“To have democracy, we must be willing to fight for freedom.” BY MARIA CORINA MACHADO Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, but was unable to accept the award in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2025 due to repression by the regime of Nicolas Maduro. Her daughter Ana Corina Sosa […]
Riverwood Capital has closed on $1.8 billion in new capital, the growth investment firm announced today. The firm last raised in 2020, with total capital commitments of $1.4 billion at that time. Riverwood’s strategy is to invest in and support “high-growth” mid-size technology companies that are either profitable or with positive unit economics. The new […]
Construex, an Ecuador-based software-as-a-service marketplace for the construction and design industries, secured $4.6 million in seed funding. Zacua Ventures and Fifth Wall co-led the round and were joined by ABSeed and Terracotta Ventures. Roberto Arroyo started the company with his brother, Nicolás Arroyo, in 2019 after working in his family’s construction business as well as […]
One in five new cars sold globally is now electric. So what’s it actually like to own one? Are EV drivers constantly hunting for chargers and sweating over battery percentages, or have they found electric life surprisingly smooth? The Global EV Alliance, a nonprofit network of national EV drivers’ associations, polled more than 27,500 electric […]
The venture capital activity in Latin America is coming back, and startups there have a new pool of capital to go after. NXTP, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, business-to-business startups, secured $98 million in capital commitments for its third fund — its largest fund to date. Touting itself as one of the region’s […]
Zubale, a Mexico-based company providing tools to retailers to scale their digital channels, brought in another $25 million in what co-founder and CEO Sebastian Monroy is calling a Series A extension round. QED Investors led the investment and was joined by an investor group that included NFX and Kevin Efrusy. We last wrote about Zubale […]
Identification requirements, high fees and a language gap have long been barriers to preventing some Latino immigrants from opening a banking account in the United States. Comun wants to change that. The New York-based neobank is the latest to provide banking services customized to the needs of immigrants. While most traditional banks require customers to […]
Bank and technology platform Kapital continues to rake in venture capital, grabbing another $40 million in Series B dollars and $125 million in debt financing. Tribe Capital led the Series B and was joined by backers, including Cervin Ventures, Tru Arrow, MS&AD Ventures and Alumni Ventures. This marks the second investment for the Mexico City–based […]
Guilherme Rodrigues, Luciano Junior and Rafael Crespo met while working at VTEX, a commerce company providing tools for managing web storefronts; however, they bonded over wanting brands to have more control over their website front ends. That’s how Deco.cx came about. The trio created an open source front-end development platform for Deno, JSX and Tailwind […]
Conta Simples, an expense management and corporate card company in Brazil, raised a Series B round of $41.5 million, or more than R$200 million. Base10 Partners led the round and was joined by Conta’s Series A investors, including Valor Capital, Jam Fund, Y Combinator, Big Bets, Broadhaven and DOMO. As part of the investment, Base10 […]