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Understanding Income Inequality

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. She suggested: In Uruguay: What is the poverty rate among individuals and households (using any of a number of poverty lines – absolute or relative, national or regional)? Which are widespread?

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Founded by ex-dLocal and AstroPay execs, Datanomik is bringing open banking to LatAm

TechCrunch

Cross-border payments platform dLocal is one of the most notable Latin American startups in recent history — the company became Uruguay’s first unicorn in 2020 and went public on the Nasdaq in 2021. The financing marks a16z’s first investment in Uruguay, and one of its biggest seed rounds in Latin America.

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Tiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America

TechCrunch

Currently, Rebill has clients in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay and collects payments in 15 currencies. We plan to double our team by next year and expand more in Mexico and Colombia.”. It is also integrating with customer relationship management, enterprise resource management and lending platforms.

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Facebook’s TikTok clone Lasso will shut down this month

The Verge

TechCrunch reports that as well as being available in the US, the app was also available in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, and Uruguay as of February. Hobbi was the work of Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team , and only launched back in February of this year.

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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. Nowports plans to use its new capital in part to expand its 160-person team to China, according to de los Rios. 2020 was a good year for Nowports, which saw its revenue climb by 605% compared to 2019. Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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The LatAm funding boom continues as Kaszek raises $1B across a duo of funds

TechCrunch

Rounding out the team are Nicolas Berman, former VP at MercadoLibre, Santiago Fossatti, Andy Young and Mariana Donangelo. Also, Connecticut-based Wesleyan University is an LP with Chief Investment Officer Anne Martin describing the founding team as “internet pioneers.”.

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

TechCrunch

The Henry team. Internally, Henry’s remote team is 20% women, 64% men. 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.

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