alpha4 Ventures, Amador Holdings, Polymath Ventures, and Meesho invested US$2m in Elenas, a Colombian e-commerce platform enabling women to launch online businesses on Facebook and WhatsApp. (Crunchbase) – Social commerce…
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OmniChat, a Brazilian sales facilitation platform that runs on WhatsApp, raised R$1-2m from Honey Island Capital (formerly Hi Capital), a seed investment firm run by EBANX founders. (Globo) O WhatsApp…
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Facebook announced the ten startups that the social network will support in Brazil in the second half of 2018, in partnership with the social impact business accelerator Artemisia. The teams will…
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In this interview with {reprograma} founder & CEO Mariel Reyes, we learn about how she bootstrapped the organization and forged a partnership with Facebook on her mission to close the gender gap in Brazil’s technology sector. {reprograma} teaches unemployed Brazilian women how to code and has graduated 88 junior front-end engineers in 18 months, with a 97% completion rate and 63% job placement rate.
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(Valor) Venture capital firm Confrapar acquired 30% of Izzui – a company that offers free educational courses through a Facebook application. Confrapar injected R$3m into the company. Venture Capital Firm…
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(WSJ) Facebook Inc. FB +0.26% makes it easy for the social network’s 1.16 billion users to “like” funny photos, snarky comments and their favorite products. Next on the list: initial…