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Mango Raises $6M Seed: Three Founders Bet Construction's Paper Invoices Were the Real Opportunity

Most fintech founders in Latin America are chasing the same handful of well-mapped categories: consumer credit, SME payments, neobanking. Sergio Angelini, Patricio Naumann, and Luis Morales looked instead at Mexican construction — an industry that moves billions of dollars a year largely on paper invoices, personal relationships with suppliers, and

Aviva Raises $18M Series A: The Konfío Alumni Betting on Kiosks Over Apps

Filiberto Castro, David Hernández, Amran Frey, and Israel García met working at Konfío, one of Mexico's most established fintech lenders, solving credit access for the country's small and medium businesses. But Konfío's model — like most Mexican fintech before it — still assumed a customer with

Addi Raises $86M Series D: How a Trip Home Became a $200M ARR Fintech

Addi Raises $86M Series D: How a Trip Home Became a $200M ARR Fintech

In 2010, Santiago Suárez took a week off from his job at Lending Club — at the time, the biggest fintech company in the world — and flew home to Colombia. He wasn't looking for a startup idea. He came back with one anyway. Suárez had spent over a decade

Jota Raises $30M Series A: The WhatsApp Message That Might Retire Brazil's Card Machine

Jota Raises $30M Series A: The WhatsApp Message That Might Retire Brazil's Card Machine

Davi Holanda spent six years building the machines other people used to get paid. As part of PagBank's small-business payments team, he helped create more than fifteen products — including the company's entry into card readers and prepaid and credit cards — and rode that business from