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2 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian conversational AI startup OmniChat raised $9M in a round led by Quartzo Capital and Altitude Ventures, with participation from Honey Island and Kaszek. The company also launched Whizz, a product that allows businesses to create and personalize autonomous AI sales agents for WhatsApp with no coding required.
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2 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Colombian payment infrastructure fintech Simetrik raised $30M in a Series B extension round led by Goldman Sachs Alternative Growth Equity, with participation of Cometa, FinTech Collective, Moore Capital Management, Monashees, and Upload Ventures. In 2024, Simetrik raised a $55M Series B round. Simetrik’s financial automation tool leverages no-code development and generative AI to simplify record centralization, reconciliation, controlling, and accounting.
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3 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian mobility startup Rhino raised $1M in a round led by AngelsDeck Global Ventures and Clapper Venture. Rhino also announced a new partnership with BTG Pactual Terminal, a private terminal at Guarulhos Airport. Under the agreement, Rhino will provide transportation for passengers to the terminal.
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3 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian neobank Agibank raised $350M through the issuance of a FIDC (Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios) backed by payroll-deductible loans. In January 2025, Agibank raised $63M from Lumina Capital. Agibank offers digital accounts, credit cards, and loans to the underserved population in Brazil. Agibank operates both online and through physical branches, targeting a broader customer base than fully digital neobanks. Agibank will use the funds to finance new credit operations.
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3 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian healthtech Huna raised a $1.5M pre-seed round led by Kortex Ventures. big_bets, Niu Ventures, New Ventures Capital, and angel investors also participated in the round. Founded in 2022, Huna uses artificial intelligence to analyze routine blood tests and assess cancer risk, particularly breast cancer, by identifying patterns in standard results.
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3 weeks ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Welcome to the LatamList roundup, your bi-monthly summary of the Latin America startup scene. Fintechs, mobility startups, and retail tech companies took the spotlight in the second half of May, with activity in countries such as Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Here are the launches, partnerships, and expansions we saw over the last two weeks. Mercado Pago launched Melicoin, a stablecoin pegged to the US Dollar. Read more on Chocale.
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1 month ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian fintech Estratz raised a $355K pre-seed round from angel investors, including Vista Capital’s co-founders João Landau, João Eduardo Lopes, and Luiz Guilherme Gama. Vista Capital will become Estratz’s first client after the launch. Estratz offers hedge funds a one-stop shop for management and operations through a platform that automates back office tasks, generates reports, monitors P&L in real time, and manages shareholders’ data.
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1 month ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Argentinian agtech Calice raised a $2.5M seed round from Astanor, Draper Cygnus, Xperiment Ventures, AIR Capital, Innventure, and GrainCorp Ventures. Calice uses an AI-powered virtual field trials platform, NODES, to predict crop performance and quality, accelerate crop development, and reduce the need for physical testing by up to 80%. Calice will use the funds to expand in Brazil and the US and to launch new products.
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1 month ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Spanish VC firm Tritemius launched Tritemius Fund FCRE I, a fund that will invest $23.7M in startups in Latin America and Europe. Tritemius Fund FCRE I will invest about $560K in each early-stage startup, focusing on those building Web3 and decentralized finance products. “The goal is to facilitate the development of practical solutions in the web3 space, prioritizing those with real implementation potential across various economic sectors,” said Tritemius’s co-founder and CEO, Luis Pastor.
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1 month ago | 
latamlist.com | Matheus Tomé
Brazilian fintech Blips raised $8.8M in a round led by Headline, with participation from XP. Blips uses proprietary technology to assess customers and offer equipment financing and rental to micro and small businesses in sectors like beauty, construction, and food. Blips approves over 60% of financing requests and has a default rate of 0.4%. Blips will use the funds to obtain the Sociedade de Crédito Direto license and expand its financial offerings.
