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…

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…

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…

 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…

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) …

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 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,…

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…

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…

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),…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…