Peruvian IT startup Quantum Talent SAC  received a seed investment round of US$397,500 from Wayra Peru and undisclosed angel investors

Unnamed investors made a R$1.5m investment in WallJobs, a career platform for young Brazilians. (Startupi) Investidores e companhias de grande porte estão sempre em busca de negócios inovadores para alavancar…

Salesforce Ventures made its inaugural investment in Latin America in RunaHR, a payroll automation platform, in a US$3.5m seed round that included Y Combinator, the founder of Gmail, CTO of Dropbox, executives of Rappi, Nubank, Cabify and WeWork Latin America, and HR experts including the CTO of Zenefits, former Head Sales Head of Gusto and former Product Manager of Gusto.

Australian jobsite SEEK made a R$23m investment in freelance labor platform Workana. SEEK led a R$8m round in 2017. Previous investors include NXTP Labs and DMGT.

Valor Capital led a US$4.6m investment in Revelo (formerly Contratado.me), a Brazilian job marketplace, with participation from Australian recruiting company Seek. Revels previously raised seed capital from Social Capital, Graph…

Venture builder SuperJobs made an undisclosed investment in Vibbra, a Brazilian job-matching app. (Startse) Startup que tem seu foco na conexão entre profissionais de diversos ponto do país na área…

Apli is a Mexican startup connecting workers to flexible job opportunities that just raised US$1.5m. In this interview with Co-founder and Co-CEO Vera Makarov, we learn how Apli is innovating the traditional recruiting process for service and retail jobs in Mexico, and why she thinks improving turnover and absenteeism in small businesses is a US$100b opportunity in Latin America.

Canary and Yellow Ventures invested R$1.5m in Gupy, an HR platform digitizing the recruitment and new hire selection process for Brazilian businesses. (Startupi) Tornar o processo de seleção de talentos…

Gray Matter’s coLABS, an early-stage gender-focused portfolio, made an undisclosed investment in Colombian employment outsourcing startup LikeU. (Conveners.org) Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS, an early-stage and gender-focused portfolio, announced that it…

Magma Partners made an undisclosed seed investment in Awesome Jobs, a startup job portal focusing on Latin America. (Venture Beat – Nathan Lustig/Magma Partners) I’ve lived in Santiago, Chile for…