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CapSur Capital led a ~USD205m round for Brazil-based delivery logistics unicorn Loggi, with follow-on from monashees, SoftBank, GGV, Microsoft, and Sunley House at a reported USD2b valuation.  SoftBank led a…

Microsoft’s Women Entrepreneurship Ventures (WE Ventures) announced a R$5m commitment from Brazilian insurance holding company Porto Seguro. WE Ventures is Microsoft’s R$50m fund led by Chief Investment Officer Marcella Ceva…

Women Entrepreneurship Ventures (WE Ventures), a R$50m fund Microsoft launched to back women-led startups in Brazil, invested R$1m in PackID, a Brazilian food logistics services platform focused on temperature and humidity monitoring, in March. PackID raised R$1m from…

Mariano Amartino of Microsoft for Startups shared with La Nación his experience fostering the startup ecosystem in Latin America and his current view on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic…

Microsoft launched Women Entrepreneurship Ventures (WE Ventures), a BRL50m fund backing women-led startups in Brazil that is led by Chief Investment Officer Marcella Ceva. (Press Release) – Hoje, o programa Women Entrepreneurship (WE)…

SoftBank led a US$150m investment in Loggi, a Brazilian shipping logistics platform, with participation from GGV Capital, Fifth Wall, Velt Partners and Microsoft, at a reported valuation over US$1b. In…

In this interview with {reprograma} founder & CEO Mariel Reyes, we learn about how she bootstrapped the organization and forged a partnership with Facebook on her mission to close the gender gap in Brazil’s technology sector. {reprograma} teaches unemployed Brazilian women how to code and has graduated 88 junior front-end engineers in 18 months, with a 97% completion rate and 63% job placement rate.

BB Seguridade, a holding company owned by Banco Do Brasil, will invest in BR Startups, a fund created by Microsoft Participações and managed by MSW Capital to invest in start-ups…

(Reuters) Brazilian lender Banco Votorantim will invest an initial R$3m (US$930,000) in the BR Startups fund created by Microsoft. They expect to fund 6 young firms with investments ranging between…

(PR Web)  Mindset Ventures, a Brazil-based investment group, and Microsoft Accelerators have announced a global partnership agreement to invest US$100k-US$150k in graduate companies of Microsoft Accelerators with market potential in Brazil.…