NXTP Labs, ArFintech, and Rosental Inversores made a US$1.1m investment in Alquilando, an Argentine proptech platform for residential rentals. Buenos Aires seed fund Troopa and Alpha4Ventures invested previously. CEO Mauro…

Alaya Capital Partners led a US$500k seed investment in QMATCH, a Chilean B2B comparison platform for e-commerce market intelligence, with participation from Dadneo’s Fondo Vulcano. (Contxto) Last Monday, Argentina’s Alaya…

Southern Cross Group and Riverstone announced plans to jointly invest $160m into the newly created Argentine company Aleph. Aleph will be the first midstream company to operate in the Vaca…

YPF Ventures launched two CVC vehicles. An early-stage fund will focus on energy innovation and cleantech deals locally. A growth equity fund will collaborate with Silicon Valley investors on cross-border…

Andreessen Horowitz made a US$1.6m investment in Meitre, an Uruguayan restaurant management platform. Meitre participated in Y Combinator in Winter 2018 and is founded by Juan and Luis Caviglia. (El…

SoftBank will invest US$1b in Colombian delivery app Rappi, split 50/50 between SoftBank’s Vision Fund and the new SoftBank Innovation Fund. Rappi is the first investment from the US$5b Innovation…

Digital hiring platform Zolvers raised US$500k from the IDB. Zolvers is based in Argentina and run by Founder & CEO Ceciila Retegui. NXTP Labs invested previously. (Latam List)  Zolvers, a…

Village Capital invested US$75k each in the winners of its 2018 Fintech Latam Program: Vexi, a Mexican credit card app for millennials, and Siembro, an Argentine fintech platform for agrobusiness.

Goldman Sachs led a US$34m investment in Ualá, an Argentine mobile banking app, with participation from monashees, Ribbit Capital, Jefferies Group LLC, Cohen’s Point72 Ventures and Soros’s family office. 

MercadoLibre acquired Machinalis, a startup applying machine learning to product recommendation. Machinalis emerged from the math & computation department at la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).