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Meet Natasha Piñeiros Natasha Piñeiros grew up in Ecuador and moved to New Jersey at 13 years old. I’m from Ecuador — and being in this country as a young immigrant has shaped my experience of how I see the inequalities people experience.” She finished high school and decided to go to community college.
Fast forward a few months and I’ve returned to my adopted country of Ecuador with the objective of helping to develop a thriving tech scene. Ecuador’s socialist government has prioritized the tech sector, even going so far as to create an entirely new city focused on the development of knowledge industries.
India, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine are listed as priority level 2, while Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Malaysia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand come in at level 3. The thirteen countries in the EC's crosshairs are headed by China (via TorrentFreak), which was singled out as the biggest concern. Read Entire Article
In June 2005, my friend Abby Jaramillo, the Executive Director of Urban Sprouts , brought six international volunteers to two rural communities in the rainforests of Ecuador, Guayabillas and Santa Rosa, with the organization Shunku Llacta. Ecuador volunteer rainforest artisan Photo: A volunteer helps to harvest fruit.
Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile. Kushki, an Ecuador-based fintech, raises $86M to build financial infrastructure in LatAm. The problem is so big in LatAm, that regardless of whether NASDAQ goes up or down, payments in Latin America will continue to trend up.
The company will soon open operations in Ecuador, which Lafaurie said was the second-largest hardware market (per capita) in Latin America. By digitizing what had been a primarily analog industry, the company has managed to hit a $10 million revenue run rate and sign up 3,000 stores since its launch eight months ago.
That time is now, and Yana is now among the top three downloaded apps in Mexico and 12 countries, including Spain, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela. The company had pitched ALLVP, which was intrigued but wanted to wait until it could write a bigger check. . We want to compete in the wellness space,” she told TechCrunch.
Jorge Palacios And A Resident Setting The Schedule Originally uploaded by interplast. Read his first post here. Seth is doing this so Interplast supporters can learn first-hand how the organization spends its money. Stop by, read the post, ask questions, etc.
He also expects to be in Ecuador and Bolivia by the end of the year. Plans for the new funding include user acquisition — the company has close to 200,000 registered users already — and to expand in Peru and Chile by August. At the same time, Zavarce will spend some of that capital to attract more users across Venezuela.
This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.
Millions of tons of cargo are transported each year via the Pan-American Highway and its branches across Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. In the longer term, DeltaX hopes to further expand to Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay, Ortiz told TechCrunch. It will be interesting to watch.
Currently, Kuona operates in the United States, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador and just opened an office in Brazil. “It also gives them a picture of what has been working in the past, the present and then allows them to plan for the future.”.
And based on the asteroid's current trajectory, the "risk corridor" illustrating where the object could crash stretches across the Pacific Ocean, with countries ranging from Ecuador to India lying in its damage path.
TechCrunch reports that as well as being available in the US, the app was also available in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay as of February. Lasso was only ever available in select markets worldwide. Lasso isn’t the only Facebook-owned service that’s due to shut down on July 10th.
Simply put, it works mainly with government entities in countries like Argentina and Ecuador, providing them a way to confirm if people are who they say they are.
For Tül in particular, Lloreda said he and Porras were instrumental in helping the company expand regionally, secure its first country manager in Ecuador and make key strategic partnership introductions to suppliers and investors. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5
It has backed companies across the region including in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador. The firm also says it has participated in “significant value uplift” for portfolio companies, including 4.4x each for Kavak and VTEX; 2.6x for QuintoAndar and 3.5x for Banco Inter (as of June 30).
The firm’s investments have largely concentrated in Brazil and Mexico (the two startup hotspots of the region) and Colombia but the firm has also backed startups based in other countries in the region such as DigitalHouse (which was formed in Argentina), NotCo (originally founded in Chile) and Kushki (launched first in Ecuador).
The founders plan to use the new capital to expand its presence in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Chile, product development, go-to-market, adding employees to its team of 90 and entering new countries, like Brazil, in the coming months. The company raised a total of $37 million.
In places we assist, like Ecuador, less than 50 dollars keeps a person needing insulin alive for an entire year as it covers the transport cost for us to send the donated insulin.”. Ron Raab, President of Insulin For Life told us: “Every time someone watches this video, it will make a real contribution to someone actually staying alive.
for the holiday via Miami International Airport, mostly from Colombia and Ecuador, according to ABC News. In fact, some 940 million cut flower stems have already arrived in the U.S. Around 90% of holiday flowers sold in the U.S.
Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales.
Teams in Croatia, Ecuador, Jordan, and the United States were awarded $75,000, software, cloud computing services, solution provider support, and access to other Microsoft resources. Anything we missed?
Geographically, Kaszek has been most active in Brazil and Mexico, and has also invested in teams based in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay. That company went public on the NYSE in December 2021.
It also plans to use the money to accelerate its geographic expansion into additional markets across Latin America, including Peru, Ecuador and Chile. Presently, the company has over 400 employees, up from about 120 employees at this time last year.
Mari Velasco: I am originally from Ecuador and have two stories about connection. The other story is from another friend who is the executive director of a great NGO (Fundacion Futuro del Ecuador) that works with indigenous communities living on the highlands, helping them have access to decent health care system.
Guayaquil, Ecuador: Facebook: Explorando su potencial en las organizaciones. With ten events this week , there’s a meetup and a topic for you. This Week’s NetSquared Events. Tuesday, July 9. Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. Houston, TX: Master Your Crowd-Fundraising with GroupRaise.com.
Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Taipei, Taiwan ??????????????????. Central and South America. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Wednesday, December 10, 2014.
You can learn more about Fundapi -- it helps if you can read Spanish -- and the work they're doing in Ecuador here. We're proud to have them as members for another year! Don't forget to renew your own NTEN membership for 2010. Doing so before December 1st means you're entered into the drawing for that NTEN Grand Prize.
Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's. Well, ask anyone under 30 who lives in a Spanish-speaking country about Campus Party.
Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Chicago, IL: The Current State of Social Media for Nonprofits: A Panel Discussion. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Naples, FL: NFN4GOOD TECHCLUB. Melbourne, Australia: How to move your non-profit online: Rotary Australia case study. Wednesday, August 13, 2014.
Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. Presently, the company has 1,936 employees, with offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City. Dock is now the biggest, most modern fintech partner available in Latin America.
They fit the pattern of successful founders who start out in Latin America’s overlooked markets like Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay who are likely to have success expanding to Latin America’s bigger countries,” he said.
It reminded me of an experience I had when I was a high-schooler raising money for a community service trip to Ecuador with Amigos de las Americas. To top it off, they let me know that once the projects are complete, they'll send a project report similar to this one informing me on the final outcome. Color me impressed.
It has been around since 2017, operating initially in Spain before expanding to Italy and several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru). Innovamat will be using the funding to expand its business. Most recently, it started its first K-5 pilots in the U.S., in New Jersey.
You were born in New York, grew up in Phoenix, and have lived in Hawaii, Ecuador, Boston. What brought you to Miami? The common thread here, aside from a 14-year stint in Boston, is warm weather. That would be the easy and probably obvious response.
Last year, the company pulled out of all the Latin American countries — Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. That said, Glovo’s performance in emerging markets is questionable. It sold operations in these markets to Delivery Hero for $272 million.
The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team). The goal of the Treaty in rough terms is to set a Chafee-style exemption as a norm around the world, and enable cross-border sharing of accessible materials.
Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Taipei, Taiwan: ??????????????. Houston, TX: July @NET2Houston Meetup. Vancouver, BC: Creating a Digital Community: The Misadventures of Fundraiser Grrl. Melbourne, Australia: Using community radio and TV for social good.
So far, boxes have been shipped to organizers in Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, India and Pakistan — and counting. With TEDx in a Box, individuals in the developing world and other underserved areas are delivered all the resources they need for an event, packaged into a portable box designed by IDEO.
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