Kriptos, an Ecuadorian data management platform, raised an undisclosed round from SixThirty Cyber and existing investors BuenTrip Ventures, Barclays, Kruger Corporation, and Techstars. (Contxto) Ecuadorian data management startup Kriptos recently…

Oikocredit, MicroVest Capital Management and Triodos Investment Management jointly sold their equity stakes in Banco Solidario, providing a full exit for the social impact investors. Banco Solidario was founded in Ecuador in 1996 and provides loans to SMEs among other financial products and services.

Visa led a US$12.5m strategic investment in Latin American fintech pioneer YellowPepper, with participation from existing investors. LIV Capital led a US$19m Series C investment in 2015 with participation from Mexico Ventures, Fondo de Fondos and the IFC.

Dalus Capital made a MXN$121m investment in Xertica, a cloud computing startup in Silicon Valley with operations in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador. (El Economista) La administradora regiomontana de…

TriLinc Global Impact Fund made a US$37.5m impact investment in term loan and trade finance facilities to companies operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. This brings TriLinc’s…

Existing investors INICIA and NXTP Labs co-invested US$4.3m in Argentina-based cybersecurity solutions provider, VU Security. The company has offices in Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador. (Info Technology) El…

(Press Release) Duke Energy completed the sale of its international businesses in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina to I Squared Capital for approximately US$1.2b. Duke Energy today completed…

(539 Partners) In Ecuador, top software companies have come together to create the country’s first seed fund for software based enterprises, 593 Capital Partners. 539 Partners Launches Ecuador’s First Seed…