Oaktree Capital Management will invest US$1.3b in private financing in LATAM Airlines, which recently filed for bankruptcy in the US and added its Brazilian operations to the chapter 11 process.…
Transportation
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iFood Acquires Majority Stake in Domicilios
April 8, 2020iFood completed a majority acquisition of Domicilios, which Delivery Hero acquired in 2014. iFood will own 51% of the JV with Delivery Hero. The transaction is undisclosed but one of…
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Sapphire Ventures led a US$103m Series E investment in Auth0, a US-based identity verification solution founded by Eugenio Pace and Matías Woloski, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners,…
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Signia Venture Partners led a US$2.5m seed round in Colombia’s Picap to expand its mototaxi mobility platform throughout Latin America. Joining Signia in the Picap round were Peter Livingston with…
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Mexican e-scooter startup Grin raised a US$45.7m Series A and merged with Ride in Brazil. Lukasz Gadowski, Founder of Delivery Hero, led Grin’s Series A, with participation from existing investors Shasta Ventures, DCM, SV Angel, Trinity Ventures, monashees, and Base10 Partners. Grin raised an undisclosed seed round from monashees, Sinai Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, 500 Startups, Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and others in early 2018, and was part of the YC Spring 2018 cohort.
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Domo Invest Leads R$4m Investment in Brazilian Car-Sharing Platform Turbi (em português)
October 1, 2018Domo Invest led a R$4m investment in Turbi, a Brazilian car-sharing platform.
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GGV Capital Leads US$63m Series A in Brazilian Mobility Startup Yellow
September 13, 2018GGV Capital led a US$63m Series A in Yellow, a Brazilian dockless bike service, with participation from monashees+, Grishin Robotics, Base10 Partners and Class 5. monashees+ and Grishin Robotics led a US$9m seed round in 2018. Yellow is founded by Eduardo Musa, former CEO of bike manufacturer Caloi, and 99 co-founders Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas.
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Mexico is fast emerging as the new battleground for the global transport wars, from rideshare and delivery to e-scooters and mopeds: In the past year, Chinese heavyweights Didi Chuxing (rideshare),…
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Angel Ventures Completes Two Investments of 2nd Fund in Startups CitySense and Energryn
July 24, 2018Angel Ventures invested US$1.3m in CitySense, a Chilean open platform to develop smart city solutions, and US$1.2m in Energryn, a Mexican startup using patented hybrid solar technology to democratize consumer access to affordable green energy, through its Pacific Alliance Fund II.
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Y Combinator Backs LatAm Focused e-Scooter Startup Grin
July 20, 2018monashees+, Sinai Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, 500 Startups, Base10 Partners and others made an undisclosed seed investment in Grin, an e-scooter company that just joined Y Combinator.