Confrapar’s aerospace fund, Fundo PE1 Aerotec, and Travel Capitalist Ventures led a R$3m investment in Flapper, a Brazilian private aviation marketplace. Flapper previously raised funding from Brazilian accelerator ACE and angels.

Unnamed investors made a R$500k investment in LadyDriver, a Brazilian rideshare startup for female passengers. 

Cedro Capital made an undisclosed investment in Getrak, a Brazilian startup providing enterprise IoT tracking software for the automotive sector.

monashees+ and Grishin Robotics led a US$9m seed investment in Yellow, a dockless bike service launching in São Paulo. Yellow is founded by 99 co-founders Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas,…

Brazilian early stage investor KICK Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Hitech Eletric, a maker of smart electric cars. (StartSe) Nesta semana, a KICK Ventures, um fundo de investimentos em startups,…

The Brazilian lower house of Congress voted to approve lighter regulation on car-hailing apps such as Uber and Cabify. The approved amendments eliminated requirements such as needing to use taxi-style…

Fundo Aeroespacial, a fund managed by PortCapital and launched by BNDES in 2014 to invest in aeronautics and defense, made an undisclosed investment in Virtual Avionics, a Campinas, Brazil-based startup creating…

FIS Ameris, a new social impact fund, made its inaugural investment in Chilean carpooling app Allride. (Economía y Negocios) Lanzado oficialmente a mediados del año pasado, FIS Ameris, el fondo…

Rakuten Capital, TheVentureCity, Endeavor Catalyst, GAT Investments, Liil Ventures, WTI and others made a US$160m Series E investment in Max Mobility, the parent company of Cabify and Easy, at a…

Fip Inseed Fima, the environmental innovation fund (Fundo de Inovação do Meio Ambiente) created by BNDES and managed by Inseed Investimentos, invested R$7.5m in Zazcar, a car-sharing service operating in…