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

AUGUST 30, 2021

Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. There is a huge opportunity to do what local investors did in Brazil and Mexico years ago, and play a significant role in the next chapter of countries with blossoming markets like Colombia, Peru or Uruguay. Meanwhile, U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

The Latin American startup market, once among the hottest in the world , is cooling. But its slowdown is far from uniform; some countries are surviving the downturn far better than others, data reveals.

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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

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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The talks in Colombia known as COP16 yielded some significant outcomes before they broke up in November, including an agreement that requires companies that benefit from genetic resources in naturesay, by developing medicines from rainforest plantsto share the benefits. And a big part of the talks will be about raising more money.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2021

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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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

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

MARCH 22, 2022

The company says it provides the underwriting, credit in local currency and the payment rails “for any business spend across countries and currencies.” Jeeves was founded in 2020 under the premise that startups have traditionally had to rely on financial infrastructure that is local and country-specific.

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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

JUNE 2, 2021

The startup’s offering is currently live in Mexico — its largest market — as well as Colombia, Canada and the U.S., Dileep Thazhmon and Sherwin Gandhi founded Jeeves last year under the premise that startups have traditionally had to rely on financial infrastructure that is local and country-specific.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

“In Latin America, 90% of the [used car] transactions are informal, which leads to a 40% fraud rate,” said García, who experienced these challenges firsthand when he moved to Mexico from Colombia a couple of years ago and bought a used car. . “My My budget allowed me to buy a used car, but there was no infrastructure around it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Villadiego was born and raised in the colonial port town of Cartagena, Colombia. Easy Solutions caught the eye of tech heavyweight — and Miami local — Manny Medina of the eponymous Medina Capital, who invested in the company’s first round. “I

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile. At the same time, Kushki claims its infrastructure can help boost acceptance rates and reduce fraud. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The company plans to use its new capital primarily to accelerate its growth in Mexico, consolidate the market in Colombia and Peru (Where it expanded in 2019 and 2020), double down on technology and product development and toward the acquisition of new companies at the regional level. Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The previous year, Apple removed several major VPN apps from its App Store in China in response to local regulations requiring VPN providers to have a government license.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Separate markets require distinct knowledge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru. million to put locals to work over their phones. Investors also participating include GFC, Felicis Ventures and GGV Capital’s Hans Tung, alongside existing investors including NFX, Accel’s Kevin Efrusy, Wollef and Maya Capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The remote-first fintech started in Argentina and has since launched operations and offices in Brazil and Mexico with plans to also expand to Chile and Colombia. Cards have an estimated payments volume of $900 billion per year, and yet 95% of these transactions are being processed by local incumbents, asserts Pomelo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

He also wants to launch in additional cities in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile in Latin America and expand in the United States — more to come soon on that, Wenzel teased. Powered by local stores, JOKR joins the 15-min grocery race with a $170M Series A.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

and Colombia, including Amazon, NASCAR, Weee!, And Miami benefits from the virtuous circle of higher employment and strong local businesses.”. Since formally launching in 2019, Shift One has grown to have 25,000 workers on its platform — many of whom it says were unemployed at the time of hire.

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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. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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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. In the last six months, Treggo also started delivering in Colombia. 99minutos clocks in fresh capital for logistics infrastructure in Latin America. Overall, the company is working with 378 monthly customers and delivered 1.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Bitso says its “global-minded” product offerings fit the needs of local customers in Mexico, Argentina and now Brazil, where it just launched its retail operations. In January, the Financial Superintendence of Colombia announced Bitso as one of the authorized companies in its Sandbox and crypto pilot program. Image Credits: Bitso.

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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

MAY 30, 2022

Whether SWVL will continue its expansion into new markets such as Colombia, Mexico and South Africa, and the U.S. – All Final Settlements to be taxed as per local requirement. According to a source, the majority of the layoffs will come from the company’s Dubai and Pakistan offices. And more importantly, this is not your fault.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

It entered the Peruvian market late last year after acquiring local e-grocer Freshmart and has since announced the opening of its first physical store in Lima to offer a hybrid grocery model. It now has more than 100,000 users in each of its markets, and Weder forecasts being in the millions by year end.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

Notably, though, Private Relay still only lets you navigate the web through your existing (rough) geographic location, so you can’t use it for more popular VPN activities — like streaming Netflix content from a different country or skirting local sports blackout rules. It’s missing a few major VPN features.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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. Juan Gavito expects to use over 80% of the new capital on acquiring companies, with a plan of one per month.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The company is currently focused on the Mexican and Brazilian markets, but is planning its expansion into other Latin American countries where it has strong local support systems, such as Colombia, according to co-founder Martin Florea. “ Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series A. In the U.S.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

It’s Uber’s first major move into the competitive world of online grocery shopping since acquiring Cornershop , a leading online grocery provider in Chile, Mexico, Peru, Canada, Brazil, and Colombia. Grocery delivery will be available through both Uber’s main app and its Uber Eats app.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Waze is also closing offices in countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Colombia, Chile, and Argentina, as it seeks to bring more focus in countries where its business is growing. 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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

A farmer in Colombia holds a cacao pod. For example, in cocoa-producing regions like northeastern Brazil , deforestation to make room for agriculture disrupts local water cycles and exposes soils to degradation. million square miles (4.3 million square kilometers) over those three decades about half the size of Australia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

We have now become fully gross profit positive on a group level for our local business across all of our countries after 12 months of operations. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. What does this mean now for JOKR’s immediate future? For us, this is proof point No. 1 that the business model works.

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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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