(Press Release) Apontador, the industry leading service that helps twenty million Latin Americans each month find and review what they need from over ten million local businesses and restaurants, is…
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(Startupi) Warehouse Investments, a venture capital fund created 3 years ago, made its first exit by selling its entire stake in iFood to Movile. According to Moises Herszenhorn, CEO of…
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Movile Receives Investment of R$125m (em português)
8 August 2014(E-Commerce) Movile, a mobile solutions provider, received financing of R$125m to invest in mobile commerce and messaging services in Brazil. The majority of the investment of R$80m came from Innova…
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Movile and 21212 Invest in Superplayer
9 June 2014(Baguete) 21212 and Movile are the new investors in music platform Superplayer. The first goal of the partnership is to double the number of monthly active users in less than…
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(TechCrunch) Brazil’s mobile content developer Movile is on the hunt for new investments after committing a fresh US$2m to its online delivery service company iFood. That recent investment is a…
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Movile Invests $2.6m in Brazilian Delivery Startup iFood
6 February 2013(TechCrunch) In the U.S., when we’re hungry and feeling lazy and don’t want to cook, we’ve got GrubHub and Seamless to order food from online and on mobile apps, and…
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PROSUS VENTURES ACQUIRES 33.3% STAKE IN IFOOD FOR ~USD1.5B
31 August 2022(Businesswire (Prosus)) Prosus Ventures acquired a 33.3% stake in Brazil-based last-mile delivery platform iFood from Just Eat for ~USD1.5b in cash and an additional USD300m earnout. Prosus first invested in iFood through Movile in 2013.
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Moova, an Argentine route optimization software platform for last-mile delivery, raised USD10m from Alaya Capital, FJ Labs, Wayra, MatterScale Ventures, Kalei Ventures, iThink VC, Parser Digital, Reflect Ventures, Murchinson VC,…
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Cometa and F-Prime Capital led a USD5.8m seed round for Guros, a Mexican car insurance marketplace. With participation from Clocktower Technology Ventures and Insurify, and follow-on from LEAP Global Partners…
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Ashmore Invests in Electribus Bogota (en español)
19 April 2021Ashmore Group has invested an undisclosed amount in Electribus Bogotá, a project that seeks to finance the purchase of 13 50-passenger electric buses and 246 80-passenger electric buses. (LexLatin) Las…
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BuenTrip Ventures Leads US$1.25m Round in Ecuadorian Cybersecurity Platform Kriptos (en español)
12 January 2021BuenTrip Ventures led a US$1.25m in Kriptos, an Ecuadorian cybersecurity platform expanding operations to Mexico, with participation from Techstars, Sixthirty Cyber, Wayra, Compusoluciones Ventures, SVlinks Angels, 0bs.mx, and angels. (Forbes)…
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LAVCA Venture/Tech Member Directory
4 December 2020This directory profiles the core group of LAVCA Member venture investors, corporates, and tech organizations dedicated to supporting startups and the tech ecosystem.
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LatAm Startups That Have Been Acquired/Listed
11 November 2020Latin American tech companies have been targets of M&A, and IPOs since 2012. This is a list of highlighted tech companies that raised US$1m+ and were acquired/IPO’d during that period.
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Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking led a R$120m Series A in iugu, a Brazilian finance automation and payment platform for SMEs, with follow-on from Indicator Capital, and Fabio Povoa, Co-Founder of…
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Redpoint eventures led a US$5m round in CyberLabs, a Brazilian computer vision and voice recognition technology developer founded by Movile Co-Founder Marcelo Sales. (Contxto) The new normal calls for technology that reduces…
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COVID-19 Startup Insights
5 August 2020Startups that cashed up in 2019 have an advantage approaching the C19 crisis. LAVCA spoke directly with the CEOs of 74 startups to understand how they’re navigating 2020.
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Tech Growth Coalition: LatAm C19 Relief Efforts
9 June 2020Since the C19 pandemic began, Tech Growth Coalition members have stepped up with relief efforts in Latin America and globally, through a combination of capital-infused initiatives (including grants and donations), strategic partnerships, and lending tech infrastructure support…
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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…
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RECAP: LAVCA Venture Investors 2019 Annual Meeting
26 September 2019LAVCA Week 2019 in New York concluded with our Venture Investors Annual Meeting in Tribeca, with record attendance from investors, and participation from startup CEOs by invitation for the first…
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Latin America Unicorn Leaderboard
12 August 2019This leaderboard tracks Latin American tech unicorns, privately held tech companies with post-money valuations of US$1b+ based on their last disclosed valuation event.
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Quest Venture Partners, Magma Partners, and Others Invest in Brazilian Crowdsourcing Dataplor
24 July 2019Dataplor, a Brazilian startup crowdsourcing local retail market intelligence, raised an undisclosed seed round from Quest Venture Partners with participation from Magma Partners, ffVC, Sidekick Fund and the Blue Startups…
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Crabi, a Mexican auto insurance startup, raised a US$1.3m seed round led by an undisclosed family office, with participation from Redwood Ventures and angels. (Contxto) Crabi, una empresa mexicana de…
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Since the 2011 launch of the Wayra spaces and the Telefonica Innovation funds, Telefonica has emerged as one of the most active investors in Latin American startups, with almost €12 million invested across more than 20 deals in 2018.
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Smart Money Ventures made a R$1m investment in Produttivo, a software platform for field service management. (Baguete) A Produttivo, startup de Curitiba especializada em software para gestão de inspeções e…
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Ideas y Capital portfolio company Phunware, a Mexican mobile cloud solutions platform, listed on the NASDAQ (ticker: PHUN). (Press Release) El pasado 27 de diciembre, la compañía Phunware que forma…
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Innova Capital led a R$22m Series A investment in Bom Pra Crédito, a Brazilian consumer lending platform, with participation from Astella Investimentos. Astella led the seed round in 2017.
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Altor Estructuradores is preparing to list a CKD on Mexico’s BIVA for MXN$2.5b with the purpose of investing in public infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships.
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Fortem Capital Raises MXN$5,000m via BIVA Instead of BMV (en español)
21 September 2018Fortem Capital, a subsidiary of the IPB Group real estate company, seeks to raise MXN$5,000m via BIVA. Fortem Capital now joins a group of companies, including LIV Capital, Ignia, and Crédito Real, which decided to change their listing to BIVA instead of the BMV.
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Dux Capital Invests MX$600k in Airline Ticket Reselling Marketplace Refly (en español)
22 August 2018Dux Capital invested MX$600k in Refly, a platform for reselling airline tickets.
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On the heels of a US$124m fresh capital injection, iFood acquired Rapiddo for an undisclosed amount. Both companies are backed by Movile. iFood also acquired the Brazilian operations Pedidos Ya