TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

The self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur admits that his vision for digitizing retail was a decade or two early when he started his journey in the 90s. The company utilizes an inventory robot to keep tabs of what’s on shelves, creating a “digital twin” online. Luis Vera believes the third time is the charm. Image Credits: Zippedi.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to promote financial inclusion by expanding the digital payments ecosystem in Colombia. . It claims that merchants supported by Bold have seen sales grow about 25% on average simply by enabling digital payments. . “If It also processed “31x” more transactions in 2021 than it did in 2020.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2010

Over the past two weeks, we've been reporting on CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre, a project to reconnect individuals and NGOs in Chile after the recent earthquake ( first update , second update ). Each USD 1,000 raised will allow the telecentre to serve another city in Chile.

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TechSpot

APRIL 4, 2024

The groundbreaking device, the largest digital camera ever built for astronomical observations, serves as the primary component of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, currently under construction in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Read Entire Article

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

A stunning image of the distant galaxy Centaurus A has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Friends Alvaro Silberstein and Camilo Navarro came up with the idea for the Wheel the World travel booking site following a 2016 trip to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Initially, they thought this type of trip would be near impossible with Silberstein in a wheelchair after a car accident as a teenager left him paralyzed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Secondly, it makes Buk the third most valuable startup in Chile after Cornershop and NotCo. But more and more, other regions in Latin America such as Chile are also attracting global investor interest. Buk recently acquired CTRL, an assistance company in Chile. Image Credits: Buk. Buk also has a social good component.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Chile-based Migrante is working to change that. Buying a vehicle is often out of reach for people, and through Migrante’s lending model and vehicle connections, the company is able to offer an average APR of 26% compared to other car dealerships in Chile, where it is often over 30%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Merama , which acquires or launches Latin American digital brands, hit a $1.2 Today, Merama has more than 180 employees and a portfolio of 20 brands across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. Its prominent brands include Mexican consumer electronics company Redlemon and Bebesit, a baby products seller in Chile.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 4, 2021

A solar eclipse passed over parts of the southern hemisphere early this morning, including parts of South Africa, Chile, New Zealand, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. The end goal is to help these businesses — such as digital banks — grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments. Europe, APAC and Brazil. billion. .

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 12, 2021

A beautiful image of a distant nebula has been captured using the international Gemini Observatory, located in Chile.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. million to become Latin America’s digital shipping answer to Flexport. The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. A number of angels also put money in the round, including Justo.mx

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

At the time, Zubale was slightly different, looking to connect big corporations with workers to take on tasks, like market research to earn mobile phone credits or other kinds of digital rewards. So imagine what we have achieved, and now our execution is laser focused with Brazil and Chile, which have been very huge opportunities for us.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is what Ocular Solution, which participated in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, is hoping to solve in the digital world, with a platform that helps clients add a video chat element to their site and integrate it with their existing tools, from HubSpot to Pipedrive.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Santiago-based Houm plans to use the new capital mostly to expand to 15 new cities across Mexico, Colombia and Chile — the three countries in which it currently operates — as well as to triple its current headcount of 350. Houm also invests in digital marketing, in an effort to provide greater visibility and access to customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mercado Bitcoin , a Latin American digital assets exchange, has raised $200 million in Series B funding from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. Then in 2020, the company issued Futecoin, the world’s first digital asset based on FIFA’s solidarity mechanism. . “We billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The digital transformation of banking and payments services is a red-hot trend that’s shown no signs of slowing down. NovoPayment has been focused since its founding on building out a tech stack that ties all the critical processes together for financial institutions to build out their digital banking services, Perez said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

“The digital marketing world is growing very fast and the demand for highly-skilled professionals is constantly increasing,” CEO Khlebinsky said. “The complexity of digital marketing tools is booming too — just several years ago we couldn’t imagine the technologies we use today.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Visit the Center for Digital Philanthropy's Hurricane Sandy Relief page to learn about more efforts underway from organizations around the world. Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

We profiled the company in 2021, about seven months after the company first launched to acquire digital brands in the MercadoLibre and Amazon ecosystem. Malek explained that the model didn’t pan out, noting the company “found it challenging to identify successful digital brands in that range.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Across Latin America, e-commerce purchases are expected to grow by double-digits annually by 2024. The company intends to expand into other countries where e-commerce is growing, including Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru. Anyone purchasing something online has had that one instance where the delivery method failed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

It is currently focused on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. “We’re more similar to The Hut Group in the EU.”. Merama expects to sell $100 million across the region this year, more than two times the year before.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Though plant-based versions of chicken are the most popular, alternative protein sales still represent low single-digits among all meat sales; SIMULATE is among a group of companies trying to increase that with their appeal to changes in consumer behavior, while also working to provide a product that tastes good and can scale accordingly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. The firm also says it has participated in “significant value uplift” for portfolio companies, including 4.4x each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x for QuintoAndar and 3.5x for Banco Inter (as of June 30).

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Today, more than two decades later, technology secular trends are stronger than ever before as we are experiencing an acceleration towards digitalization.”. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. So if one-click checkout startups are struggling to make headway against incumbents in the single-currency, highly digitized and concentrated U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round which values the company at $1.1 To quote my colleague Anna Heim, digitizing freight forwarding is a global challenge because the sector still lacks transparency and efficiency. It has more than 500 employees.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

Co-founders Roberto Enrique Kafati Santos and Jose Maria Serrano started the company after a career at McKinsey leading digital payments for Kafati Santos and in private equity at Carlyle for Serrano. The company raised a total of $37 million.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Scientists have investigated the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest place on Earth, which could give clues to finding evidence of ancient Martian life.

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TechCrunch

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. It also plans to expand into other markets such as Colombia, Chile and Peru over the next 18-24 months. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Currently Commerce Layer provides tools to build your own mobile, wearable and voice apps, point of sale solutions, subscriptions, and multi-vendor commerce models (as you might have in a marketplace), along with services like building your own shopping carts and turning print catalogues into interactive, “shoppable” digital experiences.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Today, the company has a team of more than 70 employees in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. That’s when Ferraro, who previously led the growth of Mercado Pago Point in Latin America, came onboard, and was joined by COO Rafael Teles, also a former executive at Mercado Pago, earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Online grocery sales are in single digits right now, but new data suggests it will top 20% by 2026 due to more consumers getting comfortable buying their groceries this way over the past two years. He plans to deploy the new capital into expansion within its existing geographies, gaining more traction down to the neighborhood level.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The latest such company in Latin America is São Paulo-based Dock , which operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region, where demand for financial infrastructure that can help boost inclusion is massive. Meanwhile, its number of active digital banking accounts climbed by 380% year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

” The new capital will go toward growth in Nuvemshop’s existing markets and support expansion into new countries such as Colombia, Chile and Perú. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. The company currently has more than 600 employees and offices in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

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