MercadoLibre and Why South America Shouldn’t Settle for Quick and Easy
Back before Brazil was the darling economy of Latin America, all eyes were on Argentina—or at least the dot com “eyeballs” were. In the late 1990s, when VCs, private equity houses and wealthy...
View ArticleIs Globant South America's Next IPO?
There tend to be two types of emerging market tech success stories that get ink, venture capital and revenues from the U.S. The first is the so-called “copycat,” most prevalent amid Chinese Internet...
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GuiaBolso Brings Mint-style Financial Management To Brazil
In August a new, homegrown entry raced onto Brazil’s top 10 most downloaded apps. It’s a list usually cluttered by American-made social media, music and gaming apps; but GuiaBolso, a Mint-style...
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Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law
Despite years of economic uncertainties and the lack of a proper legal framework to help promising startups obtain capital, Argentine entrepreneurs are building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem....
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MercadoLibre and Why South America Shouldn’t Settle for Quick and Easy
Back before Brazil was the darling economy of Latin America, all eyes were on Argentina—or at least the dot com “eyeballs” were. In the late 1990s, when VCs, private equity houses and wealthy...
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Is Globant South America's Next IPO?
There tend to be two types of emerging market tech success stories that get ink, venture capital and revenues from the U.S. The first is the so-called “copycat,” most prevalent amid Chinese Internet...
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GuiaBolso Brings Mint-style Financial Management To Brazil
Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and editor of RedLightR.io and RioChromatic.com. In August a new, homegrown entry raced onto Brazil’s top 10 most downloaded apps. It’s a list usually...
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Argentina’s government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law
Despite years of economic uncertainties and the lack of a proper legal framework to help promising startups obtain capital, Argentine entrepreneurs are building a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem....
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A new $124 million for Brazil’s Movile proves that investors still see...
Brazil’s macroeconomic picture may be gloomy, but technology investors still see hope in the nation’s burgeoning technology sector — and a recent $124 million financing for the mobile conglomerate...
View ArticlePayPal to invest $750M, and Dragoneer $100M, into MercadoLibre, Argentina’s...
It’s not only SoftBank that’s eyeing up the opportunity to tap into the quickly expanding market for e-commerce in Latin America. MercadoLibre, a marketplace and financial services powerhouse based out...
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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...
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