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Company: Descomplica Investors: Invus Opportunities, SoftBank, Peninsula Participações, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Edge, Valor Capital Group, Amadeus Capital Partners Interview with: CEO Marco Fisbhen Brazilian edtech Descomplica recently raised a…

SoftBank and Invus Opportunities led a US$84.5m round in Brazilian edtech Descomplica, with participation from Península Participações, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and U2 guitarist The Edge, and follow-on from Valor Capital…

Invus Opportunities made a R$54m investment in Brazilian edtech Descomplica, with participation from previous investors Valor Capital, Amadeus Capital and Social Capital.  (Press Release) O Descomplica, maior empresa de ensino digital…

Venture capital backed startups Creditas, Descomplica, Contabilizei, and Satellogic were rated among the 10 most innovative companies in Latin America. Investors in these companies include Kaszek Ventures, e.Bricks Ventures, and…

(Press Release) Amadeus Capital Partners’ global Digital Prosperity Fund has led a Series C funding of US$7m in Descomplica, Brazil’s largest online classroom. Existing investors in the company, including The…

(TechCrunch) Internet penetration and social media usage are on the rise in every corner of the globe, but few can hold a candle to the level of adoption one finds…

SoftBank led a USD2.3m round for Abstra, a Brazilian no-code app development environment for corporates. Iporanga led a ~USD720k pre-seed round in September 2021.  (TechCrunch) – Abstra, which has developed a…

Iporanga Ventures led a ~USD720k pre-seed round for Abstra, a Brazilian no-code app development environment for corporates, with participation from YC.  (Press Release) – Democratizar a programação, possibilitando a mais…

General Atlantic led a USD70m Series B for Crehana, a Mexico- and Peru-based upskilling platform for corporates and retail consumers. This is the second largest known round in a Latin…

General Atlantic led a USD70m Series B for Crehana, a Mexico- and Peru-based upskilling platform for corporates and retail consumers. This is the second largest known round in a Latin…

We Ventures invested ~USD1.1m in Mobees, a Brazilian marketing intelligence platform installing ads in ride-sharing and last-mile delivery vehicles. (InfoMoney) – As marcas tiveram de explorar canais digitais para se…

Astella Investimentos invested ~USD1.4m in Croct, a Brazilian sales and marketing platform for tailoring company websites to individual consumers, with follow-on from Felipe Almeida (Zup). Croct’s clients include Sem Parar,…

Canary led a USD1.4m round for Lastlink, a Brazilian community and subscription management platform for content creators, with participation from Graph Ventures and angel investors Israel Salmen (Meliuz), Marcela Rezende…

Brazilian healthtech Ânimo Wellness raised a US$300k pre-seed round from Barrah Investimentos (B1), IndicatorCapital, Wharton Angels, Fundação Estudar Alumni Partners, Lupa Capital, and angels including Sergio Furio (Creditas), Guilherme Bonifacio…

Iporanga Ventures and others invested R$5m in Simplypag, a payments platform for domestic laborers. (Estadão) Com um mercado de 15 milhões de pessoas empregadas em funções domésticas e pequenos estabelecimentos,…

Movile raised a fresh US$124m round of financing for iFood, led by Naspers, with participation from Innova Capital. Last year, Movile raised US$82m for iFood and US$53m for Movile, also from Naspers and Innova Capital.

Fernando Lelo de Larrea, Managing Partner of ALLVP, Michael Nicklas, Partner at Valor Capital, and Patrick Arippol, Managing Partner at DGF Investimentos, talk about the role that early stage investors…

When it comes to international players investing in Latin American startups, US investors dominate the list, representing 67% of all global investors into LatAm startups since 2013.

European investors are playing an increasingly active role in financing LatAm startups, co-investing alongside local and global investors, with a tendency towards fintech and edtech.

LAVCA Director of Venture Strategy, Julie Ruvolo, lays out the venture capital opportunity for local and international investors in Latin America. (TechCrunch) Latin America just might be the most overlooked…

On a recent trip to São Paulo and Rio I was struck by the number of investors who talked to me about education deals, and a few weeks earlier I was in Mexico hearing about a string of healthcare transactions.

(TechCrunch) Despite a miserable macro-economic mix of circumstances, including the worst recession in almost 100 years, the biggest corruption scandal Brazil has ever seen, and calls for President Dilma Rousseff’s…

(Baguete) Get Ninjas received a round of investment totaling R$40m. The investment marks the entrance of Tiger Global Management as one of the platforms investors, in addition to Monashees Capital…

(TechCrunch) After nearly being eradicated when the Dot-com bubble burst in 2000, the Brazilian startup community has been slow to come back. However, over the last two years, growth has been…

(Gávea Angels) August 16, 2011 – Gavea Angels, an angel investor group based in Rio de Janeiro, realized its first exit with a partial divestment in Descomplica, an online education…