TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Less than a year after taking its first funding , Latin American local on-demand delivery and transportation super app Yummy is back with an upsized round of $47 million. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Some of the functionalities they build enable both local and cross-border payment players in credit and debit cards, bank transfers, digital cash, mobile wallets, and other alternative payment methods. “We The company, which was founded in 2017, already has operations in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

million in Series A funding to continue developing its app that takes grocery orders through local social networks. Favo enables under-employed entrepreneurs to create new income streams through steady sales commissions from their own local network. Favo launched in Peru in 2020 and then Brazil.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Like other financial sectors in Latin America, the retail investing space is getting a facelift by local tech startups that are cashing in on the untapped potential for democratizing asset management in the region. Each figure corresponds to the end of each month.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. Today, the startup operates in five countries: Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile. At the same time, Kushki claims its infrastructure can help boost acceptance rates and reduce fraud. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The company plans to use its new capital primarily to accelerate its growth in Mexico, consolidate the market in Colombia and Peru (Where it expanded in 2019 and 2020), double down on technology and product development and toward the acquisition of new companies at the regional level. Today, the tool is used by 4,000 SMEs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

It also plans to expand into other markets such as Colombia, Chile and Peru over the next 18-24 months. This requires an on the ground local knowledge to make it all work. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Separate markets require distinct knowledge.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Zubale’s operations began in Mexico and have since expanded into Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru. million to put locals to work over their phones. Investors also participating include GFC, Felicis Ventures and GGV Capital’s Hans Tung, alongside existing investors including NFX, Accel’s Kevin Efrusy, Wollef and Maya Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

The startup also partners with “top local experts” to offer micro courses and live classes. Over the years, UBITS has expanded to Mexico and Peru and, in fact, it now has dual headquarters in Mexico, where its two co-founders now live. Companies can then monitor and analyze KPIs and customize their employees’ learning journey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. Wong also believed that it was logical that a regional/local provider would “be the first to understand the cultural differenc es and local issues, and tune a product to those needs.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Operating as Nuvemshop in Brazil and Tiendanube in the rest of the region, the company has offices in São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, with plans to expand into Colombia and Peru in 2021. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable investment APIs and widgets so businesses in Latin America can build and offer fully digital investment products, like local mutual funds, ETFs and stocks, to their customers. The products are also compliant with local regulations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

It opened campuses in Mexico and Peru, for example. Holberton co-founder Sylvain Kalache argued that the school would be best positioned to achieve its mission by “working with amazing local partners who operate the campuses and deeply understand their markets’ unique needs” and not by operating its own campuses.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

The company says there are plans to launch Rumbo in Lima, Peru later this year. WhereIsMyTransport also launched its first consumer product Rumbo, which provides network information from all modes of public transport in Mexico with more than 100,000 users delivering over 750,000 real-time network alerts. Image Credits: WhereIsMyTransport.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, Viguera told TechCrunch that some gig-economy companies in Latin America are issuing their own cards that allow workers to cash out at small local shops. But it’s seeing “a lot of opportunity” in other markets in Latin America, especially in Chile, Peru and Argentina, Viguera told TechCrunch. “In

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold, according to Vélez, provides low-cost payment terminals that enable businesses to accept link payments and other local payment methods with no monthly point-of-sale fees. . It also plans to use the money to accelerate its geographic expansion into additional markets across Latin America, including Peru, Ecuador and Chile.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

” The initial markets will be in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Vietnam, where Apeel’s tech will treat avocados, pineapples, asparagus and citrus fruits like lemons, limes and oranges. . “The value is not just in the longer-lasting produce, it’s in the market access for that longer-lasting produce.”

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

It’s Uber’s first major move into the competitive world of online grocery shopping since acquiring Cornershop , a leading online grocery provider in Chile, Mexico, Peru, Canada, Brazil, and Colombia. Grocery delivery will be available through both Uber’s main app and its Uber Eats app.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

We have now become fully gross profit positive on a group level for our local business across all of our countries after 12 months of operations. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. What does this mean now for JOKR’s immediate future? For us, this is proof point No. 1 that the business model works.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

where most people have a cell phone plan through a major carrier, in Brazil — a country where the minimum wage is currently $1,100 reals per month (roughly $202 USD) — many people must buy calling cards at local shops to add credit to their phones, which allows them to avoid a monthly recurring bill. Unlike in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

” Such a situation, she said, makes it “no surprise that crypto has rooted deeply into the local culture.” That’s why I invested in Buenbit, one of the largest exchanges in countries like Argentina and Peru. ” Not every Latin American economy is as volatile or politicized as Argentina’s.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. Dock plans to use its new capital to accelerate its product development roadmap and global expansion plans, as well as to do more hiring. Dock is now the biggest, most modern fintech partner available in Latin America.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Co-founder Sacha Michaud believes these markets are currently underserved, and Glovo has found the right opportunity to work with local restaurants, bringing them online to reach new customers in a bid to “make everything, within all towns and cities, available to everyone.” million people.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

It has been around since 2017, operating initially in Spain before expanding to Italy and several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru). Innovamat will be using the funding to expand its business. Most recently, it started its first K-5 pilots in the U.S., in New Jersey. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good Since 2005 I’ve volunteered off and on at a local non-profit called C.E.O. I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru. Women here in Oakland.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The startup says it will also continue to grow its local presence and team in EMEA. This will now be offered to 22 fintech companies across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. -based companies as customers already, Alloy announced it has now expanded its platform to 40 countries across North America, EMEA, LatAm, and APAC.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The city used to be known for Chinese olives and white tea but is now the scene of 200,000 JETOUR cars rolling off the assembly lines each year, to be shipped around the world from Peru to South Africa.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This can be accomplished through building local and global connections with multidisciplinary experts and impacted communities. Open Images V7 Open Images V7 expands the Open Images dataset with new point-level label annotations, which provide localization information for 5.8k Pfam-NUniProt2 A set of 6.8

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

For example, I'd seen potters in Peru whose tradition was to make clay water jars for their community. So, in that case, they're overwhelming local markets with American product. In the case of cultural entrepreneurship, we're addressing - not necessarily a problem, but sometimes that's true. For example, our music, our movies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We make a huge effort to disseminate our news locally via radio partnerships, and other satellite partnerships, so that the people in the communities we serve are benefiting from our news first. We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. They can volunteer locally, or from anywhere.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So I actually moved home to Texas and started to work on a local initiative to do some water resource protection and did everything right. Went through the democractic system, went door-to-door. Got the citizens of Austin to sign their names enough times to get it on the ballot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

based company to stop processing locals’ data. The local radio, TV and internet awareness campaign has a slightly more generous timeline of May 15 to be actioned.) May 25, 2023 ChatGPT app is now available in 11 more countries OpenAI announced in a tweet that the ChatGPT mobile app is now available on iOS in the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. I applied for a Fulbright Fellowship to go back to Peru. You're not going to Peru." The reason we don't is because it's a market failure. They told me, "No, no, you don't speak Spanish.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship.

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