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

TechCrunch

With the raise of new capital, however, we will also offer a self-service SaaS to fintechs soon.”. “We 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. million.

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

The Next Web

Started by a nightclub promoter tired of an unfulfilling job, charity:water doesn’t even have a marketing team but raises millions annually to give 800 million people the resource they are so lacking: access to clean drinking water. You can’t talk back to your baked goods – or can you?

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Fintech startups lead the layoff wave

TechCrunch

In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 For example, in the second quarter, total dollar volume raised by private fintech companies globally reached $27.5 Finalis, ‘a platform for dealmakers,’ raises $10.7M 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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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. Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

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Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?

TechCrunch

After its mammoth $528 million Series F raise , it acquired several of Delivery Hero’s businesses in Central and Eastern Europe for $208 million. Last year, the company pulled out of all the Latin American countries — Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.