SoftBank launches $200M SPAC for Latam tech companies
LatamList – SoftBank has requested authorization from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a $200M Special-Purpose…
New SoftBank $100M fund invests in Lumu Technologies
LatamList – SoftBank Group announced a new fund of $100M for technology startups. One of the first companies…
MadeiraMadeira raises $190M funding round
LatamList – MadeiraMadeira, the Brazilian homeware marketplace, raises a $190M funding round led by SoftBank Group. Additional contributors…
VTEX raises $225M Series D and joins the unicorn club
LatamList – VTEX, an e-commerce company, raised a $225M Series D funding round from various investors. SoftBank, Endeavour…
SoftBank to add $1B to its $5B Innovation Fund
LatAm List – SoftBank, the Japanese telecommunications giant, recently announced a further $1B to be added to the…
SoftBank’s largest deals in Latin America are still to come
LatAm List – SoftBank recently confirmed its intentions to continue with its multibillion-dollar investment in the Latin American…
SoftBank invests $100M in Mexico’s Konfio
LatAm List – The Japenese fund SoftBank recently invested $100M into the Mexican small-business lender Konfio. The investment…
Escuela Del Sur #9, 2019: What Changed for TecnoLatino? We Finally Embraced Who We Are
2019 will be remembered in the history of the TecnoLatino as “The year of change.” 2019 was the…
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…
Softbank creates another Brazilian unicorn: QuintoAndar
LatAm List – Japanese investor Softbank has led yet another unicorn-producing round in Brazil, this time in real…