Remove Impact Remove International Remove Uruguay
article thumbnail

Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. I spend more and more of my time talking to leaders in the sector, helping advance the use of data for action and impact. This database should be critically important for understanding poverty at a detailed level.

Uruguay 100
article thumbnail

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

TechCrunch

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.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

TechCrunch

It’s very exclusive, very expensive, and has very low impact skills. Internally, Henry’s remote team is 20% women, 64% men. The founder added that the richly funded company has tried, and failed, to expand into international geographies, including China and Europe, due to fragmentation.

America 115
article thumbnail

Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product

TechCrunch

406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Caulfield says that recent high-profile identity attacks like the breach of Uber’s internal network have driven interest in Oort’s platform, too, unsurprisingly, as have the digital transformations catalyzed by the pandemic.

Cisco 86
article thumbnail

Peruvian startup Leasy secures $17M in debt, equity to provide auto loans to LatAm ride-hailing drivers

TechCrunch

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.”.

Peru 87
article thumbnail

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

TechCrunch

.” 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. based workers. ” Astro plans to use its warchest — $15.9

Develop 75
article thumbnail

4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

TechCrunch

In addition, Parallel18 released a talent app for freelancers, students and professionals to find and apply to work with local international startups. In Latin America, such a passport could make it easier to form international teams and create a more cohesive overall ecosystem.