TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. Today, he says Mudafy is operating at a run rate of “over 2x” of what it did in 2021. IDC Ventures also participated in its latest funding round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. There are three main players in any tech ecosystem: The first are founders who want to build companies and need funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Those backers include Kaszek Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, SoftBank Latin America Fund and DILA Capital, among others. At the same time, Kushki claims its infrastructure can help boost acceptance rates and reduce fraud. Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

million in Series A funding. The round will be extended for up to $20 million to give Wonder Brands around $40 million in total funding, Federico Malek, co-founder of Wonder Brands told TechCrunch via email. billion, showing an annual growth rate of 23%. This enables the Mexico City–based company to expand into South America.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America can find it difficult to get the funds they need to export their goods to the United States. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. There is a lot of value to tackle.

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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. Also, the country has seen some of the lowest interest rates on record, which he said has fueled the development of the alternative assets industry. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

DEUNA , a Silicon Valley-based one-click checkout commerce startup, is officially joining Latin America’s nearly $100 billion e-commerce sector with $30 million in Series A funding after largely staying under the radar since being founded in late 2020. The company raised a total of $37 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Weder planned on using the Series A funding to expand across Mexico and Latin America — a market he told me represents a $600 billion opportunity — and that’s just what the company did. fulfillment rate over the past 12 months. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico , a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. Eight new unicorns have already been minted this year, nearly reaching 2020’s rate by midyear. In the insurance space, similar changes are giving way to innovative models like 180 o in Brazil and Betterfly in Chile.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Belvo , a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding. In May 2020, Belvo raised a $10 million seed round c o-led by Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund and Argentina’s Kaszek. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation via its C.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While access to opportunities, funding and support has improved for women in the startup space over the last couple of decades, there is still a long way to go. In fact, women early-stage entrepreneurs receive an average of $1 million less in funding than men do, despite performing better on average. How do we fix funding?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

According to CB Insights’ latest State of Venture report , the amount of funding flowing into U.S.-based Because VC investment in the region didn’t start slowing down in the last few weeks: Dollar funding has now fallen for three consecutive quarters in the region. Chile: $182 million, down 17% from Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Traditional financial institutions charge outrageous interest rates and require hefty down payments, making it nearly impossible for members of a lower-income population to afford to purchase their own car. Lima-based Leasy is different, said Gilardini, in that its interest rates are far lower and terms much more flexible.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The company will kick off the new year with 10 brands representing $10 million revenue run rate. The company will also expand its staff — at 33 people today — to over 100 by the end of next year as it begins looking for brands outside of Mexico in Chile, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

One of its early customers is Babytuto , a parent and baby product retailer in Chile that initially worked with the company for Cyber Monday. The company raised $8 million in seed funding that values the company at a whopping $110 million.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

Carmina reports on the rate of adoption of broadband technologies in Chile. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Becky points out a new document that explains some of the trickier points of Microsoft eOpen. TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. read more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The interest rates range from 0% for the micro loans (for a weekly subscription of $1 to $2) to 145% for the consumer loans. That’s quite a wide range — and sounds sky-high — but Costanzo says it’s reflective of the equally high inflation rate in Argentina, the country where Uils first launched.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The growth has caught the eyes and pockets of foreign investors, too, with SoftBank announcing its Latin America Fund II, committing $3 billion to tech companies there. The more funds contribute to GDP, the greater potential there is to fuel a new era of development, where more people have access to employment, wealth and education.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Astro , a startup helping companies to build and manage developer teams with talent from Latin America, today exited from stealth with $13 million in Series A funding contributed by Greycroft with participation by Obvious Ventures and other unnamed investors. But this presented its own challenges.

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