TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. Interestingly, a group of founders from unicorns such as Rappi, Kavak, Konfio, GBM, Ualá and Brex also put money in the round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Initially starting in Venezuela, now with $30 million in Series A funding and $80 million in a debt facility, it is moving into both Colombia and Mexico. As a result, they decided to ramp up Migrante into other underbanked communities, including Peru. Chile-based Migrante is working to change that.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, Nuvemshop is announcing that it has closed on a $90 million Series D funding led by Accel. ThornTree Capital and returning backers Kaszek, Qualcomm Ventures and others also put money in the round, which brings Nuvemshop’s total funding raised since its 2011 inception to nearly $130 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So while we can get in an uproar about the various ways Robinhood may or may not be acting responsibly, it can be easy to forget that not everyone in the world has the same access to potentially making — or losing — money via trading as we do. They say, ‘Give me your money and I’ll invest it and charge you fees.’ ”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

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. The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. It also plans to use the money to accelerate its geographic expansion into additional markets across Latin America, including Peru, Ecuador and Chile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, Rogers said the company can have an outsized impact to improve the amount of money going into a farmer’s pocket. To further that aim, Apeel has raised more than $360 million, including a $250 million round of funding, which closed earlier this year. Temasek and Astanor Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay originally had operations in various Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, as well as in Spain and the U.S. The company makes money by charging a monthly fee of $19.99 “What we always had in mind was to build — in the long-term — a mobile money ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Eventually, Strauss hopes to expand the product across the LatAm region to businesses in Uruguay, Peru, Argentina and other countries that face similar challenges.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

That’s why I invested in Buenbit, one of the largest exchanges in countries like Argentina and Peru. I think gaming is a great application for blockchains, especially because of the true ownership of assets — meaning you can play a game, then get bored and sell the assets you spent your money and time on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The first thing we recognize is that poor people everywhere are really not that different than us, in that they live in a cash economy, and just like us, if they have a way to make money they can access education, clean water, health care, and all of those other things that we think about as being so important.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I was actually making money as a feature writer in a great city, but it became really obvious to me that my definition of journalism, and the definition of journalism that I was being asked to practice, as a member of mainstream media, were not the same. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

One of those startups is Chilean-based Fintual, which today announced a $15 million round led by Kaszek Ventures, the largest fund in Latin America. The annual fees were too high, the minimum amount required to invest was too high, and there was a penalty when you removed your money. It’s different than the U.S.; Annual Growth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Unlike many other fintechs in Latam that are out to help the unbanked, Kushki works behind the scenes building the tech infrastructure that companies like Nubank use to transfer money. We realized there was a gigantic opportunity to democratize and create infrastructure to move money,” Schwarzkopf told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

And he’s raising plenty of money to aim at that goal. Today the fast-growing grocery and retail delivery platform has closed a whopping $170 million Series A funding round. Right now it’s live in nine cities across Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, as well as Poland and Austria in Europe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

million in Series A funding to continue developing its app that takes grocery orders through local social networks. The latest round gives the company about $37 million in total funding since the company was started in 2019 by Alejandro Ponce and Marina Proença. It also doesn’t cost entrepreneurs any money to work with Favo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable investment APIs and widgets so businesses in Latin America can build and offer fully digital investment products, like local mutual funds, ETFs and stocks, to their customers. The products are also compliant with local regulations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. But I think the work is out there.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

Last week, ProPublica reported that the National Institutes of Health, or NIHthe largest source of funding for medical research in the worldwill shut down all future funding opportunities for climate and health research. There are limited non-government sources of funding for climate and health research. Kennedy Jr.

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