Latin America roundup: Neobanks raise $205M+; Softbank backs VTEX

Latin America roundup: Neobanks raise $205M+; Softbank backs VTEX

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/27/latin-america-roundup-neobanks-raise-205m-softbank-backs-vtex/

Argentina’s Ualá became the most recent Latin American fintech to receive a growth-stage funding ($150 million) from Asian investors, Tencent and Softbank. 

This marks Tencent’s second round of investment in Ualá, the first coming in April 2019. Tencent also invested $180M in Brazil’s leading neobank, Nubank in 2018. With Ualá, Tencent and Softbank will join a team of investors including Soros, Goldman Sachs, Endeavor, Monashees, Ribbit Capital, and Jefferies LLC, who have backed Ualá since it was founded in 2016. Ualá has provided over 1.3M accounts for unbanked and under-banked Argentine customers in the past two years and recently launched new products for lending and savings.