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Mercado Libre Fund

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Total investments 42
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 33
Rounds per year 3.82
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 2
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • E-Commerce
  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • FinTech
  • Internet
Summary

Mercado Libre Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2013. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Buenos Aires. The fund was located in South America if to be more exact in Argentina. Mercado Libre Fund appeared to be a CVC structure as part of the corporation.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Mercado Libre Fund, startups are often financed by Wayra, Start-Up Chile, NXTP Labs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NXTP Labs, monashees, Wayra. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Wayra, Start-Up Chile, Jaguar Ventures.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - Argentina. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight TROCAFONE, 123Seguro, Increase. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Information Services.

Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 16 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. Opposing the other organizations, this Mercado Libre Fund works on 25 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The average startup value when the investment from Mercado Libre Fund is 1-5 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$55M21 Feb 2024 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

BrandLovrs

Content Creators
Creative Agency
E-Commerce Platforms
Media and Entertainment
$2M19 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Elenas

Beauty
Cosmetics
Direct Sales
E-Commerce
$20M11 Oct 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$20M24 Mar 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Intuitivo

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
$7M15 Mar 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$3M03 May 2021 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Warren Brasil

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Wealth Management
$57M28 Apr 2021 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Intuitivo

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
$1M01 Dec 2020 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Pier

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Software
$14M26 Nov 2020 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
News
Argentina’s Digital House raises over $50M to help solve LatAm’s tech talent shortage

– Digital House, a Buenos Aires-based edtech focused on developing tech talent through immersive remote courses, announced today it has raised more than $50 million in new funding.
– Notable investors are Mercado Libre and Globant.
– The raise brings Digital House’s total funding raised to more than $80 million since its 2016 inception.
The Rise Fund led a $20 million Series B for Digital House in December 2017, marking the San Francisco-based firm’s investment in Latin America.
– Nelson Duboscq, CEO and co-founder of Digital House, said that accelerating demand for tech talent in Latin America has fueled demand for the startup’s online courses.
– Since it first launched its classes in March 2016, the company has seen a 118% CAGR in revenues and a 145% CAGR in students.

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Total investments 42
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 3.82
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.55

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$55M21 Feb 2024 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

BrandLovrs

Content Creators
Creative Agency
E-Commerce Platforms
Media and Entertainment
$2M19 Apr 2023 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Elenas

Beauty
Cosmetics
Direct Sales
E-Commerce
$20M11 Oct 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$20M24 Mar 2022 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Intuitivo

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
$7M15 Mar 2022 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Simetrik

Financial Services
FinTech
Software
$3M03 May 2021 Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Warren Brasil

Financial Services
FinTech
Information Technology
Wealth Management
$57M28 Apr 2021 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Intuitivo

Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Retail
Retail Technology
$1M01 Dec 2020 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Pier

FinTech
Insurance
InsurTech
Software
$14M26 Nov 2020 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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