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LAVCA recently sat down with Loggi co-founder and CEO Fabien Mendez to understand how a company that started out doing document delivery in São Paulo has scale to handle food delivery for some of the biggest brands and competitors in Brazil
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LAVCA interviewed WISE, Women in STEM Entrepreneurship (a collaboration of the IDB LAB and IAE Business School), to learn about the program’s goals to train over 1,500 STEM entrepreneurs in Latin America over the next few years.
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The first half of 2018 was a record-breaking semester for startup investment in Latin America. Investment dollars grew for every major market in the region with Brazilian and Mexican startups capturing the most investment.
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Driven by new members and increased deals, LAVCA has been growing its footprint in impact investing, particularly where impact converges with traditional PE/VC.
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Company: Gaszen Representative: Jennifer Reyna Title: CEO & Co-Founder Jennifer Reyna founded Gaszen in Mexico in 2016 to disrupt how energy is consumed in Latin America. Gaszen’s IoT gas management solution puts…
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Company: Kueski Investors: Variv Capital, Crunchfund, Rise Capital, Core Ventures Group, Richmond Global Ventures, Tuesday Capital, and others Interview with: Adalberto Flores, Founder and CEO LAVCA caught up with Kueski …
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LAVCA hosted its Venture Investors Annual Meeting in New York City on September 27, 2018, with record attendance among early-stage tech investors, and participation from notable venture-backed startups and leading…
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Fundo Stratus submitted a proposal to CADE to purchase an indirect 65% interest of Farma Participações, through the acquisition of the same interest in Holding Investfarma, a company set up for the implementation of the transaction.
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By Cate Ambrose, President & Executive Director, LAVCA THEN: I joined LAVCA and opened the office in New York in summer 2007, at a time when private equity investment in…
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LAVCA sat down with Ben & Frank co-founder & co-CEO Mariana Castillo in Mexico City to hear how she is building an accessibly priced direct-to-consumer eyewear brand.
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LAVCA spoke with Luis Cervantes, Head of General Atlantic’s Mexico City office, about the LatAm opportunity and the importance of family offices…
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Mexico is fast emerging as the new battleground for the global transport wars, from rideshare and delivery to e-scooters and mopeds: In the past year, Chinese heavyweights Didi Chuxing (rideshare),…
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Prana Power, a subsidiary of Mexican private fund manager Artha Capital, acquired a 108 MW solar project located in the Mexican state of Guanajuato from Spain’s Dhamma Energy, who partnered with US-based Sunpower on developing the project since 2015.
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Wevo is a Brazilian ecommerce cloud integration platform that raised its first funding in an undisclosed Series A investment from Cventures Primus and Omnilink founder Cileneu Nunes. In this interview, co-founder and CEO Diogo Lupinari discusses the company’s critical pivot in 2014 and its global ambitions.
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Over the last few years, coinciding with a period of political uncertainty in major Latin American economies, private capital investors including international…
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LAVCA spoke with Brian Finerty, CIO of Equity International, about the opportunity for real estate investment in Latin America, including…
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SocialDiabetes is a Barcelona-based healthtech platform for diabetes patient care with funding from ALLVP and the European Commission. In this interview, we learn about the opportunity to reduce diabetes prevalence in Mexico, a country with the highest rate of diabetes among the OECD countries.
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Brazil’s National Monetary Council (CMN) has updated the alternatives investment regulation for pension funds. The CNM decreased pension funds’ investment limit in private capital vehicles from 20% to 15% of assets under management, and vetoed any new direct investment in real estate assets.