Company: Kingo Founder: Juan Fermín Rodriguez Investors: ENGIE, FCP, FMO, Proparco, and H-Reff, PeopleFund Kingo, a Guatemalan startup providing pre-paid solar energy kits to almost 50,000 low-income households across Central America, raised…

LAVCA’s 2017 Venture Investors Annual Meeting during LAVCA Week saw record attendance on September 28 in New York. From Latin America to Silicon Valley, investors, entrepreneurs, angels, accelerators, and tech companies gathered to bridge connections and discuss portfolio updates and key trends in global and regional VC.

Company: GuiaBolso Co-Founders: Benjamin Gleason, Thiago Alvarez Investors: Vostok Emerging Finance, the IFC, QED Investors, Ribbit Capital, KaszeK Ventures, Omidyar Network, Valor Capital, e.Bricks, Endeavor Catalyst GuiaBolso is a mobile personal finance…

Cultura Colectiva is a digital media company creating content for Spanish-speaking millennials that raised MXN$72.4m from Dalus Capital earlier this year. In this interview with co-founder and CEO Luis Enríquez, he shares insights into how they built a content platform reaching 70 million people per month, and how Spanish-speaking millennials consume content (HINT: they’d rather share than click).

Tbit is an agtech startup that raised R$1m from BR Startups, a fund whose investors include Monsanto, Qualcomm, Algar, Microsoft Participações Brazil. In this interview (in Portuguese) with co-founder Igor Chalfoun, we learn about Tbit’s vision for helping to guarantee food security on a global level.

Tienda Nube provides over 16,000 merchants an omnichannel e-commerce platform, with integrations for credit card and offline payment, shipping and logistics, and distribution in the region’s major online marketplaces. In this interview, co-founder and CEO Santiago Sosa shares insights into the challenges online merchants face in Latin America, and how Tienda Nube is innovating around them.

Yogome es un startup mexicano de edtech que levantó una ronda de US$6.6m serie A. En nuestra entrevista con Manolo Diaz, CEO y co-fundador de Yogome, nos explica cómo se construye una marca global de edtech, la razón por la cual dirigen su marketing hacia los padres, y los planes que tienen para lanzar productos para escuelas y maestros.

Weex es un Operador Móvil Virtual que cuenta con más de 150k usuarios activos y un crecimiento de doble dígito mensual. Ricardo Suárez, co-fundador de Weex, nos explica de qué manera la compañía está cambiando el sector de telecom y generando acceso a información a la juventud mexicana.

After participating in Y Combinator, Hogaru, a subscription cleaning service for small businesses in Colombia, is consolidating operations in Colombia, where it already operates at profitability, and eyes potential expansion markets.

Since launching in September 2014, Aliada now provides 50,000 services monthly, and expects to reach over 60,000 services by the end of 2017. In this interview with founders Ana Isabel Orvañanos and Rodolfo Corcuera, we explore how Aliada is trying to impact the lives of thousands of Mexicans while combating the social stigma associated with domestic labor.

Apli is a Mexican startup connecting workers to flexible job opportunities that just raised US$1.5m. In this interview with Co-founder and Co-CEO Vera Makarov, we learn how Apli is innovating the traditional recruiting process for service and retail jobs in Mexico, and why she thinks improving turnover and absenteeism in small businesses is a US$100b opportunity in Latin America.

Despite its status as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Peru has traditionally ranked lower than its Latin American counterparts in terms of the development of the venture capital ecosystem. In fact, until recently Peru had almost no country-dedicated VCs and between 2011-2015 consistently captured fewer venture investment dollars than Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, according to LAVCA Data. Where does Peru stand as of 2017, in terms of a mature VC ecosystem?