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Thinking of moving out of the U.S? Here are 10 hotspots for remote workers

Fast Company Tech

Portugal Cities like Lisbon, Porto, and Braga have emerged as thriving hubs for remote workers, offering reliable high-speed internet, a lively creative and startup scene, and a warm, welcoming community of international professionals. Portugal meanwhile has the advantage of being an hour nearer the U.S.

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Brazil is using the law to push innovation, but here’s how it can do more

The Next Web

With immediate access to homegrown apps on their new smartphones, people can find services that are directly relevant to their needs (like local food delivery and Wi-Fi access finders). Give young startups a global experience. Excellent STEM teachers should be recruited, supported, and trained by new government policies.

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Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

TechCrunch

Two of these are being announced today to coincide with the funding news: Remote has launched a Global Employee API that HR platforms that focus on domestic payroll can integrate to provide their own international offering powered by Remote. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital

TechCrunch

The hubs, which include the existing ones in Lisbon (Portugal) and Tbilisi (Georgia), are intended to help its more than 100 clients hire local talent without having to establish operations in those jurisdictions. “We Manara gets $3M to grow tech talent pool in the Middle East and North Africa.

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Edge computing startup Macrometa gets $20M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners

TechCrunch

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. It will hire for its engineering and product development centers in the United States, Eastern Europe and India, and add new centers in Ukraine, Portugal, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.

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Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs

TechCrunch

Led by Atomico, the round also included GIC as well as past investors Tiger Global, CRV, K-Fund and Creandum. ” (There are exceptions to this, Romero noted, due to localized needs: Payroll, for example, is available in nine markets and in each of those Factorial integrates with local companies that actually run the process.).

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How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A

TechCrunch

The 2020 global freeze on leisure travel put a temporary pause on demand for short term luggage storage. Nonetheless, Bounce claims it was able to continue growing its business during the pandemic — saying i t paid out more than one million dollars to local businesses during the pandemic in spite of COVID-19’s impact.