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Vue.ai raises $17M to equip online retailers with AI smarts
Vue.ai, a U.S./India startup that develops an AI platform to help online retailers work more efficiently and sell more, has announced a $17 million Series B round. The investment is led by Falcon Edge...
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The Stanford connections behind Latin America’s multibillion-dollar startup...
The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel...
View ArticleWhy is Andreessen Horowitz (and everyone else) investing in Latin America now?
Investments by U.S. venture capital firms into Latin America are skyrocketing and one of the firms leading the charge into deals is none other than Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz . The firm that...
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Kaszek Ventures raises $600 million in two funds as Latin America’s startup...
Kaszek Ventures, the investment firm that has been one of the primary architects of the recent boom in startup financing and growth in Latin America, has just raised $600 million across two new funds....
View ArticleLatin America Roundup: XP’s chart-topping IPO, Wildlife becomes a unicorn,...
Sophia Wood Contributor Share on Twitter Sophia Wood is a Venture Partner at Magma Partners. Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm List, an English-language Latin American tech news source. More...
View ArticleLatin America Roundup: SoftBank adds $1B, Stori raises $10M and Grow Mobility...
Sophia Wood Contributor Share on Twitter Sophia Wood is a Venture Partner at Magma Partners. Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm List, an English-language Latin American tech news source. More...
View ArticleRemessa Online raises $20 million to become the TransferWise of Latin America
Remessa Online, the Brazilian money transfer service, said it has closed on $20 million in financing from one of the leading Latin American venture capital firms, Kaszek Ventures, and Accel Partners’...
View ArticleBrazil’s BizCapital raises $12 million for its online lending service
BizCapital, an online lender based in Brazil, has raised $12 million from a clutch of investors, including the German development finance institution, the corporate venture capital fund of MercadoLibre...
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Nuvemshop, a Latin American answer to Shopify, raises $30 million
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...
View ArticleValoreo closes on $50M to roll up LatAm e-commerce brands
A new breed of startups is acquiring and growing small but promising third-party merchants, and building out their own economies of scale. And while there are a number of such startups based in the...
View ArticleMercado Libre taps Pachama to monitor and manage its $8 million investment in...
Mercado Libre, one of the largest e-commerce and financial services company from Latin America by market cap, has selected the startup and Y Combinator alumni Pachama as its strategic partner in...
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Argentina’s Digital House raises over $50M to help solve LatAm’s tech talent...
Digital House, a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding. Notably, two of the...
View ArticleArmed with $160M in funding, LatAm’s Merama enters the e-commerce land grab
Merama, a five-month old e-commerce startup focused on Latin America, announced today that it has raised $60 million in seed and Series A funding and $100 million in debt. The money was raised “at well...
View ArticleThe LatAm funding boom continues as Kaszek raises $1B across a duo of funds
Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region, São Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into...
View ArticleWonder Brands picks up $20M, aims to build marketplace of Latin American...
E-commerce roll-up companies are big in the United States, and Wonder Brands wants to be that for Latin America. The Mexico-based company closed on $20 million in seed funding, co-led by ALLVP and...
View ArticleA wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails
João Del Valle Contributor João Del Valle is the co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a Brazilian fintech unicorn that serves as the gateway to Latin America through its payments platform for global...
View ArticleQuinio jumps into world of e-commerce aggregators with $20M seed
A new company is entering the crowded e-commerce aggregator space to acquire and scale high-performing Latin American brands selling on MercadoLibre, Shopify or Amazon. Quinio, a Mexico-based company,...
View ArticleE-commerce aggregator Merama gets its horn after just 12 months in business
When it comes to investment in e-commerce aggregators in Latin America lately, when it rains, it pours. Merama, which acquires or launches Latin American digital brands, hit a $1.2 billion valuation —...
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As markets shift, Mercado Libre’s falling share price shows no company is safe
The declining valuations of major technology companies, including a host of recent IPOs, were partially triggered by lackluster guidance. As we saw this morning with Upstart, guidance can trump...
View ArticleclicOH’s shipping technology provides Amazon-like logistics to e-commerce...
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...
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