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Advent International has invested USD430m in Brazil-based cross-border payment platform Ebanx. Advent invested through its Latin American Private Equity Fund (LAPEF), Global Private Equity (GPE), Advent Tech and Sunley House…

FTV Capital, a US-based growth equity firm, made an undisclosed follow-on investment in Brazilian payments processor EBANX at a reported valuation over US$1b.  FTV Capital invested US$30m in 2018 with…

FTV Capital and Endeavor Catalyst Fund have made a US$30m investment in Brazilian payment processor EBANX.  (Press Release) EBANX, a company headquartered in Brazil that offers Latin American local payment…

Advent International and SoftBank led a USD225m Series B for Merama, a Mexico- and Brazil-based e-commerce brand aggregator, with participation from Globo Ventures, and follow-on from monashees, Valor Capital Group,…

Honey Island Capital and Quartz invested ~USD2.6m in Tecnofit, a Brazilian finance and membership management platform for fitness studios. Honey Island Capital is a seed investment firm run by EBANX…

US-based growth equity fund FTV Capital led a BRL190m Series B for Vortx, a Brazilian asset custody and issuance platform for corporate trusts. Pedro Englert, Marcelo Maisonnave and Eduardo Glitz…

KaszeK Ventures led a R$20m Series A in OmniChat, a Brazilian chat-based customer service platforms that uses WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS, with follow-on from Honey Island Capital, a seed…

Quest Venture Partners made a US$4m follow-on investment in dataPlor, a Brazilian startup crowdsourcing local retail market intelligence, with participation from Space Capital and FF Venture Capital. Quest Venture Partners…

OmniChat, a Brazilian sales facilitation platform that runs on WhatsApp, raised R$1-2m from Honey Island Capital (formerly Hi Capital), a seed investment firm run by EBANX founders. (Globo) O WhatsApp…

This leaderboard tracks Latin American tech unicorns, privately held tech companies with post-money valuations of US$1b+ based on their last disclosed valuation event.

(Pulso Social) World Bank Group member IFC has invested US$7 million in SafetyPay, a Latin America-focused global payment solution that allows consumers to make online purchases from merchants worldwide.