Nubank in USD 44b NYSE Listing; Oaktree Provides New Debt to LATAM Airlines; CPP Investments & OTPP Increase Stake in IDEAL

Nubank listed in the NYSE in what is reported to be one of the biggest IPOs in for 2021 at a reported USD44b valuation. Nubank also listed in B3 through…

Berkshire Hathaway led a USD750m Series G extension for Nubank, with participation from  Sands Capital, Verde Asset, Absoluto Partners, MSA Capital, CPPIB and Sunley House at a reported USD30b valuation.…

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GIC, Whale Rock, and Invesco led a US$400m Series G in Nubank at a US$25b valuation, with participation from Tencent, Dragoneer Investment Group, Ribbit Capital, and Sequoia Capital.  Nubank raised…

Advent International has agreed to sell its stake in Brazil-based digital investment platform Easynvest to Brazilian fintech Nubank. As part of the agreement, Advent and other shareholders of Easynvest have…

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Brazilian fintech Nubank raised a US$400m Series F at a reported US$10b valuation. TCV led the round, with participation from existing investors Tencent, DST Global, Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, Ribbit Capital…

Nubank raised R$375m using a Brazilian form of a fixed-income issuance. (Valor Econômico) O Nubank concluiu a captação de R$ 375 milhões com a emissão de letras financeiras, avisou nesta…

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Nubank doubled its valuation to US$4b this year with a US$180m investment from Tencent, representing about a 5% stake in the company. US$90m was a direct investment from Tencent; the other US$90m in equity was purchased from existing shareholders. In March 2018, DST Global led a US$150m round in Nubank at a valuation over US$2b, with participation from Thrive Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and existing investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and QED Investors. Previous investors include KaszeK Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global Management. Tencent’s last disclosed direct investment in Latin America was a 2017 Series B in Satellogic, an Argentine space exploration platform.

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DST Global led a US$150m investment in Brazilian fintech Nubank, with participation from Thrive Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, and existing investors Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital and QED Investors.…

Nubank closed a new R$250m credit line from FIDC (Fundo de Investimentos em Direitos Creditórios). Nubank previously raised R$200m and R$445m credit lines from Goldman Sachs. (Baguete) O Nubank captou…

(New York Times) DST Global, the investment firm started by Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner, led a US$80m round in Nubank, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Prior…

(Valor Econômico) Brazilian fintech startup Nubank has received a R$200m debt investment from Goldman Sachs.

(DealBook) Brazilian start-up Nubank, a mobile-based credit card business, received in December a new financing round led by Founders Capital and previous backers Sequoia Capital, Kaszek Ventures, and Tiger Global.

(TechCrunch) Brazil is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets, with 90 million smartphones in circulation among a population of about 200 million, and today a fin-tech company that…

(TechCrunch) Nubank, a financial services startup based in Brazil, is today opening for business with two key pieces of news. It is launching its first product: a MasterCard Platinum credit…

(Startupi) CZI, the investment arm of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, led a Series C for Beep Saúde, a Brazil-based at-home laboratory test and home care platform, with follow-on from DNA…

(Pipeline | LatamList) Chromo Invest led a BRL9m (~USD1.7m) round for Civi, a Brazil-based hyperlocal security news platform, with participation from Canary and angels David Velez (Nubank) and Guilherme Bonifácio…

LAVCA’s seventh annual Latin American Startup Directory profiles 523 startups that raised USD1m+ in venture funding in 2021 and 1H 2022, during a time of record venture investment in the region. 

Canaan Partners led a USD15m Series A for Marvin, a Brazilian working capital financing platform, with participation from Mauá Capital, and follow-on from Canary. Canary invested in August 2021.  (índices…

San Francisco-based Altos Ventures led a USD16.7m Series A for Galena, a Brazilian professional upskilling platform for public school graduates, with participation from Owl Ventures, Globo Ventures, Reaction and Exor,…

Andreessen Horowitz and NFX led a USD11.5m seed round for Latitud, a US and Brazil-based enterprise platform for Latin American startups’ company formation, cap table and cross-border capital management, with…

Company: Technisys Investors: KASZEK, Dalus Capital, Riverwood Capital Interview with: CEO Miguel Santos SoFi, a US-based consumer finance management platform, recently acquired Technisys, a digital banking platform with operations in…

 Vine Ventures led a USD17.5m Series A for Cayena, a Brazilian food and cleaning products wholesale marketplace for restaurants, with participation from Astella Investimentos, Clocktower Ventures, FJ Labs, Gilgamesh, Endeavor…

DILA Capital and ALIVE Ventures led a USD14m Series A for Slang, a Boston-based edtech focused on career development, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Roble Ventures, and IDB Lab. ALLVP and…

UK-based VC DN Capital led a ~USD22.2m Series A+ for Sami, a Brazilian healthcare plan management platform for SMEs, with follow-on from monashees, Valor Capital Group and Redpoint eventures. Valor Capital…

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…