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HBO Max will launch internationally in June

The Verge

HBO Max will finally make its international debut in June, with the streaming service set to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America rollout is just the first phase of HBO Max’s international debut. Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Kitts and Nevis, St.

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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. Rebill was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort.

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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. “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.

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

TechCrunch

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. Henry is also focused on helping more women get into the field of software development.

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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. investors remain shy. However, much of this investment comes from local and regional investors.

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