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.
Domo Invest led a R$4m investment in Turbi, a Brazilian car-sharing platform.
GGV 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.
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),…
Angel 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.
monashees+, 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.
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,…