TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

NovoPayment is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused on offering its API platform to customers in the Latin American market. market, as Miami continues to grow as a hub for the financial services sector, according to Perez. NovoPayment’s founder and CEO Anabel Perez Image Credits: NovoPayment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

He came to the United States for school and stayed to work in marketing roles at Postmates, Wayfair and Getaround before starting Yummy. Yummy’s Lima, Peru dark store, the first outside of Venezuela. The company launched this month in Peru and Chile. Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Garcia sees three different waves in this market: the first one being traditional supermarkets, where you can spend hours, which led to the second wave of food delivery companies, including some big players in the region — for example Rappi in Colombia, which in July raised $500 million in Series F funding at a $5.25

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) largest Series A rounds raised by a Latin American startup to date.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Belvo , a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding. Citing Crunchbase data, Belvo believes the round represents the largest series A ever raised by a Latin American fintech. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Patjane told TechCrunch that he wasn’t immediately looking for additional capital after closing the Series B, and in fact had plans to begin raising again this year. 99 minutos, Mexico’s last mile delivery startup, raises a $40M Series B. That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. Revenue grew three times year over year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch. Altogether, Yummy is working with over 8,000 merchants, processing 800,000 monthly transactions across its markets and growing over 40% quarter over quarter. That is poised to be a $9.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding round led by Redpoint eventures. It opened campuses in Mexico and Peru, for example. “Raising funds is helping us support and accelerate our vision of creating this ‘OS of education.’

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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.”. For many, it was the only way to be able to have access to the job market they wanted to pursue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. If you go to any flea market in the main cities of the country, you will see that many of the sellers are using Bold to receive payments.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 How does the Peruvian market behave compared to the United States? Latin America’s market has evolved over a very long time — as long as Silicon Valley and any other hub. Investors should look for younger markets. People often ask me: How are consumers different in Brazil?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. They applied to Y Combinator, raised a seed round and went back to Colombia to create a program and courses that launched in January 2019. It also plans to double its team of 280 this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Larré had been a portfolio manager at Banco Itau, Brazil’s biggest bank by total assets, and he saw the gap in the market: investing was not set up for the average person. The current raise will be used to grow the company’s operations in Mexico, expand to other countries — namely Colombia and Peru — and grow its tech team. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. Their vision is to connect people who have a smartphone with ways to earn income and raise their quality of life. million to put locals to work over their phones.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Since 2011, Kaszek has backed more than 120 companies, which the firm says collectively have raised more than $15.5 Image Credits: Kaszek Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Storm clouds for late-stage startups : To close out a cheery week on a high note, TechCrunch dug into late-stage valuations in light of public market declines. In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. Startups/VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

At the time, the company touted it as “the largest Series B round ever raised in Latin America.”. In total, the company has raised $445 million, of which $345 million is equity and $100 million is debt. Today, Merama has more than 180 employees and a portfolio of 20 brands across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

In announcing the deal, they said: “DeFi-enabled B2B payment networks that are on chain can unlock transformative working capital efficiencies, and make financial services more fair and open, especially in developing markets like LATAM.”. We are starting to see some of the public market valuations impact private market valuations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. That March, it raised $3.5 The company has offices in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru and San Francisco. billion,” said Bilboa, a former investment banker at Bank of America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay originally had operations in various Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, as well as in Spain and the U.S. But in 2016 the company decided to focus on the Brazilian market, because not only is it the biggest in LatAm, but it also has the highest penetration of credit cards. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Two new funds got announced this morning; Haje covered Hannah Grey’s $52 million debut fund , focusing on customer-centric founders, and Christine took a look at Bonfire Ventures, which raised a pair of funds, totaling $230 million , targeting B2B software startups. . million to do so. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based The company raised $170 million in 2020 in a round led by Viking Capital after landing an undisclosed amount from Visa Ventures in 2018. And so w e spent a lot of time talking about the value that we bring to the market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

We noted earlier this year that grocery delivery is a tough business to be in , given the competitiveness of the market and later-stage funding drying up for cash-intensive sectors like this one. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. Even the giants in the industry aren’t immune. million on $1.7 It spent $2.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round which values the company at $1.1 It also marks Nowports’ third equity raise in less than one year’s time, and brings its total funding to over $240 million since its 2018 inception. It has more than 500 employees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Strauss dreamed up the idea for Datanomik as a solution to some of the pain points he had faced working at AstroPay processing payments in emerging markets. Fast-forward three months to today, and Datanomik, Strauss’s venture, announced it has raised a $6 million seed round led by a16z.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Over the next 12 months, Glovo says it will invest an additional €50 million ($60 million) to drive expansion into more cities on the continent and move into new markets like Tunisia, where it plans to launch in Tunis next month. Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up.

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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. We design the home page and the website for the ACLU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

3,700 dollars were raised for Cambodian kids. It was like an intellectual candy story so many topics of interest such as Beth Kolko - Emerging Markets, Troy Malone - The GTD Timebomb, and Monica Guzman - How to be a Great News Commenter. Two delicious breakfast and lunches, plus 5 different kinds of candy in the afternoon. All in all.

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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. The reason we don't is because it's a market failure. MF: The very, very biggest challenge is that what we're trying to do is to overcome a major market failure.

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