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LAVCA | The Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America

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    Featured Articles

    • Executive Briefing: Pink Tide Recedes as Voters Call For Change in Latin America

      Macri will be sworn in next week, heading a government packed with private sector stars including Mario Quintana of PE/VC fund manager Grupo Pegasus (as a senior member of the…

    • Member Profile: Alexander Chalmers, Managing Director, Avenida Capital

      LAVCA caught up with Alexander Chalmers, Managing Director of private equity real estate firm Avenida Capital, to learn more about Colombia as an important real estate market and the appetite…

    • LP Profile: Roberta Brzezinski, Managing Principal, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ)

      LAVCA spoke with Roberta Brzezinski, Managing Principal for CDPQ, to learn more about their growing allocations to Latin America and how they organize activities in terms of direct investing, co-investing,…

    • Entrepreneur Profile: Pedro Neira, CEO & Founder, Dating LATAM

      LAVCA heard from Pedro Neira, CEO & Founder of Peru-based startup Dating LATAM about his experience as an entrepreneur and how his track record has helped to raise local and…

    • Member Profile: Ricardo Rodriguez, Founder and Partner, Southern Cross Group

      LAVCA spoke with Ricardo Rodriguez, Co-Founder of long-standing pan-regional fund manager Southern Cross Group, to learn more about their sector agnostic approach and how the shifting macroeconomic environment in the…

    • Marc de Saint Phalle, Managing Director, Director of Private Equity, Bessemer Trust

      LAVCA caught up with Marc de Saint Phalle, Managing Director and Director of Private Equity at multifamily office Bessemer Trust, ahead of his participation on the Institutional Investor Perspectives panel…

    • Entrepreneur Profile Agruppa LAVCA Venture Investors

      Entrepreneur Profile: 2014 WeXchange Winner – Carolina Medina Gutiérrez, Co-Founder & CEO, Agruppa (formerly SokoText)

      LAVCA heard from Carolina Medina Gutiérrez, Co-Founder and CEO of Agruppa (formerly SokoText), to learn more about how the company uses mobile phones to reduce fresh produce prices for vendors…

    • Executive Briefing: LatAm PE/VC – Are Regulators Getting it Right?

      Last week LAVCA published the 2015/2016 Scorecard on the PE/VC Environment in Latin America, which ranks countries on indicators including taxation of PE/VC, restrictions on local institutional investors, minority shareholder…

    • Member Profile: Frederico Greve, DGF Investimentos

      LAVCA spoke with Brazilian fund manager DGF Investimentos executives, Frederico Greve, Sidney Chameh, and Patrick Arippol to learn more about the evolution of the Brazilian market, the existing opportunity for…

    • Entrepreneur Profile: Andres Sucre, Co-Founder, Reserbus

      Andres Sucre, Co-Founder of Mexican online bus booking engine, Reserbus, spoke with LAVCA about the opportunities and challenges for creating and growing a business in Mexico, including raising capital and…

    • Featured Announcement: LAVCA and Wharton Partner to Create First Latin American Private Equity Professional Development Program

      LAVCA is delighted to announce that we have partnered with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to create the first ever Latin America Private Equity Professional Development Program,…

    • Executive Briefing: On the Front Lines of LatAm Venture Investing

      Venture deal flow has been dynamic across LatAm in recent months, and the LAVCA team and I are on the road participating in events for early stage investors, including LAVCA…

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