TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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’. He came to the United States for school and stayed to work in marketing roles at Postmates, Wayfair and Getaround before starting Yummy. Image Credits: Yummy.

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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

APRIL 19, 2022

Founded in 2007 by Perez and Oscar Garcia Mendoza , who now serves as chairman of NovoPayment’s board, NovoPayment had been bootstrapped since inception until it raised its Series A round earlier this year, the company announced today. NovoPayment’s founder and CEO Anabel Perez Image Credits: NovoPayment.

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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 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. 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

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

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.”. A lot live day to day and drivers are like ghosts in the system.”.

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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. The company initially started in Panama and Peru with groceries, but now that it has had some success there, Zavarce expects to expand more categories. That is poised to be a $9.3 billion sector by 2026.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. million to continue building automated payment collection and subscription management tools for Latin America.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The company intends to expand into other countries where e-commerce is growing, including Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Peru. This new capital combines with previous raises of $7 million following Skydropx’s participation in Y Combinator in 2018. Last-mile logistics platform Cargamos raises $11M seed round to expand same-day delivery.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company expanded its operations to eight countries up and down the Americas, including Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, the U.S. The company raised $31.7 Cornershop, which is headquartered in Chile, was founded in 2015 by Oskar Hjertonsson, Daniel Undurraga and Juan Pablo Cuevas. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company is currently targeting produce grown in Latin American, including its native Argentina, as well as Chile, Peru and — potentially — Mexico. It has thus far raised a pre-seed round of $750,000. The company is still quite small, with four full-time staff, Fisch included.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Their vision is to connect people who have a smartphone with ways to earn income and raise their quality of life. We first connected with the pair back in 2019 when they had raised $4.4 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 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 in the Andean region cover Peru, Chile and Colombia.

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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

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.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In short, it appears that a host of startups raised new capital last year when valuations – and therefore revenue multiples – were hot. In a changed world, how will those companies manage to raise more cash and avoid a downround at the same time? And yet Beam’s latest raise attests to the very opposite.

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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.

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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 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

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. “We Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

However, the company went on to raise $260 million in December to become a billion-dollar company, and despite some growing pains, it seems like it has some believers and a business model that is working, at least for now. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile. million on $1.7 million of revenue, as of the end of July. It spent $2.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company raised an $85 million Series C led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, as well as participation from XN, Alsop Louie, Alpha Edison, Dolby Family Ventures, KCK, Space Capital, Explorer 1, Harpoon Ventures and others. Loft Orbital raised $140 million in a new round of funding led by investment company BlackRock.

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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. Cell phones caught on quickly in Brazil because it has traditionally been difficult to obtain a landline — an ordeal that often took several months to solidify.

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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. Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Fast-forward three months to today, and Datanomik, Strauss’s venture, announced it has raised a $6 million seed round led by a16z. Eventually, Strauss hopes to expand the product across the LatAm region to businesses in Uruguay, Peru, Argentina and other countries that face similar challenges.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

My mom was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and my dad was born and raised in Peru. I was raised in a very American home—my parents split when I was young, and we spoke English at home. Peru feels like another home to me, but Dominican food is also a huge comfort and part of my life.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After its mammoth $528 million Series F raise , it acquired several of Delivery Hero’s businesses in Central and Eastern Europe for $208 million. Last year, the company pulled out of all the Latin American countries — Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. They also work with celebrity speakers, volunteers, and a large online community to raise awareness and support action to end human trafficking. You can watch the full presentation (she's a great speaker - I recommend watching it!),

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The video producers, a husband/wife team, started their company after doing some volunteer work in Peru with CARE. Susan Ellis, one of the founders, raised some good points and questions related to use of video in fundraising activities: Most fundraising videos are made to go along with a live presentation or one-on-one meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

3,700 dollars were raised for Cambodian kids. Two delicious breakfast and lunches, plus 5 different kinds of candy in the afternoon. Two awesome parties. Unlimited opportunities to get to know other attendees before, during, and after conference. But what's the value of all these love, dancing, and learning? All in all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We must raise $1,000 to keep our classes going for another year. We are also planning a trip to Peru! We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. If you want to support Afghan women and girls, make a Traveling Postcard and send it to us.

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