Colombia’s Merqueo bags $50M to expand its online grocery delivery service across Latin America – TechCrunch

Merqueo, which operates a full-stack, on-demand delivery service in Latin America, has landed $50 million in a Series C round of funding. IDC Ventures, Digital Bridge and IDB Invest co-led…

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True ‘shift left and extend right’ security requires empowered developers – TechCrunch

Idan Plotnik is the CEO and founder of Apiiro, a code risk platform. DevOps is fundamentally about collaboration and agility. Unfortunately, when we add security and compliance to the picture,…

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Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus’ $100M debt, equity round – TechCrunch

La Haus, which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million…

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PV Sindhu, India men’s hockey team advance at Tokyo Olympics; Mary Kom bows out-Sports News , FP

Veteran boxer MC Mary Kom bowed out of the Olympics, but not without a fight. She narrowly lost 2-3 to Colombia's Ingrit Valencia in the women's flyweight last-16 clash. AP…

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PV Sindhu, India men’s hockey team advance at Tokyo Olympics; Mary Kom bows out-Sports News , FP

Veteran boxer MC Mary Kom bowed out of the Olympics, but not without a fight. She narrowly lost 2-3 to Colombia's Ingrit Valencia in the women's flyweight last-16 clash. AP…

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Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open-source business management software developer, at a $2.3B+ valuation – TechCrunch

Open source has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle…

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Unacademy becomes first-ever edtech startup to offer stock options to educators

In a one-of-a-kind move, edtech unicorn Unacademy will offer stock options to its educators, the first-ever firm in the edtech space to do so. The development comes at a time…

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