The LAVCA Venture Investors News Feed features venture capital fundraising, investments, exits, and other industry news.
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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MAYA Capital reached a US$15m second close for early stage startups in Latin America from unnamed family offices in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. (LABS) MAYA Capital, a…
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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) –…
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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…
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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…
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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) …
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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SP Ventures invested R$6m in debt financing in Ambar Tech, a Brazilian real estate construtech providing digitization services for construction projects. In 2019, Igah Ventures (formerly e.Bricks Ventures) made a…
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Igah Ventures led a R$6m round in Dr. Jones, a Brazilian DTC brand for men’s beauty products, with participation from Norte Ventures, Bruno Nardon (former President of Rappi in Brazil),…
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brMalls, Cyrella Commercial Properties, and MultiPlan Invest R$30m in Delivery Center (em português)
Brazilian shopping center manager brMalls, Cyrella Commercial Properties, and Multiplan invested R$30m in Delivery Center, a Brazilian platform connecting digital vendor marketplaces with brick-and-mortar retail stores. (Reuters) – As gestoras…
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Riverwood Capital invested R$50m in a Series B extension in Cortex, a Brazilian SaaS marketing and sales platform, with participation from Redpoint eventures and Endeavor Catalyst. SoftBank’s Latin America Fund…
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Fuse Capital, Suquet Capital Partners, and 4P Investimentos, the family office of the late plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy, led a R$40m Series A in Fligoo, a San Francisco-based sales data…
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Bossa Nova Investimentos has partnered with Olympic swimmer Thiago Pereira and marathon runner Ítalo Nogueira to create a R$5m fund to invest in 15+ sports and wellness startups. (Startupi) Sempre…
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Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Serena Ventures, Aglae Ventures, Air Angels, Sweet Capital and ThirdKind Ventures invested US$5m in Pachama, a San Francisco-based marketplace for carbon offset projects with initiatives in Brazil…
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Global Founders Capital, Ribbit Capital, MAYA Capital, and Y Combinator invested US$3.3m in Alude, a Brazilian proptech streamlining the client management process for real estate brokers. (LABS) – The Brazilian…
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Tiger Global and Lone Pine Capital led a R$1.25b Series D in Brazilian ecommerce SaaS platform VTEX, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst, and follow-on from Japanese VC fund Constellation Asset…
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IDB Invest invested R$95m in FreteBras, a Brazilian freight marketplace, through its Clean Technology Fund. As part of the investment, FreteBras will improve its carrier matching process to reduce idle…
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Riverwood Capital-backed Brazilian healthtech Pixeon acquired BoaConsulta, a platform for scheduling health appointments, for an undisclosed amount. Exisiting BoaConsulta investors Koolen Partners, Performa Investimentos, Valor Capital, and 500 Startups, will…
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monashees led a R$20m round in EmCasa, a Brazilian proptech for buying and selling residential real estate, with participation from Caravela Capital, Mercado Libre’s MELI Fund, Pear Ventures, and Washington-based…
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Cultivan Sandbox Ventures invested US$2m in Leaf, a San Francisco-based agtech startup for integrating farmland data across tech platforms, with participation from SP Ventures and Radicle Growth. (FinSMEs) Leaf, a…
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Valor Capital led a R$25m Series A in Quasar Flash, a Brazilian fintech providing receivable advances for SMEs. (Startupi) A Quasar Flash, startup que realiza operações de antecipação de recebíveis…
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Movile led a R$60m round in Zoop, a Brazilian white label fintech platform for SMEs and startups. Mobile invested US$18.3m in Zoop in 2019. (Press Release) Movile, one of Latin America’s…
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KaszeK Ventures led a R$100m Series A in Ideal, a fully digital Brazilian broker dealer for institutional investors. (Press Release) Broker dealer Ideal announced today a BRL 100 million funding round led…
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General Atlantic and SoftBank’s Latin America Fund led a US$108m Series B in Acesso Digital, a Brazilian digital identity and facial recognition company. e.Bricks Ventures led a R$40m round in…
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DOMO Invest exited Brazilian edtech Agenda Edu, an app that connects students’ parents to their children’s school day, via a sale to Eleva Educação for an undisclosed amount. (Brazil Journal)…
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