Intel Capital Invests in Brazilian Healthcare Technology Company Pixeon

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(Intel Capital) December 19, 2011 – Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment and M&A organization, has made its first Latin American healthcare IT investment in Pixeon, a medical imaging software company. Headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil, Pixeon specializes in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) Read more

Uruguay-based Scanntech Receives US$10M from Sequoia Capital (en español)

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(El Observador) December 12, 2011 – Scanntech, a Uruguay-based company that provides SaaS solutions for small retailers, received a US$10M capital injection from Sequoia Capital. Read more

Astella Announces Investment in Imobox (em português)

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(Astella) November 21, 2011 – Astella Investimentos, a Brazil-based venture capital fund, announced it has completed an investment in Imobox, the real estate arm of Apontador Read more

Peixe Urbano Launches in Chile, Acquires Local Company (em português)

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(Bolsa de Ofertas) November 10, 2011 – Peixe Urbano, a Brazil-based daily deal site, has launched operations in Chile with an acquisition of local site Queremos Descuentos.

Peixe Urbano is backed by Monashees Capital, General Atlantic, Benchmark and Tiger Global Management. Read more

AwayFind Raises $800,000 in Seed Funding

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(TechCrunch) October 12, 2011 – Email productivity tool AwayFind announced that it has closed its seed round of $800,000, led by 500 Startups and CAP Ventures, with participation from several angels, including Ben Lilienthal, Anton Sutton and Amir Banifatemi. Read more

DeNA buys Chilean mobile game firm Atakama Labs

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(VentureBeat) October 4, 2011 – Continuing its acquisition spree, Japan’s DeNA agreed to buy Chilean mobile social game firm Atakama Labs. The companies didn’t disclose the prize, but we heard a couple of months ago that the deal was valued at around $6 million during negotiations. Read more

Darby Invests in Leading Colombian IT Distributor and Service Company

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(Darby) September 27, 2011 – Darby Overseas Investments, Ltd. (“Darby”), the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, announced that Darby Latin American Mezzanine Fund II (“DLAMF II”) completed an investment in Datapoint de Colombia SAS (“Datapoint”), a leading information technology (IT) hardware distributor and service provider Read more

Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Natália Monteiro, Zuggi

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Entrepreneur Profile: An Interview with Natália Monteiro, Zuggi

Natália Monteiro, CEO of Zuggi chatted with LAVCA about the journey of her start-up and what a Brazilian entrepreneur is learning in Chile. Read more

Omidyar Network and IGNIA Lead $13.75 Million Series B Round in Finestrella

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(IGNIA) September 7, 2011 – Omidyar Network and IGNIA announced they are leading a $13.75 million Series B round of financing in Finestrella, a provider of innovative mobile telephony services to low-income and unbanked populations in Mexico. Read more

Alothon Group Announces Acquisition of MTel Group in Brazil

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(Alothon Group) September 1, 2011 – Alothon Group LLC, a leading private equity firm that invests in middle market growth companies in Brazil, announced that is has completed the acquisition, through its Fund II, of the MTel Group. Read more