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The Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers will face off tonight in their first game of the NFL season. But this season opener is a bit different. As the…

NFL kicks off in Brazil for the first time, but reporters and fans can’t post on X due to nationwide ban

Bluesky has gained 2 million new users over the last week, which can only mean one thing: Something fishy is going on at X. And,…

TechCrunch Minute: X lost millions of monthly active users after Brazil ban

Is Elon’s rumble in the Amazonian jungle on course for a technical knockout? Over the weekend, the Brazilian high court voted to uphold a ban on X that another judge issued…

Elon Musk’s Brazil battle wages on

Brazil fintech Magie raised $4 million in a seed round led by Lux Capital, marking the firm’s first investment in Brazil.

Lux Capital made its first investment in Brazil, a $4M seed for AI fintech Magie

Cross-border payments for businesses in emerging markets remain significantly untapped, despite small to large businesses using banks and legacy fintechs to transact trillions of dollars in transaction volume annually.  A…

Conduit’s cross-border payments expand from LatAm into Africa with $6M round

Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The…

Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil 

To say that Pix, the instant payment system created by the Central Bank of Brazil, has been a resounding success is an understatement. With Pix, money moves directly between core…

Matera raises $100M from Warburg Pincus to help the US catch up to Brazil in instant payments

Real-time payments are becoming commonplace for individuals and businesses, but not yet for cross-border transactions. That’s what Caliza is hoping to change, starting with Latin America. Founded in 2021 by…

Caliza lands $8.5 million to bring real-time money transfers to Latin America using USDC

Brazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator’s latest batch, the accelerator confirmed to TechCrunch.

Y Combinator’s latest cohort had only one LatAm startup in large part because of AI