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.
Ayala Capital Partners made an undisclosed investment in Rocketpin, a Chilean startup that provides point-of-sale auditing software. Rocketpin will use the funds to expand to Argentina.
monashees+, Accel Partners, QMS Capital, and Pointbreak LLC made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian enterprise software platform Neoway. (LexLatin) Read more at LexLatin. monashees+, Accel Partners, QMS Capital and Pointbreak…