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

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The $3 million seed round was led by Tiger Global Management and included Y Combinator, Soma Capital, SV Angel and a group of angel investors, including Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and Vercel founder Guillermo Rauch. A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day.

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

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The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. “Slow, inefficient, and manual processes in international logistics are disassociated from today’s technological world”, said Nowports co-founder and COO Maximiliano Casal. Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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

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Ricardo Sangion previously launched operations for Facebook and Pinterest in Latin America, before joining operator-led global investors TheVentureCity as partner for first-ticket investments in the region. This region has a global outlook, spectacular universities, a diverse population and an army of entrepreneurs. Ricardo Sangion.

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

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Additional investors in the newest seed round and expanded credit facility include Village Global VC, Flexport Ventures, Tresalia Capital, 342 Capital, Struck Capital, Antler LLC, Antler Elevate, Florida Funders and Fox Ventures. International Development Finance Corp. Startups are transforming global trade in the COVID-19 era.

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Astro emerges from stealth to connect Latin American developers with US tech companies

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Labor Department estimating that the global shortage of software engineers could reach 85.2 ” Samira and Astro co-launched Astro as Austin Software in 2018 in an effort to overcome these roadblocks to recruiting developer talent in Latin America, specifically countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Mexico.

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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

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Other backers include Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Global Founders Capital. Profitable since 2010, the bank is also ready for an international expansion. Latin American nocnoc raises $7M seed round to help global sellers connect with local marketplaces across LatAm. Sequoia leads $80M funding round for Swiss startup Yokoy.

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