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Flourish, a startup that aims to help banks engage and retain customers, raises $1.5M7h ago ( March 4, 2021 at 4:28 PM ) It’s not uncommon these days to hear of U.S.-based investors backing Latin American startups.
But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based startups.
Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 million in a funding round led by Brazilian venture capital firm Canary. Founded by Pedro Moura and Jessica Eting, the startup offers an “engagement and financial wellness” solution for banks, fintechs and credit unions with the goal of helping them engage an...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Mexico, Finance, Funding, Americas, US, Tech, Banking, United States, Venture Capital, Brazil, Bank, Financial Services, Berkeley 11 people like this. Like Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion11h ago ( March 4, 2021 at 12:15 PM )  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Ecommerce, Mexico, China, India, Funding, US, Tech, Peru, Latin America, Elenas, Oschin, Raena, Leo Capital, Zach Oschin 118 people like this. Like Minu, a Mexico City-based, pay-on-demand startup, lands a $14M Series AMarch 3, 2021 at 9:00 AM  Tags: New York, Mexico, Tech, Mexico City, Silicon Valley, World Bank, Latin America, State of Mexico, FinTech Collective, Flink, Tom Gonser, Village Global, Mike Dinsdale, Pourshasb, Stori, FinTech Collective New 106 people like this. Like Stori raises $32.5M in a Lightspeed-led Series B to build Mexico’s credit card for the massesFebruary 25, 2021 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Mexico, China, US, Tech, Intel, United States, Mexico City, World Bank, Illinois, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Latin America, Mastercard, Capital One, Lightspeed, Liu, Chen 137 people like this. Like Paramount+ Channel to Cost $9.99 a Month Ad-Free or $4.99 With AdsFebruary 25, 2021 at 4:30 AM  Tags: Apple, Apple TV, Canada, Showtime, Cbs, Paramount, Latin America, Nickelodeon, Viacom, Picard, Tom Ryan, Paranormal Activity, Paramount Channel, Apple TV Don, Paramount Channel to Cost, Paramount CBS Comedy Central MTV 54 people like this. Like Stitch emerges from stealth with $4M for its API fintech play in AfricaFebruary 25, 2021 at 1:00 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Asia, Europe, UK, London, Sweden, Funding, Nigeria, Africa, US, San Francisco, Tech, West, South Africa, Kenya 67 people like this. Like RecargaPay closes a $70 million Series CFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:00 AM  Tags: Startups, Mobile, Tech, CMO, Spain, Brazil, Miami, Madrid, Latin America, Nubank, Cto, EBITDA, Alvaro, Fuel.Ventures, Gustavo Victorica, Rodrigo Teijeiro 74 people like this. Like Paramount+ will cost $4.99 per month with adsFebruary 24, 2021 at 7:05 PM ViacomCBS executives held a virtual investor event today where they outlined the strategy for Paramount+, the streaming service set to launch on March 4 that’s basically a rebranded, expanded version of CBS All Access.
In addition to launching in the United States, executives said the service will be available across Latin America and Canada on March 4, with a Nordic launch a few weeks later and an Australian launch also planned for this year.
And they said that Paramount+ will cost $4.99 per mo...Tags: TC, Hbo, Tech, Star Trek, Canada, United States, Paris, Showtime, Cbs, Warner Bros, Kelsey Grammer, Paramount, Latin America, Picard, Tom Ryan, Jack Ryan 2 people like this. Like 6 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup sceneFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:59 PM  Tags: Startups, TC, Florida, New York, Boston, Softbank, America, San Francisco, Tech, United States, David Marcus, Venture Capital, Miami, Silicon Valley, South America, Latin America 84 people like this. Like Star on Disney Plus: International subscribers will get access to a new channel with R-rated movies and shows on February 23February 22, 2021 at 6:43 PM Tags: Reviews, Hong Kong, Europe, Japan, Entertainment, Abc, Australia, Marvel, Disney, US, Trends, Tech, Star, Fox, Canada, United States 50 people like this. Like Spotify Expands To 80 New Markets, Targeting 1 Billion CustomersFebruary 22, 2021 at 5:05 PM  Tags: Google, Asia, Spotify, Africa, Tech, Netflix, West, Middle East, Latin America, Caribbean, Stockholm, Asia Africa, India Nigeria South Korea 111 people like this. Like Spotify to expand international footprint across 85 new marketsFebruary 22, 2021 at 2:14 PM Over the next few days, Spotify will be launching its service in 85 new markets, and will also roll out 36 new languages on the platform. The news was announced at its online event, “Stream On” today.
The expansion includes markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Combined, these markets include more than a billion people. With these launches, Spotify says “sounds and stories that once remained local will have access to a global audience of fans across nearly 180...Tags: TC, Asia, Spotify, Africa, Tech, Zimbabwe, Latin America, Caribbean, Nevis St Lucia St Vincent, Alex Norstrom Spotify, Amapiano, Spotify HiFi, Africa Asia Europe Latin America, Angola Antigua, Tobago Tuvalu Uganda Uzbekistan Vanuatu Zambia 32 people like this. Like Spotify Launching 'HiFi' Lossless Streaming Option Later This YearFebruary 22, 2021 at 1:29 PM  Tags: Apple, Spotify, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, Latin America, Amazon Music, Hifi, Asia Africa Europe, Tidal Deezer, Spotify Launching HiFi 78 people like this. Like Supporting small businesses around the worldFebruary 17, 2021 at 6:00 AM  Tags: Google, Europe, Small Business, Indonesia, India, Africa, Israel, Eu, Middle East, European Commission, Kiva, Latin America, Dayton Ohio, Inter American Development Bank, EIF, European Fund for Strategic Investments EFSI 85 people like this. Like Google to Invest $75 Million in Coronavirus-Hit Small BusinessesFebruary 17, 2021 at 6:02 AM By Foo Yun CheeBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google is teaming up with the European Investment Fund (EIF) and two other organisations in Latin America and...Tags: Google, Latin America, Reuters Google, European Investment Fund EIF, Foo Yun 40 people like this. Like Valoreo closes on $50M to roll up LatAm e-commerce brandsFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:00 AM A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale.
And while there are a number of such startups based in the U.S. and Europe, none had emerged in the Latin American market. Until now.
Valoreo, a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round.
The dollar amount is large for a seed round by any ...Tags: Amazon, Startups, Ecommerce, Europe, Mexico, Funding, Tech, E-commerce, Colombia, Atlantic, United States, Mexico City, Online Marketplace, Latin America, Online Marketplaces, Justo 27 people like this. Like Trafi takes its mobility-as-a-service platform to LatAm, starting with BogotaFebruary 15, 2021 at 2:23 PM Trafi, the Lithuanian startup that created a platform that lets users plan, book and pay for various modes of transportation within a city, is expanding beyond the European market where it got its start to tackle one of the most congested urban areas in the world.
The company said it has reached an agreement to provide its mobility-as-a-service platform in Bogota, Colombia.
Trafi’s platform is a white label product. But underneath the name — whether it’s Yuomov in Zurich, Jelbi in Berlin or MVG ...Tags: Transportation, Asia, Berlin, Tech, Munich, Automotive, Brazil, Latin America, TechCrunch, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Trafi, Bogota Colombia Trafi, Yuomov, Zurich Jelbi, Google Lyft Dott 9 people like this. Like Examining the ‘pipeline problem’February 14, 2021 at 12:30 PM The tech industry has long grappled with an overwhelming lack of diversity among employees, executives, venture-backed founders, venture capital firms and board members. And despite recent efforts to increase diversity throughout the industry, tech still remains predominantly white and male.
Over the years, many have argued that the lack of diversity in tech is caused by a so-called pipeline problem: that there is little diversity in tech because there is not enough qualified talent from diverse...Tags: Google, Pinterest, Tech, United States, New York Times, Silicon Valley, Latin America, Mansfield, Lee, Brady, Rankin, California State, Whittaker, Meredith Whittaker, GRE, Leyva 44 people like this. Like Treinta announces $500k+ in funding for its microbusiness financial appFebruary 11, 2021 at 10:28 AM Treinta, a startup that is part of the Winter 2021 Y Combinator cohort, announced this morning that it has raised north of half a million dollars for its bookkeeping and inventory management software aimed at Latin American small businesses.
The capital was raised between a small friends-and-family round, Y Combinator’s investment in Treinta, and another $220,000 that it closed in in early 2021.
The company, based in Bogotá, Colombia and currently sporting a team of 13, is working to bring digit...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Tech, Colombia, Brazil, Latin America, Bogota Colombia, Treinta, Lluís Cañadell Treinta, Cañadell 16 people like this. Like Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the worldFebruary 10, 2021 at 5:00 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Asia, Education, Africa, Tech, Vr, Virtual Reality, Denmark, Silicon Valley, Andreessen Horowitz, Copenhagen, Edtech, Latin America, Jensen, California Community College 121 people like this. Like Encrypted data handling startup DataFleets acquired by LiveRamp for over $68MFebruary 9, 2021 at 1:07 PM LiveRamp has acquired DataFleets, a fresh young startup that made it possible to take advantage of large volumes of encrypted data without the risk or fuss of decrypting or transferring it. LiveRamp, an enterprise data connectivity platform itself, paid more than $68M for the company, a huge multiple on DataFleet’s $4.5M seed announced just last fall.
DataFleets saw the increasing need for sensitive data like medical or financial records to be analyzed or used to train machine learning models. N...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Enterprise, Tech, M&a, Latin America, Exit, Europe Asia, Liveramp, HCA Healthcare, Datafleets, DataFleet 13 people like this. Like Spotify confirms it’s (finally) testing a live lyrics feature in the U.S.February 9, 2021 at 12:00 PM Spotify this morning confirmed it’s testing a new, synced lyrics feature in the U.S. market, following a report from Engadget. Though the streaming music service today offers live lyrics in a number of markets — 27, in fact, including its recent launch in South Korea — it has not offered lyrics in the U.S. for many years. Instead, Spotify here runs the “Behind the Lyrics” feature provided in partnership with Genius, which offers a combination of lyrics and trivia about the song being played.
Rea...Tags: Mobile, South Korea, Spotify, Music, Media, Mexico, Siri, Tech, Streaming, Lyrics, Musixmatch, Latin America, Alexa, Engadget, Thailand Vietnam Indonesia, Southeast Asia India 8 people like this. Like Spotify confirms it’s (finally) testing a live lyrics feature in the USFebruary 9, 2021 at 12:00 PM Spotify this morning confirmed it’s testing a new, synced lyrics feature in the U.S. market, following a report from Engadget. Though the streaming music service today offers live lyrics in a number of markets — 27, in fact, including its recent launch in South Korea — it has not offered lyrics in the U.S. for many years. Instead, Spotify here runs the “Behind the Lyrics” feature provided in partnership with Genius, which offers a combination of lyrics and trivia about the song being played.
Rea...Tags: Mobile, South Korea, Spotify, Music, Media, Mexico, US, Siri, Tech, Streaming, Lyrics, Musixmatch, Latin America, Alexa, Engadget, Thailand Vietnam Indonesia 38 people like this. Like Spain's startups avoided COVID-19 havoc thanks to second-generation entrepreneurs and strong VC interestFebruary 9, 2021 at 11:13 AM Tags: Startups, Europe, Ebay, China, Germany, Berlin, Trends, Tech, Investment, Eu, Spain, Barcelona, Shanghai, Alibaba, Miami, Deloitte 120 people like this. Like Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M in General Atlantic-led Series AFebruary 9, 2021 at 11:47 AM Jüsto, an online supermarket based in Mexico City, announced Tuesday it has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic.
The amount is sizable for a Series A in general, but supersized for a LatAm startup. In fact, according to PitchBook data cited by General Atlantic, the round represents the largest Series A raised in Latin America in the past decade.
Existing backers also participated in the round, including Foundation Capital and Mountain Nazca.
Ricardo Weder , f...Tags: Startups, TC, Ecommerce, Mexico, Funding, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Atlantic, Mexico City, Portugal, General Atlantic, Latin America, Foundation Capital, Cabify, Grocery Store, Justo 39 people like this. Like Russian Campaign Promotes Homegrown Vaccine and Undercuts RivalsFebruary 5, 2021 at 5:40 PM Tags: Facebook, Mexico, Russia, Tech, United States, Argentina, Pfizer, The New York Times, State Department, Latin America, First Draft, Soviet Union, Alliance for Securing Democracy, Bret Schafer, Jaime Longoria 105 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Microsoft rethinks corporate intranetFebruary 4, 2021 at 6:17 PM  Tags: Google, Enterprise, Microsoft, Youtube, China, Satya Nadella, Tech, Latin America, Databricks, HubSpot, Accel, SPAC, Flink, LinkedIn Learning, Daily Crunch, Virgin Group SPAC 77 people like this. Like Accel backs Mexican startup Flink’s effort to bring consumer investing to Latin AmericaFebruary 4, 2021 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Google, Facebook, Mexico, France, Tech, Mexico City, Silicon Valley, Latin America, Andrew Braccia, Accel, Braccia, Monzo, Flink, Braintree Venmo, Oskar Hjertonsson, Kevin Efrusy 148 people like this. Like Brazil’s Monkey nabs $6M Series A for financial marketplaceFebruary 4, 2021 at 7:40 AM Monkey , a financial marketplace for receivables in Latin America, has raised $6 million in Series A funding.
Quona Capital and Kinea Ventures co-led the round.
The São Paulo-based startup was founded in 2016 by a trio that includes former Citi investment banker Gustavo Müller, Bruno Oliveira (who worked in strategic planning for Telefonica) and Felipe Adorno, an ex-senior developer for Netshoes and Infracommerce.
Monkey has developed what it describes as Supply Chain Finance (SCF) pro...Tags: US, Tech, Monkey, Brazil, Telefonica, Petrobras, Latin America, Sao Paulo, Fiat Chrysler, Citi, Müller, Whittle, Netshoes, Quona Capital, Supply Chain Finance, Itaú Unibanco 26 people like this. Like Miami won’t be the next Silicon Valley because we don’t need another oneFebruary 3, 2021 at 8:40 AM Tags: Column, Asia, Europe, Florida, Texas, Opinion, Entrepreneurship, Berlin, Softbank, Global, America, Tech, Diversity, Spain, Austin, United States 105 people like this. Like |
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