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At least one of the teams in 500 Startups’ next batch of accelerated companiescomes from Fut 14 PS4 Coins: Brazilian startup Já Entendi (whose name roughly translate to “I got it”). According to its AngelList profile, it comes from Curitiba and works on accelerating professional learning.

Several competitions also took place during the latest edition of Campus Party Brazil, including Latin America’s first Startup Weekend Education, a Wayra contest and a hackathon dedicated to the Internet of things.

In addition, Colombian newspaper El País revealed that a new Campus Party would take place in Cali, following previous editions in Bogotá and Medellín. The new event will take place in late June or early July, coinciding with FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

As government-supported program Start-Up Chile launches its tenth call for applications, its Brazilian counterpart Start-Up Brasil has refreshed the list of accelerators it works with. Startupi points out that it will be welcoming six new partners: Acelera Cimatec (from Salvador de Bahia), Baita Aceleradora (from Campinas), C.E.S.A.R. Labs (connected to Recife’s tech hub), TechMall (from Belo Horizonte), Ventiur and Wow (both from Porto Alegre).

Three entities that took part in the previous edition are now out: Microsoft’s Acelera Brasil, Outsource Brazil and Pipa. It is unclear whether or not any of these had re-applied, but the fact that they are being replaced by initiatives from different Brazilian states also seems to answer to criticism on geographic concentration. 21212, Acelera MGTI, Aceleratech, Papaya, Start You Up and Wayra remain on the list.

Meanwhile, a new accelerator has been created in Brazil: Abril Plug and Play. As its name suggests, it is the result of a partnership between Brazilian media giant Grupo Abril and Silicon-Valley based Plug and Play Tech Center. Selected startups will receive seed funding in exchange for equity, and get a chance to spend time both in São Paulo and in Sunnyvale, CA.

On the VC side, Latin American entrepreneurs will be pleased to learn that Kaszek Ventures has raised $135 million USD for its second fund. According to DealBook’s correspondent Vinod Sreeharsha, the amount exceeds the goal of $80 million to $100 million that MercadoLibre’s former senior executives had set during fundraising. DealBook also has interesting details about the fund’s presumed backers:

“The firm’s founding partners, Hernán Kazah and Nicolás Szekasy, declined to provide any information about their funds’ investors, citing confidentiality. But others with direct knowledge of Kaszek’s decisions but speaking on condition of anonymity, did identify some of the investors.

“According to those people, the new fund’s investors include the investment firms Horsley Bridge Partners and Sequoia Heritage, the fund of funds linked with Sequoia Capital, as well as Kevin Efrusy, the partner at Accel Partners responsible for its early investment in Facebook. All had also invested in Kaszek’s first fund.”

Considering that Kaszek’s portfolio includes names such as OpenEnglish, Netshoes, above-mentioned VivaReal and Eventioz, sold to Eventbrite in 2013, it would not be surprising to see its initial limited partners re-invest.

Brazilian education-oriented fund Gera Venture Capital also got coverage in the US press for being one of the investors in Kaltura‘s $47 million USD funding round. source:coininfifa.com/fifa-14-ps4-coins.html