SoftBank Latin America Fund

SoftBank Latin America Fund, established in 2019 and based in Miami, Florida, is a venture capital firm focused on fostering the Internet economy within Latin America. The fund specializes in investing in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies across various sectors, including e-commerce, fintech, health and wellness, and logistics, among others. By leveraging critical resources, advanced technology, and a robust network of Internet partnerships, the fund aims to support the growth of innovative businesses in the region. As a Registered Investment Adviser, SoftBank Latin America Fund is committed to driving economic development and enhancing the digital landscape in Latin America through strategic investments.

Lee Bocker

COO

Raphael Cohen

Investor

Rodrigo Costa

Investment Lead and Partner

Eric Dolman

Investor

Juan Franck

Managing Partner and Head of Mexico

Felipe Fujiwara

Investor

Regina Diaz Giral

Investor

Oscar Guerra

Investor

Artur Gushiken

Investor

Benjamin Lizana

Investor

Lucía Llosa

Associate

Isabela Lopes

Investor

Vitor Miele

Investor

Ezequiel Piantoni

Investor

Matthew Pieterse

Associate

Germán Rosales

Investor

Vinicius Santos

Associate

Felipe Sinisterra

Investor

Masayoshi Son

Chairman and CEO

Lucas Vassalo

Associate

Past deals in Mexico

Nowports

Series C in 2022
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that enhances the import and export process for businesses and individuals. The platform enables users to manage their shipments in real time, providing features such as instant quotes, product registration, and shipment booking from any port. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Nowports simplifies the logistics involved in freight transportation, ensuring a secure and transparent experience. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking of cargo, allowing users to monitor their shipments conveniently and affordably, effectively merging technology with supply chain management.

Creditas

Series F in 2022
Creditas is a financial technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in secured consumer loans. Founded by Sergio Furio, the company operates a digital platform that leverages credit scoring and borrower assets, such as homes and automobiles, as collateral to provide loans. This approach allows Creditas to offer affordable lending solutions by partnering with traditional financial institutions and utilizing investor-backed resources. The platform is designed to enable borrowers to repay their loans in manageable installments, thereby making financing more accessible.

Nowports

Series B in 2021
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that enhances the import and export process for businesses and individuals. The platform enables users to manage their shipments in real time, providing features such as instant quotes, product registration, and shipment booking from any port. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Nowports simplifies the logistics involved in freight transportation, ensuring a secure and transparent experience. Additionally, the platform offers real-time tracking of cargo, allowing users to monitor their shipments conveniently and affordably, effectively merging technology with supply chain management.

Konfio

Series E in 2021
Konfio is a financial technology company based in Mexico City that focuses on providing online financial solutions for micro entrepreneurs and small to mid-size enterprises. Founded in 2013, Konfio offers a range of products including fixed-rate loans, working capital loans, corporate credit cards, and online payment solutions. The company utilizes a proprietary algorithm that combines data and technology to assess creditworthiness, enabling it to extend credit to clients who have been historically underserved by traditional banks. Additionally, Konfio provides business productivity software tools and a loyalty program, all designed to enhance the growth and productivity of its clients. Through its innovative approach, Konfio aims to facilitate economic growth by making financial services more accessible and affordable.

GAIA

Series C in 2021
GAIA operates a prominent e-commerce platform for furniture in Mexico, providing a diverse selection of high-quality products that includes sofas, chairs, drawers, dressers, bureaus, tables, desks, rugs, lamps, textiles, paintings, and various accessories. The company showcases a range of styles, from contemporary to traditional, artisan, industrial, and retro, catering to a wide array of consumer preferences. By offering well-crafted home furnishing products at affordable prices, GAIA aims to enhance the shopping experience for customers seeking to furnish their spaces.

Yaydoo

Series A in 2021
Yaydoo SA is a procurement platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2016, that offers a comprehensive online solution for businesses to manage their purchasing processes. By integrating cloud-based procure-to-pay software and AI tools, Yaydoo automates vendor management and streamlines communication between users and suppliers. The platform features hundreds of vendor catalogs, allowing companies to search and compare thousands of products and services, many with pre-negotiated discounts. Yaydoo enhances visibility and control over procurement activities through mobile applications that facilitate purchase requests, approval workflows, goods receipt tracking, and invoice approvals via a three-way match system. This user-friendly tool is designed to simplify repetitive procurement tasks such as updating vendor information, comparing proposals, and managing budgets, ultimately helping businesses optimize their supply chain efficiency.

Clip

Series D in 2021
Clip is transforming card acceptance in Mexico by providing portable card-reading hardware and a digital payment platform that enables businesses to accept all credit and debit cards, including contactless payments. The company's solutions allow businesses to turn smartphones or tablets into card terminals, facilitating seamless transactions without the need for complicated paperwork or monthly fees. By focusing on empowering Mexican businesses, Clip helps them increase sales and grow by offering a user-friendly application that simplifies payment acceptance. This approach positions Clip as a vital ally for merchants seeking efficient and accessible payment solutions.

GBM

Venture Round in 2021
GBM is an investment banking that promotes investment at a national and international level. GBM provides financial products and services to large corporations and mid-cap companies, institutional investors, and Mexican and foreign individuals. The company offers investment banking services, including capital and debt market, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring services; and financial intermediation services, such as capital market promotion, international sales and trading, e-trading, investment advisory, derivatives capital, and money market services., as well as a digital platform, which has access to its clients to purchase and sale stock, and investment funds. It also provides investment administration products comprising investment funds, flexible credit, and asset management services, as well as institutional investment, trust, and private banking services. The company was formerly known as GBM GRUPO BURSATIL MEXICANO, S.A.B. de C.V. and changed its name to Corporativo GBM, S.A.B. de C.V. in 2007. Corporativo GBM, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1978 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Grupo Bursatil Mexicano

Venture Round in 2021
Corporativo GBM, S.A.B. de C.V. provides financial products and services to large corporations and mid-cap companies, institutional investors, and Mexican and foreign individuals. The company offers investment banking services, including capital and debt market, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate restructuring services; and financial intermediation services, such as capital market promotion, international sales and trading, e-trading, investment advisory, derivatives capital, and money market services., as well as digital platform, which has access to its clients to purchase and sale stock, and investment funds. It also provides investment administration products comprising investment funds, flexible credit, and asset management services, as well as institutional investment, trust, and private banking services. The company was formerly known as GBM GRUPO BURSATIL MEXICANO, S.A.B. de C.V. and changed its name to Corporativo GBM, S.A.B. de C.V. in 2007. Corporativo GBM, S.A.B. de C.V. was founded in 1978 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Kushki

Series B in 2021
Kushki is a payment platform specifically designed for the Latin American market, enabling seamless integration and local pricing strategies. Founded in New York City in 2016 by entrepreneurs Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, Kushki connects various payment methods across the region, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks, utilizing over 300,000 physical payment points. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for e-commerce, mobile commerce, and physical retail, featuring services such as a payment box, recurring payments, smart links, and tokenization. By standardizing the fragmented payment landscape, Kushki enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and provides businesses with greater control and transparency in managing their digital payment processes. The company operates in multiple countries, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the USA, and Canada.

Kushki

Series B in 2021
Kushki is a payment platform specifically designed for the Latin American market, enabling seamless integration and local pricing strategies. Founded in New York City in 2016 by entrepreneurs Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro, Kushki connects various payment methods across the region, including credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash networks, utilizing over 300,000 physical payment points. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for e-commerce, mobile commerce, and physical retail, featuring services such as a payment box, recurring payments, smart links, and tokenization. By standardizing the fragmented payment landscape, Kushki enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and provides businesses with greater control and transparency in managing their digital payment processes. The company operates in multiple countries, including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, the USA, and Canada.

Creditas

Series E in 2020
Creditas is a financial technology company based in São Paulo, Brazil, specializing in secured consumer loans. Founded by Sergio Furio, the company operates a digital platform that leverages credit scoring and borrower assets, such as homes and automobiles, as collateral to provide loans. This approach allows Creditas to offer affordable lending solutions by partnering with traditional financial institutions and utilizing investor-backed resources. The platform is designed to enable borrowers to repay their loans in manageable installments, thereby making financing more accessible.

Kavak

Series B in 2020
KAVAK is the online platform that offers an exceptional experience of buying and selling used cars in Mexico, with the best prices on the market and without leaving home.

AlphaCredit

Series B in 2020
AlphaCredit is a financial platform based in Mexico City that specializes in providing accessible credit solutions to individuals and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Mexico and Colombia. The company offers a range of products, including payroll deduction loans for public and private sector employees, as well as financing options such as factoring and leasing for SMEs. With a focus on low default rates, AlphaCredit is able to maintain competitive interest rates, enhancing affordability for its customers. The company has issued over 514,000 credits to more than 310,000 clients, leveraging mobile applications to facilitate access to its services. Founded in 2011, AlphaCredit has become one of the fastest-growing FinTech companies in Latin America, supported by a dedicated team of over 1,200 employees and a strong commitment to innovation in financial services.

Tiaxa

Series C in 2003
TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users'​ mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines. Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.

Tiaxa

Series B in 2000
TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users'​ mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines. Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.
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