US-based hedge fund Viking Global Investors led a US$150m round in Conductor, a Brazil-based payments processor and card issuance provider for fintechs, with participation from Advent affiliate Sunley House Capital,…

Capria Ventures invested US$1m in Agrofy, an Argentine marketplace for agricultural supplies, with follow-on from SP Ventures. SP Ventures led a US$23m Series B in Agrofy in 2019, and led…

CITES invested US$1.75m in each of three Argentine early-stage startups: Stradot, a hardware startup building drones to lift and organize parked vehicles in outdoor parking lots; Clover, a biotech startup…

Insight Partners led a US$118m Series B in MURAL, a US-based visual collaboration software enterprise platform with operations in Argentina, with participation from Tiger Global, Slack Fund, and World Innovation…

Waha Capital has agreed to invest US$50m in Argentina-based online travel company Despegar.com via a private placement. L Catterton recently invested US$150m in the company. (Press Release) Waha Capital PJSC,…

L Catterton has announced a private placement investment of US$150m in Despegar.com, an online travel agency in Latin America. The investment is expected to close in September 2020 and is…

Quest Venture Partners made a US$4m follow-on investment in dataPlor, a Brazilian startup crowdsourcing local retail market intelligence, with participation from Space Capital and FF Venture Capital. Quest Venture Partners…

Globant Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Argentine startups Woocar, a driver safety platform, and in Drixit, a provider of safety compliance monitoring services for manufacturing plants. (Contxto) Software company Globant,…

Salesforce Ventures led a US$120m Series F in Auth0, an identity verification solution founded by Eugenio Pace and Matias Woloski, with participation from DTCP, and follow-on from Bessemer Venture Partners,…

Mariano Amartino of Microsoft for Startups shared with La Nación his experience fostering the startup ecosystem in Latin America and his current view on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…