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: Jeeves, Reuse, Ciera Genomics & more
👥 Team Expansion: Pax AI, Cienty, Dapper
🚀 Funding Rounds: Stay, Kontempo, BioLinker & more
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📈 Traction Data
Revenue figures, ARR milestones, and customer counts from private startups across LatAm.
Jeeves, a seven-year-old Miami–based stablecoin-native financial platform providing corporate cards, payments and spend management for global businesses, tripled its volume year over year and surpassed US$5 billion in annualized total platform volume. [Round Below]
Reuse, an eight-year-old Santiago–based company that operates trade-in programs and refurbishes and resells used phones and electronics, closed 2025 with US$30 million in revenue and is now generating US$5 million per month. Its 2025 revenue was double the prior year’s figure, with Mexico accounting for 60% of revenue and Chile for 30%. [Round Below]
Ciera Genomics, a three-year-old São Paulo–based healthtech offering multi-omics testing and an AI platform that contextualizes results for physicians, projects revenue of R$12 million in 2026, R$24 million in 2027 and R$30 million to R$48 million in 2028.
Stay, a three-year-old São Paulo–based fintech that provides employer-sponsored private pension plans and long-term incentive programs, increased its assets under management 31x since launch and aims to reach more than 100 corporate clients by December 2026. [Rounde Below]
👥 Team Expansion
Startups rapidly scaling their teams.
Pax AI, a one-year-old Brazil-based AI platform for law enforcement that unifies fragmented data into actionable intelligence to solve crimes faster and make cities safer in Brazil, saw a >50% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 70 employees.
Cienty, a four-year-old São Paulo-based provider of connectivity services intended to connect small and medium-sized pharmacies to suppliers, saw a >15% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 38 employees.
Dapper, a two-year-old Colombia-based business intelligence platform for searching, visualizing and receiving public affairs data across Latin America, saw a >15% increase in headcount over the past quarter, reaching a total of 26 employees.
🚀 Funding Rounds
Funding rounds from the past two weeks fueling the next wave of LatAm tech. Sorted by round size.
Reuse raised a US$21 million Series A led by At One Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to approximately US$27.5 million. [Source]
Kontempo, a five-year-old Mexico City–based AI-powered financial platform for industrial suppliers to offer and manage commercial credit, payments, collections and financing, raised a US$10.5 million Series A co-led by Portage and IGNIA. Tectonic, MS&AD and other investors also participated, bringing Kontempo’s total debt and equity capital raised to more than US$40 million. [Source]
Stay raised R$30 million in a round led by Citrino. Norte, 17Sigma and BTV also participated. [Source]
UIN, a one-year-old Buenos Aires–based provider of an AI-powered behavioral platform that helps banks and fintechs increase user engagement and retention, raised a US$2 million Seed round. The round was led by Ewa Capital, with participation from Driven VC, Brazilian Venture Capital, ADN, GAIN, New Ventures and angel investors. [Source]
BioLinker, an eight-year-old São Paulo–based biotechnology company that develops and manufactures recombinant proteins using synthetic biology and genetic engineering, raised US$1.7 million in a new funding round. Axcell invested US$1.4 million and FAPESP contributed about US$240k through its PIPE Phase 2 program. [Source]
Leapy, a four-year-old São Paulo–based HRtech that recruits, trains and manages young apprentices using data-driven tools, received an undisclosed investment from Elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization. Leapy previously raised R$12 million in a Seed round led by Astella. [Source]
Platam, a five-year-old Bogotá–based embedded-lending fintech providing working-capital credit infrastructure for SMEs, added B Venture Capital as a new investor to support its expansion across Latin America. [Source]
Fronte, a newly founded Brazil–based fintech building a financial operating system for transnational families, raised a Pre-Seed round co-led by Rally Cap VC and Bankless Ventures. Base Ecosystem Fund also participated alongside fintech founders, operators and angel investors. [Source]
Debt Rounds
Asaas, a 16-year-old Brazil–based fintech that provides financial solutions and receivables advances to small and medium-sized businesses, raised R$ 300 million through its third receivables investment fund (FIDC) to finance clients’ credit-card receivables advances. [Source]
Kapital Grupo Financiero, a six-year-old Mexico City–based technology-driven financial group serving businesses and SMEs, raised US$130 million in a new equity-and-debt financing round, lifting its valuation to US$2 billion. [Source]
deRentas, a five-year-old Vicente López–based vehicle-rental company for Uber drivers, placed US$6.1 million in its second corporate bond issuance. The 24-month, peso-denominated Series II was fully guaranteed by Banco Galicia and Banco CMF. [Source]
Expanding to LatAm
Jeeves raised US$110 million in a round led by CoinFund. AllianceBernstein, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, GIC, ParaFi, Wintermute and Y Combinator also participated, alongside other investors. [Source]
Flai, a one-year-old San Francisco–based AI communications platform for auto dealerships, raised US$27 million in a Series A led by Base10 Partners. First Round Capital, Toyota Ventures, Y Combinator, Friedkin Group and Findlay Automotive also participated, bringing Flai’s total funding to more than US$33 million. [Source]
Loora, a six-year-old Tel Aviv–based AI-powered English-learning platform, raised US$22 million in a Series B round led by Union Tech Ventures. The round included vgames, Emerge, Hearst Ventures and QP Ventures, bringing the company’s total funding to US$43.25 million. [Source]
Beltic, a one-year-old US–based provider of multi-protocol identity verification and risk-prevention infrastructure for AI-agent transactions, raised a US$7.3 million Seed round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Restive Ventures and Oxford Seed Fund also participated in the financing. [Source]
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