Brazil’s Base Partners closes $135M for LatAm growth fund
LatAm List – Base Partners, a growth-stage VC fund based in São Paulo, recently announced they had raised…
Movile to become the “Brazilian Alphabet”
LatAm List – As a nod to Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., Movile’s CEO Fabrício Bloisi told Estadao…
Brazilian unicorn iFood tests new forms of food delivery
LatAm List – iFood, a Brazilian on-demand food delivery startup that became a unicorn in November 2018, has…
The History Behind The Movile Mafia: Latin America’s Biggest Startup Group
Everyone’s heard about the PayPal Mafia, the group of founders and first hires that launched the company over…
10 Top Stats from LAVCA’s Inaugural Startup Survey
LatAm List – Today, LAVCA and Facebook released their first survey of Latin American startups, reviewing a sample…
Smart Money Ventures invests $259K in Produttivo
LatAm List – Smart Money Ventures, invested $259K (R$1M) in Produttivo, a startup from Curitiba that specializes in…
Latin America’s Five Most Competitive Industries for Startups in 2019
Fund managers in Latin America often review 3-5 applications for investment every day. Most of these startups can…
Brazil’s Top 5 Tech Deals of 2018
LatAm List – 2018 was a banner year for startups and VC in Latin America. As usual, Latin…
2018: The Year Latin American Startups Hit the Gas – And Didn’t Let Up
It’s been a year since we founded LatAm List to share Latin American tech news with the English-speaking…
After US$500M investment, iFood reaches 12.3M monthly orders
LatAm List – Latin America’s food delivery leader, iFood, has been growing fast since raising what may have…