This week’s Espresso covers updates from Habi, Xepelin, Belo, and more!

Outline of this episode:

[00:28] - Habi gained unicorn status after raising a $200M Series C round
[01:08] - Xepelin raised a $111M Series B round
[01:50] -Village Capital and Moody’s partnered to create a new accelerator program
[02:13] -Belo raised $3M in a seed round
[02:35] -Interview with Manuel Beaudroit, CEO and co-founder of Belo
[06:17] -Grupo Central raised $3M in a seed round
[06:38] -Interview with Alejandro Iglesias, CEO and co-founder of Grupo Central
[10:13] -Second edition of the accelerator program K-Startup Grand Challenge
[10:38] -First episode of the Hacking Insurance podcast with Martin Ferrari, CEO of 123Seguro
[11:01] -New episode of Entrepreneurship 101 “Growth strategies for Latin American companies”
[11:17] - Talanta’s upcoming webinar “The competition for emerging talent is changing, who will win?”



Resources & people mentioned:

Companies & Startups: Habi, Xepelin, Belo, Grupo Central, Sekure, 123Seguro, Talanta
VCs, Accelerators, Institutions: Kaszek, Softbank, Homebrew, Tiger Global, Inspired Capital, Avenir, Village Capital, Moody’s, CRV, The Venture City, Newtopia, Latitude, Moonvalley Capital, Global Founders Capital (GFC), Opera Ventures
People: Manuel Beaudroit, Alejandro Iglesias, Rodrigo Alfonso, Martin Ferrari, Andrea Campos, Gina Gotthilf, Manuela Sánchez