Mexican fintech Konfio secured a USD80m credit line from Community Investment Management (CIM). Konfio raised a USD110m Series E+ led by Tarsadia Capital and QED Investors in October. (Expansion) – El…

Tarsadia Capital and QED Investors led a USD110m Series E+ for Konfio, a Mexican lending platform for SMEs, with follow-on from SoftBank, KASZEK, VEF, IFC and Lightrock. Lightrock led a…

Lightrock led a USD125m Series E for Konfio, a Mexican lending platform for SMEs. Konfio secured a USD60m credit line from Goldman Sachs earlier this year; SoftBank, KASZEK, QED Investors…

Goldman Sachs granted a USD60m line of credit to Konfio, a Mexican lending platform for SMEs. Goldman Sachs first invested in Konfio in 2019 through a USD250m credit facility alongside…

BID Invest granted a line of credit of up to ~US$60m to Mexican lending platform Konfio. Konfio will have access to an initial ~US$36m in credit capacity which can be…

SoftBank led a US$100m investment in Mexican lending platform Konfio, with follow-on from KaszeK Ventures, QED Investors and Vostok Emerging Finance. Konfio raised a US$250m debt round from Goldman Sachs…

Mexican lending platform Konfio raised a US$250m debt round from Goldman Sachs (US$100m) and Victory Park Capital (US$150m). In 2018, Vostok Emerging Finance led a US$25m Series C investment in Konfio, with follow-on from existing investors Jaguar…

Vostok Emerging Finance led a US$25m Series C investment in Konfio, a Mexican lending platform for small businesses, with participation from existing investors KaszeK Ventures, Quona Capital, QED Investors and the IFC, among others. The IFC led Konfio’s US$10m Series B in 2017.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) led a US$10m Series B investment in Mexican online lending platform Konfío. Existing investors QED Investors, Kaszek Ventures, Jaguar Ventures, Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund (managed…

Mexican fintech startup Konfio just secured a US$8m Series A from KaszeK Ventures, QED, Quona, and Jaguar Ventures, marking both KaszeK and QED’s first investment in Mexico. With fintech heating up, LAVCA spoke to David Arana, Founder and CEO of Konfio about the opportunity for this sector in Latin America and how to effectively build relationships with investors.

(PEHub) Konfio, an online Mexican lending platform, has raised US$8m in new VC funding. Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund led the round, and was joined by Quona Capital, QED Investors, Kaszek…

Mexican digital freight forwarder Nowports raised a USD150m Series C at a USD1.1b reported valuation from existing investors monashees, SoftBank Latin America Fund, Tiger Global and Foundation Capital. Tiger led…

KASZEK led a USD2.7m seed round for Crack the Code, a Peruvian coding platform for K-12 students. (Press Release) – Crack the Code, the coding platformstartup revolutionizing K-12 education in…

MELI Kaszek Pioneer Corp (MEKA), a SPAC formed by Mercado Libre and KASZEK, raised USD287m in an IPO. MEKA will target a Latin America tech company in e-commerce, financial services, logistics,…

Quona Capital led a USD12m Series A for Global66, a Chilean cross-border payments platform, with participation from Magma Partners and Clocktower Technology Ventures, and follow-on from Venrex Investment Management. Global66 raised…

QED Investors led a USD30m Series B for Solfácil, a Brazilian solar energy financing platform, with follow-on from Valor Capital Group. Valor invested USD4m in 2020. (Press Release) – Solfácil, the…

QED Investors led a USD15m Series B for Hash, a Brazilian payment services provider for companies and SMEs, with follow-on from KASZEK and Canary. KASZEK and Canary invested BRL13m in…

QED Investors led a US$6m round in Milo, a Colombia- and Miami-based fintech platform focused on mortgage lending for international buyers  of US real estate, with participation from MetaProp and…

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…

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Quona Capital led a US$15m round in ADDI, a Colombian point-of-sale lending platform, with participation from Foundation Capital, S7 Ventures, as well as returning investors Andreessen Horowitz and monashees.  (Contxto)…

The following resource was shared with LAVCA by SoftBank based on a communication they sent to their investors, partners, and founders. The statement discusses the “Alibaba effect” in Latin America,…

QED Investors closed its sixth fund with US$350m in commitments. QED’s Latin America portfolio includes Nubank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, Konfio and others (Press Release) QED Investors Closes $350 Million Fund VI…

KaszeK Ventures raised US$600m across two new funds, including US$375m for its fourth flagship fund and US$225m for its first opportunities fund. (Press Release) Latin American venture capital firm Kaszek…

ComparaGuru is a Mexico-based financial management platform for comparing insurance and banking products that has raised US$11m in financing to date. In this interview with CEO Fernando González-Ambía, also an Executive in Residence at QED Investors, we learn how ComparaGuru is encouraging financial literacy and bridging the banking gap in Mexico

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.

Fintech investments are on the rise in Latin America, growing 31% (in terms of dollars) and 81% (in terms of deal count) in 2016. Startups in Latin America raised US$500m…

Mexico is in the process of passing Ley de FinTech to regulate the sector, after the country came out on “top in the FinTech space in 2016” with four companies…

500 Startups has opened the seventh batch of its seed program in Mexico City, to invest in Latin American startups. Each startup that participates in the acceleration program will receive…

(ACN Newswire) Scotiabank and QED Investors announced a partnership to inject capital and industry expertise into select Latin American FinTech companies. The joint investment will create a venture capital platform…