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Manutara Ventures invested US$500k in Rocketbot, a Chilean SaaS platform developing bots for process automation. (Diario Financiero)  En 2017 Rafael Fuentes y David Cuello recibieron una llamada de Google con…

SP Ventures and Capital Lab invested R$2m in Pink Farms, an urban vertical farming startup focused on vegetable production that is based in São Paulo. (Startupi) A SP Ventures, gestora…

Brazilian urban logistics startup Gadle rebranded to Vuxx and announced a US$1m seed investment from undisclosed investors. (E-Commerce News) A Gadle, plataforma de logística urbana que conecta empresas a motoristas…

Insight Partners made a US$45m Series B investment in Pipefy, a business process optimization platform that was founded in Brazil, with participation from existing investors Openview and Trinity Ventures. Pipefy…

The recent EU-LatAm trade deals are a bright spot in the midst of a complex political environment in Latin America’s major economies and LAVCA data shows growth opportunities in tech-related startups, infrastructure, power and renewable energy, and consumer sectors.

Monashees led a US$10.5m seed investment in Kovi ,provider of rental cars for on-demand drivers in Latin America, with participation from MAYA Capital and ONEVC. Co-founders Adhemar Milani Neto (CEO)…

Monroe Capital Management Advisors, a US private equity firm, invested in Mexican information technology company AN Global.  In early 2018, Credit Suisse México completed a MNX$375m (US$19.5m) investment. (Latin Lawyer)…

LAVCA recently sat down with Loggi co-founder and CEO Fabien Mendez to understand how a company that started out doing document delivery in São Paulo has scale to handle food delivery for some of the biggest brands and competitors in Brazil

Scale Capital led a US$5m investment in U-Planner, a Chilean edtech platform for higher education.  Press Release: u-planner raised 5 million USD of investment in a venture round led by…

Visa made its first investment in Brazil in Conductor, a payments processing platform backed by Riverwood Capital.