Vox Capital led a R$23m round in Celcoin, a Brazilian payment infrastructure developer for microentrepreneurs and fintechs targeting the underbanked, with participation from BTG Pactual’s innovation hub BoostLAB. Vox Capital had…
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Advent-backed Grupo BIG, a Brazilian supermarket chain, filed for an initial public offering. Advent acquired 80% of Walmart Inc’s operations in Brasil in 2018 renaming it a year later to…
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Brazil-based logistics company Hidrovias do Brasil has raised R$3.4b in its IPO, facilitating an exit for shareholders including Pátria Investimentos, BNDES, Temasek, and AIMCo. (Yahoo Finance) Shareholders of Brazilian logistics…
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BTG Pactual, ENFINI Investments, and Turin MFO led a ~US$21m round in Fazenda Futuro, a Brazilian startup making plant-based meat alternatives, with follow-on from monashees and Go4it Capital. monashees and…
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Brazilian fintech Cerc raised R$20m from Parallax and an undisclosed investor. Parallax invested previously, as did angels Fabio Barbosa (Santander), Marcos Lisboa (Insper), Gustavo Roxo (BTG Pactual) and Jose Bonchristiano…
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Brazilian real estate investment firm Hemisfério Sul Investimentos (HSI) purchased the entire portfolio of the Icon Realty I Real Estate Investment Fund administered by BTG Pactual. HSI paid R$620m for…
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BTG Pactual invested R$10m across Digesto (legal tech), Finpass (SMB credit) and Agronow (satellite crop monitoring) using a convertible debt instrument. All three startups were accelerated at BTG Pactual’s BoostLab…
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BTG Pactual and Inverlink, a Colombian investment bank, signed an agreement to create a real estate joint venture in Colombia. The new company, Tandem Capital, will invest in real estate…
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Wharton Alumni Angels’ Brazil Chapter is looking to invest R$9-12m in local startups this year, according to BTG Pactual president Roberto Sallouti, who recently joined this angel network.
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BTG Pactual launched BoostLab, an accelerator to scale up Brazilian startups with existing revenue and clients. The first cohort includes fintechs Liber Capital and F(x) (both backed by e.bricks Ventures), and Neurotech; as well as Clicksign, Zigpay and agtech startup Agronow (backed by SP Ventures).