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AUGUST 24, 2021

Firms such as SoftBank, Tiger Global Management, Tencent, Accel, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors are pouring money into LatAm. ” Local VCs are raving about the human capital in the region, but for some global investors, the appeal of Latin America extends beyond the talent to the general populace.

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APRIL 7, 2022

At that time, CEO Ricardo Weder told TechCrunch that the company, which was founded in 2019, weathered the first year of the global pandemic well, seeing 2020 revenue increase 16-fold. The global pandemic helped a lot in terms of grocery adoption in Latin America,” he added. Image Credits: Jüsto.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Prior to the global pandemic, suppliers were extending net terms of 30 days to pay, but at that scale, it is hard to build up credit for small businesses, Murata told TechCrunch. Then with the global pandemic, the pace at which business-to-business payment was moving online was accelerating,” Murata told TechCrunch. trillion by 2028.

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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.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

million in Series A funding to continue developing its app that takes grocery orders through local social networks. Tiger Global Management led the round, with existing investors GFC, Elevar Equity, Kevin Efrusy, David Velez, FJ Labs and H2O participating. Families in Brazil spend, on average, $118 a month on food.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Just over five months after raising a $9 million seed funding round , Latin American fintech Pomelo announced today that it is raising $35 million in Series A financing led by Tiger Global Management. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Swap , a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management. Endeavor, Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, partners of DST Global, ONEVC, Global Founders Capital and Flourish Ventures all participated in the latest round.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

In fact, Tiger Global and Tencent are first-time backers in Cora with this latest round, joining existing investors Greenoaks, Kaszek, QED and Ribbit Capital. Last year, Cora got its license approved from the Central Bank of Brazil, making it a 403 bank. What does Brazil’s new receivables regulation mean for fintechs?

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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management , the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. New Enterprise Associates closed its newest fund with $3.6 billion last year.

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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.

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JUNE 6, 2022

The funding will be deployed into areas including expanding its business in the U.S., My dream, since the beginning of Agrotools, is to change global agribusiness, bringing to it efficiency and true sustainability,” Rocha said. “In Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

The company has closed a $450 million Series C round with Tiger Global Management leading the round — Greenoaks Capital and all existing investors are also participating. Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 Checkout.com is now valued at $15 billion based on today’s funding round.

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MAY 24, 2021

Today his startup — which builds AI-based personalized learning, including test prep, for students — is announcing a major funding round to help it position itself as a player in that process. Seoul-based Riiid has closed a funding round of $175 million, an equity round coming from a single backer, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2.

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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

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

The List joins the social commerce movement with a new app connecting consumers with global luxury brands and retailers to offer a personalized discovery and shopping experience. 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.

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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.

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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.”.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. Paulo Rogério Nunes.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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

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JULY 26, 2021

NotCo , a food technology company making plant-based milk and meat replacements, wrapped up another funding round this year, a $235 million Series D round that gives it a $1.5 This funding round follows an undisclosed investment in June from Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer through his firm EHI. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Bold , a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia, has raised $55 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management. In fact, he noted that in Colombia, cash still represents over 80% of transaction volume versus 35% in Brazil and 30% in the United States.

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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. Glade Brook led its $63 million Series C financing, which included participation from Tiger Global Management and Hill House. That investment values the startup at $850 million.

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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.

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MAY 12, 2022

If there’s one area that has thus far felt insulated from the global venture downturn, it’s infrastructure. The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based Existing backers Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital also participated in the financing.

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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.

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. SoftBank Latin America Fund led the financing with a $50 million contribution, bringing Pipefy’s total raised to $138.7 The company plans to use its new capital to “significantly accelerate” its global expansion.

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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?

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MAY 18, 2021

Brazil and New Zealand, has raised $30 million from Tiger Global and partners of London-based DST Global to expand into Europe. We set out to change the game for retail investors and were self-funded for the first four years of our journey. Commission-free trading app Stake , which is available in the U.K.,

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MARCH 10, 2021

More global investors are backing startups in the region and certain sectors in particular, such as fintech, are exploding. Global investors are not only pouring money into companies. They’re also investing in funds. Notably, Maciel is the former managing partner at SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America-focused innovation fund.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. GGV Capital, monashees, Canary, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, ONEVC, Peninsula and Norte also participated in the funding, bringing its total raised to nearly $50 million. ”

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