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Kanastra Raises $30 Million Series B from F-Prime to Spearhead Brazil's Private Credit infrastructure Development
Kanastra, a financial technology company providing technology infrastructure and services for private credit funds and securitizations, today announced a $30 million Series B round led by F-Prime, with contributions from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, as well as follow-on investments from current investors Kaszek, Valor Capital, Quona Capital and Itaú, Latin America's largest bank. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development, deep
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[{"type":"text","content":"SÃO PAULO, Oct. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Kanastra, a financial technology company providing technology infrastructure and services for private credit funds and securitizations, today announced a $30 million Series B round led by F-Prime, with contributions from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, as well as follow-on investments from current investors Kaszek, Valor Capital, Quona Capital and Itaú, Latin America's largest bank. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development, deepen automation across the private credit funds lifecycle, and expand Kanastra's client base.","length":649,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"image","alt":"Kanastra Logo","displaySize":"","headline":null,"caption":"Kanastra Logo","className":"","disableSlideshowImg":false,"size":{"original":{"width":400,"height":98,"url":"https://media.zenfs.com/en/prnewswire.com/addcb21783fdd980c3d42126c43333d6"},"resized":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/H6UzP9Sp1vdhN4P45msX5w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTE3MztjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/prnewswire.com/addcb21783fdd980c3d42126c43333d6","width":400,"height":98}}},{"type":"text","content":"Private credit has become one of the fastest-growing sources of financing for companies in Brazil. Over the last five years, private credit funds have grown by 230% as businesses increasingly turn to asset-backed facilities outside of traditional banks. Yet the infrastructure to support this market has remained fragmented, manual, and costly to scale. Kanastra is purpose-built to serve Brazil's rapidly expanding private credit market, which has become a critical source of financing for all sorts of companies through asset-backed facilities.","length":550,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""With private credit in Brazil compounding at double-digit rates, operational and tech demands are growing increasingly complex as both the market and the structures get more mature. Kanastra provides infrastructure to abstract that complexity away so our clients can focus on their core activities," said Gustavo Mapeli, co-founder and CEO of the company. "The fundraise comes on top of Kanastra's very strong execution, and the partnership with both F-Prime and the IFC brings deep expertise and institutional validation to our mission."...