Welcome to Tech Signals, a newsletter that tracks how fast LatAm startups are growing. From news articles, LinkedIn posts, and other public sources, it surfaces the metrics that matter: revenue figures, customer counts, headcount growth, and funding rounds of private startups across Latin America.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 📈 Traction Data: Salvy, Bys, Kapital

• 👥 Team Expansion: Draiven, Sanii, Aimirim

• 🚀 Funding Rounds: A5X, NG.Cash, OrderEAT & more

Let’s dive in…

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📈 Traction Data

Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.

Salvy, a four-year-old Brazil–based startup providing cloud-hosted virtual mobile lines and corporate cellphone plans, reported that virtual lines accounted for 40% of revenue and helped expand its corporate customer base from 2,300 to 15,000 companies. The company also said revenue grew 8x over the past 24 months and projects a 3x increase this year.

Bys, a one-year-old São Paulo–based insurtech that structures and operates insurance programs for businesses, issued more than R$120 million in annualized premiums in its first year of operation.

Kapital, a six-year-old Mexico City–based AI-powered business bank that automates financial management, reported nearly US$50 million in net income in the first half of 2026, alongside a loan portfolio exceeding US$1.7 billion, up 220% year over year.

Starian, a one-year-old Florianópolis–based provider of vertical SaaS solutions for construction, legal intelligence, operational efficiency, and governance and compliance, projects to close 2026 with R$750 million in annualized revenue and around 25,000 customers.

Nelo, a seven-year-old Mexico City–based BNPL fintech offering consumer credit and payment services, reported US$115 million in annualized revenue, one million active customers and its third consecutive profitable year. [Round Below]

👥 Team Expansion

Startups rapidly scaling their teams.

Draiven, a one-year-old São Carlos-based generative AI platform that connects to ERPs/databases to deliver real-time insights and automate data-driven business decisions, saw a 100%+ increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 23 employees.

Sanii, a three-year-old São Paulo-based provider of wellness and fitness services intended to improve health, manage weight, and reduce disease risk, saw a 26% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 24 employees.

Aimirim, a ten-year-old Uberlândia-based AI-driven industrial automation platform integrating IoT, digital twins, advanced control and analytics to optimize performance and reduce costs, saw a 24% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 41 employees.

🚀 Funding Rounds

Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.

A5X, a three-year-old São Paulo–based fintech developing a derivatives exchange and market infrastructure for Brazil, raised R$360 million in a Series D led by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Kaszek. The round brought its total funding to more than R$730 million and valued the company at R$2.7 billion. IMC, Jump Trading, Optiver, XTX Markets, ABN AMRO Clearing and XP also participated. [Source]

NG.CASH, a five-year-old São Paulo–based digital financial platform offering young people payments, credit and investment products, raised US$15 million in a strategic round led by Blockchain Capital to expand its credit and financial-services offering. The financing brought NG.CASH’s total capital raised since launch to more than US$65 million. [Source]

OrderEAT, a seven-year-old Montevideo–based platform that digitizes payments and operations for school cafeterias, raised US$2 million in a round led by Chile Ventures. Driven VC, Add Ventures, Seedstars, and angel investors Sergio Fogel and Avedis Boudakian also participated. [Source]

UIN, a one-year-old Buenos Aires–based behavioral engagement software provider for banks, fintechs and other transactional businesses, raised a US$2 million Seed round led by Ewa Capital. Driven VC, B Venture Capital, ADN, GAIN and New Ventures also participated, alongside angel investors. [Source]

Nuvia, a three-year-old Brazil–based startup providing AI sales agents that integrate messaging, voice, web, email, CRMs and enterprise tools, raised US$1.8 million in a round led by Amador Capital and Nascent. NXTP, Crivo Ventures, Delusional Capital and a Spectra Investimentos club deal also participated. [Source]

AMentoria, a seven-year-old Natal–based edtech that provides test preparation and one-on-one mentoring for ENEM and university entrance-exam students, raised a US$196k Seed round led by Triaxis Capital and Crescera Capital through FIP Nordeste Capital Semente. Insper Angels, Anjos do Brasil, Cristiano Faé, Adriano Silveira and existing investor WOW Aceleradora also participated. [Source]

Debt Rounds

Nelo renewed a US$100 million credit facility with Victory Park Capital. [Source]

Expanding to LatAm

Simile, a one-year-old Palo Alto–based AI simulation company that models how people, organizations and markets respond to different scenarios, received an undisclosed investment from Itaú Ventures through an extension of its US$200 million Series B. The round, which valued Simile at US$2 billion, was led by Greenoaks and included Index, Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory, Definition and CVS Health Ventures. [Source]

Mundi, a six-year-old New York–based fintech that provides receivables financing and working capital to Mexican companies involved in international trade, secured a financing facility of up to US$150 million from Column. The facility, Column’s first financing partnership with a Mexico-focused trade-finance fintech, will more than double Mundi’s funding capacity for receivables financing to US$325 million. [Source]

Firecrawl, a two-year-old San Francisco–based AI infrastructure startup that scrapes and structures web data for AI agents, raised a US$75 million Series B led by Smash Capital. Altos, Nexus, Y Combinator, Freestyle and Offline Ventures also participated in the round. [Source]

Emilia AI, a two-year-old San Francisco–based AI platform that turns restaurants’ existing security cameras and point-of-sale data into sales-coaching and antifraud agents, raised US$1.5 million in a Pre-Seed round led by Prosus Ventures. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate product development and expansion in Brazil. [Source]

Skalar, a newly founded US–based fintech that finances customer-acquisition costs for startups with repayments tied to cash generation, raised a funding round led by Monashees. The company also secured a debt-financing partnership with General Catalyst to bring its customer-value financing model to Latin America. [Source]

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Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 🎊 Startup Launches: Zenbild, Datamase, Figo Saúde, Alchemy ERP, Alia

• 🦄 Leadership Movements: Executive Director of Strategy & Expansion at Stay, Head of Product Marketing and Partnerships at Strattum

• 📖 Recent Reads: We Must Pace the Frontier, System One Models & Jev

• 🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Technical Leader, GenAI Productivity at Mercado Libre, ex-Head of Marketing at a Brazilian neobank unicorn & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Veja vagas abertas em mais de 20 startups brasileiras, atualizadas diariamente. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

Esta edição do Tech Talents é oferecida pela Austera.

A Austera é o time financeiro da sua startup que você não precisa contratar.

A maioria dos founders só descobre que seus números são um problema quando um investidor pede para vê-los. A Austera atua como CFO & FP&A as a Service: assume a rotina financeira, incluindo contas a pagar e a receber, conciliação bancária, ERP e transforma isso em informação que sustenta decisões. Com eles, o fechamento mensal cai de 20 para 3 dias.

O escopo acompanha o estágio da empresa: BPO para a camada operacional, FP&A quando você precisa de visibilidade, e um CFO sênior na mesa quando o assunto é o planejamento dos próximos três a cinco anos. Sem o custo de um C-level interno.

Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?

Fale com a Austera

🎊 Startup Launches

Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.

Zenbild

Overview

• Startup Description: AI jobsite platform for contractors that centralizes communication, tasks, and files, automating updates to reduce paperwork, miscommunication, and rework.

• Industry: Construction Tech, AI

• Team Size: 4

• Time in Stealth: 11 months

Joaquim Venancio – Co-Founder & CEO at Zenbild

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Previous Exit, Ex-Corporate, Investor, Unicorn Experience, Scaleup Experience

• Previous Experience: Ex-Director of Product at Antiwire, ex-Director of Product at IBBX Wireless Energy, ex-Director of Product Management at QuintoAndar, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz.

• Headquarters: United States

• Co-Founder: Bruno Schmidt

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Datamase

Overview

• Startup Description: Datamase is the orchestrator of business tools: it connects everything, cross-references information and generates insights, ideas and opportunities to increase revenue, reduce inefficiencies and improve decisions.

• Industry: AI, SaaS

Ygor Canazar - Founder at Datamase

Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #47

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Previous Exit, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Unicorn Experience

• Previous Experience: Ex-Founder at Wisemade, ex-Design Manager at Brivia, ex-Staff / Growth Design Lead at Jusfy, ex-Senior Product Designer at Cielo.

• Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Figo Saúde

Overview

• Startup Description: Health data intelligence platform turning exams, wearables, history and habits into personalized decisions and continuous behavior change.

• Industry: HealthTech

• Team Size: 4

• Time in Stealth: 1 year

Lucas Juffo - Co-Founder & CEO at Figo Saúde

Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #21

• Founder Highlights: Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant, Scaleup Experience, Top University

• Previous Experience: Ex-Chief of Staff at Educbank, ex-Gerente de Novos Negócios at SOMOS Educação, Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from FGV.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Co-Founder: Pedro Weber

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Alchemy ERP

Overview

• Startup Description: AI-native ERP automating accounting and finance with 24/7 AI agents, real-time visibility, and 7-day setup for services and tech companies.

• Industry: SaaS, AI, FinTech

• Team Size: 6

• Time in Stealth: 1 year

Willian Menegali - CTO & Co-founder at Alchemy ERP

Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #48

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate

• Previous Experience: Ex-Cofundador at Alinea Health, ex-Product & Tech at Anthor, ex-CTO at Pip - Social Network of Recipes.

• Headquarters: Curitiba, Brazil

• Co-Founder: Fernando Ribeiro (CEO)

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Alia

Overview

• Startup Description: Agentic team coordination platform helping companies reach goals faster.

• Industry: AI, SaaS

• Team Size: 7

• Time in Stealth: 11 months

Livia Kuga - Co-founder at Alia

Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #54

• Founder Highlights: Masters, Top University, Doctorate, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant

• Previous Experience: Ex-Independent Consultant at Independent Consultant, ex-Partner and People ops in Hyper-growth at Stone Pagamentos, Doctor of Science in Business Administration and Management at FGV EAESP, MBA from FGV EAESP.

• Headquarters: US

• Co-Founder: Thomas Filshill

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

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🦄 Leadership Movements

Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns and scaleups’ executive-level.

Mara Santos - Executive Director of Strategy & Expansion at Stay

• Previous Role: Chief of Staff at Buser Brasil

• Previous Experience: Country Manager at LUZA Group, Project Leader and Consultant at Falconi, MBA from FGV.

• Headquarters: Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 3 months

Arthur Guttilla - Head of Product Marketing and Partnerships at Strattum

• Previous Role: Founder & CEO at Tropicalia (Acquired by Strattum)

• Previous Experience: AI and Emerging Technologies teacher at Link School, Account Manager at Google, Startup Sales Representative at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 2 months

📖 Recent Reads

My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.

We Must Pace the Frontier by Dario Amodei

AI safety has taken over much of the public conversation in the past few weeks, and two episodes explain why. The first is the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, in which roughly over a thousand agents that were supposed to be isolated from one another managed to communicate, spontaneously organize themselves, and run a multi day attack on Hugging Face’s infrastructure, even trying to hack the grader that was evaluating them. The second is Jacob Coxon, a researcher who left Anthropic this month saying that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is “acting responsibly”.

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, responded with an essay asking frontier labs to pace the development of AI. His plan has three steps: embedded third party evaluators with employee level access inside the labs, coordination among democratic countries on common safety standards, and eventually global coordination, including with authoritarian governments. He is careful to say pacing is not a pause, and he pairs it with keeping the American lead intact through export controls, which is what makes the proposal politically viable at all. I am not sure competitors will adopt the plan as written, but I do think pacing matters, precisely so that labs have time to improve how they train models and to actually understand how they work before we move on to more capable and potentially more destructive ones.

System One Models & Jev by Diogo Almeida

A new kind of AI model launched last week, and it does not produce words like the LLMs we are used to. So how does it work? Jev is a decision model: unstructured context goes in, typed decisions with calibrated probabilities come out. Say you are building software that reads customer emails and decides whether the customer is angry or not. You don’t need a paragraph of reasoning, which is what existing models give you. You need a probability for each possible answer and a decision your code can act on. Giving up text generation makes Jev 40x to 200x faster than frontier models and dramatically cheaper and it cannot hallucinate or return a malformed answer because every possible output is defined in advance. It comes from TypeSafe AI, a lab that spent two years in stealth, led by Diogo Almeida, who worked at OpenAI and helped them build ChatGPT. It is now in early access and I can’t wait to try it out.

🤫 Talents Entering Stealth

Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.

Alan Julián De Angelis – Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Big Tech, Unicorn Experience

• Signals: Left Mercado Libre in Sep 2026, where he was the Technical Leader of GenAI Productivity. He brings a deep technical background in Go, backend, and distributed systems from Mercado Libre and McAfee.

• Headquarters: Córdoba, Argentina

• Time in Current Position: 1 month

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+3 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:

• Two years at Google and five at an investment bank, most recently in Brazilian energy trading, which he left in May. Now founder of a stealth venture in São Paulo.

• Growth executive who ran marketing at a Brazilian neobank unicorn, was CMO at a health insurtech and VP of Growth at a top LatAm VC firm. Left a scaleup last month to join a stealth startup’s founding team.

• Operations and ecommerce executive with corporate roles at a global eyewear group, a navigation tech giant, a Brazilian mobile unicorn and a state-owned bank. Founded an HR tech venture this year and is now building in stealth.

Read more

Welcome to Tech Signals, a newsletter that tracks how fast LatAm startups are growing. From news articles, LinkedIn posts, and other public sources, it surfaces the metrics that matter: revenue figures, customer counts, headcount growth, and funding rounds of private startups across Latin America.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 📈 Traction Data: Celcoin, Applause & more

• 👥 Team Expansion: Tess AI, Bricker, Caveo

• 🚀 Funding Rounds: Felix, Magnar, Plenti & more

Let’s dive in…

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📈 Traction Data

Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.

Celcoin, a 10-year-old Barueri–based financial-infrastructure fintech for payments, banking, credit and capital markets, expects to end the year with R$800 million in annual recurring revenue following its acquisition of Vert Capital.

HIT, a five-year-old Jundiaí–based healthtech providing integrative health and wellness programs for consumers and corporate HR teams, reported R$3.2 million in year-to-date revenue and projecs R$5 million for 2026.

Applause, a five-year-old Curitiba–based SaaS gamification platform that turns sales goals into challenges and rewards, reported more than R$7 million in annual recurring revenue after growing 25x over the past 19 months and a target of nearly R$20 million in ARR by the end of 2027. [Round Below]

Unico, a 19-year-old São Paulo–based digital identity and biometric-verification company, reported 41% global revenue growth and 56% international revenue growth as it acquired Argentina’s Valida to expand across Latin America.

Pagaleve, a five-year-old São Paulo–based fintech offering buy-now-pay-later installment payments via Pix, expects to reach R$500 million in revenue by the second half of 2026.

Jurídico AI, a three-year-old Barueri–based legaltech that uses AI to generate legal documents and manage litigation, expects to end 2026 with R$40 million in revenue after growing to more than 13,000 clients.

👥 Team Expansion

Startups rapidly scaling their teams.

Tess AI, a one-year-old, San Francisco-based no-code multi-agent platform for automating tasks, enabling professionals to deploy their own AI agents in seconds, saw a 21% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 34 employees.

Bricker, a three-year-old, São Paulo-based intelligence platform in Real Estate financing, saw a 17% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 28 employees.

Caveo, a five-year-old, São Paulo-based financial management platform designed to automate bureaucratic tasks for medical practitioners, saw a 17% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 147 employees.

🚀 Funding Rounds

Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.

Magnar, a one-year-old Santiago–based legaltech that provides an AI platform for legal research, drafting, document comparison, e-signatures and contract management, raised US$8 million in a Series A round led by 6 Degrees Capital and co-led by Hi Ventures. Platanus participated alongside minority investments from major Latin American law firms. [Source]

Doroth, a seven-year-old Piracicaba–based deeptech developing lab-on-a-chip platforms for molecular diagnostics, raised R$23 million in a round led by Brazilian biotechnology company Loccus. The financing combines private capital with funding from Finep and Fapesp. [Source]

Bull, a one-year-old São Paulo–based fintech providing white-label Credit as a Service infrastructure, data and credit-intelligence tools for businesses, raised US$3.9 million in a Seed round led by Maya Capital and Caravela Capital, with participation from Canary. [Source]

Plenti, a four-year-old Medellín–based fintech providing foreign exchange, international transactions and investment services for consumers and businesses, raised a US$3 million Seed round led by Tether, with participation from Verda Ventures. [Source]

Applause raised R$10 million in a round led by Primus Ventures. MadeiraMadeira’s founders, who had invested in an earlier round, also participated alongside Pipefy founders and US investors. [Source]

Betterplan, a six-year-old Las Condes–based wealth management fintech that combines digital investment tools with personalized financial advice, raised US$1.1 million in a round led by the Anastassiou family office. An undisclosed family office and existing investor Fondo Vulcano also participated, bringing Betterplan’s total funding to about US$4 million. [Source]

MineWatch, a four-year-old Santiago–based developer of wireless IoT connectivity and real-time monitoring technology for underground mining, raised US$900,000 in a round led by Alza Mining Tech. [Source]

Debt Rounds

Felix, a six-year-old Miami–based fintech that provides remittances and financial services to Latino immigrants in the U.S. through WhatsApp, raised a US$200 million Series C and reached a US$1.4 billion valuation. The financing included US$87 million in equity led by a16z crypto and a US$113 million credit facility from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund to finance operating float. [Source]

Kapital, a six-year-old Mexico City–based AI-powered business bank offering accounts, credit, cards, cash-flow management, brokerage and fund administration, raised US$125 million in capital and debt as an extension of its 2025 Series C. [Source]

Loads, a four-year-old Santiago–based cross-border food-commerce platform that embeds working-capital financing into logistics and trading flows, secured a US$15 million revolving credit facility from Addem Capital. [Source]

Expanding to LatAm

Cognition AI, a three-year-old San Francisco–based AI company developing Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent that supports software development teams, raised US$2 billion in a Series E at a US$48 billion valuation. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, with participation from existing backers Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, alongside NVIDIA and other investors. [Source]

Wonderful, a one-year-old Amsterdam–based developer of an AI operating system that integrates enterprise agents, workflows and existing systems, raised US$550 million in a Series C round at a US$5 billion valuation. Insight Partners led the round, with Salesforce and existing investors including Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer Venture Partners also participating. [Source]

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Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 🎊 Startup Launches: Lina, Vector Labs

• 🦄 Leadership Movements: New CTO at Galaxies, new Head of Artificial Intelligence at Nuvidio

• 📖 Recent Reads: How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day, Rise of the Borderless Founder & more

• 🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Director of Data at Blip & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Veja vagas abertas em mais de 20 startups brasileiras, atualizadas diariamente. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

Esta edição do Tech Talents é oferecida pela Austera.

A Austera é o time financeiro da sua startup que você não precisa contratar.

A maioria dos founders só descobre que seus números são um problema quando um investidor pede para vê-los. A Austera atua como CFO & FP&A as a Service: assume a rotina financeira, incluindo contas a pagar e a receber, conciliação bancária, ERP e transforma isso em informação que sustenta decisões. Com eles, o fechamento mensal cai de 20 para 3 dias.

O escopo acompanha o estágio da empresa: BPO para a camada operacional, FP&A quando você precisa de visibilidade, e um CFO sênior na mesa quando o assunto é o planejamento dos próximos três a cinco anos. Sem o custo de um C-level interno.

Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?

Fale com a Austera

🎊 Startup Launches

Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.

Lina

Overview

• Startup Description: Lina is an AI WhatsApp companion that helps operative workers build profiles and skills, making their experience visible to employers.

• Industry: HR Tech, AI

• Team Size: 3

• Time in Stealth: 11 months

Mario B. - Co-Founder & CEO at Lina

• Talent Highlights: Investor, Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate, Masters, Top University, Unicorn Experience

• Previous Experience: Ex-Investor at Upload Ventures, ex-Investor at SoftBank Group International, ex-Product at Uber, MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

• Headquarters: Mexico

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Vector Labs

Overview

• Startup Description: Builds custom AI agents that augment teams, fill operational gaps, and boost productivity.

• Industry: AI, Consulting

• Team Size: 4

• Time in Stealth: 1 month

Fabricio Pedreira – Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer at Vector Labs

• Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Unicorn Experience

• Previous Experience: Ex-Head of AI at Neon, ex-Head of Information Technology at Solfácil, ex-Lead Software Development Engineer at Banco do Brasil, Information Technology from Universidade Paulista.

• Headquarters: Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+3 other Announced Startups over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro

🦄 Leadership Movements

Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns and scaleups’ executive-level.

Jonathan B. - CTO at Galaxies

• Previous Role: Founding Team & CTO at Vetto AI

• Previous Experience: Ex-Senior Software Engineering Manager at QuintoAndar, Ex-Founding Team | VP of Software Engineering at Kenoby.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 1 month

Marcus Alexandre Silva - Head of Artificial Intelligence, Architecture, Research & Development at Nuvidio

• Previous Role: IT Engineer Manager at Localiza&Co

• Previous Experience: Ex-Solutions Architecture Manager at Localiza&Co, Ex-Technical Leader at Prime Systems, ex-Senior Systems Analyst at TOTVS.

• Headquarters: Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 1 month

📖 Recent Reads

My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.

How to fix your entire life in 1 day by Dan Koe

I had this text on my reading list for a while and I’m glad I didn’t forget about it. The author goes over what he believes are the important variables to make meaningful, long term changes to your life and become who you want to become. It is not only about changing your daily actions or your lifestyle, even though this is definitely part of it, but it is also about setting the right goals and being aware of the goals already buried in your actions, even if they are not apparent. His argument is that all behavior is goal-oriented, so if you procrastinate or stay in a job you hate, there is an unconscious goal being served, usually safety or protection from judgment. The three main ingredients to get the life you want are opportunity, agency and intelligence. If you have one or two of those, they are not enough. Lastly, he closes with a full-day protocol to put this into practice: a morning of questions to map both the life you don’t want (what he calls your “anti-vision”) and the one you do, reminders scattered through the day to break you out of autopilot, and an evening session where you turn the insights into a one-year lens, a one-month project and the daily actions that actually start changing those variables.

30 Features of an AI-Native Company by Alex Lieberman

I’ve talked about what it actually means to be an AI-native company before, but I’ve come across another great text that goes over 30 features that define a truly AI-native company. Here are a few that caught my attention:

1. “Treat context as code, ensuring architecture documents and conventions remain updated while allowing for diligent upfront planning.”

2. “An automated, agent-native development system where fleets of AI coding agents handle planning, writing, testing, reviewing, and shipping code while humans define the intent and acceptance criteria.”

3. “Finance org that runs processes continuously in accounting (record-keeping) to redefine and reset forecasts on a much, much tighter cadence.”

4. “Closed loop, self-improving non-engineering workflows that learn from previous runs based on external performance metrics or internal evals.”

5. “Everyone is a builder. Especially C-level execs. This is a defining trait of companies reaching higher levels of AI maturity.”

Rise of the Borderless Founder by Gabriel Vasquez and Angela Strange

Starting a startup is hard. Starting a startup outside your home country is even harder, but it comes with its advantages. In this piece, a16z partner Gabriel Vasquez explores these advantages “Borderless Founders” (people with one foot in their home market and one in Silicon Valley) have and how his firm has structured a playbook to map and attract them. He points to three: privileged access to customers in their home countries, where knowing the right people lands brand-name design partners and first contracts far earlier than their traction would normally justify; brand recognition, since press and even governments at home turn them into representatives of the local tech sector; and talent, being able to identify and hire the best engineers in their home markets before the rest of the market catches on. Something that I would add to these is perspective. Being born in a different place and being exposed to different cultures while growing up can give you different perspectives that could help a founder come up with differentiated product and strategy attributes that could set them apart from competitors whose founders weren’t in contact with this diversity.

🤫 Talents Entering Stealth

Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.

Ishvann Villate Larsen – Founder / Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Scaleup Experience, AI

• Signals: Data and engineering leader who left Blip in Sep 2026 and now holds a Stealth Mode Founder / Founding Engineer role. Prior to that he was Partner and Head of Data Engineering at XP Inc.

• Headquarters: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 1 month

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+3 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:

• Sixteen years at a global enterprise tech giant, now co-founder and CEO of a stealth healthcare AI company.

• Nine years at a Brazilian proptech unicorn, rising to senior software engineering manager, then Head of Product & Technology at a startup he left last month. Now co-founder and CTO of a stealth venture.

• Six years across two Brazilian digital-risk companies in fraud prevention and people operations. Now co-founder of a stealth startup tackling AI risk.

Read more

Welcome to Tech Signals, a newsletter that tracks how fast LatAm startups are growing. From news articles, LinkedIn posts, and other public sources, it surfaces the metrics that matter: revenue figures, customer counts, headcount growth, and funding rounds of private startups across Latin America.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 📈 Traction Data: Aro, Pluggy, Decade & more

• 👥 Team Expansion: Nuvia, PX Data, Zapia AI

• 🚀 Funding Rounds: Flash, Bia Energy, Primero & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

Esta edição do Tech Talents é oferecida pela Austera.

A Austera é o time financeiro da sua startup que você não precisa contratar.

A maioria dos founders só descobre que seus números são um problema quando um investidor pede para vê-los. A Austera atua como CFO & FP&A as a Service: assume a rotina financeira, incluindo contas a pagar e a receber, conciliação bancária, ERP e transforma isso em informação que sustenta decisões. Com eles, o fechamento mensal cai de 20 para 3 dias.

O escopo acompanha o estágio da empresa: BPO para a camada operacional, FP&A quando você precisa de visibilidade, e um CFO sênior na mesa quando o assunto é o planejamento dos próximos três a cinco anos. Sem o custo de um C-level interno.

Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?

Fale com a Austera

📈 Traction Data

Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.

Aro, a Brazil–based AI fintech that guides consumers through credit selection and contracting while connecting lenders via open banking, grew its operation eightfold in eight months and reached US$1 million in annualized revenue. It projects US$3 million to US$4 million in annualized revenue by year-end.

Pluggy, a São Paulo–based open finance infrastructure provider that connects business-management software to banks via APIs, served about 600 direct customers and connected nearly 500,000 CNPJs to its platform. The company has been at breakeven since 2024, surpassed its R$25 million ARR target for 2026 and expects to reach R$40 million by year-end. [Round Below]

Jusbrasil, a Salvador–based legaltech providing legal information and AI-powered intelligence and document solutions, is approaching R$1 billion in combined annual recurring revenue (ARR), with 85% generated by AI-first products, following its acquisition of MinutaIA.

Fintalk, a Brazil–based conversational AI fintech providing customer-service, sales and collections agents across digital channels, doubled in size annually and processed R$1.4 billion in debt payments in 2025.

Decade, a São Paulo–based wealth advisory startup combining AI with human financial advisors, reached R$10 billion in monitored portfolios less than a month after launching its public operations.

👥 Team Expansion

Startups rapidly scaling their teams.

PX Data, a Rio de Janeiro-based Generative AI platform for enterprises to query data in natural language, access dashboards, and share insights with governance, saw a 24% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 41 employees.

Nuvia, a São Paulo-based Artificial Intelligence platform that is revolutionizing the way B2B sales are made, saw a 19% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 31 employees.

Zapia AI, a Uruguay-based mobile-first AI personal assistant that autonomously executes real-world tasks end-to-end, saw a 20% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 30 employees.

🚀 Funding Rounds

Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.

Flash, a São Paulo–based platform for employee benefits, HR processes and corporate expense management, raised R$150 million in a Series D round led by existing backers Battery Ventures and Kevin Efrusy. Endeavor Catalyst also joined the company’s cap table in the round, which follows more than R$ 800 million raised previously. [Source]

Bia Energy, a Bogotá–based energy company providing energy retailing, distributed solar generation and utility-management software to businesses, raised US$18.5 million in a Series B round led by Kaszek. Endeavor Catalyst, RA Capital, EWA Capital and the Inter-American Development Bank also participated. [Source]

Primero, a Mexico City–based enterprise AI software company that connects fragmented business systems and deploys AI agents for internal workflows, raised a US$12 million Seed round co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst. Definition, Conviction and 8VC also participated, alongside angel investors associated with FEMSA, Bimbo, Aeroméxico and Kimberly-Clark de México. [Source]

Autonomy, a Boulogne–based fintech offering rent-to-own vehicles bundled with insurance, maintenance and permits for mobility-app drivers, raised a US$8 million Series A led by Magna Capital, Comafi, Natan VC and Murchison Ventures. [Source]

Sharpi, a São Paulo–based conversational sales platform that automates B2B sales through WhatsApp and integrates orders with ERP systems, raised a US$4 million Seed round led by NXTP and ONEVC. Clocktower Ventures and MAYA Capital also participated in the financing. [Source]

Pluggy raised US$3.5 million in a Series A round led by DGF, with participation from Y Combinator and Brazil Venture Capital. [Source]

Vultus, a São Paulo–based cybersecurity company developing software for continuous offensive security testing and autonomous cyberattack simulation, raised R$8 million from an undisclosed private investor to accelerate its proprietary technology and software portfolio. [Source]

Passabot, a São Paulo–based travel technology startup that helps travel agencies search, book and manage travel products through its PassHub B2B platform, raised R$7.5 million in a round led by Parceiro Ventures. [Source]

Roma AI, a Santiago–based provider of governed AI agents integrated with companies’ internal systems, raised a US$1.2 million Seed round led by Invexor Venture Partners. [Source]

Fina, a Caracas–based cloud-based management software provider for small and medium businesses, raised a US$1 million Seed round co-led by SquareOne Capital and Tomorrow Capital. Norte Ventures, Platanus and Neer Venture Partners also participated. [Source]

Lokal, a Santiago–based B2B marketplace that lets independent retailers source products from multiple suppliers through one platform, raised US$700 thousand from Invexor Venture Partners. [Source]

Ginastee, a Belo Horizonte–based wellness and fitness social platform that helps creators monetize audiences through communities, subscriptions and digital products, raised a R$650 thousand Pre-Seed round with Koinz Capital. [Source]

Fiibo, a São Paulo–based healthfintech providing digital infrastructure and a marketplace for health plans and products, closed an undisclosed Seed Extension led by Vox Capital’s co-investment fund with Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein and Criabiz Ventures. Headline, IKJ Capital and 040 Ventures also participated. [Source]

Expanding to LatAm

Certuma, a San Francisco Bay Area–based clinical AI company developing physician-verified infrastructure for low-complexity care, raised a US$10 million seed round led by 8VC. The company has begun operations in Argentina and is pursuing regulatory pathways with the FDA in the United States and ANMAT in Argentina. [Source]

🤝 Tech Talents Match

Vagas em startups brasileiras que combinam com o seu perfil, enviadas pelo WhatsApp.

Responda algumas perguntas rápidas sobre sua experiência e o que você procura. Você receberá apenas vagas que fazem sentido para você, vindas de startups e parceiros de recrutamento já validados em nossa rede.

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Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 🎊 Startup Launches: The Cognitive Loop, One to Many

• 🦄 Leadership Movements: Head of Revenue Operations at Clara, Head of Marketing Science at Purple Metrics & more

• 📖 Recent Reads: Where the value is going in AI, Sam Altman interview

• 🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Sales Director at AppsFlyer, ex-Head of Technology at a Brazilian consumer brand & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

Esta edição do Tech Talents é oferecida pela Austera.

A Austera é o time financeiro da sua startup que você não precisa contratar.

A maioria dos founders só descobre que seus números são um problema quando um investidor pede para vê-los. A Austera atua como CFO & FP&A as a Service: assume a rotina financeira, incluindo contas a pagar e a receber, conciliação bancária, ERP e transforma isso em informação que sustenta decisões. Com eles, o fechamento mensal cai de 20 para 3 dias.

O escopo acompanha o estágio da empresa: BPO para a camada operacional, FP&A quando você precisa de visibilidade, e um CFO sênior na mesa quando o assunto é o planejamento dos próximos três a cinco anos. Sem o custo de um C-level interno.

Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?

Fale com a Austera

🎊 Startup Launches

Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.

The Cognitive Loop

Overview

• Startup Description: Builds cognitive infrastructure to turn collective judgment, decisions, and organizational knowledge into an accumulating digital asset.

• Industry: AI, SaaS

• Team Size: 2

• Time in Stealth: 7 months

Pablo Gottifredi – Founder at The Cognitive Loop

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate

• Previous Experience: Ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Match, ex-Co-Founder & CTO at MomentOfPeople, ex-CIO at Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Nación, Founder Institute incubated startup.

• Headquarters: Argentina

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

One to Many

Overview

• Startup Description: Automated takeoff software for window and door manufacturers: upload plans to get unit-by-unit schedules ready to quote.

• Industry: Construction Tech, AI

• Team Size: 2

• Time in Stealth: 7 months

Sebastian Correa Gaviria - Co-Founder at One to Many

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Ex-Consultant, Top University

• Previous Experience: Ex-Co-Founder at Finity, ex-Co-Founder at Plenti, ex-Makers Fellowship, ex-Senior Consultant at BIP Colombia, Civil Engineering from Universidad de los Andes.

• Headquarters: Bogotá, Colombia

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+3 other Announced Startups over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro

🦄 Leadership Movements

Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns and scaleups’ executive-level.

Adriano Monaco - Head of Revenue Operations at Clara

• Previous Role: Chief Operating Officer at Onnibank

• Previous Experience: Ex-Sales and Marketing Manager at HydraForce Brazil, MBA from Nova Southeastern University.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 2 months

Eduardo Ogawa - Head of Marketing Science at Purple Metrics

• Previous Role: Marketing Science Partner at Meta

• Previous Experience: Ex-Manager, Marketing Science at Mercado Libre, MBA Lecturer, Marketing Analytics at USP, ex-Measurement Lead, Analytics at Google, Ph.D, Marketing Analytics from USP.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 3 months

Lorena Coimbra de Figueiredo - Vice-president of client operations at Pipo Saúde

• Previous Role: Vice-president of operations at Pipo Saúde

• Previous Experience: Ex-Head of Digital Operations & Partner at Stone, Post-Graduate degree in Neuroscience from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul.

• Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 2 months

📖 Recent Reads

My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.

In this podcast, a16z partner Martin Casado discusses where the value is going in AI. The conversation was published in a special week for the VC firm, as two of its portfolio companies just closed landmark deals: Cursor was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion and OpenRouter by Stripe for over $7 billion. Here are some of his takes:

This era in venture is very different from any of the previous ones. Small teams can now put billions of dollars to work, which puts the ability to raise at the forefront of competitive advantages, at least at the model layer. He even mentions that one of the most-used models today was built by a team of around 20 people using over $2 billion to train it, a level of capital intensity unseen in prior waves.

The strategic value of the business could matter more than business metrics. Margins, churn and revenue quality are all things early-stage investors look into, but whether a company will be an important part of the new stack being formed and what control points it will eventually hold is probably the most important aspect now. This was likely the philosophy behind their early bets on Cursor and OpenRouter.

It is difficult to predict whether the frontier labs will capture all or most of the market in the long term. Right now, they have the data moat, the capital, and the ability to self-improve (models building better versions of themselves). But AI is touching more industries now, compute supply constraints are expected to ease in the coming years, and apps are capturing more margin as we go, which could mean a more even distribution of the market compared to the concentration we see today around OpenAI and Anthropic.

This interview with OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman gives good perspective on his personal views of the current AI market, as well as on his profile as a CEO.

He mentions he is still not using as much AI as he wishes he was. For instance, he still doesn’t use Codex or ChatGPT to go through his inbox or his to-do list, even though he could. This is mostly a product failure in his opinion, as the tech to automate most of his work is already there. We essentially have not had an “iPhone moment” in AI yet.

He spent a large part of his career in investing before building OpenAI, an unusual path that helped him become a better entrepreneur. Not only was he exposed to a lot of business decisions that worked and didn’t work, but he also had a higher risk tolerance and wasn’t afraid of contrarian bets. Many of the early OpenAI bets, like large language models and the goal of achieving AGI, were heavily criticized by AI researchers at the time.

When confronted with important strategic decisions, Sam often goes to Peter Thiel and Paul Graham, as they provide the most contrarian but productive points of view. This was the case when he decided to shut down Sora, their video app, and when they decided to focus solely on ChatGPT right after its successful launch instead of working on other products right away.

🤫 Talents Entering Stealth

Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.

Raffaella B. – Building at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate, Marketing Tech

• Signals: Sales leader who left AppsFlyer in Oct 2025 and has been building a stealth startup since Mar 2026, after six years at Google and Credit Suisse. Holds FGV and Harvard/Stanford executive education.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 5 months

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+8 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:

• Ex-Head of Growth then Country Manager Brazil at a US-backed LatAm fintech data startup, with investment banking roots at a top Brazilian bank. Now CEO of a stealth tax venture.

• Edge AI and distributed systems engineering manager at a Brazilian scaleup, plus his own home-automation hardware company. Deep firmware and embedded background.

• Left a Head of Technology seat at a well-known Brazilian consumer brand last month, kept only the advisory chair. Before that, three years building at an agro-fintech.

• First sales hire at a Brazilian workflow-automation SaaS, later sales director at two more. Now a stealth founder and part-time postgraduate professor, IE Business School MBA.

Read more

Welcome to Tech Signals, a newsletter that tracks how fast LatAm startups are growing. From news articles, LinkedIn posts, and other public sources, it surfaces the metrics that matter: revenue figures, customer counts, headcount growth, and funding rounds of private startups across Latin America.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 📈 Traction Data: Cumbuca, Creditas, NearX & more

• 👥 Team Expansion: Tools for the Commons, Segura & more

• 🚀 Funding Rounds: Yuno, Kesh & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

Esta edição do Tech Talents é oferecida pela Austera.

A Austera é o time financeiro da sua startup que você não precisa contratar.

A maioria dos founders só descobre que seus números são um problema quando um investidor pede para vê-los. A Austera atua como CFO & FP&A as a Service: assume a rotina financeira, incluindo contas a pagar e a receber, conciliação bancária, ERP e transforma isso em informação que sustenta decisões. Com eles, o fechamento mensal cai de 20 para 3 dias.

O escopo acompanha o estágio da empresa: BPO para a camada operacional, FP&A quando você precisa de visibilidade, e um CFO sênior na mesa quando o assunto é o planejamento dos próximos três a cinco anos. Sem o custo de um C-level interno.

Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?

Fale com a Austera

📈 Traction Data

Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.

Creditas, a São Paulo–based fintech providing secured lending across auto finance, home equity and payroll-deducted credit, reported R$1.14 billion in quarterly originations, R$722.9 million in revenue and R$8.1 billion in assets under management in 2Q26. Originations rose 34.2% year over year, while revenue increased 30.2%.

Cumbuca, a Brazil–based Open Finance infrastructure and payment institution, grew its active Open Finance consents from roughly 600,000 in January to more than 9.5 million in July, representing more than a 15x increase in six months.

Beacon Founders, a São Paulo–based family office providing wealth management, equity-pool structures and legal and tax support to technology founders, increased total assets under management to R$650 million following its incorporation of 314 Capital and is targeting more than R$1 billion in 2026.

TideWise, a Rio de Janeiro–based developer of autonomous, uncrewed surface vessels for defense and offshore operations, is on track to reach approximately R$30 million in 2026 revenue, with the revenue already contracted.

RecargaPay, a São Paulo–based fintech offering payments, cards and consumer credit products, served more than 14 million customers and grew 30% annually on average over the past three years. The company said it became profitable in 2023.

NearX, a São Paulo–based educational technology platform that trains professionals and develops custom enterprise solutions using emerging technologies, aims to generate R$10 million in revenue in 2026 as it shifts from B2C to an exclusively B2B model. The company reported R$7 million in revenue in 2025, up from R$2 million in 2024, and expects annual revenue growth of 20% to 30% in 2027.

👥 Team Expansion

Startups rapidly scaling their teams.

Tools for the Commons, a São Paulo-based developer of a blockchain-based, community-run infrastructure for public goods and open governance, saw a 39% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 25 employees.

TOHKN, an El Salvador-based investment platform for Latin America offering regulated tokenized assets, saw a 24% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 42 employees.

Segura, a São Paulo-based AI platform connecting insurance brokers and insurers to manage policies and streamline quotes, sales and renewals, saw a 23% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 48 employees.

🚀 Funding Rounds

Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.

Yuno, a Brazil–based payments-infrastructure startup providing enterprises, banks and digital wallets with a unified API for global payment services, raised US$45 million in a Series B round led by Global PayTech Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Kaszek, Monashees, QuantumLight Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Rasmal Ventures, Further Ventures and GrowthX Capital also participated. [Source]

Tractian, an Atlanta–based industrial technology company providing sensors, AI and predictive-maintenance solutions for factories, secured R$120.1 million in financing from BNDES to develop robotic assistants for industrial inspection and predictive maintenance. [Source]

Zayra, a São Paulo–based education platform for Web3, blockchain, tokenization and digital finance, raised R$15 million in a Seed round. Angel investors Gustavo Guedes Maniero, Ibrahim Jamhour and Edison Raposo participated alongside other financial-sector investors. [Source]

hiSofi, a Miami–based debt-collection technology company that uses data-driven messaging and digital payment portals, raised US$1 million in a round backed by SaaSholic and including a US$250,000 co-investment from Uruguay’s National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII). The company will use Uruguay as the base for its regional artificial intelligence and data-science hub. [Source]

Premia, a Campinas–based edtech developing proprietary AI models and a learning-management platform for basic and higher education, raised R$5 million in its first investment round from an undisclosed family office. [Source]

Plinq, a Curitiba–based women’s safety platform that checks public criminal and judicial records of potential romantic partners, raised R$1.3 million in its first funding round led by Spectra Investments. Angel investors included Lovable cofounder and CEO Anton Osika, Ella Wealth cofounder Liana Selles, Doji founder and CEO Fernando Montera, and former P&G IT director José Gerardo Carrero. [Source]

Galgo, a Santiago–based fintech that finances motorcycle purchases for underserved consumers, received an undisclosed investment from Uber. The companies will develop motorcycle-purchase financing for Uber drivers and delivery workers across Latin America, beginning in Mexico in the first quarter of 2027. [Source]

Debt Rounds

Kesh, a São Paulo–based fintech and HRtech offering salary accounts, emergency loans and interest cashback through partner purchases, raised R$550 million in a Seed round combining equity and debt financing. Leste led the investment alongside BR Angels and Across Capital partners Alexandre Noschese, Mike Silva and Rafael Costa. [Source]

Ume, a Belo Horizonte–based digital-credit fintech that enables retailers, marketplaces and service companies to offer financial products to customers, raised R$500 million through FIDCs. Itaú, Bradesco, XP (Augme), Milenio, Verde and Credit Saison participated in the oversubscribed operation. [Source]

FAZ Cred, a São Paulo–based fintech specializing in private payroll-deducted loans for formal workers, raised US$16 million through its new FAZ Cred Mais Trabalhador FIDC. The vehicle targets the health and education sectors, with Patrimonial serving as the principal investor. [Source]

Expanding to LatAm

Moove, an Amsterdam–based mobility-financing company expanding into autonomous-vehicle fleet operations, raised US$250 million in a Series C at a US$2.1 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Mubadala, Toyota’s Woven Capital and Ion Pacific. [Source]

HappyRobot, a San Francisco–based developer of AI agents that automate complex enterprise operations across business systems, raised US$150 million in a Series C at a US$1.2 billion post-money valuation. Prysm Capital led the round, which was co-led by Eurazeo and brought the company’s total funding to more than US$200 million. [Source]

Yellow Card, an Atlanta–based provider of stablecoin and fiat payment infrastructure for businesses and financial institutions, raised US$40 million to support its expansion into Brazil and Latin America. The round was led by SC Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital and Blockchain Capital. [Source]

Naran, an Abu Dhabi–based mobility fintech that finances vehicles for independent ride-hailing drivers through a rent-to-own model, raised US$10 million in equity and debt financing from Landel. The company will use the capital to expand its fleets in Colombia, Peru, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire. [Source]

🤝 Tech Talents Match

Vagas em startups brasileiras que combinam com o seu perfil, enviadas pelo WhatsApp.

Responda algumas perguntas rápidas sobre sua experiência e o que você procura. Você receberá apenas vagas que fazem sentido para você, vindas de startups e parceiros de recrutamento já validados em nossa rede.

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Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 🎊 Startup Launches: Carro Claro

• 🦄 Leadership Movements: CMO & CCO at Fintalk, Chief Marketing Officer at Revena & more

• 📖 Recent Reads: Hype in Tech, The Future is for Everyone

• 🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Founder at Linker (acquired by Omie), Senior Staff Software Engineer at Wildlife Studios, Stanford GSB MBA & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

🎊 Startup Launches

Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.

Carro Claro

Overview

• Startup Description: AI-powered vehicle history and risk-check platform turning multi-source data into simple used-car reports with a 0–100 risk score.

• Industry: Mobility Tech, AI, B2C

• Team Size: 1

• Time in Stealth: 1 year, 2 months

Founder Profile

Adriano Garcia Venancio - Founder at Carro Claro

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant

• Previous Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Play2sell S.A., ex-Founder and Product Leader at CodeAgil, MBA from Boston University, Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André.

• Headquarters: Brazil

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+1 other Announced Startups over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro

🦄 Leadership Movements

Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns and scaleups’ executive-level.

Fernanda Papini - CMO & CCO at Fintalk

• Previous Role: CEO at Medban

• Previous Experience: Ex-Executive Vice President of Retail & Wholesale at Getnet Brasil, ex-Gerente Vendas Corporate Senior at Cielo, ESPM.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 2 months

Adriana Rangel - Chief Marketing Officer at Revena

• Previous Role: Chief Marketing Officer at Nilo Saúde

• Previous Experience: Ex-Marketing Director - Middle East & Africa at UiPath, ex-Marketing Director - Middle East & North Africa at VMware, Executive MBA from USP, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science from UFU.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 5 months

Rafael Soares Gonçalves - Chief Design & Experience Officer (CDXO) at Bys Insurance

• Previous Role: Executive Director at Mutant

• Previous Experience: Ex-Director of People & Culture and Strategic Planning at Cadastra, ex-Senior Consultant at Paralelo Sandbox, Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Centro Universitário Belas Artes.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 3 months

📖 Recent Reads

My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.

Sequoia Capital partner Konstantine Buhler shared an interesting chart that tackles a question the tech industry has argued about for decades: should you chase hype or ignore it? He ranked the most hyped topics on Hacker News (a social news site run by Y Combinator) for every year since 2007 and, under each year, added the most valuable company founded that same year. Konstantine cites three observations and the most interesting one is that generational companies were founded in years in which the most hyped topics had nothing to do with their own businesses. Uber arrived in 2009, when the hype was around low-level programming; Anthropic was founded in 2021 when everyone was talking about crypto. The one thing I will point out is that Hacker News is mostly accessed by technical people, so it will be worth following their next studies on different social channels such as X and LinkedIn.

Mark Zuckerberg released an essay titled “The Future is for Everyone” in which he argues that everyone should have access to personal superintelligence. The text was published alongside the release of Meta's new open source model Muse Glimmer, which can run on a regular laptop, and this was no accident, since he believes open models will be essential to achieving the democratization of advanced AI. Different from other essays from other high-profile AI leaders, Mark's is overall extremely optimistic, and he says outright that he does not understand why the discourse from other labs is "so filled with doom." He does go over some of the risks around the technology and put real proposals on the table, including handing Meta's independent board the power to approve safety criteria for model releases. But nearly every mitigation resolves back to the same answer: distribute more and give superintelligence to everyone, which seems a bit too convenient. Regardless, any public manifestation about how these leaders think about the future of AI is positive, and Meta remains the only US frontier lab treating open weights as a strategic pillar, something I fully agree will be essential for harnessing the potential benefits coming from this technology.

🤫 Talents Entering Stealth

Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.

David Mourão - Founder at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Previous Exit, Masters, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Scaleup Experience, Fintech

• Signals: Repeat fintech founder with an exit (Linker, acquired by Omie).

• Previous Experience: Ex-Managing Director - Financial Services at Omie, ex-Founder & CEO at Linker, ex-Interim Managing Director at Ektos, ex-Alternative Investments Manager at Vinci Partners, MBA in Finance from Duke Fuqua School of Business, Bachelor’s degree in Economics from PUC-RJ.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 8 months

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Lucas Tavolaro Ortiz – Builder at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Big Tech, Technical Founder, Fintech

• Signals: Building in AI + Education since Jun 2026; prev. Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Wildlife Studios and Solutions Engineer @ Meta.

• Previous Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager - Checkout: Payments & Fraud at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), ex-Senior Staff Software Engineer at Wildlife Studios, ex-Solutions Engineer at Meta, ex-Software Developer at Avature, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Buenos Aires.

• Headquarters: Argentina

• Time in Current Position: 2 months

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+6 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:

• Ex-COO of a LatAm proptech through its exit, then COO of a 400-person regional group. Stanford GSB MBA, class of 2026.

• Ex-Nubank and fintech scaleup, now on a second venture straight off a two-year co-founder run.

• Repeat founder whose last company raised a $1.5M pre-seed and reached ~500 retail clients.

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Welcome to Tech Signals, a newsletter that tracks how fast LatAm startups are growing. From news articles, LinkedIn posts, and other public sources, it surfaces the metrics that matter: revenue figures, customer counts, headcount growth, and funding rounds of private startups across Latin America.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 📈 Traction Data: Runflow, Vammo, Venda AI & more

• 👥 Team Expansion: Carecode, Clara, Nuvidio

• 🚀 Funding Rounds: Decade, Cashea, Jusfy & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

📈 Traction Data

Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.

Einship, a Fortaleza–based AI-native LogTech that provides data intelligence and operational-management tools for import and export operations, grew more than 400% in 2025 and matched its full-year 2025 revenue in the first five months of 2026. The company now serves more than 100 customers. [Round Below]

Runflow, a São Paulo–based platform for enterprises to build, monitor and manage AI agents that automate complex business processes, reported R$ 4.5 million in ARR and expects to reach R$ 12 million by December. [Round Below]

Ecoterra, a Chile–based agrifoodtech that connects sustainable food producers, consumers, and commercial partners through blockchain-enabled traceability, reported nearly US$ 5 million in annual sales and EBITDA above 10%. [Round Below]

Venda AI, a São Paulo–based retail technology startup that automates sales and customer reactivation through AI-powered WhatsApp agents, reported 15 enterprise clients and projected US$ 1 million in ARR by the end of 2026.

Hero Seguros, a São Paulo–based insurtech that distributes travel insurance and other protection products through B2B2C partnerships, expects revenue to rise from R$ 215 million in 2025 to up to R$ 400 million by the end of 2026, while EBITDA is projected to increase from R$ 24.5 million to R$ 40 million.

Vammo, a São Paulo–based electric motorcycle manufacturer and rental operator, reached EBITDA break-even in June and achieved R$ 150 million in annualized recurring revenue, doubling revenue in four months.

👥 Team Expansion

Startups rapidly scaling their teams.

Carecode, a São Paulo-based conversational AI call center for clinics that reduces costs, maximizes results, and transforms the customer experience, saw a 56% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 25 employees.

Clara, a São Paulo-based corporate payments and spend management platform, saw an 18% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 733 employees.

Nuvidio, a Belo Horizonte-based video identity verification and contract formalization with AI biometrics and anti-fraud tools, saw a 25% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 70 employees.

🚀 Funding Rounds

Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.

Siigo, a Bogotá–based enterprise software company providing invoicing, accounting, payroll and administrative tools for small and medium-sized businesses, secured a US$ 103.5 million financing round. Banco de Occidente, part of Grupo Aval, contributed US$ 18.5 million to the transaction alongside international investors. [Source]

Cashea, a Caracas–based BNPL fintech providing short-term consumer credit and payment solutions through merchant partnerships, raised US$ 100 million across a US$ 40 million Series A and a US$ 60 million Series B completed within three months. Investors included Finsight Ventures, Spice Expeditions, Architect Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Krealo, Amador Holdings and NuMundo Ventures. [Source]

Decade, a São Paulo–based AI-powered wealth management platform, raised a US$85 million Seed round. The round was backed by Benchmark, Diffusion, Greenoaks, Atlantico and Norte Ventures. [Source]

COR, an Argentina–based software platform that automates back-office operations, project management and profitability analysis for agencies and professional-services firms, raised US$ 30 million in a round led by FTV Capital. [Source]

Jusfy, a São Paulo–based AI operating system for Brazilian legal practices, raised a US$ 15 million Series A led by Quona Capital. Spectra Investments, The LegalTech Fund, FJ Labs, MAYA Capital and Thomson Reuters Ventures also participated. [Source]

Rintin, a Mexico City–based B2B commerce platform connecting small entrepreneurs with wholesalers through a marketplace, embedded credit, logistics and AI tools, raised US$ 6.2 million in a round led by Cometa. Newtopia VC, Latin Leap, Amador Holdings and FJ Labs participated alongside angel investors including Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch, Globant’s Guibert Englebienne, Clip’s Adolfo Babatz, Etsy’s Josh Silverman and Auth0’s Matías Woloski. [Source]

PuntoPost, a Mexico City–based last-mile logistics startup that turns neighborhood businesses into package pickup and delivery points, raised US$ 4.8 million in a round that brought Liverpool on as a new strategic investor. Existing backers 4Founders Capital, JME Ventures, Lanai and Inclimo also participated. [Source]

Inspira, a São Paulo–based legal technology startup developing an AI assistant for legal research, document analysis, drafting, and case management, raised a US$ 2.8 million Series A round led by Cloud9 Capital. Vivo Ventures also participated. [Source]

Runflow raised R$ 7 million in a Seed round led by Honey Island. Airborne Ventures and Stamina Ventures also participated in the round. [Source]

Einship raised a US$ 1 million Seed round led by Parceiro Ventures. [Source]

Ecoterra raised US$ 1 million from Capibara Impact Trust at a US$ 16 million valuation. [Source]

Ecotrace, a Vinhedo–based agtech that provides digital commodity-traceability solutions for agribusiness, received an investment of between R$ 5 million and R$ 10 million from GS1 Ventures. [Source]

Medipreço, a Brasília–based healthtech that provides corporate medication benefit plans powered by AI-driven medical-document validation, raised R$ 2.7 million from BDev Ventures. [Source]

Urbis, a Fortaleza–based loyalty-tech company providing white-label, AI-powered engagement platforms for subscription businesses, raised R$ 2 million in a pre-Seed round backed by Investidores.vc and FIP Nordeste, managed by Triáxis Capital and Crescera Capital. [Source]

Debt Rounds

Kesh, a São Paulo–based B2B2C fintech that manages payroll and provides salary advances with interest cashback for workers, raised R$ 550 million in an equity and FIDC funding round led by Grupo Leste. BR Angels and a group of strategic partners from Across Capital also participated. [Source]

Ábaco Technologies, a San Salvador–based fintech providing digital invoice financing that turns SMEs’ accounts receivable into working capital, secured US$ 53M through a warehouse facility and Seed round, bringing total funding to more than US$ 60M. Accial Capital and Pomona Impact led the warehouse facility, while Promotora Social México, Nazca Ventures, Alaya Capital, Caricaco Ventures and Innogen Capital joined the Seed round. [Source]

Duppla, a Bogotá–based proptech offering rent-to-own home financing and residential investment products, raised US$ 60 million in a mix of debt and equity led by a fund managed by Patria Investments. Skandia Planeación Financiera, Cometa, Grupo Pegasus and Nazca also participated. [Source]

Expanding to LatAm

Emergent, a San Francisco–based Indian AI vibe-coding platform that enables non-programmers to build full-stack applications with autonomous agents, raised US$ 130 million in a Series C at a US$ 1.5 billion valuation. The round included backers such as Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator. [Source]

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Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.

Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:

• 🎊 Startup Launches: mykel.ai, Human Edge AI

• 🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Partner and People Ops at Stone Pagamentos, Ex-CRO at a Brazilian fintech & more

• 🦄 Unicorn Movements: New Chief Technology Officer at CloudWalk, Inc.

• 📖 Recent Reads: Open-Source AI Ban, The Odyssey Parallels & more

• 🤝 Tech Talents Match: Receba vagas em startups brasileiras que se encaixam no seu perfil, direto no seu WhatsApp. Acesse aqui.

Let’s dive in…

🎊 Startup Launches

Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.

mykel.ai

Overview

• Startup Description: AI-native customer success platform that analyzes customer signals and executes next-best actions.

• Industry: AI, SaaS, Marketing Tech

• Team Size: 2

• Time in Stealth: 1 month

Founder Profile

Fernando Carrasco – Co-founder at mykel.ai

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Ex-Consultant

• Signals: Repeat founder - ex-Co-founder & CTO of Inventa (Sao Paulo, raised USD 80M from a16z/Greylock, 2021-2026), ex-McKinsey Associate Partner, Columbia MBA.

• Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

Human Edge AI

Overview

• Startup Description: Governed expert-judgment system activating credentialed professionals to deliver structured, audit-ready datasets for AI post-training and evaluation.

• Industry: AI

• Team Size: 11

• Time in Stealth: 1 year

Founder Profile

Carlos Andrés Aldana - Co-Founder at Human Edge AI

• Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Masters, Previous Exit, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Investor, Unicorn Experience, Scaleup Experience

• Signals: Repeat founder with prior exit - ex-Co-Founder & CEO of Petsology (pet-care startup, 2019-2021), ex-Global General Manager of Quick Commerce - Turbo at Rappi (2022-2025), ex-Investment Professional at Mesoamerica, Wharton MBA.

• Headquarters: Colombia

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

🤫 Talents Entering Stealth

Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.

Livia Kuga – Co-founder at Stealth Startup

• Founder Highlights: Masters, Top University, Doctorate, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant

• Signals: Co-founded a stealth venture nine months ago that is already backed by a16z speedrun and three other funds, after 8+ years scaling Stone’s people function from 80 to 15,000.

• Headquarters: United States

• Time in Current Position: 8 months

• Ask for an Intro: Click here

+4 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:

• Ex-CRO at a Brazilian fintech who left in Sep 2025 and is four months into a new venture.

• Repeat founder and two-time founder fellow, Stanford executive program, now on his third venture.

🦄 Unicorn Movements

Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns’ executive-level.

Yuri Gravatá – Chief Technology Officer at CloudWalk, Inc.

• Previous Role: Director of Banking at CloudWalk, Inc.

• Previous Experience: Ex-Head of Account, Pix and Digital Services at CloudWalk, Inc., ex-Technical Lead at CloudWalk, Inc., ex-Software Engineer at CloudWalk, Inc., Bachelor’s in Administration from PUC Rio de Janeiro.

• Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Time in Current Position: 1 month

📖 Recent Reads

My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.

Kimi K3, an open-source Chinese AI model, launched earlier this month. It performs close to the frontier closed-source models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and it has opened several fronts of discussion in the tech world.

The first, and most obvious, is how fast China is closing the gap with the US on model performance. What was recently framed as a six-month American lead now looks far narrower. Some analysts are already measuring it in weeks.

Second, Washington is considering a ban on Chinese open-source models, and Silicon Valley is split over it. The case for a ban is a security one: AI models ship with guardrails to stop bad actors from using them for cyber crime and similar, and guardrails on open-weight models are far easier to remove. In response, 25 tech companies, including NVIDIA, Microsoft and Meta, signed an open letter warning against “premature restrictions” on open models.

Third, there is the distillation issue. The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable 5 to train Kimi K3, essentially claiming the Chinese lab stole Anthropic’s IP by training on millions of Claude responses.

I have a lot of thoughts on each of these, but here is the short version. I have no doubt China is catching up with the US on AI. Banning open-source models would backfire: startups drive much of the innovation in this space and depend on open weights for high-quality, low-cost AI. And distillation, to my mind, could actually work in the US’s favor. If Chinese labs keep building on frontier American models, that dependency makes it hard for them to ever take the lead.

Like many of you, I watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Beyond the visual spectacle, I caught myself reading about the lessons a nearly 3,000-year-old story still has to teach, most notably the human urge to go home. The Greeks had a word for it: nostos.

For Odysseus, home was Penelope and Telemachus, his wife and son. But home can be anything you care deeply about: becoming a great founder or investor, making an impact, building relationships that last. And as the film makes clear, getting there is never easy. Odysseus faced a cyclops, giants, and storms, but also something subtler: seven years of comfort on Calypso’s island, where he was offered immortality if he would simply stop trying to leave. The monsters are the obvious threat. The comfortable detour is the one that cost him almost a decade.

So here’s my question to you: what is your home, and are you willing to face what it takes to get there?

As someone always looking for ways to grow my newsletter and product audiences, I found this NFX piece by James Currier on why people share quite interesting. It lays out 8 motivation clusters behind sharing, all grounded in human psychology. Among them: status (associating yourself with something exclusive, or being seen as in the know), identity projection (signaling who we are and what we stand for or against), and being helpful (passing along real utility to our tribe).

Just as useful is the flip side. Currier frames every share as an unconscious cost-benefit calculation: how will this make me look, and how much effort will it take? People hold back when the cost side wins. When there’s too much friction in the sharing itself, or when the risk of looking behind the curve outweighs whatever credit they’d get for passing it on.

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