– Chilean startup Xepelin, which has created a financial services platform for SMEs in Latin America, has secured $30m in equity and $200m in credit facilities.
– LatAm venture fund Kaszek Ventures led the equity portion of the financing, which also included participation from partners of DST Global and a slew of other firms and founders/angel investors.
– LatAm- and U.S.-based asset managers and hedge funds — including Chilean pension funds — provided the credit facilities.
– In total over its lifetime, Xepelin has raised over $36m in equity and $250m in asset-backed facilities.
– It currently has a portfolio of active loans for $120m and an asset-backed facility for more than $250m.

– Gympass, the largest corporate wellbeing platform, today announced the new investment round of $220M.
– The new investment made by Softbank, General Atlantic, Moore Strategic Ventures, Kaszek and Valor Capital Group.
– As people flock back to the gym, Gympass has seen its valuation more than double to $2.2B, reflecting the increased importance of wellbeing for companies.

– Belvo, a Latin American startup which has built an open finance API platform, announced it has raised $43 million in a Series A round of funding.
– A mix of Silicon Valley and Latin American-based VC firms and angels participated in the financing, including Future Positive, Kibo Ventures, FJ Labs, Kaszek, MAYA Capital, VentureFriends, Rappi co-founder and president Sebastián Mejía, Harsh Sinha, CTO of Wise (formerly Transferwise) and Nubank CEO and founder David Vélez.
– In May 2020, Belvo raised a $10 million seed round co-led by Silicon Valley’s Founders Fund and Argentina’s Kaszek.

– QuintoAndar, a proptech startup, raised $300m in Series E funding.
– The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Ribbit Capital and joined by SoftBank’s LatAm-focused Innovation Fund, LTS, Maverick, Alta Park, an undisclosed U.S.-based asset manager fund with over $2 trillion in AUM, Kaszek Ventures, Dragoneer and Accel partner Kevin Efrusy.
– The company plans to use the funding to expand its services to include mortgage, title, insurance and escrow services.

– Warren has consolidated its position among Brazil’s top financial institutions by announcing a R$ 300m Series C round.
– The round was led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, a long-term global investor with investments in large groups such as Nubank, Sankhya, VR Benefícios and Hotmart.
– This funding round, which, at twice as much as the two prior rounds, was a record for the company, also included participation from Ribbit Capital, Kaszek and Chromo Invest – investors since Series A – and from QED Investors, Meli Fund and Quartz – investors since Series B.
– The fundraise reinforces Warren’s place as a pioneer in disrupting Brazil’s financial market, offering a transparent model aligned with the client.

– Nuvemshop from Sao Paulo, Brazil, raised $90m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Accel with participation from ThornTree Capital and existing investors Kaszek, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, as well as e-commerce leaders including Mike Micucci (former CEO of Salesforce CommerceCloud), Mark Lavelle and Mark Lenhard (former CEO and SVP of Strategy at Magento, respectively), Jamie Sutton (former Head of Tech Partnerships at Shopify), Kevin McKeand (former Head of Strategic Partnerships at BigCommerce), and Minesh Shah (COO of Stitchfix).