(7th December) Gympass-acquired founders building B2B subscription model that offers language learning solutions

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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Nulinga (raising)

Geography: Argentina

One-liner: B2B subscription model that offers language learning solutions.

Founder(s) Background: Co-founded and sold SinRutina (ClassPass of LaTam) to Gympass ($2bn+ valuation as of 2021).

Raised $$ / Backed By (Public Source): Raised $1.2m.

Tractions:

• $1.2m ARR

• 70+ corporate clients

• 4k MAU

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Startup Name: Moneypool (raising seed)

Geography: Mexico

One-liner: Moneypool helps people pay & get paid by other people without sharing bank info.

Raised $$ / Backed By (Public Source): Backed by Social Capital, Goodwater Capital, Soups Ranjan (Sardine), James Beshara.

Tractions:

• $1.4m ARR

• $31.5M Annualized GMV

• 46.8K MAU

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Founders building in stealth

• Founding engineer @ Hebbia.AI (backed by Floodgate, Peter Thiel, founders of Yahoo, and first investors in Google).

• Strategic Finance and Business Operations (led GitHub marketplace).

• Co-founder @ Vara (acquired; Backed by Sequoia and RTP Global).

• VP of Distributions Technology @ BlackRock (Aladdin Product Group).