SoftBank Latin America Fund led a R$310m (~US$58m) Series D in olist, a Brazilian ecommerce platform, with follow-on from Valor Capital, Peninsula, VELT Partners, FJ Labs, and angel investor Kevin Efrusy.…

San Francisco-based VC Index Ventures led a US$19m Series A in Sofía, a Mexican digital health insurer and telemedicine platform, with participation from KaszeK Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Sofia is…

monashees, ONEVC, and Y Combinator led a US$5m seed round in Facio, a Brazilian financial education and payroll advances platform, with participation from angels Igor Marchesini (SumUp), Gabriel Braga (QuintoAndar),…

Tribe Capital led a US$13.5m Series A in Mati, a Mexico-based identity verification technology provider, with follow-on from Spero Ventures, Amaranthine, Operator Partners, Aglae Ventures, and Comma VC. Mati raised…

monashees and Qualcomm Ventures led an undisclosed Series A in Azion, a Brazilian developer of edge computing software applications. (Fusões & Aquisições) – A Azion, uma das líderes globais em…

SP Ventures invested R$14m in Traive, a Brazilian lending platform for agricultural producers, with participation from Bread & Butter Ventures and Techstars. (Valor Econômico) – A SP Ventures, gestora de…

Astella Investimentos led a US$1.4m round in BossaBox, a Brazilian on-demand platform connecting SMEs with remote teams of product managers and software developers, with participation from Redpoint eventures and MIT…

London-based VC fund Passion Capital led a US$1.4m round for Warren, an Estonia-based self-service distributed cloud platform with operations in Brazil. (TechCrunch) – Started as a side project by its…

US-based hedge fund Viking Global Investors led a US$150m round in Conductor, a Brazil-based payments processor and card issuance provider for fintechs, with participation from Advent affiliate Sunley House Capital,…

KaszeK Ventures, Peninsula, the family office of Abilio Diniz, led a R$17m round in Cuidas, a Brazilian enterprise primary care platform for employees, with participation from 3G Capital founder Jorge…

Astella Investimentos invested R$8m in Gove, a Brazilian public finance management platform for local municipalities. (Exame) – Foi pensando em formas de retribuir o auxílio que recebeu da prefeitura de sua cidade…

Vine Capital led a US$4m round in Tül, a Colombian supply chain management platform connecting construction material manufacturers with small businesses across the country. (TechCrunch) – With a new $4…

IDB Invest led a US$15m round in GAIA, a Mexican digital on-demand furniture and interior design platform. Rise Capital led the US$15m Series B in 2018, and co-led the US$2.5m Series…

Bradesco’s Inovabra Ventures led a R$37m round in Asaas, a Brazilian financial management platform for microentrepreneurs and SMEs, with follow-on from Parallax Ventures. Cventures also invested R$2m in 2015 and…

DOMO Invest invested R$4m in Even3, a Brazilian platform for hosting science and technology-focused events online.  (Exame) – A pandemia do novo coronavírus acelerou o setor de eventos. Mas apenas aqueles que…

Oikocredit invested an additional R$20m in a Series B in BizCapital, a Brazilian lending fintech providing credit for small businesses, bringing the total round to R$85m. German bank KfW Group’s subsidiary…

 Alameda Ventures, the VC fund of US-based trading firm Alameda Research, invested R$40m in Transfero Swiss, a Switzerland and Brazil-based digital assets and cryptocurrency investment platform.  (Fusões & Aquisições) –…

 monashees led a US$14.5m in Pier, a Brazilian insurtech for smartphones and vehicles, with participation from Canary, Mercado Libre’s MELI Fund, and BTG Pactual’s innovation hub BoostLAB. (Exame) – Startup que…

 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…

IFC and Prosus Ventures led a US$15m Series A in Klar, a Mexican personal finance management and lending platform, with follow-on from Quona Capital, Mouro Capital (formerly Santander Innoventures), and…

Valor Capital and monashees led a R$86m Series A in Sami, a Brazilian healthcare plan management platform for SMEs, with participation from Canary, and follow-on from Redpoint eventures.  (Press Release) …

Cleantech Ventures, Israeli venture capital fund, with support of Chilean state development agency CORFO, and Greenvestment’s administration, opened a 3-MW Candelaria solar photovoltaic (PV)  park in Chile. The project will…

Budapest-based VC fund PortfoLion and the Polish National Center for Research and Development (NCRD) invested US$5.3m in edrone, a Polish customer service and marketing automation platform for ecommerce, with the…

KaszeK Ventures led a US$2.1m round in ChatPay, a Brazilian platform for online fitness and executive coaches that runs on WhatsApp and Telegram.  (Brazil Journal) – Com um de cada…

KaszeK Ventures, monashees, and WIND Ventures, the CVC fund of Chilean energy company Copec, led a US$12m Series A in Chiper, a Colombian supplier management e-commerce platform for independent merchants.…

alpha4 Ventures, Amador Holdings, Polymath Ventures, and Meesho invested US$2m in Elenas, a Colombian e-commerce platform enabling women to launch online businesses on Facebook and WhatsApp.  (Crunchbase) – Social commerce…

Andreessen Horowitz led a US$48m Series A in Casai, a Mexico-based developer of boutique travel apartments, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund, KaszeK Ventures, monashees, Global Founders Capital…

KaszeK Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures led a US$30m Series C for Nuvemshop (also known as Tiendanube), an Argentina-based e-commerce platform for SMEs with offices in São Paulo and Buenos Aires,…

Manutara Ventures, Ideas Impact, FJ Labs, and angels invested US$2.5m in Chilean fintech Xepelin. Other investors in Xepelin include Oskar Hjertonsson, Ignacio Canals, Gonzalo Rojas, Diego Fleischmann, and Daniel Undurraga. …

MedPass, Brazilian employee healthcare management platform for SMEs, raised US$6m from undisclosed investors. MedPass raised US$1.5m in 2016 from Brazilian private equity firm OSF Merchant Banking.  (Press Release) -With strong…