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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

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In an interview, CEO and co-founder Domagoj Rozic described Minka as “a seamless payment network built from the ground up.” In its home country of Colombia, the startup has already had an impact. Rozic said he was inspired to start Minka when he moved to Colombia five years ago. “I

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International Human Rights Day 2011

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In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. and the European Union.

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1Doc3, a Colombian telemedicine startup, raises $3 million

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Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. I’m on a nice MacBook for this interview, but that’s not the case of most people in LatAm,” said Javier Cardona, co-founder and CEO of 1Doc3. The pandemic has made telemedicine video visits in the U.S.

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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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TechCrunch Live events, but a podcast

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The interviews are led by top TechCrunch editors (and me). Identity and identifying a good deal Today’s interview was led by TechCrunch Global Managing Editor Ingrid Lunden. Today’s interview was led by TechCrunch Senior Reporter and edtech expert Natasha Mascarenhas. I’d love to have you watch the events live.

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

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Right now it’s live in nine cities across Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, as well as Poland and Austria in Europe. Speaking at an interview with me Wenzel said: “We are close to the equivalent of Instacart, strongly grocery focused. Latin America and Europe.

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Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick

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Customers are then able to interact with these restaurants on WhatsApp and Instagram and place their orders, explained José Rico, co-founder of OlaClick, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We We are trying to solve a D2C problem in Latin America. There’s a huge space for restaurants in this region to sell directly to consumers,” he said. “We

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