dLocal Series-A

This is the dLocal pitch deck to raise a $200m series-a round in 2020.

About

DLocal is a 360 payments technology platform used to handle mass online payments in emerging markets across LATAM, APAC, and EMEA. The company’s payment platform helps anyone to reach billions of customers, accept payments, send payouts, and settle funds globally.

By operating as the payments processor and merchant of record in each market,

the company is making it simple for online companies to reach 2 billion digitally savvy consumers in today’s fastest-growing markets. Over 450 global e-commerce merchants, online travel providers, and marketplaces rely on dLocal to accept more than 300 locally-relevant payment methods including local credit and debit cards, bank transfers, and cash payments, as well as issue millions of payments to their contractors, agents, and sellers in growth markets around the world.

DLocal spun off from AstroPay in January 2016.

Unicorns have become a dime a dozen in fintech. Globally, there are over 60 fintechs with private valuations over $1 billion.

So while dLocal, a payments fintech connecting companies to emerging markets, might not turn heads with its recently reached unicorn status, how it got there is surprising.

Unlike many of the fintechs in the space, dLocal’s rise wasn’t fueled by several rounds of venture-capital money. Instead, the startup has been bootstrapped since its founding in 2016.

That changed earlier this month when dLocal secured $200 million in a funding round led by the private-equity giant General Atlantic, valuing the company at $1.2 billion.

dLocal’s platform helps companies like Amazon, Shopify, and Uber accept and send payments in emerging markets. Essentially, dLocal wants to be the Adyen of emerging markets.

Adyen, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, went public in 2018 and has a market cap of about $56 billion. General Atlantic is an investor in Adyen, and dLocal CEO Sebastian Kanovich said adding GA to its capitalization table will help it achieve that goal.

“We are excited about the experience that GA has with Adyen. Adyen is a company we really respect, and one which we compete with,” Kanovich told Business Insider.

“We think we are very well positioned to be Adyen, but for emerging markets,” he said.

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