TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. A number of angels also put money in the round, including Justo.mx The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. Nowports raises $5.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Villadiego was born and raised in the colonial port town of Cartagena, Colombia. I told him we were looking to raise $5 million and he said, ‘I’m in, but it has to be $10 million,’” Villadiego told TechCrunch. Villadiego said he can focus entirely on the work.

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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. The company declined to reveal at what valuation this latest round was raised but it is notable that its Series D is triple the size of its Series C, raised just over six months prior.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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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. Wind Ventures gears up to invest in startups looking at Latin America.

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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 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. It took me six months to buy the car, and then the car had legal and mechanical issues and I lost most of my money,” he said.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. That is, how to spend what’s been pledged so farand how to raise a lot more to help preserve plant and animal life on Earth.

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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 It is “slightly” profitable and has been re-investing that money into growing the business. And it has about 50 clients in the U.S. Mensajeros Urbanos and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

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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

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

JUNE 7, 2022

Ecuadorian payments infrastructure company Kushki has raised $100 million in an extension to its Series B round, more than doubling its valuation to $1.5 The startup had raised $86 million in the first tranche of the financing in June of 2021 at a post-money valuation of $600 million. Europe, APAC and Brazil.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Thanks to a series of warm introductions, the duo managed to start scraping together money and met with investors. ” Soffio said the company plans to use the money to help expand the team and accelerate its growth. He was born in Colombia, adopted, and raised in Stamford, Connecticut.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

To continue its mission, the Miami-based trade finance company raised $7 million in seed funding and $75 million in a credit facility, led by Arcadia Funds LLC and Kayyak Ventures, to increase its credit line to $100 million. He recalls pre-selling his inventory at a discount in order to get the money to import the goods.

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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

APRIL 8, 2022

T ruora , a Colombian user authentication startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding co-led by two Silicon Valley-based venture firms. Propel Venture Partners and Accel led the investment for Truora, which valued the company at $75 million post-money. . That March, it raised $3.5

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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.” In fact, Morado is part of a16z’s new START program.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

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. Nubank is one of the most valuable startups in the world, with over 40 million users across Brazil, as well as Mexico and Colombia. The Nubank EC-1.

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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. In Colombia and Mexico, for someone to be your guarantor, they have to have a property that’s free of mortgage so it can be used as collateral,” Labra told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

For good reason, too: Startups have raised $9.3 VCs have more money than ever, and it’s getting increasingly expensive to invest in North America. These incoming investors must bring more than money to ensure that entrepreneurship continues to grow in a healthy manner, rather than set it off balance. investors remain shy.

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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

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. Slow As, fast Bs.

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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. Longer term, it is exploring the possibility of moving into other Latin American markets such as Colombia, Perú and Chile. In total, the startup has raised $13 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Because life is somewhat funny, after signing up for its service the company reached out to share that it had raised a Series A. This unique vacuum-extraction coffee maker is Colombia’s own. Bottomless raised a $4.5 So, the Series A is more than double all the money that the company as raised to date.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

A high-profile group of angel investors also put money in the round, including NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and the founders of five LatAm unicorns — Nubank CEO David Velez, Kavak CEO Carlos Garcia, Rappi co-founder Sebastian Mejia, Bitso CEO Daniel Vogel and Loft CEO Florian Hagenbuch.

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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. Since 2011, Kaszek has backed more than 120 companies, which the firm says collectively have raised more than $15.5 Image Credits: Kaszek Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

This means that SoftBank still has $400 million to back companies across LatAm, with about 50% of that money going to new investments and the other half going to existing portfolio companies. That marked the fourth straight quarter in which SoftBank Group has reported losing money. And last year, Latitud raised $11.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Some of the questions raised by Latin America’s VC deceleration are the same as elsewhere: How can private investment into startups sustain an accelerated pace when interest rates are rising and public valuations are tanking? Colombia: $457 million, up 56% from Q4 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

A startup that is a blend of the two can be found in Bogota, Colombia-based Simetrik , which just raised $20 million in a Series A funding round at a valuation “north of $100 million.”. In total since inception, the company has raised $29.3 No-code too also remains a draw. million in equity and debt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Fast-forward three months to today, and Datanomik, Strauss’s venture, announced it has raised a $6 million seed round led by a16z. He added that Datanomik also has its sights set on Mexico and Colombia, which are both in the process of adopting an open banking system as well, though they are in earlier stages than Brazil.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Existing investors including Atomico, DN, Infravia, Kibo and Quadrille also participated in the round — which the startup said values its business at $2.35BN (post-money). Alongside the equity raise, the 2009-founded startup has secured another chunk of debt financing ($75M) from Blackrock.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Swvl raised $121.5 million raised by the SPAC was withdrawn — particularly as the SPAC hype gives way in the face of an underperforming market and tighter regulation. The company plans to expand into several countries over the next six months, including Colombia, Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. SPAC merger.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. “We Klarna recently raised $800 million at a $6.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round. The company’s model is similar to that of Thrasio — which just raised another $750 million – – and Perch in the U.S. How it works.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Don’t forget to join us Wednesday for the DeFi & The Future of Programmable Money online event, and then at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 14. HackerRank raised $60 million to continue developing its recruiting tools to not only answer that question, but also enable developers to practice their coding and interview skills.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

RecargaPay originally had operations in various Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, as well as in Spain and the U.S. The company makes money by charging a monthly fee of $19.99 “What we always had in mind was to build — in the long-term — a mobile money ecosystem.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bill Clinton Taps Revamped Causes ‘Birthday Wish’ To Raise Money For Charity: "Former President Bill Clinton is looking to turn his 64th birthday into an opportunity to counter malnutrition in Colombia, reduce childhood obesity in the US, and improve lives around the world.

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