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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. I asked her what kind of insights could be gleaned by an anti-poverty group, say in Uruguay (to pick one country out of 50), accessing the LIS. family structure? Which national-level public institutions (e.g.,

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

Fast-forward to the beginning of the pandemic in 2020; Requarth teamed up with DuoLingo’s former VP of growth Gina Gotthilf and Yuri Danilchenko, former CTO of Brazilian startup Escale, to found what they describe as a “tech entrepreneurship program” in Latin America. Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Panama, Argentina and Spain. .

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Peruvian startup Leasy secures $17M in debt, equity to provide auto loans to LatAm ride-hailing drivers

TechCrunch

It is also part of the Endeavor ScaleUp program. The structure of the business is designed to make it uncomplicated for ride-hailing drivers to finance a car, with insurance included in the transaction and a “simple” payments process. The company sought capital because it realized it “needed to scale with more speed.”.

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