Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
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. employment attachment and educational level of adult household members?
The Verge
MARCH 8, 2021
A train of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit passes over Uruguay. With over 1,000 satellites in space, SpaceX’s Starlink has at least 10,000 users through an invite-only beta program it started last year. The beta program is currently aimed at rural parts of the US that have little to no internet connectivity.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 3, 2020
The set-up would allow for boot camp participants to join the program at zero upfront costs, and then only pay once they get hired at a job. If a Henry student doesn’t get employed in a job that allows them to make $500 a month within five years after the program completes, they are off the hook for paying back the boot camp.
TechCrunch
JULY 1, 2021
The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. The two co-founders of Nowports met at a program at Stanford University, with de los Rios hailing from a family with deep ties to the shipping industry. 2020 was a good year for Nowports, which saw its revenue climb by 605% compared to 2019.
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2021
Spradling through the Antler accelerator, a Singapore- and New York-based early-stage investment and advisory services program that connects entrepreneurs and tech operators to launch new businesses. They started Marco in 2019 and now have offices in New York, Dallas and across Latin America.
TechCrunch
MARCH 28, 2022
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. .
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
It is also part of the Endeavor ScaleUp program. They fit the pattern of successful founders who start out in Latin America’s overlooked markets like Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay who are likely to have success expanding to Latin America’s bigger countries,” he said.
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