Portfolio company Cardo Health launches telemedicine app Kena Health in South Africa
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2022 Digital health company Cardo Health announces today that it has launched the telemedicine app Kena Health in South Africa. For the early detection and treatment of health conditions, easy access to primary healthcare is crucial. Today, however, Africa has the lowest patient-to-doctor ratio in the world with 0.23 doctors for every 10,000 […]
Cardo Health raises USD 17.5 million to take digital health to emerging markets
PUBLISHED: January 11, 2022 Stockholm (Sweden), 11 January 2022 – Today, Cardo Health announces the closing of an over-subscribed USD 17.5 million funding round. Founded by former McKinsey Partner and European start-up practice leader Tobias Strålin, Cardo Health is on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people in emerging markets. It […]
Webrock Ventures, Healthforce and Doktor.se launch a telehealth company in sub-Saharan Africa
PUBLISHED: June 20, 2021 Read more about the initiative in TechCrunch; www.techcrunch.com/2021/06/10/new-south-african-partnership-gets-3m-launches-telehealth-product/ and in Di Digital: https://www.di.se/digital/svenskar-tar-digital-vard-till-afrika-med-25-miljoner-pa-fickan/ May 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa – Investment firm Webrock Ventures has announced a partnership with the South African digital health company Healthforce, owned by South Africa’s leading retail pharmacy chain Dis-Chem, and Swedish health tech company Doktor.se to launch an app-based telehealth service […]
LAVCA’s 2021 Review of Tech Investment in Latin America
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2021CATEGORY: Brazil LAVCA, the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, recently published its annual report on tech investment in Latin America. Please download the report below. Key highlights from the report: Venture investment in Latin America surpassed USD4b for a second consecutive year, with a record 488 deals in 2020. Fintech attracted […]
FinanZero raises US$ 7 million in a new round led by Swedish investors
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2021 São Paulo, Brazil, April 2021–FinanZero, (finanzero.com.br), Brazil’s leading online credit marketplace, announces today that it has closed a US$ 7 million funding round in its fourth round of funding. The round was led by the Swedish investors VEF, Dunross & Co, and Atlant Fonder, all previous investors in the company. The use […]
ViBe Saúde raises US$ 10 million to expand its telehealth services in Brazil
PUBLISHED: January 15, 2021 ViBe Saúde, (www.vibesaude.com) the leading B2C telehealth startup in Brazil, announces that it has closed a US$ 10 million Series A funding round. The funds will be used to further expand its freemium digital primary care service for more than 160 million Brazilians that depend on a public health care system characterized […]
Vitor Moreira joins Webrock Ventures as Partner
PUBLISHED: December 17, 2020 Please tell us a bit about your background Born in São Paulo, Brazil, I spent my middle school years living in Puerto Rico and returned to Brazil to finish high school and start college. Upon receiving a bachelor’s degree in business from FGV – EAESP, I worked for CPMBraxis for 5 years […]
A quick chat with Olle Widén, CEO at FinanZero
PUBLISHED: December 10, 2020 Why FinanZero? When I moved to Brazil ten years ago, I experienced first-hand the major opportunities for disrupting the lending industry in the country. The Brazilian banking sector is characterized by an oligopolistic market structure, where the top five banks hold 80% of the total loans in the system and the interest […]
ViBe featured in Exame
PUBLISHED: December 8, 2020 Our portfolio company ViBe is featured in the leading business magazine in Brazil, Exame. In the article, the co-founders Ian Bonde and Ricardo Joseph talk about ViBe’s success so far and its plans going forward. “The partnership with one of the European leaders in telemedicine allowed us to develop a platform that is […]
A quick chat with Juliana Barbiero, CEO at Lexly Brasil
PUBLISHED: November 16, 2020 Juliana is the Co-Founder and CEO of legaltech company Lexly Brasil. Juliana has 20+ years of experience in Sales & Marketing in the tech sector, working for corporations such as Samsung, Nokia, Intuit, JustEat, among others. Why did you decide to co-found Lexly Brasil? I co-founded Lexly Brasil for two reasons. First, […]