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. market in the future.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

On the supplier side, they can upload products, manage pricing and see what is selling and what isn’t. We first profiled Inventa, co-founded by Marcos Salama, Fernando Carrasco and Laura Camargo, in January when it raised $20 million in Series A financing , led by Andreessen Horowitz and Monashees. million seed round.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By digitizing what had been a primarily analog industry, the company has managed to hit a $10 million revenue run rate and sign up 3,000 stores since its launch eight months ago. And that’s just in Colombia alone, said Lafaurie. “Colombia was the most-locked-down country in the whole world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Less than six months after raising $8 million in seed funding, Chilean proptech startup Houm has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Goodwater Capital. With the latest round, Houm has raised a total of $45 million since its inception.

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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. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets. The share of e-commerce in overall retail is less than 10 percent in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Like other financial sectors in Latin America, the retail investing space is getting a facelift by local tech startups that are cashing in on the untapped potential for democratizing asset management in the region. Below is a table that shows their growth including money managed and percent growth each year since launch. Annual Growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

About a year ago, it seemed like myself and other colleagues were writing story after story about spend management companies raising tranches of venture capital — remember Mary Ann’s roundup story from basically this same time last year? With Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, we are covering two-thirds of LatAm’s GDP.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

“With us, businesses can find a more comprehensive ecosystem around payments, logistics, shipping and catalogue/inventory management,” he said. 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.

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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. Its investors are, naturally, bullish. ” . ”

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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. The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. Nowports raises $5.3 The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. It’s a big opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Less than seven months after closing on a $57 million Series B , fast-growing fintech Jeeves has raised $180 million in a Series C round that values the company at $2.1 Financial technology companies raising multiple rounds in a short period of time has become more the norm than an exception as of late.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. and managing director at Qualcomm Ventures Latin America.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After working as a general manager for Uber in Nevada, Jason Radisson realized the need for a way to connect blue-collar workers to companies looking to employ them. The startup is focused on last-mile logistics and delivery, e-commerce fulfillment and large-scale event management. and Colombia, including Amazon, NASCAR, Weee!,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

Brynne leads the hot real estate startup out of Colombia, which reached unicorn status last year with a $200 million raise. As Brynne put it to me, startup founders manage uncertainty — uncertainty in the financial environment, uncertainty in debt lines, and geopolitical uncertainty. The topic is uncertainty.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Rebill , an Argentina-based startup, raised $3.6 million to continue building automated payment collection and subscription management tools for Latin America. His company wanted to manage the whole behavior of collections, including changing the card on file and going through compliance with security measures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The company is already active in 33 countries (most recently Chile, Colombia and Romania) and has some 3 million businesses as customers. The funding is coming from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Bain Capital Credit, Crestline and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.

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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

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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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. Citing Crunchbase data, Belvo believes the round represents the largest series A ever raised by a Latin American fintech. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

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. Today, we look at Yuno , a two-month-old Colombian payments startup which has raised $10 million in a seed round of funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

The financing brings the Bogota, Colombia-based startup’s total raised to $85 million since its 2017 inception. It currently operates in more than 25 cities in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil and has over 600,000 users. Merqueo also reached positive cash flow in Colombia, its most mature market. Image Credits: Merqueo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Treinta , a startup that is part of the Winter 2021 Y Combinator cohort , announced this morning that it has raised north of half a million dollars for its bookkeeping and inventory management software aimed at Latin American small businesses. How is it managing to grow so quickly? The startup is onto something.

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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. The news caught our attention for several reasons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology. Intellia is an up and running startup which has raised $1.5m Traditional consulting firms provide high-quality services but the cost a lot and have rigid terms.

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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. The round values 2TM Group , Mercado Bitcoin’s non-operating parent company, at $2.1 billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It provides identity management and protection for financial services, banking and consumer apps, but Soffio calls it a financial digital passport, which helps with user identification, making the task less cumbersome for both consumers and financial services. He was born in Colombia, adopted, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Fintech startup Jefa has raised a $2 million seed round to build a fintech startup offering digital accounts with a product specifically designed for women living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company has managed to attract 115,000 women on its waitlist and participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Founder and CEO Zach Oschin started the Colombia-based social commerce company in 2018 (and participated in our Latin American Startup Battlefield that year) to move the traditional independent sales process online. Social commerce startup Elenas raises $6M and plans for international expansion.

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Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes. and the European Union.

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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 We’ll know soon enough. The Nubank EC-1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Morado, a two-month-old Colombian startup aiming to digitize beauty salons in Latin America, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round from a bevy of global investors. In its first 30 days of operation, Morado says it “already has national coverage for deliveries in Colombia.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In 2017, he started searching for his biological family in Colombia and reconnected with them. Most of our customers sell through Amazon and Mercado Libre, so we manage their direct-to-consumer inventory and also some of the largest customers from outside of Mexico,” he added. “In York’s backstory is quite interesting.

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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. Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

In addition, merchants can use the tools to handle payment orchestration, payment processing, fraud prevention and lifecycle management based on actionable user real-time analytics. Addi raises $75M to advance ‘buy now, pay later’ in LatAm, nearly triples valuation. We recently saw Sleek raise $1.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

While QuintoAndar dominates the Brazilian market, Houm operates in Chile, Mexico and Colombia, and aims to capture the rest of Spanish-speaking LatAm. The company offers a marketplace run by the property owners themselves and cuts out the realtor by employing 200 freelancers who prepare the property for sale or to manage it.

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