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Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus’ $100M debt, equity round

TechCrunch

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. By year’s end, La Haus intends to be in every major metropolitan area in Mexico and Colombia. .

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a16z, Base Partners cook up $15M in funding for Colombia cloud kitchen concept Foodology

TechCrunch

Foodology has been whipping up its restaurant brands in cloud and virtual kitchens in Colombia and Mexico since 2019, and with a new infusion of capital, hopes to scale that across Latin America. Foodology currently operates 20 kitchens in six cities across Colombia and 10 in Mexico and has 60 corporate employees and over 300 in its kitchens.

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Inventa poised to enter Mexico, Colombia with its supplier marketplace

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We have doubled down on both the company and our engineering team; we now have around 90 people, many of whom have done this before,” Salama said. “We And, after establishing a footprint in Brazil, the company is accelerating its international expansion to Mexico and Colombia later this year.

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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The digital team works hard to produce social content that balances sharing stories of the people they serve, the impact of their work, and the generosity of their supporters. While the communications team features a wide variety of content on social media, one of the messaging themes they focus on is innovative partnerships.

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SWVL plans to lay off 32% of its team two months after going public

TechCrunch

SWVL said that though these acquisitions have contributed to its overall growth, it will need to make reductions on roles automated by investments in its engineering and product and support functions teams. Whether SWVL will continue its expansion into new markets such as Colombia, Mexico and South Africa, and the U.S.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things. Our Martus team trained two new partners focused on rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people : Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays , or J-FLAG and AIDS-Free World. and the European Union.

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

TechCrunch

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