Prosus Acquires Despegar; Endeavor Catalyst Launches Fifth Fund; Sem Parar Buys Gringo
Summary
MAYA Capital led a USD8.9m round for Jota, a Brazilian financial management platform for microbusinesses, with participation from HOF Capital, bigbets, Alter Global, Bogari Capital, Norte Ventures and angels Fersen Lambranho (GP Investments), Mateus Lambranho (HYPR), Mauro DAncona (180 Seguros), Dennis Wang (G4 Educa\xe7\xe3o) and Pedro Fiuza (Servtec Energia). Carboflix, a Brazilian app that offers services to truck drivers, raised USD3.4m from Varejo Mais and Cameo Investimentos. Magma Partners led a USD600k pre-seed round for PayMon, an Ecuador-based financial management platform for students and schools, with participation from Buen Trip Ventures, Pygma, Madelaine Clavijo (Valuaty) and Marc Sacal (AstroPay). DOMO.VC led a ~USD375k round for Caccao, a Brazilian financial solutions platform for social media influencers, with participation from A2 Capital, Spin Pay, Gustavo Caetano (Sambatech) and Diego Fonseca (Credit Suisse). Gera Climate Ventures led a USD170k round for Lumo Robotics, a Brazilian startup that develops solar panel cleaning robots, with participation from undisclosed angels.