Brazil’s second-hand car market is booming and Volanty’s latest funding is proof of that. On Thursday, Volanty, a digital used car portal in Brazil stated, it has received a funding of $17.6 million (70 million reais) from a consortium of venture capital funds led by Japan’s SoftBank and Kaszek of Argentina. The development comes in…
Nubank was valued at more than $10 billion in its latest funding round. In a statement Brazilian fintech startup Nubank stated, it has raised $400 million in a new funding round led by TCV, a U.S. investment firm. Its existing investors include China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd, Ribbit Capital, DST Global, Dragoneer, and Sequoia Capital. Thrive…
SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund valued UK-based Greensill Capital at $3.5 billion. Greensill Capital, a UK-based financing group, has confirmed that SoftBank Group Corp’s Vision Fund has invested $800 million in it. Greensill, which provides supply chain funding to companies, said it plans to use the funding in part to accelerate its expansion into Brazil…
Amazon’s push into Latin America’s biggest economy is driven and bolstered by the listings of third party vendors on its local e-commerce marketplace. As per a Bloomberg report citing sources familiar with the matter at hand, Amazon.com Inc is working on a pilot logistics project in Brazil with CargoX, a Goldman Sachs-backed blockchain company for…
With China’s Didi Chuxing Technology Co, launching its operations in Mexico in April 2018, Uber is under pressure to consolidate and expand its footprint in the remaining 11 Mexican states where regulations are not exactly friendly to ride-hailing services. In a move that marks Uber Technologies’ commitments to Mexico, the ride services firm disclosed it…
Global automakers including Volkswagen’s Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Jeep are tapping into this market. Of the 1.5 million cars sold in Mexico in 2017, only a tiny fragment were armored. In an interesting turn of events, high levels of violent crimes in Mexico is acting as a growth engine for the country’s car-armoring business, with…
It has cited its weaponized drone, SkyStriker designed for long flight hours, unveiled in the recent Paris airshow to rave reviews, as an example of its innovation. So as to maintain its leading edge over its peers, Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems Ltd is moving swiftly to innovate as it faces increasing competition from…
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