TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

LatAm venture fund Kaszek Ventures led the equity portion of the financing, which also included participation from partners of DST Global and a slew of other firms and founders/angel investors. based asset managers and hedge funds — including Chilean pension funds — provided the credit facilities. “The

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

As a longtime real estate developer based in Chile, Benjamin Labra was able to spot gaps in the buying and renting markets in Latin America. While QuintoAndar dominates the Brazilian market, Houm operates in Chile, Mexico and Colombia, and aims to capture the rest of Spanish-speaking LatAm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. for school and stayed to work in growth marketing at Postmates, Wayfair and Getaround before starting Yummy.

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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, is making fast work out of attracting funding. It announced today $82 million in Series C funding, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors Kaszek and Prosus Ventures. That interest didn’t happen before,” he added. “It

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Chile’s Buk , which has developed a human resources management platform for Latin American companies, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at $417 million. Secondly, it makes Buk the third most valuable startup in Chile after Cornershop and NotCo.

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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%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Mudafy , a tech-enabled real estate broker operating in Latin America, has raised $10 million in a Series A round of funding led by San Francisco-based Founders Fund. With its new capital, Mudafy’s immediate priority is to expand to more cities in Mexico, a market it entered in 2020. In total, the startup has raised $13 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Chile-based Migrante is working to change that. Initially starting in Venezuela, now with $30 million in Series A funding and $80 million in a debt facility, it is moving into both Colombia and Mexico. They started in Chile, which is a competitive market, and are now growing in Peru and into Colombia and other parts of the region.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

E-commerce is an $85 billion business in Latin America, and as that market is poised to essentially double in three years , the current consumer demands to receive orders on time and packaged correctly will only increase. Joining them is JAM Fund and existing investors Flexport, FundersClub and Vast VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Anthos Capital led the latest round, with additional participation from JAM Fund, whose founder Justin Mateen was an investor in the seed round. He came to the United States for school and stayed to work in marketing roles at Postmates, Wayfair and Getaround before starting Yummy. “We The company launched this month in Peru and Chile.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Garcia sees three different waves in this market: the first one being traditional supermarkets, where you can spend hours, which led to the second wave of food delivery companies, including some big players in the region — for example Rappi in Colombia, which in July raised $500 million in Series F funding at a $5.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

The list includes Chile, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Australia, Canada, the U.S., It typically is owned by the laser scanning market,” says Sanz. “The 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

billion of that capital has been allocated across more than 80 investments, according to Juan Franck, managing partner of the SoftBank Latin America Funds. We continue to be extremely excited about the opportunities in LatAm,” said Alex Szapiro, managing partner of the funds, in an interview. “It

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

But Ethan Choi, a partner at Accel, said his firm saw in Nuvemshop the potential to be the market leader, or the “de facto” e-commerce platform, in Latin America. Today, Nuvemshop is announcing that it has closed on a $90 million Series D funding led by Accel. Separate markets require distinct knowledge. billion in 2023. “In

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It also comes a day after fellow LatAm e-commerce aggregator Quinio announced $20 million in initial funding to acquire some 30 companies. Armed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab. The latest funding will enable the company to expand into Argentina and the United States. billion in 2023.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The e-commerce market in Latin America has been gaining traction over the past two years and is poised to double in size and be valued at more than $100 billion by 2025. With this new funding, the company aims to invest in technology development, build operations in Brazil and Chile and launch some embedded finance products and services.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

The legacy then of the offline local markets stalls the development of industries that are primarily online and focused on regional or global markets. To get there, however, local tech entrepreneurs need to share skills, ideas, know-how, and market knowledge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Mentum is out to change that in Latin America, and is working on customizable investment APIs and widgets so businesses in Latin America can build and offer fully digital investment products, like local mutual funds, ETFs and stocks, to their customers. The products are also compliant with local regulations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

To make the school more affordable, Henry looks to take on the same strategy used by Lambda School, a YC-graduate that has raised over $122 million in known funding: income-share agreements. They’re focusing on all emerging markets and don’t teach to Spanish speakers,” Borchardt said. Now, VCs are giving Henry some cash to do so.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

The startup has raised $110 million in a growth funding round led by U.K.-based Co-founder Marcelo Jacques noted that when the company started to talk to the market about what it did, essentially explaining what infrastructure in fintech and payments meant, “it was difficult.”. People didn’t get it,” he told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

While the pace of funding these days is unlike most of us have ever seen before, it’s pretty remarkable that Jeeves essentially signed the term sheet for its Series B just two months after closing on its Series A. Mexico is its largest market. and The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Venture Capital.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 5, 2013

A: But what about dev, marketing, customer service etc? B: It limits my market drastically, but it’s still big enough for me to live comfortably off of. VC fund (A, B, C…). It does that by entering a large market and taking share away from incumbents or by creating a new market and growing it rapidly. Make a sale.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. We propose that governments should systematically support funding for their diaspora founders, not just founders locally. There are three main players in any tech ecosystem: The first are founders who want to build companies and need funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it announced financing totalling €750 million (around $895 million at today’s rates), money that it will be using to continue expanding its business — specifically, for acquisitions; to launch in new markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia; and to build out the suite of services that it provides to businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

NovoPayment is a global BaaS startup based in Miami that has largely been focused on offering its API platform to customers in the Latin American market. It plans to use the new funding to gain new customers, particularly in the U.S. market, as Miami continues to grow as a hub for the financial services sector, according to Perez.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion and brings the Sao Paulo-based startup’s total funding in the last 10 months to more than $620 million. “With 650 million consumers, Latin America is not only a huge market, but it is the fastest growing e-commerce market in the world,” said Matt Gatto , managing director at Insight Partners.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2017, already has operations in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. The Series B will be used to accelerate growth and expand to Brazil and nine other markets in Central America. That’s why Kushki’s approach has to be somewhat custom in each country. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

UBITS, a B2B online learning platform for upskilling employees in Latin America, has raised $25 million in funding led by Riverwood Capital. The startup has also partnered with Coursera to provide access to UBITS courses in the B2C market. At the end of 2021, almost 100,000 students had used its platform, up from 28,000 the year prior.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Jüsto , the Mexico City-based online grocer, continues to run on all cylinders with a goal of saturating the Latin American market. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

million in Series A funding. The round will be extended for up to $20 million to give Wonder Brands around $40 million in total funding, Federico Malek, co-founder of Wonder Brands told TechCrunch via email. Wonder Brands , an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5

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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. For its part, SoftBank Latin America Fund described Mercado Bitcoin as a “regional leader in the crypto space” that is “ tapping into a huge local and regional addressable market.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

DEUNA , a Silicon Valley-based one-click checkout commerce startup, is officially joining Latin America’s nearly $100 billion e-commerce sector with $30 million in Series A funding after largely staying under the radar since being founded in late 2020. This is a big market opportunity, in some ways more compelling than the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America can find it difficult to get the funds they need to export their goods to the United States. Marco was backed last September by a small seed round from Struck Capital and Antler and over $20 million in a credit facility underwritten by Arcadia Funds. There is a lot of value to tackle.

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TechCrunch

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. In May 2020, Belvo raised a $10 million seed round c o-led by Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund and Argentina’s Kaszek. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

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. Each market has its own regulation and nuances, and legacy providers offer poor technology at expensive prices,” he said.

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