Lightcone Investments, Genesis Capital Ventures, and KFVC participated in an undisclosed bridge round in EmpleosTI, a Mexico-based tech jobs platform. (Contxto) Mexican startup EmpleosTI for human resources (HR) recently wrapped…
Entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Interview with Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Unima
December 3, 2019Unima is a Mexico-based healthtech startup developing fast and low-cost diagnostics and infectious disease surveillance for limited resource settings. LAVCA interviewed Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder & CPO about biotechnology, impact of winning WeXchange’s pitch competition…
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Astella Leads a R$15m Investment in Exact Sales
October 18, 2019Astella led a R$15m investment in Exact Sales, a Florianopolis-based pre-sales optimization platform, with follow-on from CVentures and Vesper Ventures. Exact Sales was founded by Felipe Roman and Théo Orosco in…
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Accion Venture Lab Launches a New US$33m Fund
September 4, 2019Global nonprofit Accion’s seed-stage investment initiative, Accion Venture Lab, launched a new US$33m fund, leveraging third-party capital for the first time (US$23m) and including a separate US$10m investment from Accion. …
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Stanley Black & Decker Invests in Argentina’s Iguanafix
August 22, 2019Iguanafix, an Argentine marketplace for home improvement services, raised an undisclosed round from Stanley Black & Decker’s venture funding arm, in their inaugural investment in South America. Temasek led the…
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Mexico Ventures Invests in CerraCap Ventures
August 2, 2019Mexico Ventures invested in CerraCap Ventures, a California-based early-stage venture capital firm focused on cyber security, analytics and healthtech. Mexico Ventures is co-managed by Fondo de Fondos (Mexico City) and…
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Advent Invests in CI&T
July 29, 2019Advent International will invest an undisclosed amount into Campinas, Brazil based CI&T for a minority stake to accelerate its global growth in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. As…
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TCV Leads US$400m Series F Invesment in Nubank
July 26, 2019Brazilian fintech Nubank raised a US$400m Series F at a reported US$10b valuation. TCV led the round, with participation from existing investors Tencent, DST Global, Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, Ribbit Capital…
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The Colombian government launched Fondo Emprender del Sena to provide COP$20b (~US$ 6.25m) in seed capital to Colombian entrepreneurs. (Seguimiento) Con el objetivo de seguir aportando al emprendimiento país, como…
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Burea, a Puerto Rican mobile analytics platform for offline sales, raised US$2m from unnamed local investors. Burea was accelerated at Parallel18. (El Nuevo Día) La empresa de tecnología boricua Burea…