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Buscapé is far away from being a startup these days. The founder sold the company a few years ago to Naspers a south african media company. EDIT: not a few mon

by postit 15y ago

Buscapé is far away from being a startup these days. The founder sold the company a few years ago to Naspers a south african media company. EDIT: not a few months, a few years.

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HerberthAmaral 15y ago
Not only Buscapé, but PagosOnline too.
lumisura 15y ago
Yup, I was very surprised they are on this list. Hot startup missing: Peixe Urbano. http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/brazils-peixe-urbano-takes-significant-growth-round-from-general-atlantic-and-tiger-global/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/06/brazils-peixe-urbano-takes-...
- postit 15y ago
  I miss boo-box too http://boo-box.com/ http://boo-box.com/
- lzm 15y ago
  > Another interesting factoid about Peixe Urbano: They’ve imported a dozen American engineers, product managers and designers. Oh, wow. Are we (Brazilian engineers) that inferior to the American ones? Peixe Urbano is one of the few well-designed websites in Brazil, I'm sad that it wasn't made by us.