Another perk of giving away NFTs through a social media competition — aside from the organic content it generates for the brand — is that it makes the process of acquiring an NFT much more accessible to the average consumer, says Roxanne Barretto Iyer, Clinique’s VP of global consumer engageme

Link: https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/cliniques-first-nft-ties-to-loyalty-and-products-as-uses-expand

Pipefy, a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 million since its 2015 inception.

Link: https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2021/10/26/softbank-bets-big-on-pipefy-which-just-raised-75m-for-its-low-code-workflow-management-tool/amp/

Oct 21 (Reuters) – When Sebastian Kanovich co-founded Latin American digital payments startup dLocal in Montevideo in 2016, he struggled to get global retailers to take him seriously. Five years on, it’s a different story.

Link: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tech-stampede-investors-hunt-latin-american-unicorns-2021-10-21/

Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know anything about the guy; I just selected him because he was young, and therefore, I figured, more likely to agree to talk.

Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history-humanity/620177/