TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

And today, it announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The new funding comes from Leo Capital, FJ Labs, Alpha4 Ventures and Meesho. Indeed, one of its next steps is expanding across Latin America, starting with Mexico and then Peru.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Garcia sees three different waves in this market: the first one being traditional supermarkets, where you can spend hours, which led to the second wave of food delivery companies, including some big players in the region — for example Rappi in Colombia, which in July raised $500 million in Series F funding at a $5.25

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Anthos Capital led the latest round, with additional participation from JAM Fund, whose founder Justin Mateen was an investor in the seed round. Yummy’s Lima, Peru dark store, the first outside of Venezuela. The company launched this month in Peru and Chile. Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2017, already has operations in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. “We realized there was a gigantic opportunity to democratize and create infrastructure to move money,” Schwarzkopf told TechCrunch.

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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. We have been able to double our size year over year [without institutional funding],” he said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Founded in 2007 by Perez and Oscar Garcia Mendoza , who now serves as chairman of NovoPayment’s board, NovoPayment had been bootstrapped since inception until it raised its Series A round earlier this year, the company announced today. It plans to use the new funding to gain new customers, particularly in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, is making fast work out of attracting funding. It announced today $82 million in Series C funding, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Kaszek and Prosus Ventures. That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. “It

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Belvo , a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding. Citing Crunchbase data, Belvo believes the round represents the largest series A ever raised by a Latin American fintech.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Less than a year after taking its first funding , Latin American local on-demand delivery and transportation super app Yummy is back with an upsized round of $47 million. The round was led by Anthos Capital, with the participation of JAM Fund, Soma Capital, WIND Ventures, Ethos Capital and YC Continuity. That is poised to be a $9.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint eventures. Existing investors Daphni , Imaginable Futures , Pearson Ventures , Reach Capital and Trinity Ventures also participated in this round, which brings Holberton’s total funding to $33 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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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

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. While traditional mutual funds in Chile and Mexico charge up to 6.45% and 5% annually, Fintual charges 1% annually of assets managed. To date, the company has raised about $15.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Italian-born Gregorio Gilardini and Alejandro Garay, who hails from Spain, met in Peru several years ago and discovered they both had an interest in using technology to make a social impact and help people escape “the poverty trap.”. A lot live day to day and drivers are like ghosts in the system.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 The funding announcement includes $600,000 from a pre-seed tranche. Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

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. based Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, bringing its valuation to over $1.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It also comes a day after fellow LatAm e-commerce aggregator Quinio announced $20 million in initial funding to acquire some 30 companies. At the time, the company touted it as “the largest Series B round ever raised in Latin America.”. Armed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company expanded its operations to eight countries up and down the Americas, including Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the U.S. The company raised $31.7 million over four rounds of funding from investors that include Accel and Jackson Square Ventures. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Their vision is to connect people who have a smartphone with ways to earn income and raise their quality of life. We first connected with the pair back in 2019 when they had raised $4.4 Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru. million to put locals to work over their phones.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 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. Investors in the Andean region cover Peru, Chile and Colombia. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. In a changed world, how will those companies manage to raise more cash and avoid a downround at the same time? And yet Beam’s latest raise attests to the very opposite. Startups/VC.

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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. Another day, another Q2 funding report.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round which values the company at $1.1 It also marks Nowports’ third equity raise in less than one year’s time, and brings its total funding to over $240 million since its 2018 inception.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Two new funds got announced this morning; Haje covered Hannah Grey’s $52 million debut fund , focusing on customer-centric founders, and Christine took a look at Bonfire Ventures, which raised a pair of funds, totaling $230 million , targeting B2B software startups. . Startups and VC. million to do so. .

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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. That March, it raised $3.5 The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Ursa Major is scaling up its ambitions to disrupt the vertically integrated launch sector with a fresh round of funding. Astranis signed a $90 million agreement with Latin American telecom company Grupo Andesat to deliver broadband internet access to rural Peru. The first launch will take place in 2023.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

” The initial markets will be in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Vietnam, where Apeel’s tech will treat avocados, pineapples, asparagus and citrus fruits like lemons, limes and oranges. . “The value is not just in the longer-lasting produce, it’s in the market access for that longer-lasting produce.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

We noted earlier this year that grocery delivery is a tough business to be in , given the competitiveness of the market and later-stage funding drying up for cash-intensive sectors like this one. However, we’ve seen some downsides of the industry, for example, Zero Grocery folded about a month after I reported on their new funding round.

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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. Cell phones caught on quickly in Brazil because it has traditionally been difficult to obtain a landline — an ordeal that often took several months to solidify.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Fast-forward three months to today, and Datanomik, Strauss’s venture, announced it has raised a $6 million seed round led by a16z. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year. We are also planning a trip to Peru! Tell us what you are doing to make positive change in your community. We have come a long way!

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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. We design the home page and the website for the ACLU.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

So, what we do is we use donor funds to overcome this market failure. So, what we use our funds for is precisely to do market development. This is what we use our donor funds for, and this is by far the hardest job. This is our strategy and our plan, and we use donor funds to do that. You're not going to Peru."

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MARCH 6, 2025

The stop in sharing data was “due to funding constraints that have caused the Department to turn off the underlying network” read the statement, which added that embassies and consulates were directed to keep their monitors running and the sharing of data could resume in the future if funded was restored.

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