TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In its home country of Colombia, the startup has already had an impact. It partnered with ACH Colombia to work on The Transfiya project, which includes direct read and write API access to 80% of the accounts in the country. With the raise of new capital, however, we will also offer a self-service SaaS to fintechs soon.”. “We

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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. While there, they came up with a way to use A/B testing to create a way of dealing with payments in different markets.

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TechCrunch

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., It typically is owned by the laser scanning market,” says Sanz. “The Skycatch Raises $13.2M Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Japan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. 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. billion in 2023. “In

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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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2020

And that’s just in Colombia alone, said Lafaurie. The company will soon open operations in Ecuador, which Lafaurie said was the second-largest hardware market (per capita) in Latin America. “Colombia was the most-locked-down country in the whole world.

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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

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, the Colombia-based company announced a $3 million pre-Series A led by MatterScale Ventures and Kayyak Ventures. In addition to Colombia, the company already has operations in Mexico and plans to use part of the funding to expand further in the region as well as building out a marketing and sales team, which it hasn’t had thus far. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. 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.

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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

JUNE 1, 2021

For the consumer market, its “MeuID” app is aimed at users who want to change the way they identify themselves and share their data. And now the Brazilian regtech has raised $38 million in a Series C round led by Endurance. Fraud prevention platform Sift raises $50M at over $1B valuation, eyes acquisitions.

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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.

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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

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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JUNE 25, 2021

Earlier this week, The Exchange wrote about the early-stage venture capital market , with the goal of understanding how some startups are raising more seed capital before they work on their Series A, while other startups are seemingly raising their first lettered round while in the nascent stages of scaling.

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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. It’s a huge market and it’s hugely underserved.”.

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TechCrunch

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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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

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

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. billion valuation.

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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. We’re excited to expand into Colombia and are identifying additional regions throughout LatAm,” he added. “We

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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

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. For one, it represents one of the largest (if not the) largest Series A rounds raised by a Latin American startup to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

and Colombia, including Amazon, NASCAR, Weee!, To help it grow and further expand its reach, Shift One just raised a $5.2 Looking ahead, it plans to use its new capital to expand into new markets (it’s currently operating in about 12 states), boost its headcount of 20 and accelerate its tech roadmap. “In

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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

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Intellia is an up and running startup which has raised $1.5m How it works is by engaging remote talent from emerging markets which can now (because of the acceptance of remote working, post-pandemic) participate in much higher value roles in finance, strategy, and public policy.

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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. market in the verticals of e-commerce, marketplaces, fintech and software. million Series A last October.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Given the attention that TechCrunch pays to Y Combinator’s Demo Days , we also try to keep tabs on the same startups as they scale and raise more capital. million raise after taking part in YC’s Summer 2019 session. The investment was raised in two pieces: a $500,000 check in February and the other $1.2

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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

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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JULY 8, 2022

They also recently brought on Jose Jorge Molina, who was previously chief marketing officer for Bitso, to join the founding team to lead marketing. E-commerce is a hot market in Latin America, with the founders estimating it will grow 30% each year. We recently saw Sleek raise $1.7 We recently saw Sleek raise $1.7

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Chime was early in telling the market that it was EBTIDA positive , for example, unlike less profitable European neobanks. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Leading startups and unicorns in the market niche have raised tectonic sums of capital to get to where they are today. The Nubank EC-1.

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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. Lockdown in Colombia forced many small businesses online in a hurry.

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MARCH 2, 2022

Patjane told TechCrunch that he wasn’t immediately looking for additional capital after closing the Series B, and in fact had plans to begin raising again this year. 99 minutos, Mexico’s last mile delivery startup, raises a $40M Series B. That interest didn’t happen before,” he added.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

In total, NotCo, with roots in both Chile and New York, has raised more than $350 million, founder and CEO Matias Muchnick told TechCrunch. Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Muchnick plans to allocate some of the new funding to establish markets in Mexico and Canada and add market share in the U.S.

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