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Arjuna Costa

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

Strong Startups Are Led by Healthy CEOs: Why We're Prioritizing Founder Wellness

As the fintech fundraising landscape shifts from boom times to a more challenging environment, we see the pressure ratcheting up on founders and their teams…

Portfolio

Infrastructure

Why We Invested In Kamino: Gives Much-Needed Boost to High-Growth LATAM Startups

Repeat Founders Build Financial Infrastructure to Accelerate Time-to-Market and Provide End-to-End Financial and Corporate Solutions for New Businesses

[Flourish Focus] A One-one-One with Mercê do Bairro Co-Founders

Find out how Brazil’s fintech start up Mercê do Bairro recently raised a $10 million Series A round with a vision to deliver an embedded finance platform that empowers small business owners. Repeat founders Diego Libanio and Guilherme Bonifácio’s, who also co-founded Zé Delivery and iFood, got together to “create...

Why We Invested In Dinie: Introducing Dinie, an Embedded Finance Platform for MSMEs in Brazil

Brazil’s 17 million micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses (MSMEs) face a significant credit gap. This is largely due to banks’ inability to effectively serve these…

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

Flourish Focus: Heru (Mexico City)

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Mateo Jaramillo, Co-Founder & CEO, Heru

Join us for a discussion between Flourish Managing Partner, Arjuna Costa and Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and Co-founder of Mexico City-based Heru. They’ll discuss the inspiration behind Mateo’s startup that offers Latin American gig workers digital services and community safe stops. Mateo will also share how his founding team created a...

Portfolio

Digital Banking

December 02, 2020

Why We Invested In Heru: A Mexico-based Gig Worker Platform Heru Offering Online/Offline Services

The vast majority of employment in Latin America isn't formal, and across the region, there are 145 million independent workers. Independent workers and gig-economy workers…

Portfolio

Embedded Finance

[TechCrunch] This Labor Day, spare a thought for the workers who made your doorstep delivery possible

Originally posted on TechCrunch A few weeks ago, I bought a used paperback mystery for $3 via a small online bookseller. Intrigued that the book came with free shipping, I dug in a bit and was shocked to see that my little impulse purchase traveled through seven different distribution hubs...