Rodolfo Spielmann, Managing Director and Head of Latin America at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and LAVCA Board Member, shared insights about partnerships with family-controlled businesses as a model…
READ the latest deal case featuring Advent International’s investment in the largest concessionaire and service operator within parks in Brazil, Grupo Cataratas.
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In early 2019, the federal executive branch of the Mexican Government introduced a proposal to amend provisions of the Pension Funds Systems Law. LAVCA spoke with Nader, Hayaux & Goebel about…
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LAVCA spoke with Paul Carttar the co-founder of the International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC) and former Director of the Social Innovation Fund (a priority program of the Obama Administration), about…
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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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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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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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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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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.
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ComparaGuru is a Mexico-based financial management platform for comparing insurance and banking products that has raised US$11m in financing to date. In this interview with CEO Fernando González-Ambía, also an Executive in Residence at QED Investors, we learn how ComparaGuru is encouraging financial literacy and bridging the banking gap in Mexico