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Funding Rounds
Jüsto | Series A | $65,000,000.00
Mexico City, Mexico
Jüsto is an online delivery-only supermarket chain.
Investors: General Atlantic
AMI Automation | Corporate Round
Monterrey, Mexico
AMI Automation is an international automation and control solutions company specializing in making equipment run more efficiently.
Investors: Showa Denko
Mexico City, Mexico
iVoy offers businesses and individuals a range of delivery and logistics services.
Investors: Northgate Capital
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The digital platform for urban logistics providers.
Investors: Movile
Zenklub | Series A | $8,367,422.00
São Paulo, Brazil
Zenklub is the mental and emotional wellbeing platform in Brazil.
Investors: GK Ventures, SK Tarpon
Bornlogic | Seed | $1,487,541.00
São Paulo, Brazil
Marketing tech for omnichannel retail
Investors: Astella Investimentos
Bogotá, Colombia
Digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses
Platform A + | Venture | $5,950,167.00
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Platform A + helps transformations of education applying technology to deliver solutions that optimize the day-to-day activities of schools.
Insu Health Design | Funding Round
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Insu Health Design develops a personal-use system for storing medicines.
Alice | Series B | $33,300,000.00
São Paulo, Brazil
Alice is a tech-powered healthcare company that will make people healthier.
Investors: ThornTree Capital Partners
Locaweb | Post-IPO Equity | $435,000,000.00
São Paulo, Brazil
Locaweb offers hosting services for Website and Web pages.
Barra Da Tijuca, Brazil
W.Dental provides democratize access to dental care with 100% digital.
Investors: Fuse Capital
Lima, Peru
OlaClick helps businesses receive simplified orders through WhatsApp
Investors: Y Combinator
Agrizon | Private Equity | $100,000.00
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Agrizon is specialized e-commerce that delivers by conveniently shipping over 200 worldwide brands of ag inputs and services to farmers.
Aflore | Venture | $6,500,000.00
Bogotá, Colombia
Aflore is a developer of tech-enabled direct sales channels to help informal advisors realize goals through loans and financial products.
Santiago, Chile
Pawiis is a pet care platform that improves animal welfare.
DWUL Energy | Series B | $1,120,678.00
Indaiatuba, Brazil
Renewable Energy
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Scrapelabs | Done-for-you web scraping services
Bearchip | Search engine for no-code tools
Shartric | Find problems on your web apps before your users do
NEWS
Tech + Business
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Facebook to test downranking political content in News Feed
After years of optimizing its products for engagement, no matter the costs, Facebook announced today it will “test” changes to its News Feed focused on reducing the distribution of political content. The company qualified that these tests will be ...
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Jack Dorsey and Jay Z invest 500 BTC to make Bitcoin ‘internet’s currency’TechCrunch
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said on Friday. The duo is putting 500 bitcoin, which is currently worth $23.6 million, in the endowmen...
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Morgan Stanley's investment arm is reportedly considering a $150 million bitcoin investment
Morgan Stanley investment unit Counterpoint Global is eyeing a $150 million bitcoin investment, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.
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Facebook Plans Smartwatch With Focus on Messaging, HealthThe Information
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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey on Thursday said he has partnered with Jay-Z to start a bitcoin endowment focused on India and Africa.
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Facebook Is Working on a Clubhouse Clone and It Shows Mark Zuckerberg Is Out of Good IdeasInc.com
The social-media company has a history of copying other people's good ideas.
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Social media darling Clubhouse takes heat for chat recordingsNikkei Asia
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Facebook moderators 'told not to discuss working conditions'
Workers in Dublin office claim US company used NDAs to try to stop them talking to Leo Varadkar Facebook has been accused of using nondisclosure agreements to try to build a “wall of secrecy” and prevent its moderators from discussing working cond...
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Will Amazon Be ‘Kinder’ After Jeff Bezos?
A conversation with Recode’s Jason Del ReyContinue reading on OneZero »
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The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day
A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economyContinue reading on OneZero »
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Amazon’s New CEO Is Shaping How the Military Uses Killer Robots
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Tesla Invests $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin
The company also said it will start accepting Bitcoin as payment for its products in the near future.
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Police did not name the victims whose cryptocurrency was stolen but said they included influencers, musicians, and sports stars. Eight arrests have been made.
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Founders Fund signs up for a Miami office
It’s NOT a slow news day: Founders Fund’s Miami office, Tesla’s bitcoin, Kuaishou’s IPO, and more
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People in Mexico, Australia, Kansas, and beyond say they have preordered the Starlink kit, and that it's expected to be delivered later this year.
Cyberpunk
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Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists
In a chat with Derek Muller’s popular YouTube channel Veritasium, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said that the world is facing two big threats: climate change and bioterrorism. “Every year that [climate change] would be a...
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New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals
A new deep neural network learned how to interpret certain human emotions — and it scans them by blasting people with radio waves to listen to their hearts. The algorithm can detect feelings like fear, disgust, joy, and relaxation with 71 percent...
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State Department Declassified a Report About Cuba’s ‘Sonic Weapon’
Newly declassified report outlines how the Trump administration failed to take the threat of targeted weapons against American diplomats in Cuba seriously.
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The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day
A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economy
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Amazon’s New CEO Is Shaping How the Military Uses Killer Robots
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Tesla Invests $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin
The company also said it will start accepting Bitcoin as payment for its products in the near future.
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Police did not name the victims whose cryptocurrency was stolen but said they included influencers, musicians, and sports stars. Eight arrests have been made.
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Before his sentencing this week, Alexei Navalny called on Russians to defy Putin, but sources say the Kremlin will go to any end to restore order.
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One space industry expert said Musk, who is "guilty of imagining 5,000 Elon Musks on the job at SpaceX," will reach Mars six years later than expected
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Prosecutors in Bavaria, Germany, said they'd seized about 1,700 bitcoin worth $68 million, but the owner won't give up his password.
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