TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Chile-based Migrante is working to change that. The team built their own online marketplace with embedded financial tools, a strategy Canals said was so they could control the entire customer journey. They started in Chile, which is a competitive market, and are now growing in Peru and into Colombia and other parts of the region.

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JUNE 21, 2021

. “That’s why we’re excited to deepen our commitment to the team at Cornershop and to support their vision as they scale globally,” he added. Cornershop, which is headquartered in Chile, was founded in 2015 by Oskar Hjertonsson, Daniel Undurraga and Juan Pablo Cuevas. and Canada. The company raised $31.7

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APRIL 28, 2022

Millions of tons of cargo are transported each year via the Pan-American Highway and its branches across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. With a current team of 23, it also plans to add UX experts, software engineers and product managers to keep on improving its platform. Neighbors helping neighbors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

1 super app in Venezuela and proven that the team can scale the business in a difficult territory,” Mateen said in a statement. Now Vicente and the rest of the Yummy team will expand into more traditional markets with the necessary experience and support to overcome inevitable challenges that they will face.”.

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MAY 17, 2021

As a longtime real estate developer based in Chile, Benjamin Labra was able to spot gaps in the buying and renting markets in Latin America. While QuintoAndar dominates the Brazilian market, Houm operates in Chile, Mexico and Colombia, and aims to capture the rest of Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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JUNE 14, 2021

When the pandemic hit last year, six of Yana’s nine-person team decided to quarantine together in a “startup house” in Cancun to focus on building the company. That time is now, and Yana is now among the top three downloaded apps in Mexico and 12 countries, including Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela.

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APRIL 20, 2022

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. In a written statement, Lauren Morton, partner at QED Investors, said, “We were immediately impressed by the vision and execution of the Zubale team.

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MARCH 2, 2022

When we last reported on the company in 2021, it was operating in 40 markets and is now in 60 markets across Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru, with a goal of opening in two more countries, yet to be determined, this year. We look forward to supporting the team as the company continues its growth and expansion in LatAm.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The startup’s customers boast an average service-related net promoter score of 8, Moya told TechCrunch, with conversion rates starting at 15% and peaking at 250% during Chile’s e-commerce promotion event CyberDay. Ocular launched in Chile, where Moya had previously co-founded another company, Wingsoft , which Ocular spun out of.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

He noted in talking to folks at Chile-based Fintual , which is operating in the retail investing space, why there was not more competition, and what they discussed was a huge gap in the infrastructure and understanding the regulations in each country. We’re excited to back Gus and his team as they usher in the next generation of banking.”.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The list includes Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Australia, Canada, the U.S., The funds will go toward expanding the 50-person company’s sales and marketing team — both of which have been fairly small portions of the company’s overall headcount. Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Japan. Skycatch Raises $13.2M

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Merama partners with e-commerce product sellers in Latin America by purchasing a stake in the businesses and working with their teams to help them “exponentially” grow and boost their technology while providing them with nondilutive working capital. It is currently focused on Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. billion in 2023.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. We plan to double our team by next year and expand more in Mexico and Colombia.”. It is also integrating with customer relationship management, enterprise resource management and lending platforms.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. Managing Partners Shu Nyatta and Paulo Passoni run the region’s investment team. Operating Partner Alex Szapiro, also head of Brazil for SoftBank, leads the fund’s operations team.

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JULY 1, 2021

The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. Nowports plans to use its new capital in part to expand its 160-person team to China, according to de los Rios. 2020 was a good year for Nowports, which saw its revenue climb by 605% compared to 2019. Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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JULY 2, 2020

TechCrunch reports that as well as being available in the US, the app was also available in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay as of February. Hobbi was the work of Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team , and only launched back in February of this year.

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APRIL 6, 2023

Most recently, SoftBank put money in a funding round raised by Rankmi in Chile. In Latin America, where founders seek relationships just as much as they do capital, SoftBank hopes to capitalize on having an investment team that hails from the very regions in which it’s seeking to invest. And last year, Latitud raised $11.5

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AUGUST 5, 2013

A: How can you scale the business without a team? B: I say no to any feature that would require a team to scale / support. Last year while participating Startup Chile, I got the chance to meet Kevin Koym , a serial entrepreneur running an accelerator in Austin. The other 5% of non-dev I deal with in about 20 minutes a day.

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MAY 24, 2021

Rounding out the team are Nicolas Berman, former VP at MercadoLibre, Santiago Fossatti, Andy Young and Mariana Donangelo. Also, Connecticut-based Wesleyan University is an LP with Chief Investment Officer Anne Martin describing the founding team as “internet pioneers.”.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Skydropx team. The company intends to expand into other countries where e-commerce is growing, including Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru. This is due mainly to delivery carriers being different in each country, meaning Skydropx has to start from the ground up.

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JULY 8, 2022

They also recently brought on Jose Jorge Molina, who was previously chief marketing officer for Bitso, to join the founding team to lead marketing. The team, and the vision they had with Jose (Molina) joining, has had strong execution to date.”. The company raised a total of $37 million.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Henry team. Internally, Henry’s remote team is 20% women, 64% men. Currently, Henry has graduated 200 students and is working with 600 students across Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. Henry is also focused on helping more women get into the field of software development.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The company now has 40 employees, a 2x year over year increase, and is currently hiring for its research team. Nowadays’ pea-based nuggets debuted in Whole Foods stores in California, and Chile-based NotCo launched its plant-based chicken sandwiches and nuggets in Burger King Chile. In fact, “total U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2022

The fundraise marks a personal achievement for Perez, too, as a Latina female founder with venture backing; less than 2% of venture dollars raised in 2021 went to all-female founding teams, data from Pitchbook showed. NovoPayment’s founder and CEO Anabel Perez Image Credits: NovoPayment.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The AutoCloud founding team. It’s worth noting that Chicago-based AutoCloud is a standard startup of the day in that it has a team in multiple locations, including Argentina and Chile. Image Credits: AutoCloud. So, the next time that we talk to the company, we can harangue it about revenue growth and related metrics.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile. Its team of 750 employees, up from just over 100 in mid-2020, is composed of 70% product and engineering staff, and the company has offices located all over the world, with staff located in the U.S., Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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

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. With the latest round, Houm has raised a total of $45 million since its inception.

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APRIL 3, 2023

We seek out exceptional founding teams whose business plan is centered on the strategic utilization of technology to gain a competitive advantage. Geographically, Kaszek has been most active in Brazil and Mexico, and has also invested in teams based in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.

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JUNE 30, 2022

Retail Rocket has around 150 employees spread across offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Chile, and it plans to double down on mergers and purchases in the coming months. Sources close to the company tell TechCrunch that Retail Rocket has $50 million set aside for acquisitions alone.

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MARCH 22, 2021

Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. 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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APRIL 8, 2022

The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Today, 70% of the company’s leadership team are women and 45% of its staff are women. It was the combination of the team that was at the core,” he said. “We Naturally, Truora’s investors are bullish on the company’s potential.

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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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JANUARY 13, 2022

The startup plans to use its new capital to enhance “its proprietary content” and add more than 2,000 new courses, continue to build out AI-based functionalities and launch in new locations such as Chile, Spain and other Spanish-speaking markets. It also plans to double its team of 280 this year.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But this won’t be a permanent reduction in headcount: Waze says it plans to hire a commensurate number of people for its technology and engineering teams in the months to come. We will continue servicing these countries via increased investments in Waze Local Starter, supported by our SMB teams in our main sales hubs.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Investors in the Andean region cover Peru, Chile and Colombia. To create this in Latin America, foreign investors need to dedicate a team and money to their regional commitments. We had people focused on localizing the product, and we had research teams studying similarities and differences in user behavior. Meanwhile, U.S.

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