SoftBank Latin America Fund

SoftBank Latin America Fund, established in 2019 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, is a venture capital firm focused on fostering the Internet economy in Latin America. The firm invests in companies at various stages, including seed, early, and later stages, with a particular emphasis on sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, health and wellness, and logistics, among others. By leveraging critical resources, technology, and a robust network of partners, SoftBank Latin America Fund aims to support innovative startups that can drive growth and transformation in the region. As a Registered Investment Adviser, the firm is committed to navigating the unique opportunities and challenges of the Latin American market.

Beny Alcalay

Investment Associate

Raphael Cohen

Senior Investment Associate

Eric Dolman

Investor

Juan Franck

Investment lead and head of Mexico

Regina Giral

Investment Senior Associate

Artur Gushiken

Investment Lead

Benjamin Lizana

Investment Lead

Lucía Llosa

Vice President, Investments

Isabela Lopes

Investor

Ezequiel Piantoni

Associate

Vinicius Santos

Associate

52 past transactions

Nowports

Series C in 2022
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the products and providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.

Habi

Series C in 2022
Habi is a technology-driven real estate company that helps middle-class customers buy and sell their homes more quickly and efficiently, without the uncertainty of traditional real estate transactions. Using its proprietary pricing algorithm and scalable processes. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial.

Acesso

Series D in 2022
Acesso Digital Tecnologia Da Informacao S.A. specializes in biometric authentication, digital onboarding, and paperless solutions aimed at enhancing document and process management. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company offers various services, including Acesso BIO, Acesso RH, and Acesso Sign. Its solutions cater to multiple sectors, including banking, fintech, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Acesso Digital focuses on simplifying and controlling workflows between businesses, government entities, and clients through innovative technology. The company has gained recognition as one of the best IT firms to work for in Brazil.

Salú

Seed Round in 2022
is a developer of a medical record system intended to integrate healthcare and occupational mobility. They generate data so that HR can concentrate on what really matters to the team's well-being. Their solution enables users to streamline administrative procedures and produce data for decision-making by providing real-time occupational information, online scheduling, exam control, and digital storage.

Medway

Series A in 2022
Medway is a platform that improves the quality of medical care in Brazil through education.

Glorify

Series B in 2022
Glorify is a Christian Daily Worship and well-being app designed to strengthen a user's relationship with God through bite-sized daily devotionals, a library full of meditations, declarations, prayers and exclusive music, and much more.

Aingel

Series B in 2022
Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Loadsmart

Series D in 2022
Loadsmart helps shippers move their freight fast and Carriers keep trucks full. The company’s online platform enables users to get quotes, book trucks, and track their freight from pickup to delivery. Loadsmart was founded in 2014 by Felipe Capella and Ricardo Salgado and is based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Creditas

Series F in 2022
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

TerraMagna

Series A in 2022
TerraMagna is established in Brazil with a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in the agricultural sector, our innovative suite of financial products include personal loans, CFB lending, embedded BNPL for agricultural inputs and crop-collateralized financing - all accessible through our web interface. We do not only provide credit - we are transforming the future of agriculture, making all links of the agricultural value chain more resilient and establishing the proper incentives to make agriculture what the world needs it to be - its powerhouse of sustainable food security.

Tul

Series B in 2022
Tul is a marketplace where users can buy and sell hardware and construction materials. Tul was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.

Abstra

Seed Round in 2022
Abstra is a software development platform that provides businesses with a low-code platform. Its platform facilitates the creation of internal tools and apps, through a graphical interface and offers solutions to operational problems helping businesses to get personalized applications to make their internal processes more efficient. It is focused on late-/growth-stage tech companies and enterprise IT consulting companies. So far, Abstra is growing MRR (monthly recurring revenue) by 45% on average and has landed 11 customers, including Accenture, Stone, and Descomplica. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nowports

Series B in 2021
Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real-time. The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows users to request a quote, register the products and providers that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.

Open Co (Brazil)

Series D in 2021
Open Co thinks that creating trusting relationships with clients is more important than using cutting-edge technology to create ground-breaking credit solutions. Open Co was established in 2021 as the result of the merger of Geru and Rebel, two of Brazil's most cutting-edge fintech lenders. The company's goal is to permanently turn credit into a more equitable, adaptable, and accessible tool that improves Brazilians' financial situations.

Olist

Series E in 2021
Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in such rich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally. The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.

Worc

Seed Round in 2021
Worc connect the best professionals to the most renowned restaurants and bars.

Glorify

Series A in 2021
Glorify is a Christian Daily Worship and well-being app designed to strengthen a user's relationship with God through bite-sized daily devotionals, a library full of meditations, declarations, prayers and exclusive music, and much more.

Goody

Series A in 2021
Goody makes sending gifts as easy as sending a text. No address needed. It accepts payments only when the gift is received.

CargoX

Series F in 2021
CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of LATAM. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers, increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road.

isaac

Series B in 2021
Isaac is an all-in-one technology platform designed for schools’ success. We transform school management in something so simple that every school can thrive, by bringing together payment services coupled with meaningful, integrated software and services to meet each school’s needs and help them operate more efficiently.

Digital Currency Group

Secondary Market in 2021
Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries. In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and events platform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm.

Pipefy

Series C in 2021
Pipefy is the no-code workflow management software that increases team productivity, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams like Finance, HR, Customer Service, and more so those requesting services, those processing the requests, and those managing the operation are more efficient. Through automated workflows and a no/low-code platform, Pipefy enhances speed, increases visibility, and delivers higher quality outcomes with ready-to-use, customizable workflows. Digitally transform the team in a matter of hours, not weeks or months. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Pismo

Series B in 2021
Pismo is a technology company providing an all-in-one processing platform for banking, payments, and financial markets infrastructure. The data centers of the company provide build-to-order services by providing more features and personalization options, allowing enterprise, cloud computing, and service provider customers to solve their needs through the patented architecture, scalable design, low cost of ownership model, and overall speed to market.

Gabriel

Series A in 2021
Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies. No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in. 24/7 monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works. Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond.

Konfio

Series E in 2021
Konfio is a financial services platform for small and medium businesses in Mexico that offers corporate credit cards, working capital loans, and payment solutions. Founded in 2013, Konfio's mission is to boost SME growth and productivity in Mexico.

GAIA

Series C in 2021
GAIA is a furniture eCommerce platform for the sale of home products and design accessories. It offers a range of products such as sofas, chairs, drawers, dressers, tables, desks, rugs, and textiles that let consumers purchase home furnishing products at affordable prices.

Ualá

Series D in 2021
Ualá is a financial technology company providing a comprehensive financial ecosystem that allows users to manage payments, request loans, and invest in various financial products. With services including a prepaid Mastercard, savings accounts, and investment options, Ualá aims to enhance financial inclusion.

Avenue

Series B in 2021
Avenue provide access to investing in the US market for all investors, without minimums, without barriers, without high costs, with security, with advice, controls and a lot of information.

Omie

Series C in 2021
Omie is a Brazilian software enterprise that develops Cloud ERP and Financial Services for small and medium companies. The software is a platform for integrating companies and accounting firms, so it promotes and sells through an ecosystem where entrepreneurs and accountants are bound by consultants, the enablers. Omie DNA is simple, intuitive and affordable. Omie was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Acesso

Series C in 2021
Acesso Digital Tecnologia Da Informacao S.A. specializes in biometric authentication, digital onboarding, and paperless solutions aimed at enhancing document and process management. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company offers various services, including Acesso BIO, Acesso RH, and Acesso Sign. Its solutions cater to multiple sectors, including banking, fintech, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Acesso Digital focuses on simplifying and controlling workflows between businesses, government entities, and clients through innovative technology. The company has gained recognition as one of the best IT firms to work for in Brazil.

Yaydoo

Series A in 2021
Yaydoo is a procurement platform that combines cloud-based procure-to-pay software and AI tools for automated vendor management. It helps companies bring automation to their purchasing process and supply chain with a platform that integrates hundreds of vendor catalogs allowing companies to search and compare through thousands of products and services, many of them with pre-negotiated discounts, and a virtual procurement assistant that streamlines communication between requesters and vendors. Its customers have full visibility and control of their process using mobile apps to simplify purchase requests, approval workflows, goods receipt tracking, and invoice approval via automated 3-way-match. Yaydoo allows every company to simplify their procurement process with an affordable, easy-to-use, and automated tool to streamline repetitive tasks like updating vendor catalogs, comparing proposals, approving purchase requests, forecasting demand, tracking deliveries and managing budgets.

MB | Mercado Bitcoin

Series B in 2021
We are the largest Digital Assets Platform in Latin America. - 4,000,000 clients - +220 assets listed - 11 years operating since 2013 - USD 31 billion transacted - 400 employees - +120M USD tokenized assets Achievements: - Top #1 Series B round ever in Latin America and the largest investment in a crypto company ever made by SoftBank in the region - 1st RWA Tokens issuer in Brazil, LatAm Leader, 4th worldwide - Based in Brazil with offices in Portugal and Mexico Invested by: - SoftBank - 10T Holdings - genial - GP Investments - Mercado Libre - Parallax Ventures - Tribe Capital Regulatory Licences: - BACEN - CVM - Banco de Portugal Audited by: - EY The company was founded in 2013 by Gustavo Chamati and Mauricio Chamati and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Betterfly

Series B in 2021
Betterfly is a purpose-driven wellbeing and insurance platform that empowers organizations and employees to improve their health and wellbeing while making an impact in their communities. Its unique approach to employee wellbeing rewards good habits with life insurance coverage that grows every day and converts every healthy activity into a charitable donation. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Santiago, Chile.

Clip

Series D in 2021
Clip is the leading commerce and digital payment platform that is empowering businesses in Mexico to interact and transact with its consumers more effectively through innovative technologies, best-in-class customer service, and the ability to accept all payment methods digitally.

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.

QuintoAndar

Series E in 2021
QuintoAndar is a platform that simplifies the rental of residential real estate for landlords and renters. With QuintoAndar, customers can work with a top-notch team that uses the best practices and best tools, be part of a high-impact project that will affect many people's lives, have autonomy to make decisions with no endless meetings, and work in an informal environment and horizontal hierarchy. Founded in February 2013 by Gabriel Braga and Andre Penha, it is headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil.

Afya

Post in 2021
Afya is an Edtech that helps doctors acquire knowledge throughout their medical careers. Afya Educacional was born from the union of NRE Educacional, the largest group of medical schools in the country, with Medcel, a leading company in preparatory courses for medical residency, specializations, and updates. Afya is a highly technological company, with an educational bias and dedicated to taking care of the entire professional journey of the doctor. Afya Educacional was born in 2019 and is headquartered in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

MadeiraMadeira

Series E in 2021
MadeiraMadeira is an online marketplace that specializes in home products. It offers over 300,000 products so customers can build, furnish, renovate, and decorate their homes using only their smartphone or computer. MadeiraMadeira was founded in 2009 and is based in Curitiba, Brazil.

Creditas

Series E in 2020
Creditas is a financial technology company that operates a digital platform that offers secured consumer loans. It uses credit scoring systems and borrowers’ assets, such as homes and automobiles as collateral to offer loans. Sergio Furio founded BankFacil in 2012 that later became Creditas. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.

Olist

Series D in 2020
Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in such rich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally. The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.

Kavak

Series B in 2020
KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito.

Acesso

Series B in 2020
Acesso Digital Tecnologia Da Informacao S.A. specializes in biometric authentication, digital onboarding, and paperless solutions aimed at enhancing document and process management. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, the company offers various services, including Acesso BIO, Acesso RH, and Acesso Sign. Its solutions cater to multiple sectors, including banking, fintech, retail, e-commerce, and telecommunications. Acesso Digital focuses on simplifying and controlling workflows between businesses, government entities, and clients through innovative technology. The company has gained recognition as one of the best IT firms to work for in Brazil.

iClinic

Series B in 2020
iClinic is a digital health company that is leading the digital transformation on independent practices in Brazil. By offering a complete end-to-end platform for practice management, the company helps doctors to improve and optimize their businesses and provide a better patient care. The company is the SaaS market leader in Brazil, having more than 20k users spread across the country. It's cloud based platform is composed by 4 core products: EMR, Calendar, Marketing and Billing. iClinic was founded on 2012 and is based in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

PetLove

Series B in 2020
PetLove operates as an online store offering a wide range of pet products. PetLove is formerly known as PetSuperMarket and began to sell pet products over the Internet in 1999 when the Internet began in Brazil. After 12 years as PetSuperMarket changed the brand and website for PetLove to reaffirm its commitment to the relationship between its clients and their pet. PetLove's clients are entitled to receive a discount on over 10,000 pet products since their first purchase registering automatically to the loyalty program.

AlphaCredit

Series B in 2020
AlphaCredit provides fast, cheap credit lines to individuals and small companies via a programmed deduction system, which has low default rates thus allowing for low-interest rates. AlphaCredit is one of the fastest-growing FinTech companies in Latin America. AlphaCredit has more than 1,200 employees and operations in Mexico and Colombia. We have granted more than 514,000 credits to more than 310,000 clients. Our products, distributed through mobile applications, include consumer credit for public and private employees, pensioners and / or independent contractors, as well as financial solutions for SMEs (factoring, leasing and productive credits). We have an area of innovation and exceptional technological development, focused on financial services.

VTEX

Series C in 2019
VTEX is a developer of a cloud-based eCommerce platform used to help companies future-proof their businesses and free them from software updates. It offers an end-to-end omnichannel commerce platform that allows users to increase sales and reduce overhead by uniting with partners, suppliers, and even competitors to eliminate channel conflict to seamlessly serve customers, enabling retailers, brands, and B2B manufacturers to collaborate with third-party suppliers and grow their business by launching their own marketplaces.

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.

Spring Global

Series A in 2001
Spring’s Command Center helps you sell more and outperform your competitors by leveraging Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence for better informed decision making and more effective planning, all in one dashboard. Don’t sell blind, tap Spring’s powerful analytics tools and actionable insights to make the most of your field sales efforts.

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.

BitTime.com

Venture Round in 2000
BitTime.com, a developer of online incentive and loyalty solutions specialized in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences.

From2.com

Venture Round in 2000
From2.com offers an online platform that enables students to find and share information and experiences related to studying abroad. It enables them to find insights and services about housing, insurance, and applying for VISA. It offers its services in the Netherlands. From2.com is partnered with IPS Insurance Passport for Students. It was acquired by Arzoon in March 2001. From2.com was founded in 2000 and is based in Miami, Florida.
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