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. Since the onset of the pandemic, Stripe observed that fraud rates at businesses in Latin America were 97% higher than in North America and 222% higher than businesses in the Asia Pacific.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

The company has been able to increase acceptance rates by 40% and prove out about three times higher conversion rates, he said. In Latin America, that is often due to about half of customers not having their payment method of choice approved. The company raised a total of $37 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

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. The end goal is to help these businesses — such as digital banks — grow faster online and drive consumer adoption of digital payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion, showing an annual growth rate of 23%. We’ve achieved remarkable results, generating over $100 million in annualized revenues with an annual growth rate exceeding 100%.” He also cited data from the Mexican Association of Online Sales that said last year, the total value of e-commerce sales in Mexico reached $31.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Brazil and Mexico continue to lead as regions where many startups are getting funding, but as LAVCA’s statistics show, some of that investor love is being spread around to other countries like Colombia, Argentina 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

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

JANUARY 13, 2022

The startup also today has a “very powerful dashboard,” according to Melo, where companies can track all the learning analytics and see the number of courses, completion rates, ranking of courses and a number of other metrics. UBITS is also working on further personalizing its offering so that each employee has his/her own training path. “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

innovation economy at a vastly disproportionate rate. Chile Global Ventures (part of Fundación Chile) finances startups through its network of over 100 influential Chileans living in the U.S., As a result, many of them emigrate to the U.S. Immigrants contribute to the success of the U.S. Next are VC firms looking for founders.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Samsung first announced last month it would be adding the features to its latest Galaxy Watch devices through software updates, considering both smartwatches have the requisite sensors used for measuring heart rate and blood pressure and performing an EKG. Image: Samsung.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. Total unicorn market cap 2021 LatAm. Image Credits: Atlantico.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For small and medium businesses in trade, this is important for companies creating a high level of job growth and lowering the poverty rate,” Shoihet told TechCrunch. “By Manalwar worked for 13 years at PayPal, where he most recently was a product lead focused on debit card authorization rates and in-store payments.

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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

APRIL 13, 2022

Some of the questions raised by Latin America’s VC deceleration are the same as elsewhere: How can private investment into startups sustain an accelerated pace when interest rates are rising and public valuations are tanking? Chile: $182 million, down 17% from Q4 2021. Mexico: $258 million, down 59% from Q4 2021. Brazil: $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

fulfillment rate over the past 12 months. Weder also has his eye on Colombia and Chile and is looking strategically at when the right moment is to move into those countries, either directly or via acquisitions like Jüsto did in Peru. “Before, it was 1% and now it is 3% and growing aggressively.”.

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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. So what exactly has driven so much growth for Mercado Bitcoin?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

is getting older and the birth rate is declining; as such, we will increasingly need to look to immigration to keep our economy going. Specific visas exist for talent from Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Singapore. Cascio has some wonderful insight relevant to your question. The population in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

But it’s seeing “a lot of opportunity” in other markets in Latin America, especially in Chile, Peru and Argentina, Viguera told TechCrunch. “In Nicolás Szekasy, co-founder and managing partner of Kaszek, noted that demand for financial services in Latin America is growing at an exponential rate.

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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. Topsort has gained most of its customers in the past four months, and some of them are already bringing in $1 million to $15 billion in gross merchandise value.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

” Among users it notes a high uptake — with a 40% download rate on average, and rates as high as 90% for some of its clients — which it claims is 5-10x higher than other on-demand salary platforms and other social benefits. Its expansion will be focused on Europe and LatAm.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

Carmina reports on the rate of adoption of broadband technologies in Chile. 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. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. read more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch Dear Sophie, I am currently working in Seattle having relocated from Chile on an L-1B visa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Today, he says Mudafy is operating at a run rate of “over 2x” of what it did in 2021. Longer term, it is exploring the possibility of moving into other Latin American markets such as Colombia, Perú and Chile. Overall, he added, the company increased its sales by “10 times” for the second year in a row in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In this study , acceptance rates of women candidates rose from 18% to 30% by obscuring the gender in the application. In Chile, where I founded my company, 77% of women entrepreneurs use their own savings as financing, while only 14% have obtained co-financing from state or private programs.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Today, many countries and organizations collect streamflow data (typically either water levels or flow rates), but it is not standardized or held in a central repository, which makes it difficult for researchers to access.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

On the one hand, three countries have the highest electronics recycling rates in the world. In Taiwan, the recycling rate for IT equipment and appliances combined is 82. Africa has a 1 percent recycling rate for mobile phones. Asia is also a good news-bad news story. percent, the highest in the world. or Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

OwnLocal couldn’t dictate pay rates, benefits and perks, and had little visibility into the work that was being done beyond a monthly invoice. Samira and Licea ended up broadening their search beyond Austin, Texas, where OwnLocal was based, to work with outsourcing partners in Latin America. But this presented its own challenges.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, most AI programs and documents are written in English, in which Latin America has a 56% proficiency rate. For example, Start-Up Chile, the public accelerator launched by the Chilean government, has facilitated 42 exits in eight years, including Cabify and Glamit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

On the other, market sentiment is largely pessimistic and the outlook for interest rates and inflation is challenging.” This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. The firm said: “On one hand, the fundamental trends that have been driving activity remain in place.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID outbreak has disproportionately impacted the Latin community, with high rates of cases, deaths, and economic losses. The boxes of vegetables that the city gave us lacked, for example, tortilla, chile, or cilantro that our community needs to cook.”

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