> 🦄 #UNICORN Sapphire Ventures led a US$103m Series E investment in Auth0, an identity verification solution founded by Eugenio Pace and Matías Woloski, with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, K9 Ventures, Meritech Capital, Telstra Ventures, and World Innovation Lab, at a reported valuation of US$1b.
- Sapphire led the US$55m Series D in 2018. Cygnus Capital and NXTP Labs are previous investors.
> monashees led a US$10.5m seed investment in Kovi, a provider of rental cars for on-demand drivers in Latin America, with participation from MAYA Capital and ONEVC. Accel partner Kevin Efrusy also invested. Co-founders Adhemar Milani Neto (CEO) and Joao Costa (CTO) are alums of rideshare 99.
> #HRTECH KaszeK Ventures, Redpoint eventures, and QED Investors made a R$16m Series A investment in Xerpa, a Brazilian human resource management platform. Xerpa clients include Gympass and Nubank.
> Andreessen Horowitz made a US$1.6m investment in Meitre, an Uruguayan restaurant management platform. Meitre participated in Y Combinator in Winter 2018 and is founded by Juan and Luis Caviglia.
> Signia Venture Partners led a US$2.5m seed round in Colombia’s Picap to expand its 🏍️ mototaxi mobility platform throughout Latin America. Joining Signia in the Picap round were Peter Livingston with Unpopular Ventures, Another Company Limited, Fahim Saleh of Adventure Capital, and other angel investors.
> DILA Capital and Angel Ventures Peru made an undisclosed seed investment in Emptor, a Mexican identity services platform for on-demand companies.
> Criatec 2 made a R$2.5m investment in DataRisk, a Brazilian online predictive modeling platform focused on credit, collection, and fraud serving mainly financial institutions.
> #HRTECH Superjobs Ventures led a R$1m investment in Matchbox Brasil, a recruitment marketing platform.
> #HRTECH DILA Capital made an undisclosed seed investment in Alana Jobs, a Mexican HR tech platform for the hospitality industry, with participation from additional investors via crowdfunding platform ArkAngeles. This is Alana’s first institutional capital.
> #CVC CEMEX Ventures made an undisclosed investment in LINKX, a Brazilian delivery management platform for construction goods.
> Mexican insurance startup Mango Life raised US$300k from angel investor Manuel Rivero Zambrano, CEO of Banregio.
> #AGTECH Dev Labs made a US$100k seed investment in Altum Lab, a Chilean fish feed optimization platform founded by Madeleine Valderrama.
> #CVC Amazon led a US$575m investment in London-based food delivery platform Deliveroo.
> #CVC #RENEWABLES CEMEX Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Swiss startup Energy Vault, an energy storage technology that enables power to be delivered for less than the cost of fossil fuels.