Carrefour Brazil acquires 49% stake in Ewally
LatAm List – Retailer Carrefour Brazil recently announced that it had acquired a 49% stake in local fintech,…
Founderlist launches campaign to raise $4.6M for six startups
LatAm List – Founderlist, Latin America’s answer to AngelList, opened its first investor day with more than $2.1M…
Axon Partners Group invests in Mexico’s Billpocket
LatAm List – Billpocket is Mexico’s answer to Square, a mobile payments system that allows any vendor to…
Klar, a Mexican Chime clone, raises $57.5M
LatAm List – Klar wants to make banking services available to every Mexican. And to do so, this…
Chile’s PasajeBus concludes Series A with Kaufmann, MakeMyTrip
LatAm List – Chile’s first intercity bus ticketing OTA, PasajeBus.com recently announced the successful closure of undisclosed Series…
Softbank stays bullish on Brazil with $110M investment in MadeiraMadeira
LatAm List – Softbank continues to deploy its Innovation Fund in Latin America’s largest country, this time leading…
Startups, Here’s Why You Should Respond When an Investor Rejects You
I was recently chatting with one of our portfolio founders about the importance of having empathy for entrepreneurs…
Softbank creates another Brazilian unicorn: QuintoAndar
LatAm List – Japanese investor Softbank has led yet another unicorn-producing round in Brazil, this time in real…
August Roundup: Is Latin America ready for a global investment boom?
Japanese investor Softbank has been investing intensely in Latin America ever since the fund dedicated its $5B Innovation…
Puerto Rico’s accelerator, Parallel18, partners with Google Developers Launchpad
LatAm List – Parallel18 is a government-funded accelerator in Puerto Rico that provides startups with $40K equity-free funding…