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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Imagine how my mind has been blown by learning about a huge international income database that has microdata on millions of households from more than 50 countries, all harmonized to make the same kinds of analyses possible across any of these countries! employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?

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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

TechCrunch

To make the school more affordable, Henry looks to take on the same strategy used by Lambda School, a YC-graduate that has raised over $122 million in known funding: income-share agreements. Internally, Henry’s remote team is 20% women, 64% men. As edtech grows cash rich, some lessons for early stage.

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Tiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America

TechCrunch

The funding announcement includes $600,000 from a pre-seed tranche. A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day. Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6

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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup.

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Founded by ex-dLocal and AstroPay execs, Datanomik is bringing open banking to LatAm

TechCrunch

Cross-border payments platform dLocal is one of the most notable Latin American startups in recent history — the company became Uruguay’s first unicorn in 2020 and went public on the Nasdaq in 2021. The financing marks a16z’s first investment in Uruguay, and one of its biggest seed rounds in Latin America.

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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters

TechCrunch

Small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America can find it difficult to get the funds they need to export their goods to the United States. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds.

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

Big funds are now dedicating resources to exclusively targeting Latin America, from SoftBank creating a region-specific fund, to Sequoia saying it will pay more attention to the region. VCs have more money than ever, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to invest in North America. investors remain shy.

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