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> Sapphire Ventures led a US$55m Series D investment in Auth0, an identity verification solution founded by Eugenio Pace and Matías Woloski, with participation from World Innovation Lab and existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Trinity Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners and K9 Ventures. Meritech led Auth0’s US$30m Series C last year. Cygnus Capital and NXTP Labs are previous investors.
> Monsanto Growth Ventures made its inaugural Brazil investment in Grão Direto, a grain marketplace that primarily transacts via mobile and WhatsApp. Monsanto contributed about half of the R$2.3m investment, with participation from Canary and the founders of OpenVC.
> Cedro Capital made a US$2.5m investment in iMedicina, a Brazilian healthtech client management platform.
> BID Invest made a US$2m investment in Argentine fintech MONI Online.
> Aurus Capital led a US$1.4m investment in Capitalizarme, a real estate investment platform with offices in Santiago de Chile and Denver, Colorado.
> Trebol Capital led a MXN$3.2m investment in Piktia, a Mexican photo-printing service, which included a MXN$500k investment by angel network Ark Fund. Piktia raised an additional MXN$250k via Crowdfunder.
> ALLVP made an undisclosed investment in Chilean crowdlending platform Cumplo. The fintech startup will use the capital to expand to Mexico.
> IGNIA made an undisclosed investment in Virket, a Mexican provider of performance management solutions for small businesses.
> Cemex Ventures made an undisclosed follow-on investment in PRYSMEX, a Mexican IoT startup using real-time data to prevent industrial labor accidents. This is Cemex Ventures’ fourth investment in the company.
> Cventures Primus and Omnilink founder Cileneu Nunes made an undisclosed Series A investment in Wevo, a Brazilian ecommerce cloud integration platform.
> Spain’s Banco Sabadell made an undisclosed investment in Trendier, a Mexican peer-to-peer marketplace for women’s clothes.
> Alaya Capital announces participation in the recent Kilimo investment from Xpand Ventures and confirms investments in RocketPin, 1,2,3 Seguros, Zoco, and Quiena.
> Puerto Rico’s Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT) will invest US$150k through Puerto Rican accelerator Parallel18’s follow on fund in Abartys Health, a local insurance startup, and US$75k in Quiena, an Argentine fintech startup.
- Abartys Health recently raised US$1.45m from Parallel18, PE fund Parliament Capital, and individual investors.
- Quiena recently raised US$750k from ItalBank International, Ayala Capital Partners, Parallel18 Ventures, Incutex, and La Turbina Ventures.