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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Imagine how my mind has been blown by learning about a huge international income database that has microdata on millions of households from more than 50 countries, all harmonized to make the same kinds of analyses possible across any of these countries! employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?

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Founded by ex-dLocal and AstroPay execs, Datanomik is bringing open banking to LatAm

TechCrunch

Cross-border payments platform dLocal is one of the most notable Latin American startups in recent history — the company became Uruguay’s first unicorn in 2020 and went public on the Nasdaq in 2021. The financing marks a16z’s first investment in Uruguay, and one of its biggest seed rounds in Latin America.

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Tiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America

TechCrunch

A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day. Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. We plan to double our team by next year and expand more in Mexico and Colombia.”.

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

TechCrunch

The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. Nowports plans to use its new capital in part to expand its 160-person team to China, according to de los Rios. Customers are looking for solutions that can improve their logistics processes adapted to current challenges of international trade.”.

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

TechCrunch

The Henry team. 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. The current students reflect the same breakdown.

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Identity security platform Oort bags new cash to grow its product

TechCrunch

Caulfield co-founded Oort after stints at Citi, Lockheed Martin and Cisco (hence Cisco’s involvement in the Series A), where he led their Boston-based product innovation team. Investing in identity security is a must-have for enterprise security teams.” Israel and Uruguay. . Israel and Uruguay.

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

There is a huge opportunity to do what local investors did in Brazil and Mexico years ago, and play a significant role in the next chapter of countries with blossoming markets like Colombia, Peru or Uruguay. To create this in Latin America, foreign investors need to dedicate a team and money to their regional commitments.

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