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Central America, and Mexico. Earlier in 2022, she had also heard from her friend Laura Hoyos about Mary’s Pence, a multifaith organization that invests in women in the United States, Mexico, and Central America by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change.
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Super.mx , an insurtech startup based in Mexico City, has raised $7.2 million seed round, which also saw capital from 500 Startups Mexico, Village Global, Anthemis and Broadhaven Ventures, among others. for a while before deciding to move back to Mexico, which he recognized was home to an “underinsurance problem.”.
With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai , a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America. “I wanted to define a product from a consumer angle,” said Barawid. “I wanted this to exist.”
As Gen Z turns into their early-to-mid 20s, a new generation of business owners is coming online. In Mexico, for instance, 97.4% This is perhaps why, with Gen Z coming on stream, we are now seeing mobile-first startup appear to cater to this new wave of businesses. of firms in the region.
Chile-based Xepelin aims to do the same with business-to-business payments via a SaaS payments infrastructure that includes financial information in real time, embedded financial services and data models, all to be a company’s “digital CFO” of sorts. We also want to win Mexico.”.
He met his co-founders David Hernandez and Amran Frey at Konfio, and, along with Israel Garcia, started Aviva , a Mexico-based fintech startup focused on bringing working capital to unserved communities. Within minutes, customers can qualify for a nano-business or house improvement loan of up to $1,000.
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Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected , a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. Rappi Pay launched in Mexico just a few weeks ago, while I was still in the country. Contributor.
Launched in 2021, the Mexico-based company works with over 70 producers to “rescue” food and delivers it to consumers. Add to that, grocery delivery businesses in the business-to-consumer space are traditionally a capital-intensive business. million in pre-seed funding to expand its program across Mexico City.
Enter Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, which is building buy now, pay later in Mexico. He and co-founder Stephen Hebson used to work for Uber’s international growth team, growing financial services products in India, Mexico, China and Brazil. “We We were solving a real pain point.”. Miller said.
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Its technology aims to provide an easier purchasing process for small businesses by recommending products based on actual transaction data and then also providing credit, in 30-, 60- and 90-day increments, to retailers. On the supplier side, they can upload products, manage pricing and see what is selling and what isn’t.
We allow businesses to increase user acquisition, reduce onboarding dropoff, provide 360 customer support and even sell their services, with minimum tech requirements from their end,” said co-founder and Maite Muniz , who serves as the startup’s chief product officer and is a former McKinsey consultant.
Suzanne Xie is the business lead for B2B payments at Stripe and a former SaaS founder. In a recent Stripe survey, 63% of B2B recurring revenue businesses said they were confident of their growth in 2023. In a recent Stripe survey, 63% of B2B recurring revenue businesses said they were confident of their growth in 2023.
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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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Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year. The Mexico City-based company already is live with over 100 merchants, including Steve Madden and Ben & Frank. The company has hubs in Mexico City, New York City and remote employees.
There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their businesses. Specifically, the company says it helps Amazon sellers exit their business within 30 days and continue to scale their business “to the next level” post-acquisition.
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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.
It’s no secret that the technology for easy business-to-business payments has not yet caught up to its peer-to-peer counterparts, but Yaydoo thinks it has the answer. Prior to starting the company, Almaguer was working at another company in Mexico doing point-of-sale. All B2B startups are in the payments business.
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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The investment follows a $225 million Series B investment , announced in September, that put the Mexico- and Brazil based-company at an $850 million valuation. Today, Merama has more than 180 employees and a portfolio of 20 brands across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
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.,
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.
One Mexico-based VC even declared that the story was about “talent, not capital.” Similarly, most businesses are underserved by modern software solutions,” Nyatta explained. “There’s so much to build for so many people and businesses. Brazil and Mexico riding the gravy train.
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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
Kueski , a Mexico City-based “buy now, pay later” and online consumer lender, announced today it has secured $202 million in equity and debt funding. He was motivated after he, his friends and family experienced difficulty in getting access “and how terrible the user experience was in accessing financial services in Mexico.”.
Manuel Rodriguez Dao, co-founder and CEO of Mexico City-based Meru.com , and co-founder Federico Moscato, learned this the hard way when they were sourcing goods for another company and faced problems, among them getting the items that were originally offered. It also has fintech partners to assist with financing.
Although I'm firmly on the nonprofit side with Benetech (because we focus on big issues where the market is failing), it's definitely easier to get funded sustainably if you have an exciting and invest-able business plan. Evan Haigler is a social entrepreneur I've known for years. The economics are compelling.
The WhatsApp payment service is also been tested in Mexico. “We WhatsApp had hoped that its payments system could be used by people to pay businesses as well as transfer money to individuals. The service would be free for individuals but would charge businesses a 3.99 percent processing fee.
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