Remove Global Remove Local Remove South America
article thumbnail

25 Global Trends in Giving That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

6,057 donors completed the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey and based on their responses, the donor community worldwide is made up of primarily women (65%) who have a liberal ideology (53%) , characterize themselves as religious (72%), and give between ($101-$1,000 USD) annually (43%). 20% say Instagram, and 13% say Twitter.

Trend 249
article thumbnail

Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants

TechCrunch

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. “Whereas global providers give a personal touch maybe only to a few big clients in the enterprise sectors.” It recently closed a $1.4 AWS remains in firm control of the cloud infrastructure market.

Local 109
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails

TechCrunch

João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX , a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform for global merchants, tech giants and other large companies from all over the world. In South America alone, there are at least 14 different currencies. João Del Valle.

Global 93
article thumbnail

Zenysis raises $13.3M to scale its big data platform for emergencies across Africa, Asia and South America

TechCrunch

His roles involved representing Australia in international negotiations on global health and humanitarian affairs and as an advisor to the UN secretary general on global health and pandemic preparedness. . Zenysis currently provides its software to governments and partners in nine countries across Africa, South America and Asia.

article thumbnail

Autonomous tractor maker Monarch raises $61 million

TechCrunch

The system was introduced this year, with a pilot at a local vineyard. Along with the new funding infusion, the company is announcing plans to extend pilots globally, to South America, Europe and Asia. That was one of 15 initial pilots, ahead of a planned delivery of production units in Q4 of this year.

Raise 86
article thumbnail

This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

Life 135
article thumbnail

COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

And steps were taken to give Indigenous peoples and local communities a stronger voice in conservation matters. Those included putting 30% of the planet and 30% of degraded ecosystems under protection by 2030, known as the Global Biodiversity Framework. But two weeks turned out to be not enough time to get everything done.