Deals
▸ Valor Capital Group and QED Investors led a USD27m round for Capim, a Brazilian financial management platform for dentists, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst, Credit Saison, Actyus and follow-on from ONEVC, Canary and NXTP.
▸ AGTECH | KASZEK led a ~USD15.5m round for Grão Direto, a Brazilian agricultural commodity marketplace, with participation from Endeavor Scale-Up Ventures, CME Ventures, SLC Ventures and undisclosed investors.
- Grão Direto raised USD8m in March 2022; Brazil-based PE firm Lanx Capital led a ~USD2.7m round in February 2021; Grão Direto was Monsanto Growth Ventures inaugural investment in Brazil in 2018.
▸ DEBT | Maxxa, a Chilean digital credit platform, secured USD10.6m in debt from Symbiotics and Delphos.
▸ AGTECH | ALIVE Ventures and Desert Bloom Foods led a USD9m Series A for GoodSAM, a US-based producer of regenerative consumer products in Colombia and other emerging economies, with participation from LATAM Impact Fund, Promotora Social Mexico, One Small Planet and Connecticut Innovations.
▸ Sequoia Capital led a USD5.5m round for Enter, a Brazilian AI startup developing a legal defense platform for enterprises, with participation from ONEVC and Atlantico.
- This is Sequoia’s first investment in a Brazilian startup since leading the USD14.3m round for Nubank in 2014.
- CEO Mateus Costa-Ribeiro shares the story behind Enter and Sequoia’s conviction behind the founding team.
▸ KASZEK invested USD5.5m in Niva, a US- and Mexic0-based automated business verification platform.
▸ Costanoa and CV iDEXO, the CVC arm of TOTVS, led a ~USD5m Series A for Malga, a Brazilian e-commerce solutions platform, with participation from IGNIA Partners, Gaingels and follow-on from QED Investors, Norte Ventures and YC.
▸ 4Equity Media Ventures invested ~USD4.8m in Buser, a Brazilian bus ticketing platform.
▸ RediRedi, a Brazil-based digital catalog platform, raised USD3m from undisclosed angels.
▸ Sytrex, a Colombian reinsurance automation startup, raised USD1.1m from Broom Ventures, Kuiper, Aito Capital and AAC Capital.
▸ Yavendió, a Mexican e-commerce solutions platform, raised a USD850k pre-seed round from Magma Partners, iThink VC and Semilla Ventures.
▸ Arar Capital invested ~USD800k in Picsel, a Brazilian agricultural insurance startup.
▸ Espírito Santo’s FUNSES1 led a ~USD590k pre-seed round for Loopia, Brazilian e-commerce solutions platform, with participation from ACE Ventures, BVC and Questum.
▸ HRTECH | Crescera Capital and Triaxis Capital led a ~USD480k round for Gibb, an on-demand payroll startup.
▸ Citi invested in Kanastra, a Brazil-based capital markets infrastructure startup.
▸ Equity Group invested in One Big Media, a Brazilian digital media startup.
▸ Salkantay Ventures led an undisclosed seed round for Equip, a Peruvian construction materials marketplace.
▸ AGTECH | The Yield Lab Latam invested in Agricapital, a Colombian agricultural financing platform.
▸ IMPAQTO Capital invested in CICLO, a Peruvian construction materials recycling startup.
▸ BIOTECH | The Yield Lab Latam invested in Phage Labs, a Chilean biotech developing alternative disease treatments to control cattle sickness.
- Phage Labs raised a USD11m round in January 2024; KASZEK and Humboldt Fund led a USD30m round in June 2021.
▸ HEALTHTECH | Imagine Ventures invested in Yana, a Mexican mental health and wellness platform.
- ALLVP led a USD1.5m round in June 2021; Yana raised USD315k from Magma Partners, Hustle Fund and 500 Startups earlier this year.
▸ SaasSholic and MAYA Capital led an undisclosed seed round for Jusfy, a Brazilian ERP for lawyers and accountants, with participation from Norte Ventures, FJ Labs and The Legal Tech Fund.
- SaasSholic led a ~USD1.4m round in December 2022.
▸ Amplifica Capital invested in Bioplaster Research, a Mexico-based nanomaterials research startup.
▸ Vita Wallet, a Chile-based international transfer platform, raised USD750k from ABC Din.
▸ M&A | ComunidadFeliz, a Chilean operations and finance management platform for condominiums, acquired Swappi, a Chilean project management platform.
- ComunidadFeliz raised a USD1m debt round from BTG Pactual in March 2024; Clout Capital invested USD2m in July 2020.