INFOGRAPHIC: LATAM's Top Weekly Startup Funding—Week 31, 2025

Brazilian startups raised over $90 million this week across fintech, healthtech, and HR automation, signaling strong investor appetite for AI-driven solutions tackling persistent gaps in credit access, banking infrastructure, healthcare diagnostics, and workforce management.

Financial infrastructure fintech QI Tech led the funding activity with a $63 million Series B round led by General Atlantic. Founded in 2018 and based in São Paulo, QI Tech provides an API-first platform that enables banks, fintechs, and non-financial companies to launch and scale services such as payments, lending, investments, and insurance. The company positions itself as a financial backbone for Brazil’s digital economy, and the new capital will support the development of new client products, strategic acquisitions, and further expansion into embedded finance. With regulation-heavy financial systems in Brazil, QI Tech’s full-stack infrastructure offers much-needed agility for companies navigating complex compliance requirements.

Close behind, microcredit startup Juvo secured $25 million through a Credit Rights Investment Fund (FIDC), along with an additional $11.6 million in equity, bringing its total raised this week to $36.6 million. Founded to expand access to credit for low- and middle-income Brazilians, Juvo uses AI to underwrite loans for individuals with little or no traditional credit history. The company accepts smartphones as collateral—allowing borrowers to retain access while disabling non-essential apps if payments are missed. Juvo says it has already issued over $288 million (R$1.6 billion) in loans to more than 20 million people and partners with telecom operators to deliver mobile top-up advances to over 100,000 users daily. The new funding will support its loan expansion plans and deepen its mission to serve financially underserved communities.

In the HR tech space, Tako raised $18 million in a round led by Ribbit Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Tako offers a platform that automates payroll, onboarding, and labour compliance for medium-sized companies in Brazil, using AI agents trained on the country’s frequently changing labour laws. Since its launch, Tako has processed over $180 million (R$1 billion) in payroll and claims to have saved its clients the equivalent of 5,000 cumulative days of manual HR work. The funding will support the rollout of new automation features and expand the platform’s reach as labour and tax compliance become increasingly complex for Brazilian businesses.

Healthtech startup Neurogram brought in $3 million in a seed round led by Headline, building on a prior $1.4 million pre-seed round. The platform standardises EEG diagnostics by centralising and analysing neurological data, addressing a field marked by fragmentation and inefficiency. Already adopted by the Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute, Neurogram aims to process 100,000 exams by year-end and expand its presence in hospitals and research centres across the country. Founded by neuroscientist Daniele de Mari and neurophysiologist Heitor Ettori, the company is focused on bridging clinical care with deep tech.

Rounding out the week, Belo Horizonte-based Yapp raised $1.07 million from angel investors in Brazil, Canada, and the U.S. The recruitment automation platform combines ten AI agents with access to over 20 million candidate profiles to help companies hire faster and more accurately. Already serving over 50 clients in industries like healthcare, agribusiness, and consulting, Yapp plans to expand across Latin America while refining its AI-powered hiring tools for scalability and personalisation.

From inclusive finance to next-gen healthcare and AI-led hiring, this week’s activity shows that Brazil’s tech startups are attracting serious global attention—by building for real-world impact at scale.