Inventa poised to enter Mexico, Colombia with its supplier marketplace
When Inventa sees a good opportunity to grab some extra capital, it takes it. However, as you will see, it is on a trajectory of fast growth, and not unlike other startups, the new capital is to pave...
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Gradient Ventures backs Mentum’s goal to democratize investment services in...
Investment in stocks or retirement accounts can seem like a complicated process if you are not sure where to begin. Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable...
View ArticleColombian proptech Habi reaches unicorn status with $200M raise co-led by...
Habi, a Bogota-based proptech, has closed on $200 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Homebrew and SoftBank Latin America Fund. The startup did not reveal its exact valuation, saying only it...
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Daily Crunch: Terraform Labs CEO goes public with strategy to re-peg sliding...
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It’s Wednesday, May 11, aka the start of GooglePalooza, which the...
View ArticleclicOH’s shipping technology provides Amazon-like logistics to e-commerce...
E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years, the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly...
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Pandas wants to give Latin American businesses buying power in Asia
Access to global supply chains can be difficult for small businesses in Latin America, but companies like Meru, which raised funding in March to source and import goods between Mexico and China, and...
View ArticleMeta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick
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...
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It’s correction time for Latin American VC activity
Latin America appears set to chalk up another quarter of falling venture capital activity, adding to a string of successive periods when the value of investments in the region fell. Leaning on...
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Mono aims to be ‘first bankingless bank’ for Latin America’s small businesses
Opening a business bank account should be fairly easy, but after seeing firsthand just how hard it was, Salomon Zarruk and Sebastian Ortiz decided they didn’t want another Latin American business to...
View ArticleMAYA Capital closes second fund with $100M for early-stage Latin American...
Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after...
View ArticleUK signs its first data sharing deal post-Brexit, with South Korea
Six years on from the referendum where the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU, and in the midst of an apparent government meltdown, the country is announcing its first international data sharing...
View ArticleDEUNA enters Latin America’s crowded one-click checkout sector flush with $37M
DEUNA, a Silicon Valley-based one-click checkout commerce startup, is officially joining Latin America’s nearly $100 billion e-commerce sector with $30 million in Series A funding after largely staying...
View ArticleTreggo, armed with new funds, takes on crowded Latin American last-mile...
E-commerce across Latin America exploded in the past two years, but against an infrastructure that wasn’t prepared for all of that activity. During this time, startups have taken up the challenge to...
View ArticleLatin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength
The Latin American startup market, once among the hottest in the world, is cooling. But its slowdown is far from uniform; some countries are surviving the downturn far better than others, data reveals....
View ArticleMiferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America
Miferia, a Mexico-based business-to-business wholesale marketplace, bagged $7 million in seed funding to continue developing its curated website connecting independent retailers in Mexico with domestic...
View ArticleTiger Global, YC back Rebill’s subscription payment platform for Latin America
Rebill, an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 million to continue building automated payment collection and subscription management tools for Latin America. The funding announcement includes $600,000...
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Andreessen, Atlántico, MAYA Capital add some dough to Fudo’s restaurant tech...
The restaurant industry was thrown for a loop two years ago when the pandemic kept people at home. Some weren’t prepared to accept online orders and others didn’t have a delivery network. Startups,...
View ArticleFor LatAm payment orchestration startups, market fragmentation is a blessing...
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View ArticleCobre secures $13M to help CFOs in Colombia automate corporate payments
Cobre's corporate treasury platform gives CFOs more visibility and control over their company’s financial transactions and a way to digitize and automate their payment processes. © 2023 TechCrunch. All...
View ArticleGeneral Atlantic leads $50M Series C into Bold to grow digital payments in...
Bold provides low-cost payment terminals, called dataphones, that enable small and medium businesses to accept link payments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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