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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. “In

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 10, 2021

Volpe also received a “large anchor investment” from its management team. Andre Maciel, Gregory Reider and Milena Oliveira are the fund’s founding partners, and are based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. So far, it’s backed Uol Edtech, a subsidiary of Grupo Uol that aims to redefine the digital learning experience in Brazil. . “We

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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. In Borzo, we find a team with a clear vision of the opportunity in the evolving on-demand delivery space.

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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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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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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Justos , a startup that says it will be the first insurance company in Brazil to use data when determining rates, has raised a $35.8 met while playing soccer on an amateur team in San Francisco. . We measure how safely people drive using the sensors on their cell phones,” Chadha told me at the time of the company’s last raise.

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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 This is not just a U.S.

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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. Looking ahead, the Open Co team is refreshingly transparent regarding financials.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Fintech startup Yapily has raised a $51 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Germany and Italy, Yapily will hire new team members focused on France and Spain. 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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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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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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AUGUST 9, 2022

Convertedin , an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi Arabia-headquartered Merak Capital. The three-year-old Egypt-headquartered company also has offices in Saudi Arabia and Brazil; it just recently opened one in the latter.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

InEvent , a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. CEO Pedro Góes told me that even in a world of more established and better-funded platforms, his team sees an opportunity to break out by focusing on business-to-business events.

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MARCH 10, 2022

On Wednesday, TechCrunch reported on Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, and its $6 million raise. One of its co-founders is Ariel Lambrecht, who also helped start mobility startup 99, Brazil’s first unicorn.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Kann was inspired to start Papaya after growing up in Brazil, where a similar payment technology already exists. . Kann teamed up with computer vision scientist Jason Meltzer, who led development for the computer vision technology behind the Roomba at iRobot, to build Papaya. In this respect, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In late May, the startup announced it had raised $35 million in an equity round led by Union Square’s Opportunity Fund, and $30 million in debt funding from Architect Capital. Addi is currently available for e-commerce, mobile and brick-and-mortar purchases in Brazil and Colombia, with plans to expand across Latin America in the coming years.

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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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JUNE 14, 2021

Brazil is a country riven with economic contradictions. Financial transactions that would take days to process in the United States through ACH happen instantaneously in Brazil. According to an HBS case study , “in December 2018 the interest rate in Brazil for corporate loans was 52.3%, for consumer loans it was 120.0%

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MAY 28, 2021

But in markets like Brazil, the idea is still considered relatively novel. And now Justos has raised about $2.8 Ultimately, the trio decided that the auto insurance market would be an ideal sector considering that in Brazil, an estimated more than 70% of cars are not insured. . Here in the U.S. Similar to Root here in the U.S.,

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MAY 20, 2021

He hails from Brazil and is a member of the powerful industrial family that controls a major steel producer, a leading textile producer and a bank (Steinbruch said that factory14 has no connection to these, and is not an investor in the startup). Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. The round comes less than a year after Melonn raised a pre-seed round from NFX.

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MAY 19, 2021

million seed round, bringing their total raised to $3.25 To get a sense of the product, Upstream invited me to be the speaker at last Friday’s “Upstream Social,” where I talked about my work as a journalist and then coincidently got matched with two founders — one in Brazil and the other in Boston.

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JUNE 14, 2021

He’d brought on two co-founders, assembled ambitious engineering and operations teams, raised $2 million in seed funding from Sequoia and Kaszek, rented a tiny office in São Paulo, and was armed with a mission to deliver the kind of banking services that customers in a market as large and lucrative as Brazil’s should expect.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Mara, a São Paulo-based startup that aims to “reinvent” the grocery shopping experience for the underserved in Latin America, has raised $6 million in a funding round co-led by Canary and Caffeinated Capital. It’s teaming up with local merchants, who not only serve as a pickup point, but help provide awareness about Mara’s service. .

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Creditas , the Brazilian lending business, has raised $255 million in new financing as financial services startups across Latin America continue to attract massive amounts of cash. billion thanks to $570 million raised in outside financing over five rounds. The company’s credit portfolio has crossed 1 billion reals ($196.66

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

To Menon, it was a massive market severely underserved by traditional payment service providers such as Stripe who are strong domestically, but in his view, were poor at clearing international payments in growing markets like Brazil, India and Mexico. Consumers outside the U.S. Consumers outside the U.S.

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