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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

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Great companies like Nubank, Inter, Gympass, Quinto Andar and several others were in their early innings at the time, but the market dislocation did not last long. Latin America became the fastest-growing VC region globally, and the market expanded to $16 billion in 2021.

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Broadcom Software CTO: Charting a Course to Software Modernization

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According to one estimate, the global market for application transformation, valued at $8.43 from 2020 to 2027, fueled by increasing digitalization, the worldwide rise of the internet and mobile devices, and growing reliance on big data. billion in 2019, is expected to grow steadily at a compound annual growth rate of 10.4%

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Uberall raises $115M, acquires MomentFeed to scale up its location marketing services

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Alongside that, the Berlin startup is making an acquisition: it’s buying MomentFeed , a location marketing company based out of Los Angeles, to continue scaling its business. The funding is being led by London-based investor Bregal Milestone, with Level Equity, United Internet and Uberall management also participating.

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Meta’s NPE team takes a global focus with seed-stage investments, offices in emerging markets

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Now, NPE will begin testing out a new thesis: that the next big idea may come from a market outside the U.S. But future checks may go to non-metaverse companies to include those with more near-term potential — like startups taking advantage of the mobile internet in new ways.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

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Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Computers, the internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, any tech you can name ( except mobile tech) people in these regions have always had to play catch up. million pre-seed to that end.

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Online university Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

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-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. New Markets Venture Partners general partner Jason Palmer and Learn Capital managing partner Greg Mauro will join Nexford’s board. .

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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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London’s D awn Capital, a specialist in B2B startups, led the round, with internet giant Tencent and Klarna also participating; previous backers Creandum, Speedinvest, Picus and GFC are also in the round. . Knecht tells me that it comes down to very different data points and market dynamics when it comes to businesses.

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