This week’s Espresso covers updates from Marvin, Talently, Elevva, and more!


Outline of this episode:

[00:28] - The Brazilian fintech Marvin closed a $15M Series A round
[00:50] - The Mexican startup Paisa closed a $600K pre-seed round
[01:33] - The edtech Talently announced it raised a $3M seed round
[01:57] - Interview with Doménica Obando, Talently’s CEO and co-founder
[07:12] - Argentinian startup Elevva raised a $30M seed round
[07:42] - User authentication startup Truora acquired the Brazilian firm ZapSign
[07:59] - Interview with Maite Muñiz, co-founder at Truora
[10:25] - Alejandro Guízar’s featured article on the evolution of the startup ecosystem in Mexico
[10:43] -The second episode of Hacking Insurance was released

Resources & people mentioned:

Companies & Startups: Paisa, Talently, Elevva, Truora, ZapSign, Marvin, Simplee, MOVii.
VCs, Accelerators, Institutions: Canaan, Magma Partners, Precursor Ventures, Latitud, Forum VC, Gaingels, 500 Startups Latam, Alaya Capital, Salkantay Ventures, Newtype Ventures, Potencia Ventures, Latin Leap, Asymmetric Capital, MatterScale Ventures, Canary, Redwood Ventures.
People: Doménica Obando, Maite Muñiz, Rodrigo Alfonso, Diego Fernández, Alejandro Guízar, Daniel Briceño.