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> Dalus Capital led a US$3m Series A investment in Sirena, an Argentine mobile SaaS sales solution, with participation from NXTP Labs and unnamed local funds.
Co-Founder and VP of Marketing Julián Bender says Sirena connects customers and sellers in traditional businesses, and integrates with the business’ communication channels, including sales reps using their own mobile phones to communicate with leads.
> Astella Investimentos made a US$1.2m seed investment in SumOne, a CRM for small retailers. SumOne CEO Lucas Prim:
Nosso propósito: ajudar os negócios locais a usarem ferramentas digitais para transformarem seus negócios para a nova realidade socioeconomica. Hoje a grande maioria de estabelecimentos são de food service, mas muito pela minha familiaridade com o ramo (já tive uma rede de restaurantes). Atendemos também pet shops, barbearias, lojas de suplementos e até mesmo sex shops!
> An unnamed family office made a US$2m Series A investment in Priced, a Brazilian big data analytics platform for retail. Angel investor Leonardo Teixeira previously made a seed investment in 2015.
> Sinai Ventures, Mexamerica Ventures, and others made a US$1.46m investment in Flint, a Mexican mobile wallet app that was accelerated at Y Combinator in 2018. Flint was founded by four students from Prepa UP.
> Wayra Brasil announces investments in Back4App, Getup Cloud, RankMyApp, Social Miner, and DB18.
> Metha, a renewable energy startup from Paraná, Brazil, is one of 19 startups to receive R$1m from Finep Startup (formerly Startup Brasil). Finep Startup plans to invest R$400m over the next few years. Here’s the full list:
Byond, Fitbank, GeekSys, Incentivendas, Kokku, Mainô, Marina Tecnologia, Meerkat, Metha Soluções, NeuroUP, Oktagon, Omics, Optimale, Pragas.com, Projeta Sistemas, Prosumir, @Tech, Treevia Forest Technologies, VM9
> Last issue we covered Konfio’s US$25m Series C, led by Vostok Emerging Finance, with participation from existing investors KaszeK, Quona Capital, QED, the IFC. Jaguar Ventures also followed on.