Over the last few years, coinciding with a period of political uncertainty in major Latin American economies, private capital investors including international…
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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LAVCA heard from Argentine entrepreneur Diego Saez Gil, CEO and Co-Founder of Bluesmart, a smart luggage startup launched on the back of a US$2.2 million dollar Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. LAVCA:…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…