September 30, 20210CommentsResearch: startups in Latin America raised a record ~$6.5B in VC funding in H1 2021, up from $4B in all of 2020; cryptocurrency related startups raised $517M (Andrés Engler/CoinDesk)
September 30, 20210CommentsMexico City-based Higo, which offers a B2B payments service for SMBs in Latin America, raises $23M Series A led by Accel (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
September 30, 20210CommentsAlphaSense, an enterprise search engine for market intelligence, raises $180M Series C led by Goldman Sachs and Viking Global, bringing total funding to $263M (Isabel Contreras/Forbes)
September 30, 20210CommentsIntel unveils Loihi 2, a second-generation neuromorphic computing chip, and Lava, an open-source framework for developing “neuro-inspired” applications (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)