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Henry picks up cash to be a Lambda School for Latin America

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The current students reflect the same breakdown. Currently, Henry has graduated 200 students and is working with 600 students across Colombia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. Henry is also focused on helping more women get into the field of software development. Internally, Henry’s remote team is 20% women, 64% men.

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Foreign investors have a bigger role to play in growing Latin America’s startup ecosystem

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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. market might not reflect developments in Latin America. investors remain shy.

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Mandates disappear, but mask detection tech has left its mark

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Distance Assistant remains available for Amazon warehouse managers to use, but it’s no longer required, spokesperson Barbara Agrait told TechCrunch via email, reflecting newer guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?

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The company also exited the Middle East and North Africa (Egypt and Turkey) and Uruguay and Puerto Rico in January 2020. 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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Fintech Roundup: Goldman Sachs buys another startup, Fast hits a speed bump and BaaS gets hotter

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billion in an all-stock deal that was a reflection of its continued push into consumer finance. Now, dLocal and AstroPay co-founder Sergio Fogel has teamed up with AstroPay’s former head of product, Gonzalo Strauss, to launch another fintech out of Montevideo, Uruguay, called Datanomik. That deal closed last week.

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