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

TechCrunch

It plans to take its work to help Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America also modernize their payments infrastructure, with immediate plans to expand to the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Mexico. The startup was introduced to a client in the Dominican Republic by Mastercard, with whom Minka is partnered, along with Google.

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Fintech startups lead the layoff wave

TechCrunch

It kinda doesn’t make sense, although Insider speculated this year that was ABG’s goal with the litigation to begin with. With the rollout of the n1co card, the company believes it will be positioned as the first neobank focused on Central America and the Dominican Republic — a region with roughly 55 million people.

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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. Our goal this time around is—you guessed it—10,000 people giving $10 each on 10/10/10. 2. Think big, but don’t set your goal in concrete. The best piece of advice?

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7 Nonprofits Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Saleforce Nonprofit

The organization operates in Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Dominican Republic and India and also has offices in three donor nations: United States, Australia and New Zealand. They are well on their way to achieving this worthwhile goal. The Polaris Project works to disrupt human trafficking network.