dLocal becomes Uruguay’s first unicorn with new $200M investment
LatamList – dLocal, a leading cross-border payment platform, announced a $200M investment round led by existing investor General…
Brazil’s Nubank acquires US software firm Cognitect, creator of Clojure and Datomic
LatamList – Nubank, a Brazilian fintech and unicorn, recently acquired US software firm Cognitect, known for creating two…
Mercado Libre invests $27.1M to build a distribution center in Jalisco, Mexico
LatamList – Mercado Libre, the leading e-commerce platform in Latin America, invested $27.1M to open up a distribution…
Argentine unicorn Auth0 raises a $120M Series F
LatamList – Auth0, a cybersecurity platform that helps companies manage and secure digital identities, and also Argentina’s fifth…
Congrats: Your Company Closed a $100M+ Round. Now the Real Work Starts.
Between the years 2000 to 2010, when companies like MercadoLibre, Despegar, DeRemate, Globant, Technisys, and StarMedia were growing…
Gaming startup Wildlife becomes Brazil’s newest unicorn
LatAm List – Wildlife Studios, a Brazilian mobile gaming startup, recently raised a $60M Series A at a…
Uber’s payment platform Uber Pay to be launched in Brazil
LatAm List – Uber recently announced its plans to launch payment platform Uber Pay in Brazil. The platform…
EBANX is Latin America’s Newest Unicorn
LatAm List – EBANX, a payments fintech company based in Curitiba announced a significant follow-on investment from FTV…
The desperate search for unicorns
This article was originally written in Spanish by Pablo Fernandez, General Manager of Chilean VC Fondo Alerce, for…
Softbank creates another Brazilian unicorn: QuintoAndar
LatAm List – Japanese investor Softbank has led yet another unicorn-producing round in Brazil, this time in real…