TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

Fund 97

Fund Raise Argentina Uruguay 97

TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

million in a funding round led by Brazilian venture capital firm Canary. Bolivia and Brazil, Flourish has developed a solution that features three main modules: . Flourish began by testing end-user mechanics with organizations such as CommonWealth and Opportunity Fund. Mexico and Brazil. based startups. In the U.S.,

Bolivia 120

Bolivia Brazil Raise Help 120

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Weder planned on using the Series A funding to expand across Mexico and Latin America — a market he told me represents a $600 billion opportunity — and that’s just what the company did. That further expansion is backed by a new round of funding, this time $152 million in Series B funding, again led by General Atlantic.

Peru 92

Peru Brazil Mexico America 92

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In an interview, the startup described Brazil as a hostile market for payments, with a quarter of transactions failing and merchants paying a multiple of what they pay in other markets to process payments. Other investors in the round included Verve Capital and Norte Ventures , among others.

Brazil 89

Brazil Raise API Hype 89

TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

billion in new capital in what appears to be a close of its seventh fund, according to a filing with the U.S. The new fund, dubbed Ribbit Capital VII LP, is believed to be the final close of the fund. It is also more than double the $420 million it raised in its sixth fund in January of 2020.

Files 100

Files Fund Raise North America 100

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

million in seed funding to expand across the country. The funding will be used to accelerate growth, technology development, expansion into other Brazilian cities and develop additional supplier partnerships. Clubbi , a Brazilian business-to-business resource for small food retailers, brought in $4.5

Brazil 78

Brazil India Fund Develop 78

TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Early-stage venture capital fund Newtopia VC launched Monday with $50 million to invest in tech startups based in Latin America. The fund will invest between $250,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage to help them achieve the milestones needed on the path to raising a Series A. We aim to help entrepreneurs in those stages.

Argentina 102

Argentina Fund America Brazil 102

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The investors raised $40 million for their first fund after starting the firm in 2018 and have now closed on $100 million in capital commitments for MAYA’s second fund. With their first fund, they backed over 29 companies in 12 sectors across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. Women make up just 2.4%

Fund 79

Fund Brazil America Colombia 79

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Brazil and Mexico continue to lead as regions where many startups are getting funding, but as LAVCA’s statistics show, some of that investor love is being spread around to other countries like Colombia, Argentina and Chile. We were not the biggest or the most seasoned fund, but were emerging managers.

America 94

America Fund Colombia Ecuador 94

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap , an early-stage venture capital firm focused on emerging markets fintech, has launched a $30 million fund. Last month, the firm, formerly known as Rally Cap Ventures, reached its first close of $20 million (its initial target) before increasing the fund size, signaling a strong LP appetite. About 40% are based in the U.S.,

Global 98

Global Fund Marketing Africa 98

TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Kaszek Ventures , one of Latin America’s first venture firms, has raised $975 million across two funds. Specifically, the São Paulo-based firm has closed on Kaszek Ventures VI, a $540 million early-stage fund and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity-III (KVO-III), a $435 million vehicle for later stage investments. billion in capital.

Fund 94

Fund Uruguay Ecuador Peru 94

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The round was led by D1 Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Ribbit and BOND, and brings Kavak’s total capital raised to date to more than $900 million. Kavak recently soft-launched in Brazil, and this new round of funding will be used to build out the Brazilian market and beyond, said Carlos García Ottati, Kavak’s CEO and co-founder.

Brazil 97

Brazil Argentina Mexico Raise 97

TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Pipo Saude , a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Nubank co-founder and CEO David Velez and Cedar co-founder and CEO Florian Otto (and former CEO of Groupon in Brazil) also joined in the round. Pipo Saude raises $4.6

Brazil 101

Brazil Benefit Digital Fund 101

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Childhood friends David Grandes and Andres Andrade, both originally from Ecuador, started Mimic in 2018 in Brazil as a dark kitchen-as-a-service, specializing in producing food at scale with online channel sales. The funding enables us to round out our product and our teams. We are also moving to be an embedded finance company.”.

Brazil 87

Brazil Digital Mexico Ecuador 87

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Many people are unaware that Brazil has the largest Black population in any country outside of Africa. As with counterparts in the United States, Brazil’s Black founders have less access to capital. Like counterparts in the U.S.

America 109

America Brazil United Kingdom United States 109

TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he referred to as a “Groupon for Brazil.” In Brazil alone, e-commerce sales grew 73.88% in 2020, but Toledo said there was much room for improvement.

America 127

America Brazil Raise Argentina 127

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy. ” The $90 million funding raised is a combination of debt and equity, $45 million each. Brazil, Pakistan, and the Philippines. ” More than 1.5

Fund 98

Fund Marketing Technology Africa 98

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. Since 2007, the number of publicly listed companies in Brazil has decreased from 400 to just a little over 300. public exits per year; by 2019, even Iran had more listed companies than Brazil. Share on Twitter.

Brazil 94

Brazil Iran Local Public 94

TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

This year, QuintoAndar expanded operations into 14 new cities in Brazil. Its rental platform is live in 40 cities across Brazil, while its home-buying marketplace is live in four (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre) and seeing more than 10,000 sales in annualized terms.

Raise 118

Raise Platform Brazil America 118

TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Petlove&Co, a São Paulo-based digital platform for products and services for the pet market, announced today that it has raised about $150 million (R$750 million) in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital. Currently it is only available in a few cities in Brazil, such as São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. .

Product 93

Product Brazil Service Raise 93

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million in seed funding backed by a group including American Designer and Rachel Zoe, who is both an investor and advisor to the New York-based company. For example, in November, Facily, a Brazil-based social commerce marketplace, closed on a $250 million Series D round.

Fund 82

Fund Brazil Social Network United States 82

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

million seed round led by Passion Capital, with plans to expand in South America, where it recently launched in Brazil. Warren’s seed funding also included participation from Lemonade Stand and angel investors like former Nokia vice president Paul Melin and Marek Kiisa, co-founder of funds Superangel and NordicNinja.

Local 109

Local South America Amazon Brazil 109

TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. This morning, digital real estate platform Loft announced it has closed on $425 million in Series D funding led by New York-based D1 Capital Partners. This latest financing brings Loft’s total funding raised to an impressive $700 million.

Brazil 104

Brazil Raise Platform United States 104

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Tiger Global, Spruce House, D1, SEA, Founders Fund, Ribbit Capital, SoftBank and others also participated in the latest financing. The startup currently has 40 logistic and reconditioning hubs in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. billion since its 2016 inception. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

Fund 97

Fund Mexico Argentina America 97

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. Each fund since then has been better than the one before it, he added.

Fund 72

Fund Oracle Cisco America 72

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

GGV Capital, monashees, Canary, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, ONEVC, Peninsula and Norte also participated in the funding, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million. The company is also examining the possibility of expanding outside of Brazil to all of Latin America. . He describes idwall as a “one-of-a-kind” startup. . ” .”

Brazil 98

Brazil Platform Raise Colombia 98

TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Matheus Tavares Dos Santos Contributor Share on Twitter Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. More posts by this contributor US-listed SPACs have a new target: Latin American tech companies Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups?

Brazil 83

Brazil United States Sponsor Fund 83

TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Lonardi says the company attempted to go after funding early on but noted that the angel investor landscape was not as prevalent six years ago. million in funding. That funding gives Treggo some runway to more aggressively target Mexico and to begin thinking of a future in Brazil, Lonardi said.

Argentina 81

Argentina Fund Mexico Chile 81

TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

Brazil’s QuintoAndar, which has developed a real estate marketplace focused on rentals and sales, has seen impressive growth in recent years. And today, the São Paulo-based proptech has announced it has closed on $300 million in a Series E round of funding that values it at an impressive $4 billion.

Brazil 96

Brazil America Phase Fund 96

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. SoftBank is launching the new fund with an initial $3 billion commitment. billion in 48 companies with a fair value of $6.9

Companies 101

Companies Tech America Brazil 101

TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

Bitso , a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised $250 million in a Series C round of funding that values the company at $2.2 Secondly, the company believes the funding makes it the most valuable crypto platform in Latin America. In particular, its growth in Brazil is increasing exponentially.

Global 100

Global Brazil Mexico Raise 100

TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

A number of other investors also participated in the financing including Clocktower Ventures, Mantis – the VC firm owned by The Chainsmokers, Goodwater, Gaingels, Soma Capital and Rebel Fund. Z1 participated in Y Combinator’s Winter ‘21 batch earlier this year, and at the time got $125,000 in funding from the accelerator.

Teen 83

Teen Brazil Digital America 83

TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based Outside of Brazil, it has operations in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic. based Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, bringing its valuation to over $1.5

Dominican Republic 80

Dominican Republic Companies Fund America 80

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year. Luxor Capital led its $41 million Series B round, which also counted Founders Fund and several other previous investors as backers. That investment values the startup at $850 million.

Brazil 99

Brazil Raise Social America 99

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cañadell told TechCrunch that there are 50 million so-called microbusineses in Latin America — including Brazil, a market that Treinta has yet to expand to — of which 90% still use paper to record their business transactions. The startup has runway to get it through the end of Summer 2021, and big plans.

Colombia 91

Colombia Fund Brazil America 91

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Nuvemshop has seen the number of merchants on its platform surge to nearly 80,000 across Brazil, Argentina and Mexico compared to 20,000 at the start of 2020. Today, Nuvemshop is announcing that it has closed on a $90 million Series D funding led by Accel. Nuvemshop currently operates in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.

Raise 108

Raise Argentina Brazil America 108

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The round was co-led by Brazil-based Echo Capital and Oria Capital , with participation from TPG Capital , Argonautic Ventures , and others. According to the company, it has raised R$360 million in equity funding to date. In contrast, it is currently present on 1,500 building sites across Brazil. C commitment.

Brazil 91

Brazil America Fund Site 91