Argentina

Angel Ventures Peru led a US$660k investment in Quantum Talent, a Peruvian HR tech platform for skills assessment and job training. (Press Release) Quantum Talent, a technology enabled human resources…

Victoria Capital Partners sold its 25% stake in education publisher Santillana to the Spanish media conglomerate, PRISA for €312.5m. Santillana is a Spanish company which publishes educational materials for k-12…

Private equity firm L Catterton acquired Argentina-based winery Susana Bello Wines, for an undisclosed amount. (La Nacion) El fondo de inversión L Catterton sumó su segunda bodega en la Argentina.…

KaszeK Ventures led an investment in Agilis, an Argentine consumer lending platform, with participation from QED Investors and an unnamed investor. This is KaszeK’s first deal in Argentina from Fund…

Advent International acquired a 51% stake of Prisma Medios de Pago, an Argentine payments company formed as a joint venture between Visa International and local banks. The deal values Prisma…

Dallas-based private equity firm Lone Star has acquired San Antonio Internacional, an Argentina-based oil exploration and drilling company,  for a sum close to US$150m. (Río Negro) Por una suma cercana…

Private equity firm L Catterton has announced the acquisition of Argentina-based winery Bodega Luigi Bosca, for an undisclosed amount. (Press Release) MENDOZA, Argentina and NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/…

Lucens Capital acquired a controlling stake in Dirsana San Luis, a specialty chemicals company in Argentina that produces water-based emulsions, coating, adhesive, and graphic ink.

MercadoLibre acquired Machinalis, a startup applying machine learning to product recommendation. Machinalis emerged from the math & computation department at la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).

Clara Capital acquired Argentinean medicinal packaging manufacturer Barrier Solution. The company has a plant of 3,000 square meters in the town of San Fernando, from where it supplies the pharmaceutical industry in Argentina and other countries in the region, with customers such as Bayer, GSK , Astra Zeneca , Pfizer, Savant, Gador and Elea Phoenix, among others.  Previously, Clara had acquired Berkes.