TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Datanomik’s goal is to connect financial institutions across LatAm through its B2B open finance API, which gathers a company’s banking information on one platform, Strauss told TechCrunch. The technology has taken off with startups like TrueLayer in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

As a result, e-commerce continues to be underpenetrated in the region — just 5% of retail sales were made online in 2021 — despite LatAm being one of the fastest growing regions in the world. We’re excited to expand into Colombia and are identifying additional regions throughout LatAm,” he added. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

For one, the three co-founders of the Buenos Aires-based startup were former executives at Mastercard, Google LatAm, Mercado Pago and Naranja X. CEO Irigoyen was an early employee at Google LatAm. This round caught our eye for a few other reasons. market with different dynamics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Bootstrapped until now, Latitud has been focused on execution and building community — which in LatAm, a region where people often value relationships as much as checks, goes a long way. are starting a venture-backed company, the friction is not there like in LatAm,” Requarth said. If entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Divibank , a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 It’s looking to expand to the rest of LatAm and other emerging markets in the future, but no timeline has yet been set. million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Houm is the only and biggest proptech in the Spanish-speaking LatAm doing rentals, sales and property management,” Labra told TechCrunch. Because there is no MLS and no exclusivity in the real estate industry in LatAm, having its huge freelance force in the ground allows Houm to be faster and win the deals.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Our goal at Pomelo is to make LatAm look like Europe, meaning that we’ll help our partners unlock multiple markets in a short period of time, allowing them to grow their businesses instead of worrying about regulation, dozens of contracts and backend integrations.” .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

“In just a few months we have built a team with experience in the space – engineers that built the first payment gateways in LatAm, a commercial team with experience from the biggest payment processors in the world, an extended network in LatAm and beyond,” Ortega said. and Mastercard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2023

The changing cloud landscape: From observability to optimization Senzai taps into AI optimization to guide LatAm companies to the right customers by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch “We’ve already spoken to a lot of these clients, so the idea is to get off the ground incredibly fast.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The lack of access for retail investing is all over LATAM, and at Flink we want to change that,” Amozurrutia told TechCrunch. “We We are focused on offering the opportunity to invest and grow their money to everyone in LATAM.”. We are big believers in México, and bullish on LATAM,” they wrote.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“We are excited about the opportunities ahead for the business as Colombia transitions from a cash-based economy to a digital payments ecosystem,” added Vélez, who is the former co-founder and CEO of PayU Latam, an online and cross-border payments technology platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Armed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab. In April, Merama announced it had raised $60 million in seed and Series A funding and secured $100 million in debt. The money was raised “at well over a $200 million valuation,” co-founder and CEO Sujay Tyle said at the time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Meet Beek, a startup bringing audiobooks to LatAm with big-name backing by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch “So we need to make Beek addictive. We need to make people addicted to good content that is going to help them improve their lives.”

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 14, 2024

But entrepreneurs — especially those in emerging markets like LatAm — would probably get more out of adopting a pragmatic, positive pessimistic approach to building a company. Startups may be tempted to ride the high expectations into 2024, and I can’t blame anybody for hoping that the worst is over.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Belvo , for example, is following in the tracks that Plaid laid down, bringing fintech APIs to the LatAm market. Seeing successful startup models that are familiar in the United States pop up in Latin America is a regular trend. Given rising smartphone penetration, and rising card usage, perhaps Clara will find a good fit in its home market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Social commerce startup Elenas secures $20M to help more LatAm women sell online by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. Our partnership with Grupo Bolivar will be working on that.”. How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In addition to an exceptional team, we believe the BNPL value proposition is stronger in LatAm than anywhere else in the world,” Mahayni told TechCrunch. “We…believe It’s the second LatAm investment for Greycroft, which previously invested in Rocket.chat, a Brazilian enterprise communication and collaboration platform.

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TurnKey Labs

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This article explores the rising trend of setting up offshore development centers in LATAM (Latin America). As organizations increasingly seek cost-effective and talent-rich locations, LATAM has become a preferred destination. […]

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

And like in the United States and elsewhere, customers in LatAm expect that when they submit an order online, it arrives at their homes accurately and quickly. The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

We see this as a global business model that extends not only in Brazil and Mexico but across LatAm and to other developing countries.”. Being one of the first movers in LatAm gives Kovi an edge,” Sobel told TechCrunch. They make recurring revenue for 12-24 months and then resell used cars through their dealerships,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

She surveyed five investors who have staked companies in the region’s crypto and DeFi sector to learn more about how their ethos has changed since winter began and why consumer adoption in LatAm is stronger than in other markets: Matias Nisenson, co-founder, DeFi Wonderland.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Payments infrastructure as a service is unusual for LatAm. “We’re entering new markets through a referral program with these partnerships to help us move the connectivity to our network,” Rozic told TechCrunch. These companies act as an extended sales team for Minka and they get to market faster with real-time payments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

By making the integration of Truora’s authentication products into WhatsApp possible, the company is opening a potential addressable market in LatAm of $3.5 WhatsApp is very commonly used across Latin America by an estimated 80% to 90% of the population. “By billion,” said Bilboa, a former investment banker at Bank of America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Ultimately, the company wants to be the “Toast of LatAm,” Grandes said. It also puts the company in position to launch its financial services piece to have an upper hand on digital wallets, invoicing and offering capital to restaurants that often get turned down for loans.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails. The company is also planning to scale up commercial capabilities and increase its network of urban fulfillment centers to be able to offer efficient same/next day fulfillment across more cities in the region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

tech ecosystem, we focus on first-world problems a lot, but an emerging market like LatAm gave me the opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a very basic human need level,” she said. “As In the U.S. As the saying goes, talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bitso raises $250M at a $2.2B MercadoLibre co-founder Hernán Kazah and the company’s ex-CFO, Nicolas Szekasy, founded Kaszek a decade ago after leaving LatAm’s answer to Amazon.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

While QuintoAndar dominates the Brazilian market, Houm operates in Chile, Mexico and Colombia, and aims to capture the rest of Spanish-speaking LatAm. If you think the concept sounds like Brazil’s unicorn, QuintoAndar, it’s because Houm is very similar. Think of Houm as a homeowner-run Zillow meets TaskRabbit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Brazil’s Kovi closes $104M Series B to make car ownership ‘more inclusive’ in LatAm. It too operates a car subscription model under the premise that more people in Latin America would work for ride-hailing companies if they could afford to operate the necessary vehicle.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Put simply, Kushki aims to help make it easier, cheaper and more secure for businesses across LatAm to send and receive/process digital payments. Specifically, it enables LatAm businesses to a ccept payments globally and receive money in their local currency. It also follows a quarter in which the company grew by 100% year over year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

More than 80% of food delivery orders in Latin America are still made over phone calls and settled with cash. OlaClick, a young startup that is helping these restaurants sell online and collect money digitally, announced on Thursday it has received backing from scores of investors, including Gradient, Meta and Delivery Hero.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

With this latest raise, Habi says it has become the second unicorn in Colombia and only LatAm unicorn with a female founder and CEO , according to Crunchbase. It also claims that it is now the first proptech unicorn in Spanish-speaking LatAm. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

E-commerce in LatAm has taken off at a compound annual industry growth rate of 16% over the past five years. Venture capitalists have been investing heavily in last-mile delivery over the past five years on a global scale, but Latin America (LatAm) has lagged behind. All of these are challenging in LatAm. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

HealthAtom is aiming to be the go-to cloud-based operations system for small and midsize healthcare companies across Latin America (LatAm). According to a report conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute, digital adoption within healthcare systems in LatAm has catered to larger hospitals and disregarded small and medium businesses.

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