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

TechCrunch

Bogota-based payments infrastructure startup Minka has secured $24 million in a funding round co-led by Tiger Global Management and Kaszek. With the raise of new capital, however, we will also offer a self-service SaaS to fintechs soon.”. “We To date, the company has raised a total of $27.5 million.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

1) The e-commerce site where products fund projects. Launching – and funding – several crowd commerce campaigns. Launching – and funding – several crowd commerce campaigns. Similar to a Kickstarter model, these campaigns use products to fund projects. As of May 2013, w4tw was over-funded by $16,285 from a cool $25K.

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Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without coding

TechCrunch

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, they didn’t have access to computer science classes, but they did have access to the internet and they got the startup bug from reading U.S.

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Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Dock closes on $110M in funding, now valued at over $1.5B

TechCrunch

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based The company raised $170 million in 2020 in a round led by Viking Capital after landing an undisclosed amount from Visa Ventures in 2018. based Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, bringing its valuation to over $1.5

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Fintech startups lead the layoff wave

TechCrunch

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 Fundings and M&A. Layoffs up in H1 2022.

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Born2Fly launched the 09/09/09 Twitterthon to raise money to stop child trafficking, Our goal was 9,000 people giving $9 each on 09/09/09—or $81,000. We didn’t come close to raising that amount, but learned a lot about using social media tools like Twitter to promote and raise money for a cause.

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Ben Nye’s new VC firm won’t just give you a fish, but will guide you to the best lake

TechCrunch

Nine weeks after securing ELJ Ventures as its anchor investor in November, the fund became oversubscribed when ELJ Ventures increased its initial commitment 80%, amid a family office and four other groups doing so as well. What did you learn as you went out to raise for the fund? We think about what the customer needs and why.

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