TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

PideDirecto , a Mexico-based company, is developing a platform that enables local businesses in Latin America to sell directly to their consumers and deliver orders in less than 30 minutes. That is when we started PideDirecto, to enable local businesses to scale their direct-to-consumer sales channels,” Fawzi said. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It has also since completed “multiple” acquisitions of local brands operating across a variety of industries, such as beauty, fitness and home goods. It plans to use the new capital mostly to continue acquiring e-commerce brands across Mexico, Brazil and Colombia as well as to do more hiring.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

It has 40 million users across Brazil, as well as Mexico and Colombia. Yet, it’s a startup with a CEO and co-founder who isn’t Brazilian, didn’t speak the local language of Portuguese, hadn’t started a company before, and didn’t really know a lot about banking to begin with. We’re always iterating on the EC-1 format.

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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 products are also compliant with local regulations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

After a consultation, a plan will be established and information can be transferred to the cloud platform, adhering to local regulations. Depending on the size of the operation and local regulations a clinic can pay anywhere from $20 to $20,000 monthly. Image Credits: HealthAtom.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Operating as Nuvemshop in Brazil and Tiendanube in the rest of the region, the company has offices in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, with plans to expand into Colombia and Peru in 2021. Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, Viguera told TechCrunch that some gig-economy companies in Latin America are issuing their own cards that allow workers to cash out at small local shops. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. . Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged last year, the company launched Buk Starter, a free digital remuneration tool for companies with up to 20 employees. In September alone, Buk says it grew 7% in Chile, 20% in Colombia, and 23% in Peru month-over-month. . Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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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. It also plans to expand into other markets such as Colombia, Chile and Peru over the next 18-24 months. This requires an on the ground local knowledge to make it all work.

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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. Powered by local stores, JOKR joins the 15-min grocery race with a $170M Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

At the time, Zubale was slightly different, looking to connect big corporations with workers to take on tasks, like market research to earn mobile phone credits or other kinds of digital rewards. Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru.

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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

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. E-commerce is expected to grow another 30% this year, Juan Gavito said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Sixty-two percent of the sector is dominated by small and local last-mile providers,” he added. With everyone trying to break into this sector, the company decided to shift its focus to digitize the delivery process so that all merchants can have SaaS-like tools to improve their operations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By tapping its team of “specialists” in areas such as digital marketing and supply chain management, it claims to be able to help these brands “reach new heights” while giving the entrepreneurs behind the companies “an attractive exit,” or partial exit in some cases. “ Latin America’s digital transformation is making up for lost time.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In addition, Parallel18 released a talent app for freelancers, students and professionals to find and apply to work with local international startups. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, over the next 10 years, digitized public services alone could stimulate 5.7

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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. Longer term, it is exploring the possibility of moving into other Latin American markets such as Colombia, Perú and Chile.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Coinbase’s long-awaited NFT marketplace launched in a beta form for those who find joy in trading digital collectibles. Take care, and we’ll see you here again tomorrow! Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3. NFT shoppers unite! The company aims to make this a “web3 social marketplace.” And look out for the future collection drops.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

where most people have a cell phone plan through a major carrier, in Brazil — a country where the minimum wage is currently $1,100 reals per month (roughly $202 USD) — many people must buy calling cards at local shops to add credit to their phones, which allows them to avoid a monthly recurring bill. Unlike in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

“BNPL will become a more popular POS option in 2022, not only across brick-and-mortar stores, but also in sectors like healthcare, where installment payments already exist but have not yet crossed the chasm to digital,” said Frances Schwiep, partner at Two Sigma Ventures. Melissa Guzy: BNPL companies vary by geography to fit the local market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Local payment methods account for 68% of online sales, and, depending on the region and merchant networks, merchants must integrate dozens of payment service providers. So if one-click checkout startups are struggling to make headway against incumbents in the single-currency, highly digitized and concentrated U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

The latter incident is also subject to a lawsuit by an Irish digital rights group that’s challenging the DPA’s enforcement finding that there was no security breach.) Mass data scraping of personal information can constitute a reportable data breach in many jurisdictions.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

As he pointed out, pricing in some fintech categories dropped almost 60% according to Pitchbook, and digital and crypto companies are down over 65%. “We The startup says it will also continue to grow its local presence and team in EMEA. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

The company says it’s currently working with over 5,000 businesses across Mexico, Brazil and Colombia with ambitions to double that number by year’s end. Below are his thoughts: The most funded and well-known fintechs in Africa have western elements in their business: payments gateways, cross-border and digital banking plays.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. Local communities were. We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this. People have lost their jobs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique. I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia.

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