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Uber to become the sole owner of grocery delivery startup Cornershop

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With Cornershop as wholly owned subsidiary, Uber can beef up its grocery delivery options, a service made popular during the pandemic. The company expanded its operations to eight countries up and down the Americas, including Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the U.S. and Canada. The company raised $31.7

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Pancake aims to make customers flip for its virtual home design platform

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Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home and needing to outfit a space. However, design services can be expensive, and therefore not accessible to everyone. The company also prides itself on transparent pricing.

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PideDirecto bags $5.25M; aims to be ‘Shopify with 30-minute deliveries’

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million round of seed funding, led by JAM FUND, with participation from Soma Capital, Acacia Ventures, Kube VC, Flexport, Y Combinator and a group of individual investors from companies including Grubhub, Jeeves, Par Technologies, Uber and Google. Think of us as Shopify with 30-minute deliveries.”.

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Meet Mighty, an e-commerce platform where kids are the boss; a “digital lemonade stand”

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In this case, Goldhirsh, who has been living in Costa Rica, began worrying about his two daughters, who attend a small, six-person school. million in seed funding led by Animo Ventures, with participation from Maveron, Humbition, Sesame Workshop, Collaborative Fund and NaHCO3, a family office.

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Zubale bags new capital to match gig workers with LatAm e-commerce fulfillment jobs

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Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services. million to put locals to work over their phones.

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Kocomo raises millions to give people a way to co-own a luxury vacation home

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We are focused initially on Americans and Canadians wanting to buy a vacation home in Mexico, the Caribbean and Costa Rica and then eventually we will be doing the same in Europe,” said Martin Schrimpff, co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. such as Costa Rica and the Caribbean. Image Credits: Kocomo.

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LeoLabs raises $65M Series B for its satellite monitoring and collision detection service

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This latest round brings the company’s total funding to more than $100 million. LeoLabs uses ground-based phased array radars — one in Alaska, one in Texas, two in New Zealand and two in Costa Rica — to monitor low Earth orbit, and to track and measure any object that flies through its observational area.