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AUGUST 17, 2021

Brazil’s startup market is reaching new heights, and its domestic stock market could benefit from the boom. According to data from KPMG , Brazilian startups raised the most capital in a single quarter in Q1 2021, when some $1.4 billion raised by Brazilian startups. The IPO market in Brazil is changing, data indicates.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. But Checkout.com kept growing and growing until it raised one of the biggest Series A rounds ever for a European company — $230 million at a $2 billion valuation. Just a year later, Checkout.com added $150 million in funding at a $5.5 It finished 2020 with 940 employees.

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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. The company first hit the market in April.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

Less than three months after announcing a $300 million Series E , Brazilian proptech QuintoAndar has raised an additional $120 million. billion, up from $4 billion at the time of its last raise in late May. With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

InstaCarro , a digital marketplace that connects used car sellers to dealers in Brazil, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. With the latest round, São Paulo-based InstaCarro has now raised more than $56 million since its 2015 inception. Notably, U.S.-based

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

QuintoAndar is taking its first steps out of Brazil to open a technology hub in Lisbon, Portugal aimed at attracting technology talent across the pond. QuintoAndar currently had more than 150,000 properties and $89 billion in assets under management and operates in more than 40 cities across Brazil.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. 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.”

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Just five months after raising $90M, Brazil’s Nuvemshop announced today it has raised $500 million in a round co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global Management. billion and brings the Sao Paulo-based startup’s total funding in the last 10 months to more than $620 million.

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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. The round is nearly double that of what Petlove has raised in its history.

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JUNE 1, 2021

And now the Brazilian regtech has raised $38 million in a Series C round led by Endurance. 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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APRIL 7, 2022

We previously reported on the company last February when it raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic. 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. Image Credits: Jüsto.

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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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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. Having just raised $30 million in a Series C round in October and achieving profitability in 2020, the Nuvemshop team was not looking for more capital. billion in 2023.

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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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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 For one, it comes just four months after the startup raised $62 million in a Series B round. In particular, its growth in Brazil is increasing exponentially.

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JULY 21, 2021

Just over five months after securing $50 million in debt & equity , Valoreo has closed on a $30 million Series A funding round. The company declined to break down how much equity it raised in its seed round, but including debt, Valoreo has secured $80 million since inception.

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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.

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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. Luxor Capital led its $41 million Series B round, which also counted Founders Fund and several other previous investors as backers. Tru Arrow participated in all rounds. .

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MARCH 10, 2021

They’re also investing in funds. Today, Volpe Capital announced the $80 million first close of its fund targeting high growth technology investments in Latin America. Andre Maciel, Gregory Reider and Milena Oliveira are the fund’s founding partners, and are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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JULY 1, 2021

Mercado Bitcoin , a Latin American digital assets exchange, has raised $200 million in Series B funding from the SoftBank Latin America Fund. Founded by brothers Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin was the first crypto exchange in Brazil. billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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JULY 15, 2021

And today, one such company, Play2Pay , has raised $13 million in a Series A round of funding. Play2Pay was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life, raising its first external capital in June of 2020 — a $7.5 TIM in Brazil, lndosat Ooredoo in Indonesia and U.K.-based based Lycamobile.

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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 million since its 2015 inception.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

French startup Swile has raised a $200 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank International Group. With this funding round, the startup has now reached unicorn status, meaning that Swile has a valuation of $1 billion or more. This is a significant round for the company as it keeps raising bigger rounds year after year.

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MARCH 17, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. “That was a pretty strong signal for us to end up taking this [funding]. .

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MARCH 25, 2021

Digital House , a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.

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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. It also invested in Brazilian social grocery commerce company Favo , which raised a $26.5

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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ride Vision , an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platform OurCrowd. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. The company has now raised a total of $10 million.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. The list includes Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Australia, Canada, the U.S., The funds will go toward expanding the 50-person company’s sales and marketing team — both of which have been fairly small portions of the company’s overall headcount.

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MAY 11, 2022

Habi , a Bogota-based proptech, has closed on $200 million in a Series C funding round co-led by Homebrew and SoftBank Latin America Fund. The raise follows a year of strong growth, according to the company, which saw its revenue increase by “well over 20x” in 2021. Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A.,Institución

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Digibee , a low-code integration platform, is doing what all low-code integration platforms are apparently doing right now: raising funding. The company today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A round led by SoftBank Latin America Fund. go-to-market strategy. Don’t hate on low-code and no-code.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Belvo , a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced today it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding. Citing Crunchbase data, Belvo believes the round represents the largest series A ever raised by a Latin American fintech.

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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%

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APRIL 28, 2021

Merama, a five-month old e-commerce startup focused on Latin America, announced today that it has raised $60 million in seed and Series A funding and $100 million in debt. The money was raised “at well over a $200 million valuation,” according to co-founder and CEO Sujay Tyle. . “We

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JUNE 2, 2021

Today, one of those startups has raised a significant round of funding to help it achieve its goals. Existing backers Edison Partners, Soros Fund Management, Greenspring Associates, Raine Ventures, Greycroft and Expansion Capital also put money in the round, which brings Yieldstreet’s total raised to $278.5

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Today, the company, which is building an “all-in-one expense management platform” for global startups, is announcing that it has raised a $57 million Series B at a $500 million valuation. Jeeves is currently beta testing in Brazil and Chile and Thazhmon expects that by year’s end, it will be live in all of North America and Europe.

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JULY 21, 2021

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. With today’s funding round, the company plans to expand its commercial presence across Europe. At the beginning of next year, we’re going to look at Latin America and especially Brazil,” Vaccino said. In addition to the U.K.,

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