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Brendi Raises $6.6M: The Startup Betting an iFood Co-Founder Was Right to Bet Against iFood

Patrick Sigrist knows exactly how much money a restaurant hands over every time an order comes through a delivery marketplace instead of its own front door. He co-founded iFood in 2011 — what started as a project called Disk Cook, three friends distributing flyers at colleges to drum up restaurant

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

TripWip Raises $4.2M Seed: When Toyota, Kia, and Half of LatAm's Unicorn Founders Back the Same Round

When Juan Manuel Pancic and Juan Andrés Vico founded TripWip in Montevideo in 2023, the idea was straightforward enough: most private cars sit parked and unused most of the day, and most short-term renters overpay traditional rental agencies for cars that spend just as much time idle in a

Weekly 29 — LatAm VC Report: TOP 3 Capital Raises

WarZ TechNews | WarZ Intelligence — LATAM Venture Monitor™ Special Edition — Institutional Analysis & Overview of Private Markets Week 29 (July 10–17, 2026) 👉 Access WarZ TechNews and subscribe to the official newsletter: https://warz.tech Old industries, new rails: this week's capital went to restaurants, construction, and car rentals

2TM Raises $20M Series C: Why Tether Just Bet on Brazil's Oldest Crypto Exchange

Gustavo and Mauricio Chamati started Mercado Bitcoin in 2013, back when explaining what a cryptocurrency exchange even was took longer than most sales pitches. It was Brazil's first, built years before regulators had a framework for it, years before "crypto" was a word institutional investors said

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

Infinia Raises $13.5M Series A: The dLocal Alum Building the Boring Bridge Stripe Actually Needed

Ianai Urwicz spent his early career inside dLocal, helping take the cross-border payments company from zero to $100 million in annual recurring revenue, on its way to a public listing on the Nasdaq. That job amounted to a masters-level education in one specific, unglamorous problem: moving money in