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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. employment attachment and educational level of adult household members? Which are widespread?

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

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The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. The need to track and digitize the supply chain process was never more apparent than with the recent blockage of the Suez Canal by the Ever Given, which became a meme that represented the impacts of inefficiencies in the supply chain, Sidgmore said. .

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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. Currently, Henry has graduated 200 students and is working with 600 students across Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. “Higher education is only for 13% of the population in Latin America,” says Martin Borchardt, CEO and co-founder of Henry.

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Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product

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406 Ventures and Energy Impact Partners with participation from Cisco Investments. Israel and Uruguay. Oort , an identity threat detection and response platform, today announced that it raised $11.5 million in a Series A round co-led by.406 ” Oort currently employs 18 people across the U.S.,

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

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.” 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

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

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Imagine the impact on GDP if companies invested in improving digital inclusion, as well — consumers could gain access to online goods and services, and more people could start 100% digital companies. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, over the next 10 years, digitized public services alone could stimulate 5.7