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

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Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. Nowports raises $5.3 The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay.

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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. What “micro” factors raise the poverty risk for persons and households – age?

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

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It’s very exclusive, very expensive, and has very low impact skills. To make the school more affordable, Henry looks to take on the same strategy used by Lambda School, a YC-graduate that has raised over $122 million in known funding: income-share agreements. So we’re giving these people an opportunity.”.

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Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product

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Oort , an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Israel and Uruguay. million in a Series A round co-led by.406 VC firms poured $2.3 billion into identity vendors in 2021, up from $1.3

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

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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.”.

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

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Business is booming in Latin America: Startups raised $9.3 With so many companies raising significant funds in a short time, competition to find a high quantity of high-quality workers is fierce. AI companies have garnered some of the most attention in Latin America this past year, raising a total $862.6

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

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Founded in 2013 (or 2014 depending on the source), the Chicago-based company has raised over $82 million in funding over its lifetime from investors such as FinTech Collective and Oak HC/FT , according to Crunchbase. Its biggest competitor, Bolt, raised “roughly 50 times that figure,” according to The Information. .

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