TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Some of the functionalities they build enable both local and cross-border payment players in credit and debit cards, bank transfers, digital cash, mobile wallets, and other alternative payment methods. “We The company, which was founded in 2017, already has operations in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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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 is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused on offering its API platform to customers in the Latin American market.

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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. But Ethan Choi, a partner at Accel, said his firm saw in Nuvemshop the potential to be the market leader, or the “de facto” e-commerce platform, in Latin America. billion in 2023. “In

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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

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. As a consequence, Wonder Brands stood out due to its strong brand development capabilities in the rapidly growing Latin American e-commerce market,” he said.

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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

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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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. E-commerce is a hot market in Latin America, with the founders estimating it will grow 30% each year. We recently saw Sleek raise $1.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable investment APIs and widgets so businesses in Latin America can build and offer fully digital investment products, like local mutual funds, ETFs and stocks, to their customers. The hyperactive open banking market of Latin America: How the region is being APIfied.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

. “With 650 million consumers, Latin America is not only a huge market, but it is the fastest growing e-commerce market in the world,” said Matt Gatto , managing director at Insight Partners. Accel Partner Ethan Choi believes the Latin American e-commerce market has the potential to be just as big as the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

It is currently focused on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Mexico was the fastest-growing e-commerce market in 2020 worldwide, yet is still in its infancy, Tyle said. Overall, the $85 billion e-commerce market in Latin America is growing rapidly, with projections of it reaching $116.2 billion in 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

CEO Juan Gavito, who was previously in digital advertising, and Garay have backgrounds in private equity and venture capital, while Santiago Gavito was scaling startups. That has enabled Quinio to realize double-digit growth each month so far. For example, in the U.S., there are more than 20, and many are successful.”.

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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. For example, there is potential for a hundred more hubs surrounding Sao Paulo, Wenzel added.

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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. We believe that we can be the market standard, and that’s why we went through this round. It also grew 10x to support 10,000 restaurants.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

based Plaid, but more attuned to the Latin American market so it can take in a more diverse set of data to better meet the needs of the various markets it serves. . But it’s seeing “a lot of opportunity” in other markets in Latin America, especially in Chile, Peru and Argentina, Viguera told TechCrunch. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Founded in mid-2019, Mudafy operates with a typical digital brokerage model — aiming to make it easier for people to buy and sell their homes and serve as a “one-stop shop” in the process. With its new capital, Mudafy’s immediate priority is to expand to more cities in Mexico, a market it entered in 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

The firm’s most notable exit is digital bank Nubank, which it first invested in during the pre-seed round “when the company was merely a PowerPoint presentation,” said co-founder and managing partner Nicolas Szekasy. The technology sector has faced some short- to mid-term pressure globally due to recent market adjustments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay originally had operations in various Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, as well as in Spain and the U.S. But in 2016 the company decided to focus on the Brazilian market, because not only is it the biggest in LatAm, but it also has the highest penetration of credit cards. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Truora participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort and soon after expanded into digital identity and authentication technologies. The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. That March, it raised $3.5 million in a seed round co-led by Accel and Kaszek at a $15 million valuation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

In emerging markets, similar products are creeping up to address what Kolors CEO and founder Rodrigo Martínez says is something of an antiquated industry. Part of the push to digitalize the bus industry is because the technology exists now. Part of the push to digitalize the bus industry is because the technology exists now.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

According to the Inter-American Development Bank, over the next 10 years, digitized public services alone could stimulate 5.7 Imagine the impact on GDP if companies invested in improving digital inclusion, as well — consumers could gain access to online goods and services, and more people could start 100% digital companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. We are starting to see some of the public market valuations impact private market valuations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Adam Neumann’s latest startup, residential real estate upstart Flow , is partnering with fintech startup Bond to create a digital wallet for Flow’s residents. A variety of financial products will be embedded in the planned digital wallet with specific capabilities being announced at a later date. The company says its jump into the U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

Since our last storytelling Twitter chat , both the opportunities and challenges in producing a great digital story have increased. Topic: Storytelling and fundraising and marketing: Best practices, tips, tools, and hacks. SANTIAGO, CHILE. Chile Summer Time (1 p.m. Topic: Improving how NGOs use photography and video.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example. We’ve been putting market participants on notice that instances in which AI tools are effectively being designed to deceive people can place them on the hook for FTC action,” she stated. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.

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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. Tapping into this market of disability travel will be tapping into more than $100 billion globally,” Silberstein added.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

gigawatts of data centers at any given moment from nearly nothing in 2019, making it the fastest-growing data center market in Southeast Asia, according to a report published in April. The country was the fastest growing data center market in Asia Pacific in the first half of 2024, according to global real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

For decades, China has weaponized state subsidies, environmental deregulation, and strategic overseas investments to corner the market. ’s only rare earth materials producer), China secured major rare earth mineral mines all around the world, from Chile and Bolivias lithium to cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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