SkyDrop, a Mexican shipping logistics platform for online retailers, raised US$5m from Variv Capital, Y Combinator, FJ Labs, Sierra Ventures, EasyPost, Soma Capital, Sinai Ventures, GMF and Dynamo, a previous investor. SkyDrop participated in Y Combinator’s Spring 2018 cohort.

SoftBank invested US$100m in Loggi, a Brazilian shipping logistics platform, as part of a new US$111m round. Loggi previously raised capital from Qualcomm Ventures, monashees and Dragoneer Investment Group.

HCS Capital Partners invested US$3m in Jooycar, a Chilean insurance tech platform for real-time automotive data. 

Angel Ventures led a US$1.3m seed investment in Homie, a Mexican residential rental platform, with participation from Narval Capital and Plug and Play San Francisco. 

Dux Capital made an undisclosed investment in transcription startup Atexto.

Nubank doubled its valuation to US$4b this year with a US$180m investment from Tencent, representing about a 5% stake in the company. US$90m was a direct investment from Tencent; the other US$90m in equity was purchased from existing shareholders. In March 2018, DST Global led a US$150m round in Nubank at a valuation over US$2b, with participation from Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and existing investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and QED Investors. Previous investors include KaszeK Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global Management. Tencent’s last disclosed direct investment in Latin America was a 2017 Series B in Satellogic, an Argentine space exploration platform.

Chilean Fondo CLIN invested US$300k in Instacrops, a crop monitoring platform, and US$300k in SimpleRoute, a logistics platform. Fondo CLIN is administered by Fundación Chile, with funding from Corfo, family office Zoma Capital, Entel and Engie Factory.

Goldman Sachs led a US$34m investment in Ualá, an Argentine mobile banking app, with participation from monashees, Ribbit Capital, Jefferies Group LLC, Cohen’s Point72 Ventures and Soros’s family office. 

Domo Invest led a R$4m investment in Turbi, a Brazilian car-sharing platform.

Global Founders Capital (GFC) invested R$1,385,000 (approximately US$344,727 as of October 2) to acquire 10% of the Brazilian fintech specialized in financial services of Credit as a Service (CaaS) Zen Finance Tecnologia e Serviço SA.

Mexican private equity fund Beyond Capital presented its new real estate concept, Bloom Residential Tulum, which consists of 95 apartments and more than 40 amenities. The project will begin construction later this year.

Magma Partners made an undisclosed investment in Fanatiz, a football live streaming platform.

Quona Capital, monashees and Chromo Invest made a R$20m investment in Brazilian lending fintech BizCapital.

IGNIA led an undisclosed investment in Kinedu, a Mexican edtech platform for early childhood development,with participation from BeCurious Partners, The Stanford-StartX Fund, and existing investors DILA Capital, Promotora Social México and Stella Maris. NXTP Labs, Social Capital and 500 Startups invested previously. 

Cedro Capital invested R$6m in Gira, a risk management platform for agribusiness receivables, through the Venture Brazil Central fund. 

Orbis Ventures led a US$440k investment in Ultracasas, a Bolivian real estate platform, with participation from Seedstars and Taris.

Scotiabank made an undisclosed investment in Zinobe, a Colombian consumer lending platform, through a joint investment fund with QED Investors.

Astella Investimentos led a R$25m investment in Omie, an ERP platform targeting small businesses. Angel network Verus Group invested previously.

Primatec invested R$5m in FullFace, a Brazilian facial recognition startup working with corporate clients. 

Creation Investments Capital Management made a MX$250m investment in Pluscorp, a Mexican financial services company.

DILA Capital led an undisclosed Series A investment in Dvdendo, a Miami-based micro-investing platform, with participation from Ideas y Capital and others.

DOMO Invest made a R$3m investment in Goomer, a Brazilian self-service ordering platform for restaurants.

Domo Invest made a R$3m investment in Goomer, a self-service restaurant service platform.

MercadoLibre acquired Machinalis, a startup applying machine learning to product recommendation. Machinalis emerged from the math & computation department at la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).

GGV Capital led a US$63m Series A in Yellow, a Brazilian dockless bike service, with participation from monashees+, Grishin Robotics, Base10 Partners and Class 5. monashees+ and Grishin Robotics led a US$9m seed round in 2018.  Yellow is founded by Eduardo Musa, former CEO of bike manufacturer Caloi, and 99 co-founders Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas.

E-Moving, a Brazilian mobility startup renting and selling electric bikes, raised R$3.1m from car rental company Movida, Componente, the family office of Bodytech and SoulCycle investor João Paulo Diniz, and angel investors.

Cedro Capital made a R$1.5m investment in Xvision Tecnologia, a Brazilian omnichannel communications platform for businesses.

Harvard Angels, Anjos do Brasil, Insper Angels and the Startup Farm accelerator made a R$1m investment in Incentiv, a Brazilian crowdfunding startup for tax-incentivized impact projects.

Brazilian seed fund Abseed made an undisclosed seed investment in Movidesk, a Brazilian multi-channel helpdesk platform. Abseed is also invested in Meetime, Aegro and GoCache.

Prosegur Tech Ventures, invested R$15m in fintech Concil, its first contribution to a Brazilian company this year.