Lighthouse Investimentos made undisclosed investments in POS Controle, a mobile payments solution for small retailers, and Catálogo Delivery, an consumer app for last-mile delivery. (Baguete) A Lighthouse, empresa nacional de…

Global venture builder Techtools Ventures invested R$3m in Eirene Solutions, a Brazilian agtech machinery startup. (ti inside) Após passar pelo processo de aceleração da techtools ventures, a Eirene Solutions está…

Redpoint eventures and DGF Investimentos made an undisclosed Series B investment in GESTO, a big data startup for Brazilian healthcare plans. (Investimentos e Notícias) A GESTO fechou sua segunda rodada…

Global Founders Capital led a US$1.2m investment in Creditoo, an online payroll loan platform for Brazilian private sector employees, with participation from Canary. Creditoo also raised over R$100m through an FIDC (Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios) to realize payroll-deductible loans.

General Atlantic invested R$250m in Brazilian apartment rental platform QuintoAndar at a reported valuation of about R$1.1b. Previous investors include Acacia Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Kaszek Ventures.

Redpoint eventures invested in Repassa, an online platform for buying and selling gently used clothing. The undisclosed amount will be used to improve brand reach and customer experience.

3xBit , a Brazilian cryptocurrency broker,  announced the acquisition of the brokerage Troca Ninja. The two brokerages will integrate their cryptocurrencies and will work with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin, ATM Cash, Smartcash, and others that were being traded by Troca Ninja.

Naspers, Innova Capital, and parent company Movile invest US$500m in Brazil’s iFood. Current investors Naspers and Innova are injecting US$400m, while Movile is providing the additional US$100m. Movile’s contribution is coming from a US$124m investment announced by the same shareholders in July.

Omni invested an undisclosed amount in Ergoncredit, a Brazilian credit fintech for small and medium-sized businesses.  As part of the agreement, the controlling shareholder of the Omni Group, Erico Ferreira, acquired 25% of Ergon.

Accesstage invested R$2m for an undisclosed stake in IN10, a Brazil-based  data analysis and business intelligence company.  

Vostok New Ventures invested US $2m in Agente Imóvel, a Brazilian real estate advertising and data analysis platform.

A presidential decree in Brazil will ease foreign investment into credit-related fintechs. Previously, financial services companies with foreign capital could only operate in Brazil by presidential decree. Now, for companies with foreign capital that are working on credit and lending, such a decree is no longer needed.

Valid announced the acquisition of 51.8% of Agrotopus, a startup focused on corporate solutions for agribusiness. Agrotopus’ customer base is coffee cooperatives that account for 12% of the Brazilian market. The acquisition value is R$ 6.5m. 

Innova Capital led a R$22m Series A investment in Bom Pra Crédito, a Brazilian consumer lending platform, with participation from Astella Investimentos. Astella led the seed round in 2017. 

Anjos do Brasil invested R$525k in Manipulaê, a Brazilian healthtech platform connecting patients to compounding pharmacies.

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

NXTP Labs led a US$1.5m investment in RetailApp, a Miami-based retail analytics platform, with participation from Indicator Capital, Alpha4 Ventures and others. 

The Axxon Group, a private equity fund manager based in Rio de Janeiro, has acquired a majority stake in Westwing,a home decorating e-commerce company.  This transaction represents an exit for Rocket Internet.

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.

The Gontijo family office led a R$5m investment in Alfred, a Brazilian startup building e-commerce locker facilities in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Alfred also formed exchanged equity shares with Pakpobox, a Chinese locker pioneer partnered with Alibaba, through a strategic partnership.

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.

Vector Inovação e Tecnologia (Vit) acquired a controlling stake in Brazilian fintech Beblue, a payments and loyalty platform for small merchants.

Stone Pagamentos IPO’d on the Nasdaq, raising US$1.1b for an initial market cap of almost US$6.6b. Investors include Ant Financial (Alibaba’s investment arm), Madrone Partners (Walton family), Berkshire Hathaway, Tiger Global, Actis, Gávea Investimentos, Valor Capital, and 3G Capital’s founders Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Carlos Alberto Sicupira. 

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.

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

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

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. 

GVAngels invested R$400k in Instaviagem, a Brazilian startup specialized in pre-arranged “blind” travel. GVAngels is a group of angel investors formed by Fundação alumni  Getúlio Vargas.

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.

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.

Cargill has entered into a minority investment agreement with Agriness, a technology company focused on pork production. Agriness, which has a cloud-based digital platform for agricultural production management, has a share of more than 90 percent in the Brazilian pork market.