Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in December: Dec 29 Fintech Nomad, which allows Brazilians to open a checking account with banks in the United States, raised an investment of R$ 30 million, in a round led by Monashees. Dec 21 Linker received R$ 12 million round investment and warms…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in November: Nov 30 Brazilian digital insurance company Pier is now issuing its own policies following a $14.5 million Series A round of funding. Nov 26 Brazilian e-commerce platform Olist raised a US$ 58 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Latin American Fund. Other investors in…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in October: Oct 29 Locaweb acquired Startup Vindi for R$ 180 million. Vindi is SaaS company that processes and manages recurring payments for companies and will complement Locaweb’s payment solutions. Oct 29 Via Varejo acquired i9XP for an undisclosed value. The startup is specialized…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in September: Sept 30 The recent BayBrazil study shows an unprecedented number of venture capital firms led or founded by Brazilians, a total of seven. Moreover, an increasing number of tech executives, engineers, product experts who work in Bay Area corporations are venturing into…
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We recently updated BayBrazil’s inaugural 2018 survey on the Brazilian tech diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. This time we focused on tech startups that raised US$2 million or more in the past couple of years. Additionally, we mapped investment funds founded by Brazilians in the Bay Area and funds launched in Brazil that…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in August Aug 27 Fintech Nubank received a new round of investment of US$ 300 million on June 4 that has not yet been revealed. The document with the information was filed with the SEC. Aug 25 CyberLabs, a Brazilian artificial intelligence (AI) startup, raised…
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To celebrate BayBrazil’s 10th anniversary we expanded our annual conference into a series of weekly webinars. Guest speakers shared insights on the innovation path of Brazil and the U.S. in these past ten years in a variety of sectors and discussed the major disruptions that will shape the next decade. Watch dialogues
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BayBrazil team noticed that in the past 12-18 months new companies founded by Brazilians launched operations in the San Francisco Bay Area region. So, we are currently updating our survey with founders and will publicize it soon. Meanwhile, we caught up with one of these firms: early stage VC firm Positive Ventures, founded in Sao…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in July July 30 Magnetis, an automated wealth management startup, has raised US$11 million in a new round of funding. Plans are to transform itself into a full-service brokerage. Investors in the round included Redpoint eventures and Vostok Emerging Finance. July 30 BayBrazil annual…
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Nina Silva is an IT expert who embodies all faces of diversity: black, woman and poor. After a burnout, she turned her career around with a purpose driven action. She co-founded the Black Money Movement in Brazil, with her partner Alan Soares, to empower black people, foster education and entrepreneurship, and create business opportunities for the Brazilian…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in June: June 29 Startup success isn’t determined by how much you raise; it’s about how much equity you keep, which means controlling your own destiny. According Tom Foremski, the San Francisco-based startup Arena is a great example of bootstrapping. Arena is a cloud-based…
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Here are the highlights on Brazil’s tech and business scene in May: May 30 Santander InnoVentures led a US$5 million investment in the Brazilian fintech a55. The Brazilian startup specializes in loans for small and medium-sized businesses in the tech industry. May 29 The Brazilian SaaS platform Accountfy announced a new round of US$6.5…
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