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Tags: Colombia, GPs, Member firms, Profiles
Mauricio Camargo, Director and Co-Founder of Altra Investments, an investment and management firm focused on the Andean Region and Central America, spoke with LAVCA about launching a firm and developing relationships with institutional investors. Read more
Tags: Limited Partners, LPs, Profiles
LAVCA recently spoke with Marieke Roestenberg, Senior Investment Officer- Private Equity at the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), about its focus on emerging markets and strategy and interests in Latin America. Read more
Tags: Central America, Costa Rica, Entrepreneurs, Profiles
Walter Kissling, Founder and President of Navsat, a location-based services company in Costa Rica, spoke with the Latin America PE/VC Report about starting a technology business in Central America and the company’s future plans Read more
Tags: Limited Partners, LPs, Profiles
Urs Wietlisbach, founding Partner and current Executive Vice Chairman of Partners Group, spoke with LAVCA about the firm’s experience in Latin America and its investment outlook for 2010 and beyond. Read more
Tags: General Partners, GPs, Private Equity, Profiles
The Latin America PE/VC Report spoke with Ernest Bachrach, Managing Partner and Co-Head of Latin America for Advent International. Founded in 1984, the firm recently raised the largest-ever private equity fund dedicated to the region.
Tags: Entrepreneurs, Peru, Profiles
LAVCA spoke with Bruno Giuffra, Founder and Executive Director of Promotick, a Peru-based marketing company that manages B2C, B2B and B2E loyalty and incentive programs through offices in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia. Read more
Tags: General Partners, GPs, Profiles
LAVCA spoke with Erik Peterson, Regional Managing Partner of Aureos Capital’s $184 million pan-regional Aureos Latin American Fund (ALAF). In addition to ALAF, which held a final closing earlier this year, Aureos also operates the $21 million EMERGE Fund, which focuses specifically on Central America and the Dominican Republic, and is currently in divestment stage of its $36 million Aureos Central America Fund. Aureos Capital manages over $1.2 billion globally.
Tags: Limited Partners, LPs, People, Profiles
Mani Saluja and Carlos Heneine, who jointly oversee Quilvest’s emerging market private equity program, talk about Quilvest and its experiences and views on emerging market PE in 2009 and beyond.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, IT/Software, People, Profiles
Latin America PE VC Report spoke with Mariano Suárez Battán, “Captain Melon” (a.k.a. CEO) of Argentine gaming company Three Melons. The company develops online and iPhone games with a social component, using a free-to-play business model. To date Three Melons has received two rounds of seed funding, including a $150,000 angel investment upon startup in 2005, and a $600,000 investment earlier this year by Santander’s Nexo Emprendedor fund along with previous angel investors and company founders. In October 2008, the company’s founders were selected as Endeavor Entrepreneurs due to their high impact potential.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Health, Profiles
Latin America PE/VC Report spoke with Dr. Paulino Decanini, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Mexican healthcare provider Pimedic. Based in Monterrey, Primedic provides access to unlimited primary health care at rates that are affordable for low income Mexican families. It currently operates three clinics and a radiology imaging facility. Last year, the company received its first round of financing, a $6 million investment by IGNIA Fund I, a social venture capital fund based in Mexico, and US private investment company Tango.
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