Investors: QED Investors, Tarsadia Investments, Kaszek Ventures. Investors: SoftBank, General Atlantic, BIG BETS. Investors: Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Accel, Sunley House Capital Management, Qualcomm Ventures, Kaszek Ventures, Alkeon Capital, VMG Partners, Owl Rock Capital, ThornTree, Capital Partners. Investors: Tencent, SoftBank, Goldman Sachs, Ribbit Capital, Monashees, D1 Capital Partners, Endeavor. Investors: Tiger Global Management, Endeavor, Enlightened Hospitality Investments, Future Positive, Kaszek Ventures, L Catterton, SOSV, Zoma Capital, DFJ Growth, Bezos Expeditions. Investors: Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Gradient Ventures. Investors: SoftBank, Endeavor, Pipo Capital, Tribe Capital. Investors: Viking Global Investors, SoftBank. Investors: Coatue, Tiger Global Management, Valor Capital, QED Investors, Paradigm, Pantera Capital, Kaszek Ventures, Bond. Investors: Dynamo Ventures, SoftBank, Brasil Capital, Lakewood Investment Management, VELT Partners, Monashees, Flybridge Capital. (Over the year, LABS talked to these companies about their solutions, investments, and plans for the future – to read the stories and interviews with CEOs, just click on each one’s name). Here is the complete list of the Latin American startups which grabbed growth by the horn in 2021, provided by Sling Hub, as well as data about the round that led these startups to unicorn status. Three unicorns have “dual nationality”: Nuvemshop, which has both Argentinean and Brazilian DNA Merama, which was born Brazilian and Mexican and Daki, the Brazilian branch of U.S. Mexico comes right behind, with five new unicorns Argentina gained three and Chile got one. READ ALSO: Top 10 biggest startups funding rounds in Latin America in 2021īrazil was the country that most boosted its unicorn team, with the entry of nine startups. Startups from a wide range of sectors have become unicorns: fintech, edtech, adtech, food tech, retail tech, deep tech e log tech. In all, Latin America welcomed 18 new unicorn startups, and a third of them reached the status in December, corroborating our thesis that the “ Santa Claus of venture capital” was on fire during the final sprint of the year. At the request of LABS, the Brazilian intelligence platform Sling Hub gathered which startups in the region reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021 and got their unicorn horn. In a flourishing year for the Latin American innovation ecosystem as 2021 was, with record venture capital investment in the region and an increasing appetite from global investors for local companies and solutions, the Latin American unicorn club has taken on new members.