SoftBank invested USD200m in Brazilian bitcoin exchange Mercado Bitcoin, at a reported USD2.1b valuation. GP Investimentos’ Inova Fund and Parallax Ventures led a ~USD40m round in January; this is the…
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GP Investimentos’ Inova Fund and Parallax Ventures led a R$200m round in Brazilian bitcoin exchange Mercado Bitcoin, with participation from Evora Fund, HS Investimentos, Banco Plural, and Gear Ventures. Mercado…
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Pecunio Venture Capital invested US$3m in Woonkly, an advertising startup based in Jalisco that created its own ‘woonk’ cryptocurrency.
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Invermaster Ventures and ARG Capital partnered with Ripio co-founder David Garcia to launch Crypto Assets Fund, a US$50m crypto-currency fund. (Press Release) Crypto Assets Fund (“CAF”) is the new initiative…
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Blockchain technology investor Medici Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Argentinian bitcoin platform Ripio, which has over seventy thousand users across Argentina and Brazil and is in the process of…
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(TechCrunch) Ripio (formerly BitPagos) closed a US$1.9m Series A round to expand its services in its native South America. The round was led by China-based Huiyin Blockchain Venture with participation…
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(Coin Desk) Bitcoin exchange startup Bitso has received US$2.5m from foreign exchange company, Monex Group, and others including Mexican venture capital investors Variv Capital and Xochi Ventures. Bitcoin exchange startup Bitso has raised…