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Techs very dangerous yr, in numbers
In March 2022, the way forward for Muni, a Colombian e-commerce startup, seemed shiny. Since its public launch practically two years earlier, the corporate, which enabled neighborhood leaders to position group-shopping orders for his or her neighbors, had amassed a staff of greater than 500 workers, and was serving over 40,000 clients throughout Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. In 2021, Muni raised $20 million in a collection A spherical led by the U.S. enterprise capital agency Lightspeed Enterprise Companions, making Munis founder, Mara Echeverri Gomez, one of many few feminine CEOs in Latin America to ever elevate VC funding. Eight months later, Muni was lifeless. A farewell put up on the…