick, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We We are trying to solve a D2C problem in Latin America. There’s a huge space for restaurants in this region to sell directly to consumers,” he said. “We

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HealthAtom empowers LatAm’s small healthcare offices with cloud-based ops

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Today, HealthAtom has close to 6,500 clients across 20 countries with main operations in Chile, Colombia and Mexico. We are at the point where the sales tension occurs, at an information level,” said co-founder and CEO Roberto León in an interview with TechCrunch (conducted in Spanish and translated by the author).

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Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

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Few are seeing venture capital come their way in recent months, save for companies such as Una Brands and Razor , which may allude to how well Wonder Brands developed its business model. We’ve achieved remarkable results, generating over $100 million in annualized revenues with an annual growth rate exceeding 100%.”