KaszeK Ventures led a US$2.1m round in ChatPay, a Brazilian platform for online fitness and executive coaches that runs on WhatsApp and Telegram.  (Brazil Journal) – Com um de cada…

General Atlantic and SoftBank’s Latin America Fund led a US$108m Series B in Acesso Digital, a Brazilian digital identity and facial recognition company. e.Bricks Ventures led a R$40m round in…

 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…

Redpoint eventures and abSeed made a US$2.2m Series A investment in Movidesk, a Brazilian multi-channel help-desk platform. abSeed invested previously in 2018. (LexLatin) La startup brasileña de software para soporte…

Manutara Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Barracks, a Chilean analytics software for gaming. (Iberian Lawyer) Manutara Ventures, through their venture capital tech fund, on an investment in Barracks, a…

Sequoia Capital and Zetta Venture Partners invested US$2.25m in Rever, a Mexican employee innovation management platform. This is Sequoia’s first known investment in a Mexican startup. Sequoia’s other investments in the region include Nubank and Rappi.

Angel Ventures Peru led a US$350k seed investment in FitCo, a Peruvian gym management startup that also operates in Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

SP Ventures and Abseed made a R$5m investment in Aegro, a software platform for grain cultivation with a team from UFRGS and IRGA. SP Ventures also invested in 2017.

Criatec 2 made undisclosed investments in Spume, a big data deep learning startup, and Auvo, a field management software platform.

Guatemala’s Invariantes closes first fund with US$3.5m in commitments from a mix of high-net worth individuals and family offices in Central America and Mexico. The fund is industry agnostic but focuses on early stage technology startups, specifically in software.  Invariantes has already made a number of investments in sectors such as transportation, shipping and logistics, and construction management.