Puerto Rico’s Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT) will invest US$225k through Puerto Rican accelerator Parallel18’s follow on fund in StageBoom and BrainHi from Puerto Rico, Workep (Colombia) and Wisboo (Argentina).

IDB Invest and OPIC partnered to launch Fund Mujer, the first gender-focused fund for Latin America and the Caribbean, to invest in female entrepreneurs, companies with a significant share of women leaders, and firms that generate jobs or consumer products for women. The fund has a US$200m target and is expected to be comprised of 70% equity / 30% debt.

Magma Partners made an undisclosed investment in Fanatiz, a football live streaming platform.

Orbis Ventures led a US$440k investment in Ultracasas, a Bolivian real estate platform, with participation from Seedstars and Taris.

BlueYard Capital led a US$7m Series A investment round in financial services AirTM, a platform that provides financial services to consumers and businesses throughout Latin America. (Press Release) AirTM, a…

Carao Ventures led a US$800k seed investment in Singularities, an enterprise AI platform for customer behavior insights. Singularities is based in California and with main operations in Costa Rica. (Carao…

The Omidyar Network has launched a new impact investing guide for families, “Building and Impact Investing Team.” 

The Rise Fund, a global impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, invested US$130m in DreamBox Learning, the company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology.  

The IFC intends to invest US$13m in impact investor Capria to focus on emerging markets.

Mind the Gap is a new London-based fund focused on Series A+ investments in Latin American startups, founded by Adán Bernal and Israel Pons.