TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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. While Checkout.com didn’t actually need to raise to stay alive, Pousaz says VC firms are a form of validation.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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. That’s up from 20,000 merchants at the start of 2020 and 80,000 at the time of its last raise in March.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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. The company also launched in Brazil last October in São Paulo and has seen steady growth of between 30% and 40% month over month, and the region already represents 25% of Jüsto’s total revenue, Weder said.

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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. 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. “In

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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.

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

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

But in Brazil, where no MLS exists, the challenge of digitizing real estate is even greater. billion, a huge jump from its being just near unicorn territory in January 2020, when it raised a $175 million Series C. The region has seen explosive growth as of late , with a maturing startup scene in Brazil in particular.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Cora , a Brazilian digital lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $116 million in a Series B round led by Greenoaks Capital. It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 It’s also notable that São Paulo-based Cora only raised its $26.7 The startup has now raised a total of $152.7

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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. None of the financings had been previously announced and all were raised over the past 12 months. That investment values the startup at $850 million. Image Credits: Facily.

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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 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 The amount is significantly higher than the $750 million the firm was said to be raising in March of 2021. The amount is significantly higher than the $750 million the firm was said to be raising in March of 2021. billion as well.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

French startup Swile has raised a $200 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank International Group. This is a significant round for the company as it keeps raising bigger rounds year after year. Swile raised a Series A round of $17.4 Brazil is by far the biggest market when it comes to employee benefits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Andre Maciel, Gregory Reider and Milena Oliveira are the fund’s founding partners, and are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Maciel said the fund’s raise was “significantly oversubscribed with firm commitments” and believed to be “ among the best capital raises for a first-time fund in its asset class in Latin America.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

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. It plans to use the new capital mostly to continue acquiring e-commerce brands across Mexico, Brazil and Colombia as well as to do more hiring.

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TechCrunch

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. Riverwood has an office in São Paulo).

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity II, a $525 million for later-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

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. We were planning on starting to raise money right about now. Image Credits: OctoML.

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TechCrunch

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 In 2019, Pipefy raised $45 million from Insight Partners, Openview and Trinity Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Men’s health and well-being startup Manual has raised a $30 million Series A round from U.S.-based The company has already expanded to Brazil. Manual is competing with Numan (which has raised $13 million), also from the U.K. it is competing with Ro (which has raised $876.1 Manual launched a month earlier than them).

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Born and raised in Brazil, Barroso got his master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro and pursued his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1990s before joining Google in 2001.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

At the same time, it has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round led by UAE-based investor Mubadala. Dostavista, the ‘crowdsourced’ same-day delivery service, raises $15M Series B. That left-of-field thinking has seen it expand to countries not typically touched by the bigger delivery startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

For now, Divibank is focused on Brazil, considering the country is huge and has more than 11 million SMEs “with many growth opportunities to explore,” according to Taboada. Today the team consists of eight employees in Brazil, and that number will likely grow to more than 25 or 30 in the coming 12 months, according to Taboada.

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TechCrunch

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. Mexican unicorn Kavak raises a $485M Series D at a $4B valuation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And the company has recently raised another $45 million to consolidate its position. That’s a path that has already produced one multi-billion-dollar business in Nubank, Brazil’s wildly successful fintech company, which planted a flag for a new generation of Latin American startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

It has raised a total of $22.85 Widen, who is Swedish, moved to Brazil about 10 years ago for personal reasons, and while there, was pitched the idea of FinanZero by Webrok Ventures, an investment company focused on bringing Nordic innovation to Brazil. . million to date.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. For now, the three-month-old company is in its infancy — the pre-product phase, which makes it even more notable that the company managed to raise such a large seed round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The raise follows a year of strong growth, according to the company, which saw its revenue increase by “well over 20x” in 2021. With this latest raise, Habi says it has become the second unicorn in Colombia and only LatAm unicorn with a female founder and CEO , according to Crunchbase. Banco Mercantil del Norte, S.A.,Institución

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

I posted this to Hacker News and it gathered 192 comments, including 7 separate reports of master password breaches & login attempts from the same Brazil IP range. He claims that LastPass warned him of a login attempt from Brazil using his master password. This, understandably, raised concerns that a breach took place.

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TechCrunch

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 This is not just a U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For decades, Brazil has had a huge credit problem. To give you an idea of just how bad it is, reports indicated that in 2019, credit card interest rates neared a staggering 300% in Brazil. The consumer lending market in Brazil is massive,” Reiss told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

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. Brazil-based Kinea and G2D Investments also participated in this round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In June, Nu raised a $750 million round led by Berkshire Hathaway at a $30 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable unicorns in the world. Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3 Since its 2013 inception, Nu has raised $2.3 TechCrunch dug deep into Nu in this series earlier this year.

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