INFOGRAPHIC: LATAM's Top Weekly Startup Funding—Week 39, 2025

It was a busy week for Latin America’s tech scene, with startups across fintech, consumer lending, AI, and digital identity raising fresh capital to scale their platforms and strengthen their market presence. From Colombia to Argentina and Brazil, investors are doubling down on financial inclusion, automation, and trust infrastructure.

Leading the pack, Colombian fintech Addi secured a $50 million extension to its credit line with Victory Park Capital, with new participation from funds managed by Neuberger. This brings the company’s total debt commitments to $350 million, following earlier agreements with BBVA Spark, Goldman Sachs, and Fasanara Capital. Addi, which has doubled revenue for five consecutive years to reach $150 million in annualised revenue, recently achieved four straight quarters of profitability. The fintech plans to leverage its new financing and recently added leadership hires from Square, Amazon, and eBay to expand its consumer finance platform. Founded in 2018, Addi now serves 2.5 million consumers and over 30,000 retailers, including Apple, Adidas, and Movistar.

Argentina’s Credicuotas, a consumer lending platform within the BIND Group, followed with a dual bond issuance valued at approximately $25 million. The Series XV and XVI negotiable bonds were rated A1(arg) by FIX Rating and supported by BIND Banco, Banco Patagonia, and several other financial institutions. Despite challenging conditions in the sector, the company has maintained steady growth, supported by what it calls a “virtuous cycle” of strong business fundamentals and market trust.

Brazilian AI platform Emergent raised $23 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed, with participation from Y Combinator, Prosus, and prominent angel investors including Google’s Jeff Dean and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. The startup enables users to create full production-ready apps with autonomous AI agents—no coding required. Already boasting more than 1 million users and 1.5 million apps created, Emergent hit $15 million in annual recurring revenue just 90 days after launch, marking one of the fastest growth trajectories in the sector.

Caf, a Brazilian digital identity and anti-fraud intelligence company, secured $9.3 million in a round led by L4 Venture Builder, the independent VC fund created by stock exchange operator B3. This makes L4 only the second institutional investor in Caf, which has now raised a total of $24.3 million (R$130 million). Caf has been expanding rapidly with AI-driven fraud prevention tools such as deepfake detection and document verification powered by large language models. The company reported 80% year-over-year growth in the first half of 2025, fueled by new products and an expanding client base across Latin America.

Rounding out the week, Larian AI, another Brazilian startup, raised $374,000 in its first institutional round from Bossa Invest. The company builds AI agents tailored for travel agencies, helping them cut operational costs by up to 80% and accelerate customer responses by 90%. With more than 100 agencies already using its platform and $9.3 million in sales generated since its 2024 launch, the new funding will fuel international expansion and strengthen its AI infrastructure.

These latest rounds highlight Latin America’s dynamic innovation landscape, where fintech, AI, and digital trust continue to attract global investors. From reshaping consumer finance to bringing automation into tourism, the region’s startups are addressing longstanding inefficiencies while pushing into new global markets.