Latin American

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage and growth deals hitting $1.63B

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre reports Q2 net revenue up 34% YoY to $6.8B, vs. $6.7B est., and net income down 1.5% YoY to $523M, vs. $596M est.

Andre Romani / Reuters :

Latin American e-commerce and fintech giant MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $5.9B, $494M in net income, and Argentina revenue up 125% YoY to $1.3B

Daniel Cancel / Bloomberg :

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre's stock reached a record high on February 21 after it reported a record $639M net income on $6.1B in revenue in Q4

Daniel Cancel / Bloomberg :

Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre's stock reached a record high on February 21 after it reported a record $639M net income on $6.1B in revenue in Q4

- Latin America e-commerce, fintech giant blows away estimates  — MercadoLibre extends lead as most valuable Latin American firm

Argentina's Tapi, a payments processor for Latin American consumer platforms like Mercado Pago and crypto exchange Lemon, raised a $22M Series A led by Kaszek

Patrick Gillespie / Bloomberg :

Mastercard pilots a P2P network for crypto transactions on Bit2Me, Lirium, and Mercado Bitcoin exchanges in 13 European and Latin American countries

- Mastercard is launching a peer-to-peer network for sending and receiving digital assets across borders.

Sources: Sea, whose market cap has gone from $200B+ in October 2021 to ~$28B, shuts some Latin American operations and cuts hundreds of gaming jobs in Shanghai

Latin American e-commerce site MercadoLibre beats with Q2 revenue up 53% YoY to $2.6B, vs. $2.5B est., and operating margins of 9.6%, vs. 7% est.; stock up 12%+

Bloomberg :

Despite rocketing inflation and a cratering crypto market, many Latin American traders still see crypto as a way to circumvent unstable or stagnant economies