Talently closes the largest seed round for an edtech in Spanish-speaking countries. Truora acquires the Brazilian firm ZapSign, Ep 97

This week’s Espresso covers updates from Marvin, Talently, Elevva, and more!

Outline of this episode:

• [00:28] – The Brazilian fintech Marvin closed a $15M Series A round
• [00:50] – The Mexican startup Paisa closed a $600K pre-seed round
• [01:33] – The edtech Talently announced it raised a $3M seed round
• [01:57] – Interview with Doménica Obando, Talently’s CEO and co-founder
• [07:12] – Argentinian startup Elevva raised a $30M seed round
• [07:42] – User authentication startup Truora acquired the Brazilian firm ZapSign
• [07:59] – Interview with Maite Muñiz, co-founder at Truora
• [10:25] – Alejandro Guízar’s featured article on the evolution of the startup ecosystem in Mexico
• [10:43] -The second episode of Hacking Insurance was released

Resources & people mentioned:

• Companies & Startups: Paisa, Talently, Elevva, Truora, ZapSign, Marvin, Simplee, MOVii.
• VCs, Accelerators, Institutions: Canaan, Magma Partners, Precursor Ventures, Latitud, Forum VC, Gaingels, 500 Startups Latam, Alaya Capital, Salkantay Ventures, Newtype Ventures, Potencia Ventures, Latin Leap, Asymmetric Capital, MatterScale Ventures, Canary, Redwood Ventures.
• People: Doménica Obando, Maite Muñiz, Rodrigo Alfonso, Diego Fernández, Alejandro Guízar, Daniel Briceño.