Deal activity in Latin America has been robust over the last 18 months as PE/VC firms deploy the US$17.6b raised for the region in 2014-2015. Over US$8.3b was invested in 2016, and early deal totals for 2017 are on par with last year. In addition to investors managing Latin American dedicated funds, global firms are stepping up activity…
LAVCA spoke with Enrique Bascur, Managing Partner of Australis Partners, about the experience fundraising during a challenging period in Latin America and how the team’s background at CVCI helped create the fund’s strategy. Bascur also discusses his views of the political environment in Chile and…
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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,…
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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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With record fundraising for LatAm PE last year, the question now is, how will managers put money to work in 2015? Plummeting oil prices and slowing growth have created new…
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The LAVCA research team is finalizing data on 2014 LatAm PE activity, and results point to the second highest fundraising year on record, despite regional growth projections of under 2%…