Advent International has agreed to sell its stake in Brazil-based digital investment platform Easynvest to Brazilian fintech Nubank. As part of the agreement, Advent and other shareholders of Easynvest have…

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Brazilian fintech Nubank raised a US$400m Series F at a reported US$10b valuation. TCV led the round, with participation from existing investors Tencent, DST Global, Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, Ribbit Capital…

Nubank raised R$375m using a Brazilian form of a fixed-income issuance. (Valor Econômico) O Nubank concluiu a captação de R$ 375 milhões com a emissão de letras financeiras, avisou nesta…

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Nubank doubled its valuation to US$4b this year with a US$180m investment from Tencent, representing about a 5% stake in the company. US$90m was a direct investment from Tencent; the other US$90m in equity was purchased from existing shareholders. In March 2018, DST Global led a US$150m round in Nubank at a valuation over US$2b, with participation from Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and existing investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and QED Investors. Previous investors include KaszeK Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global Management. Tencent’s last disclosed direct investment in Latin America was a 2017 Series B in Satellogic, an Argentine space exploration platform.

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DST Global led a US$150m investment in Brazilian fintech Nubank, with participation from Thrive Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, and existing investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors.…

Nubank closed a new R$250m credit line from FIDC (Fundo de Investimentos em Direitos Creditórios). Nubank previously raised R$200m and R$445m credit lines from Goldman Sachs. (Baguete) O Nubank captou…

(New York Times) DST Global, the investment firm started by Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner, led a US$80m round in Nubank, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Prior…

(Valor Econômico) Brazilian fintech startup Nubank has received a R$200m debt investment from Goldman Sachs.

(DealBook) Brazilian start-up Nubank, a mobile-based credit card business, received in December a new financing round led by Founders Capital and previous backers Sequoia Capital, Kaszek Ventures, and Tiger Global.

(TechCrunch) Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets, with 90 million smartphones in circulation among a population of about 200 million, and today a fin-tech company that…

(TechCrunch) Nubank, a financial services startup based in Brazil, is today opening for business with two key pieces of news. It is launching its first product: a MasterCard Platinum credit…

KaszeK Ventures and QED Investors led a US$62m Series B in Bitso, a Mexican crypto exchange, with follow-on from Coinbase Ventures and Pantera Capital. Ripple made an undisclosed investment in…

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Accion Venture Lab, Emles Venture Partners, and Noveus VC invested US$1.5m in Henry, an Argentine on-demand coding program enabling students to cover their tuition costs through an Income Share Agreement…

Advent International has entered a strategic partnership with Brazil-based premium chocolate producer Grupo CRM and has reportedly acquired a majority stake in the company. Read more here and here (em português). (Advent International)…

Advent International has raised a US$2b final close for Advent Latin American Private Equity Fund VII (LAPEF VII). The vehicle will target investments in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru across…

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QED Investors led a US$22.5m Series B in Brazilian digital brokerage Warren, with participation from Mercado Libre’s MELI Fund, WPA and Quartz, and follow-on from KaszeK Ventures, Chromo Invest, and…

Canary, KaszeK Ventures, and MAYA Capital invested US$16m in Alice, a Brazilian healthcare provider. Alice was founded by Andre Florence and Matheus Moraes, alums of Brazilian rideshare 99 (acquired by…

Global Founders Capital, ONEVC, and Flourish Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Swap, a Brazilian fintech services provider for enterprises. Y Combinator Partner Brad Flora and iFood Cofounder Patrick Sigrist also…

KaszeK Ventures led a US$10m Series A in La Haus, a Colombian proptech for purchasing residential real estate. NFX and Nubank’s CEO David Velez invested US$6m previously. (Press Release)  La…

monashees, KaszeK Ventures, and ONEVC invested US$4.6m in Pipo, a Brazilian employee health plan management platform, with participation from Nubank’s CEO David Velez. (Brazil Journal) Depois de trabalhar anos cobrindo empresas…

Belvo, a Mexican fintech providing a financial services API platform for mobile applications, raised a US$10m round led by KaszeK Ventures and Founders Fund. MAYA Capital, Venture Friends, and Nubank…

QED Investors closed its sixth fund with US$350m in commitments. QED’s Latin America portfolio includes Nubank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, Konfio and others (Press Release) QED Investors Closes $350 Million Fund VI…

Private Equity manager Kinea, the alternative asset management subsidiary of Brazil-based financial services group Itaú, acquires minority stake in Matera, a brazilian technology solutions company, for R$100m. (Valor Econômico) A…

Smart Money Ventures led a R$3m investment in Gama Academy, a Brazilian edtech focused on professional training in programming, design, marketing and sales. (Startupi) A Gama Academy, startup de educação…

banco BV (formerly Banco Votorantim) led a R$25m investment in Olivia, a California-based personal finance app, to fund expansion into Brazil. Olivia was founded by Brazilians Cristiano Oliveira and Lucas…