Portage led a USD6.5m seed round for Kontempo, a Mexico-based startup B2B BNPL startup, with participation from SCOR, P&C Ventures, IGNIA Partners, Tectonic Ventures, Rhombuz VC and Asymmetric Capital Partners. The company also raised a USD25m debt facility from Upper90. Read more… Read More
Riverwood Capital led a USD35m round for Geopagos, an Argentina-based digital infrastructure payment platform, with participation from Endeavor Catalyst. The round is the startup’s first major institutional funding since launch nine years ago. Read more… Read More
Monashees and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a USD10m seed round for NG.CASH, a Brazil-based digital money management platform targeting the Gen Z demographic, with participation from 17Sigma and Norte Ventures. Read more… Read More
John Laing Group agreed to acquire Electribus Bogotá, comprising two Colombia-based electric bus concessions, for an undisclosed amount, providing an exit for Ashmore Group through its fund Ashmore Andean Fund II. Electribus is an availability-based public-private partnership project. Read more… Read More
Augment Infrastructure and the Danish Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) agreed to invest USD85m in equity in Órigo Energia, a Brazil-based distributed generation solar energy company backed by TPG, ART-Circularis, MOV Investimentos and Mitsui. Read more… Read More
Vinci Partners agreed to acquire SPS Capital, a Brazil-based alternative asset manager with BRL2b (~USD376m) in assets under management, for an undisclosed amount. Read more… Read More
Canary led a USD6m pre-seed round for Bia, a Colombia-based real-time energy consumption analytics platform for SMEs, with participation from Nazca, 8VC, GFC, Marathon Ventures, MatterScale Ventures and Opera Ventures. Read more… Read More
AINDA Energía & Infraestructura acquired a 3.6% stake in Hokchi Energy, a Mexico-based offshore oil and gas subsidiary of PanAmerican Energy, for an undisclosed amount. Read more… Read More
Banco Votorantim led a USD8m pre-Series A for Darwin Seguros, a Brazil-based car insurance platform, with participation from HIX Capital and angel Guti Vidigal (Singulare) and follow-on from Invisto. Duxx Investments and Invisto invested ~USD2.2 in a seed round for the company in July 2021. Read… Read More
Macquarie Asset Management, through its fund Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V (MIP V), agreed to invest BRL500m (USD92m) in Brazil-based port operator CLI. The deal will facilitate CLI’s acquisition of an 80% stake in Brazil-based Elevações Portuárias (EPSA), a subsidiary of Rumo, for BRL1.4b (~USD259m). MIP V will hold a 50%… Read More
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