TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. In Argentina, it was granted a Mastercard and payments license. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

. • These publisher agreements have also included permissions to distribute books outside the United States: most frequently, we are provided global rights. Now, more than 30,000 current copyrighted books are available globally on Bookshare to thousands of users. •

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. According to the startup, it is now the fourth-largest fintech company globally. Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. . Image Credits: Flutterwave.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Within the last 18 months, the four-year-old startup worked on analyzing fraud data from global money networks, verification of mobile money financial statements and blocklist data from various banks and fintechs within the last 18 months. Other prominent use cases include AML checks, customer onboarding and fraud prevention.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

“I believe this interest is because we’ve successfully managed to create a global platform that is heavily regulated, which gives us access to a lot of networks. Nium’s approach is to provide access to a global payment infrastructure, including card issuance, accounts receivable and payable, and banking-as-a-service through a single API.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries. What’s next?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

This round of funding was led by DST Global, with additional participation from Aspex Management, Reverent Partners and existing investors such as Goodwater Capital, Altos Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Kakao Ventures, Strong Ventures and Capstone Partners. For the next round, Gary Kim said it depends on its global expansion growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

German startup Wefox has raised a $650 million Series C funding round led by Target Global. As a full-stack insurance company licensed in Lichtenstein, Wefox can passport its license to other European countries. Following this funding round, the company has reached a post-money valuation of $3 billion.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Image: Parallel Session F , creative commons licensed on Flickr.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. He also sits on the board of 88mph.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of them consistently draw larger audiences on Audiomack than on Spotify or Apple Music , largely due to the platforms strong presence in local markets. As Western markets reach saturation, most future streaming growth will come from Global South regions, of which Africa is an important part, she argues. We’re No.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Existing investors Foundamental, January Capital, RTP Global and Saison Capital also returned for the round. Its API covers over 170 markets for card payments, and 85 markets for local payments collection, which means its customers can accept payments in different countries without having to set up local entities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. On a call with TechCrunch, Dubilet said Fintech Farm’s operational model in Azerbaijan and prospective markets is to launch its app via partnerships with local banks.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S. The company plans to use its new capital mostly toward hiring across its product, content and operations teams, acquiring the necessary licenses to operate in its various markets and to engage strategic partners. Image Credits: Vest.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” In Silicon Valley, we’d have to wait a few months to get a marriage license.). Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Is that allowed?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

San Francisco-based Global Founders Capital (GFC) led the round. Like many API-led fintechs, card-issuing API (pioneered by the likes of Rapyd, Ayden and even Stripe globally) is increasingly getting attention from investors who think it’s the next big thing in a sector that has attracted the most VC dollars in Africa.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

“We’re hopeful that consistency will help differentiate the fully autonomous technology Waymo is developing from driver-assist technologies (sometimes erroneously referred to as ‘self-driving’ technologies) that require oversight from licensed human drivers for safe operation.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books. This is especially a problem as the world moves to electronic books, which have license agreements (contracts, that are rarely looked at by consumers) that almost always prohibit making them accessible.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

We've compiled the best resources on CRM from the TechSoup Global Network as well as from other trusted nonprofit technology sites. TechSoup Global Blogs, Articles, and Webinars. TechSoup Global Network. NetSquared Local group Tech & Social Change Baltimore hosted a presentation on CRM for nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

India, which has doubled its pool of unicorns to over 100 in the past two years, has attracted over $75 billion in investments from tech giants Google, Meta and Amazon and venture funds Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank, Alpha Wave, Lightspeed and Accel in the past half decade. India’s Sensex — the local stock benchmark — remains up 3.4%

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These regions, home to vibrant ecosystems and global breadbaskets that feed the world, are on the frontlines of ariditys slow but relentless advance. A recent report I helped coordinate for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification found that drylands now cover 41% of global land, an area that expanded by nearly 1.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

NALA , a Tanzanian cross-border payments company that recently pivoted from local to international money transfers, said Thursday it has raised $10 million in a new fundraising round. We also got our license approvals to go live in the U.S. It also struck a deal with Citi Bank Global to manage their F.X. and the E.U.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

to send money to the region, much higher than the global average of 6.8%. “We spent some time in Asia, given the growing trade relationship between the two corridors [Africa and Asia], and saw the growing need to make this more efficient, faster and cheaper, evolving from remittances to global payments. ” he added.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 22, 2020

RVP of Global Technology Alliances. Accessibility and scalability of the dashboard resulted in faster time to market and adoption by nearly 70 local authorities, emergency services, and charities now using “data for good.” . Onboarding and license management. Brian Matsubara. Kristin Adderson. December 22, 2020 - 9:46pm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

On the platform, Raise customers can also automate due diligence, set valuations, track employee stock vesting and make routine documentation for licenses and government documents in Nigeria and Kenya. . pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Existing backer Bain Capital led the extension, with participation from previous investors such as Access Ventures, CLSA Capital Partners Lending Ark Asia, D3 Jubilee Partners, 500 Global, Kakao Investment, TBT Partners and IBX Partners. million, according to the industry sources and local media. million, depending on its loan balance.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

It’s doing so because the company thinks the terms involved with selling digital versions of books to libraries, which in turn make them available to local residents for free through ebook lending platforms like Libby, are unfavorable.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Reliance Retail, the largest retailer in India in terms of revenue, entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Shein, where Shein will only provide technical support for its operations in India, and Reliance will pay a licensing fee for use of the brand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Also, the company helps local studios that find it difficult to create games with a global appeal by pairing them with strong operators. It also handles localization, distribution, user acquisition, monetization, customer experience for studios and licenses their games on exclusive, long-term contracts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

It operates a mobile app that connects small retailers in these two countries to FMCG multinationals and local manufacturers, allowing them to order and get products in less than 24 hours. Chari digitizes the largely fragmented FMCG sector in parts of French-speaking Africa, particularly Morocco and Tunisia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Founded in 2019, the startup is operational in Vietnam and has applied for a license to launch in Indonesia. Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The statement “I hear anybody with a driver’s license gets a ballot this year” will no longer be allowed under the expanded policy, Facebook said. In the past, it worked with local election officials starting 72 hours before the election to look for posts with misleading information about voting. We can do this.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

More layoffs : Manish reports that GitHub laid off “virtually its entire engineering team in India as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts its expenses amid weakening global market conditions.” Buy local : India’s efforts to have more iPhones manufactured locally has paid off with shipments of the phones more than doubling, Jagmeet writes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Now, a startup called Deepdub is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI technology. It can provide more value from an existing catalog by allowing titles to reach global audiences. This trend is on the rise, too.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 2, 2021

Perhaps not as well known as Yellowstone or Yosemite, public lands like the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Jefferson National Forest, and the Clinch River State Park sit within a globally significant biodiversity hotspot, home to more than 100 species of Greatest Conservation Need. Cutting Trees Can Actually Make Forests Healthier.

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