LAVCA spoke with Johanna Posada, Founder & Managing Director for Elevar Equity about the opportunity for investing and exiting impact in Latin America and LP priorities when committing to an impact fund.

Tim Draper and Cygnus capital have partnered to launch the Draper Cygnus VC Fund to invest in Argentinian startups. (La Nacion) Tim Draper, que invirtió en 30 proyectos que se…

Private equity investor Mesoamerica and company builder Polymath Ventures have formed a strategic partnership to build and scale high-impact companies across Latin America. (Press Release) THE FIRST PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN A…

Invermaster Ventures and ARG Capital partnered with Ripio co-founder David Garcia to launch Crypto Assets Fund, a US$50m crypto-currency fund. (Press Release) Crypto Assets Fund (“CAF”) is the new initiative…

TriLinc Global Impact Fund made a US$37.5m impact investment in term loan and trade finance facilities to companies operating in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. This brings TriLinc’s…

With its eyes set on Latin America, 500 startups plans to invest US$1.3m with the next round of its acceleration program through which it aims to accelerate 15 to 20…

Argentina-based venture capital fund Alaya Capital Partners announced its plans to invest in early stage companies in the technology sector with the goal of scaling them in the Latin American…

Six Argentinian private banks with the involvement of NXTP Labs have launched Arfintech, a fund investing in startups in the financial services sector, including blockchain technology. The banks have committed…

Kaszek Ventures exited NubeliU, a Brazil-based OpenStack cloud computing company, with a sale to to Logicalis.  (Press Release) Logicalis, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, has acquired a…

Magma Partners made an undisclosed seed investment in Awesome Jobs, a startup job portal focusing on Latin America. (Venture Beat – Nathan Lustig/Magma Partners) I’ve lived in Santiago, Chile for…