Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 28, 2012

Over the last 17 years, Kar and I crossed paths in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, and many times at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Notably, both are based in Colombia but provide services across the Latin America region (and in the case of Ding, globally ). Department of Commerce that estimate Colombia alone to have the fifth largest e-commerce market in Latin America, which as a region is projected to reach 260.2 The company quotes figures from the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2007

Earlier this year I posted about how Ode Magazine reported that The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranked Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Bogotá Colombia Ciclovia biking public space Hat tip to Carfree USA Blog for the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2007

Nancy White is doing some workshops in Colombia. Nancy's Flickr Set. Here are some photos. She is using the Social Media Game -- can't wait to read about it! The live stream is here. More here from Stephen Downes.

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TechSpot

APRIL 26, 2024

Attacks have been observed on a bank in Senegal, a financial services company in Chile, a tax firm in Colombia, and a government economic agency in Argentina using strains of malware that were later used in Europe and North America, writes cybersecurity firm Performanta (via Ars Technica). Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. The company’s self-proclaimed mission is to promote financial inclusion by expanding the digital payments ecosystem in Colombia. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2023, Kapital’s customer base grew to 80,000 small businesses in Mexico, Colombia and Peru. It also acquired Banco Autofin Mexico S.A. in September. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In its home country of Colombia, the startup has already had an impact. It partnered with ACH Colombia to work on The Transfiya project, which includes direct read and write API access to 80% of the accounts in the country. Rozic said he was inspired to start Minka when he moved to Colombia five years ago. “I

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And that’s just in Colombia alone, said Lafaurie. “Colombia was the most-locked-down country in the whole world. By digitizing what had been a primarily analog industry, the company has managed to hit a $10 million revenue run rate and sign up 3,000 stores since its launch eight months ago.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Clinton has a great talent for making everybody feel like they're important: I liked the way he interacted with Vicky Colbert, the great education social entrepreneur from Colombia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Because of the ingenuity of GFN’s corporate donors, a Colombian hunger-relief organization – Banco de Alimentos Bogotá, a member of the national food bank network system, Asocación de Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia – was able to distribute a large quantity of high-value groceries.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

With this latest raise, Habi says it has become the second unicorn in Colombia and only LatAm unicorn with a female founder and CEO , according to Crunchbase. The startup currently operates in more than 15 cities in Mexico and Colombia. It also claims that it is now the first proptech unicorn in Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Tags: HRDAG human rights disappearances Casanare Colombia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

Brynne leads the hot real estate startup out of Colombia, which reached unicorn status last year with a $200 million raise. This is going to be a great show as we explore how Brynne and Habi navigate uncertainty as they build their proptech company in Colombia and Mexico. The topic is uncertainty. I hope you can join us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.

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TechCrunch

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.”. Our goal is to position our company as the leading payment orchestrator in Latin America,” Candia added. “We

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Novillo Saravia intends to use the new capital to continue clicOH’s expansion throughout Latin America, including entering Colombia, on technology development and expanding its logistics network. We’re excited to expand into Colombia and are identifying additional regions throughout LatAm,” he added. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The company, based in Bogotá, Colombia and currently sporting a team of 13, is working to bring digital transformation to the smallest of enterprises: namely single-operator small stores. Lockdown in Colombia forced many small businesses online in a hurry. The startup is onto something. How is it managing to grow so quickly?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2005

One of our biggest areas of work is in Colombia, a place where violence and human rights abuses are not a thing of the past. They concentrate on recovering the remains of the many people disappeared during Colombia's complex and violent internal conflicts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In 2017, he started searching for his biological family in Colombia and reconnected with them. In the short period of time the company has been in business, it has grown to a team of 16 in Mexico and three in Colombia. York’s backstory is quite interesting. He was born on the streets in Bogota, and was adopted and grew up in Boston.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. In addition to Colombia, the company already has operations in Mexico and plans to use part of the funding to expand further in the region as well as building out a marketing and sales team, which it hasn’t had thus far. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Elenas estimates that 11 million women in Latin America sell consumer items via catalogs and door-to-door sales methods.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Ettos — Is making an e-commerce platform for beauty products, supporting inclusive beauty, based in Colombia. The latest batch hosts startups from countries around the world including Colombia, Turkey and the Netherlands. DB Creations — Is creating catchy AR strategy games like Table Trenches with rapid prototyping and exploration.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As Euronews notes, those vast swathes contain some of the largest cities on Earth, including Bogota in Colombia and Mumbai in India. Thanks to its size of anywhere between 130 and 330 feet in length, the devastation could be significant if it were to crash down anywhere near a population center.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Dear Sophie, We co-founded a startup in Colombia, and we’re thinking about opening a sales office in the U.S.! I would be moving, and my co-founder will continue to run our engineering team from Colombia. I’m currently considering both the E-2 investor and L-1A executive visas. What are the pros and cons of each?

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

That leaves major Spanish countries like Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina without a leading independent last-mile logistics company. Within this, only about $300 million was in Spanish-speaking Latin America — a surprisingly small amount for a region that has 110 million more consumers than in the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning Colombia and Venezuela, also reside. Colombia’s environment ministry did not respond to AP’s requests for comment.

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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

APRIL 12, 2023

Small businesses in Latin America got another boost in lending support with the investment of $4 million in Kala , a Colombia-based company building fintech infrastructure for lending. Kala will also continue to focus on Colombia and Mexico this year. Kala charges a SaaS fee and is already bringing in revenue, Alemán said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

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.” They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019. “In

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Initially starting in Venezuela, now with $30 million in Series A funding and $80 million in a debt facility, it is moving into both Colombia and Mexico. As mentioned, the latest funding enables Migrante to launch in Colombia and Mexico and offer new products, including rent-to-own and electric vehicle financing products.

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TechCrunch

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. Patjane plans to be at 95% penetration in all of its current markets before connecting services to other countries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. While its headquarters are located in Cali, Colombia, Muniz said Truora’s new main focus, or highest growing office, is Mexico City.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia. They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis.

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