Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future. Meanwhile, beverage giant Diageo expanded regenerative farming in Ireland for Guinnesss barley, Scotland for whisky grains, and Mexico for the agave used to produce its tequilas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

We noted earlier this year that grocery delivery is a tough business to be in , given the competitiveness of the market and later-stage funding drying up for cash-intensive sectors like this one. Even the giants in the industry aren’t immune. That’s why the whole industry has become more rational.

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TechCrunch

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. 99 minutos, Mexico’s last mile delivery startup, raises a $40M Series B. It was depressing to hear all of the ‘nos.’

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Foodology has been whipping up its restaurant brands in cloud and virtual kitchens in Colombia and Mexico since 2019, and with a new infusion of capital, hopes to scale that across Latin America. The company was founded by CEO Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero, who met in a restaurant industry course at Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The global pandemic threw a wrench in the plans of restaurants all over the world two years ago when diners stayed home, causing many eateries to shift their business to pickup or delivery. million, led by F Prime Capital, to continue developing ParrotConnect and expand its footprint in Mexico. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. Valued at $10B, Nubank launches it’s Nu credit card in Mexico.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Miferia , a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic brands in categories like cosmetics, food and beverage and home décor. Meanwhile, Miferia is still in its early stages.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

. — Latin America, they believe, has historically been ripe for disruption, especially in the fintech and proptech sectors, due to the significant underbanked and unbanked population in the region and the relatively unstructured real estate industry. One Mexico-based VC even declared that the story was about “talent, not capital.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Mexico City-based Valoreo aims to invest in, operate and scale e-commerce brands as part of its self-described mission “to bring better products at more affordable prices” to the Latin American consumer. Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia. The company says its model differs from that of its U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. Previously, Flat.mx Unlike in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

Arrenda , a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 Joe Merullo, founder and CEO, grew up in Boston and started his first business in real estate at 19 years old. Merullo believes this is a unique company within Mexico, which has 5.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

She spent four years at the company in a variety of roles, launching grocery for the company and serving as head of business development of Rappi Pay. There are more than 700,000 beauty salons in Latin America, and the industry supply chain hasn’t changed for over 40 years,” she said. The demand is there, in her view.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

FreshBooks has built a cloud-based accounting software platform designed to make things like invoicing, expenses, payments, payroll and financial reporting easier for small business owners and self-employed people (and their clients). The funding comes as an injection of confidence in our mission to digitally enable small businesses.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9 We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We The company grew its Mexican business 5x between 2020 and 2021. million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S. headquarters in Indianapolis.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

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. Assets Under Management (USD)*. Annual Growth. May 2018. 1.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. Combined, the investment and operations teams total over 60 people who operate out of Miami, São Paulo and Mexico City. Similarly, most businesses are underserved by modern software solutions,” Nyatta explained.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Certain industries were hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic than others, especially in its early days. Small businesses, including retailers and restaurants, were negatively impacted by lockdowns and the resulting closures. How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business. They had to adapt quickly to survive.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. By year’s end, La Haus intends to be in every major metropolitan area in Mexico and Colombia. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Fondeadora , a fintech startup based in Mexico City and building a challenger bank, has extended its Series A funding round. Gokul Rajaram and Anatol von Hahn are investing as business angels as well. As most people still rely heavily on cash in Mexico, creating a challenger bank represents a good opportunity.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Silicon Valley is made up of solely one industry: technology, whereas countries in emerging markets have existing industries, around which entrepreneurs are innovating. In Africa in particular governments are very involved in promoting technology and see it as a future industry that will kick start the economy.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the past year, more than 100,000 women in Colombia and Mexico have sold over 2 million orders and earned millions of dollars on the platform. That model enabled the company to scale across Colombia and Mexico and deliver to 600 towns, including rural areas where that had not been previously accomplished.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In particular, the company will be focusing on acquiring new customers and product listings as well as expanding to other countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile “through a combination of M&A and greenfield operations,” according to Dagnoni. SoftBank pours up to $150M into GBM, a Mexico City-based investment platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While Fractional certainly alleviates some of the financial hurdles of real estate ownership, friends may stray away from getting into business with each other due to the sheer pressure it can put on a relationship. So, Han and Treviño pooled together cash and bought a plot of land in Mexico to more closely understand the process.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

The forum connects smaller businesses to factories, supply chain experts, designers, engineers, etc. The company says the pandemic has actually been something of a boon for its business model, as hardware startups are looking toward a more online model — and something a bit closer to home than the traditional sales channels.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

But while the industry hails the rise of the region’s ecosystem and its growing fleet of unicorns , Latin America’s startup story has a far longer past. In fact, the evolution of business shares far more similarities across countries than we might expect. For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Muchnick plans to allocate some of the new funding to establish markets in Mexico and Canada and add market share in the U.S. He expects to have 50% of its business coming from the U.S. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green. over the next three years.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the industry grapples with the larger questions of how to create viable solid-state batteries or commercialize robotaxi service , the companies listed here are focused on the incremental steps toward a fully autonomous future. The year also saw the companys rapid expansion across Asia and into Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

While it had seemed to start last year in a bit of a correction, demand for it during the pandemic (and its widespread designation as an essential business), created a breakthrough for the industry. Despite remaining headwinds, the future is looking up for most cannabis businesses, according to these investors.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Opening Comments from Bill Russo: In early 2009, shortly after resigning from my position as head of Chryslers business in North East Asia, I founded an Asia-based consultancy called Synergistics Limited. Note:The article was first published on Automobility Ltd written by Bill Russo , Benjamin Fan , and Lorenzo Song.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities. Globalization and the digital transformation of the book industry also stand behind the recent big news in the publishing world about the mega-merger of Penguin and Random House , says Ed Nawotka.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

The firm is industry agnostic, with Kazah saying it considers “any industry where technology is playing a transformational role.”. It has people on the ground in its home base of Brazil as well as Mexico, the United States, Argentina and Uruguay. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

MARZ plans to use the funding to grow its core VFX business and accelerate the development of its ‘AI for VFX’ technology solutions. The investment was led by Round13 Captial with participation from Rhino Ventures and Harlo Equity Partners. ” Bronfman wrote.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2021

“There has been a lot of fanfare around the potential of teleoperated e-scooters, but this partnership marks a turning point in tangible operational plans to bring them to city streets,” Ben Bear, chief business officer at Spin, said in a statement. “In So how will it work?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million Series A to strengthen its system integration with OTAs on the demand side, build a booking management system for transportation operators on the supply side and accelerate digital transformation in the pre-booking transportation industry. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Many businesses like Salesforce and Microsoft are funding the planting of trees in wildfire burn scars and agricultural lands. As you can probably guess from the name, the company is focused on planting trees in deserts, specifically desert shrublands in the Alamogordo region of New Mexico. In the U.S.,

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