QED Investors led a US$17.5m Series A in Betterfly (formerly Burn to Give), a Chilean certified B-Corp insurtech providing life insurance to SMEs and incentivizing policyholder’s wellbeing with subsidized coverage.…

Grupo Prisma, Albatross Capital, and Katapult Impact invested US$8.5m in Burn to Give, a socially responsible Chilean insurtech focused on providing life insurance to underprivileged families and incentivizing policyholders’ wellbeing…

Chilean VC Alaya Capital exited TranslationBackOffice through an undisclosed sale. (Press Release) La firma de Venture Capital, fundada en Córdoba, Argentina, cuyo primer Fondo invirtió en 7 compañías, confirmó su…

The following resource was shared with LAVCA by SoftBank based on a communication they sent to their investors, partners, and founders. The statement discusses the “Alibaba effect” in Latin America,…

The following resource was shared with LAVCA by AC Ventures based on a communication they sent to their investors and partners. The statement reviews the current state of the global…

Unima is a Mexico-based healthtech startup developing fast and low-cost diagnostics and infectious disease surveillance for limited resource settings. LAVCA interviewed Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder & CPO about biotechnology, impact of winning WeXchange’s pitch competition…

Redpoint eventures led a US$1.12m seed investment in Vittude, a Brazilian healthtech developing an online therapy platform for businesses to offer their employees, with participation from Superjobs Ventures. (Forbes) As burnout…

LAVCA spoke with Paul Carttar the co-founder of the International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC) and former Director of the Social Innovation Fund (a priority program of the Obama Administration), about…

SGR Energy announced that it will acquire Swiss Terminal Baranquilla in Colombia from Ashmore Colombia’s Fondo De Infraestructura Colombia Ashmore I – FCP.

Brazil’s antitrust authority CADE has approved the purchase of a minority stake in financial services broker XP Investimentos SA by Itaú Unibanco Holding SA. General Atlantic and Brazilian investment firm…

TPG has made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian agtech startup Solinftec through TPG ART, the firm’s Alternative and Renewable Technologies growth equity platform. (AgFUNDER News) Global private equity group TPG has…

Real estate portal PropertySimple, which started out as PropiedadFacil in Chile, raised US$3m from investors including Magma Partners. (Nathan Lustig) I’m excited to finally be able to announce that our…

Trocafone is closing the digital gap in Brazil by making smartphones more affordable by powering trade-in programs for major carriers and manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Apple, and Movistar, and selling refurbished devices on Trocafone.com…

(500 Startups) 500 Startups has announced 18 new investments in Latin American startups, following their LatAm Accelerator Batch program based in Mexico City. This is the 6th batch of Latin American…

Nicolás Pardo Lanzetta, Head of Colombian insurance intermediary RedSeguro spoke with LAVCA about sourcing financing and where he sees the biggest opportunities and challenges for creating and growing a business…

(Pulso Social) Capital-wise, Hotel Urbano has got it down. The Brazilian online travel agency has picked up a R$120m (US$50m) investment round from Tiger Global Management and Insight Venture Partners.

(Ventureburn) Linio, a Mexico City-based ecommerce startup that is currently one of the leading and fastest growing in Latin America, has announced new investment from Latin Idea — a prominent…

By Alan J. Patricof, Founder & Managing Director – Greycroft, LLC This post originally appeared on Business Insider. (Business Insider) July 7, 2010 – It took a lot of time…

LAVCA INTERVIEWS MARK HEESEN, NVCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “The high tech economy is based solely on ideas. We’re no longer dealing with factories and trying to get a product out the…