This week’s Espresso covers updates from Billpocket, Laboratoria, Tienda Pago, and more!

Outline of this episode:

[00:28] - Ping raises $15M in seed round
[00:54] - Tribal Credit acquires Paykii
[01:22] - Billpocket signs agreement with Mastercard and the Ministry of Economy of Nuevo Leon
[01:53] - MacKenzie Scott donates $4M to Laboratoria
[02:17] - Trully closes $4.1M seed round
[02:43] - Tienda Pago announces $12M Series B round
[03:13] - Finkargo announces new round for $75M
[03:37] - Brazil’s Central Bank to release Pix’ protocols
[04:03] - 20 startups (co) founded by Latin American Women
[04:21] - New Crossing Borders Episode
[04:51] - New How to be the difference Episode



Resources & people mentioned:

Companies & Startups: Laboratoria, Talanta, Ping, Tribal Credit, Paykii, Billpocket, Mastercard, Tienda Pago, Trully, Finkargo, Pix.
VCs, Accelerators, Institutions: Y Combinator, Costanoa Ventures, Women’s World Banking Asset Management, IDC Ventures, FEMSA Ventures.
People: MacKenzie Scott, Roberto Campos Neto, Javier García, Johanna Molina, Paul Lynskey, José Caparroso, Nathan Lustig.