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> Naspers and Innova Capital made a US$53m growth investment in Movile. Read more in TechCrunch.
> Fondo Pitanga and Tencent Holdings Limited made a US$27m Series B in Satellogic. Existing investors include NXTP Labs, monashees+, Valor Capital, Cygnus Capital, and Tencent.
> Meritech Capital Partners led a US$30m Series C in Auth0, an identity verification solution, with participation from previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, and K9 Ventures. Cygnus Capital and NXTP Labs are prior investors.
> QED Investors led a US$7m Series A in ComparaGuru, a Mexican financial management platform for insurance and banking products, with participation from Seaya Ventures, Struck Capital, Nova Founders Capital, and Peter Thiel.
> monashees+ and Mindset Ventures led a US$8.5m investment in WorkCapital, a Brazilian fintech developer. FJ Labs also participated in the round.
> DGF Ventures made a R$5m investment in Intellibrand, a digital trade marketing platform, to fund international expansion.
> Criatec 2, a VC fund managed by Bozano Investimentos and Triaxis Capital, will invest up to R$10m in ERP Bling, a Brazilian SME management platform.
> Canary.vc, a Brazilian investment fund created by Peixe Urbano Founder Julio Vasconcellos and four other partners, made a US$256k investment in Terramagna, a the Brazilian IT startup.
> Y Combinator made a US$120k investment in Tpaga, a Colombia-based mobile payment platform from the founders of Tappsi. Tappsi merged with Easy in 2015.
> Dalus Capital made a MXN$72.4m investment in Cultura Colectiva, a digital media company creating content for Spanish-speaking millennials. This is the first investment out of Dalus’ second fund.
> Redpoint eventures and Global Founders Capital made an undisclosed investment in Escale, a Brazilian digital marketing agency.
> IGNIA Capital made an undisclosed investment in KarmaPulse, a Mexico-based social analytics company.
> Axon Partners made an undisclosed investment in Neumarket, a tire ecommerce platform operating in Mexico and Colombia.
> Kick Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Brazilian healthtech startup Portal do Médico.
> Angel network Verus Group made an undisclosed investment in Hands, a Brazilian mobile advertising platform with an MDM (mobile data management) platform.
> Ideas & Capital and ON Ventures made an undisclosed investment in Nimblr, an AI assistant for medical appointments based in California.
> STARTUP DIRECTORY: For more information about VC-backed startups in Latin America, check out LAVCA's Startup Directory, including 144+ early stage companies that have received US$1m+ in funding via a minimum of two rounds of investment and are still in operation.