Women

International Finance Corporation has agreed to invest US$26m in L Catterton Latin America Fund III. The fund will target small to mid-sized companies focused in the consumer sector in Latin…

Nexxus Capital has appointed Christianne Ibañez as head of Investor Relations.  (Press Release)  Nexxus has appointed Christianne Ibañez as head of Investor Relations. Ibañez has extensive experience in the financial…

Unima is a Mexico-based healthtech startup developing fast and low-cost diagnostics and infectious disease surveillance for limited resource settings. LAVCA interviewed Laura Mendoza, Co-Founder & CPO about biotechnology, impact of winning WeXchange’s pitch competition…

Patricia Saenz (Mountain Nazca Colombia) and Paula Arango (Elevar Equity) joined forces to launch EWA Capital, a VC fund seeking US$30m to focus on investing in women entrepreneurs. (La República) …

Mariana Costa, Herman Marin, and Rodulfo Prieto founded Laboratoria, an organization to teach low-income women in Latin America programming and web development skills. More than 400 female developers from Peru, Chile, and Mexico have passed through Laboratoria’s program since 2014; 75% have found jobs, with a 3X average increase in their starting salary. In this interview we learn about Laboratoria’s mission to close the coding gender gap and graduate the best tech talent in Latin America.

In this interview with {reprograma} founder & CEO Mariel Reyes, we learn about how she bootstrapped the organization and forged a partnership with Facebook on her mission to close the gender gap in Brazil’s technology sector. {reprograma} teaches unemployed Brazilian women how to code and has graduated 88 junior front-end engineers in 18 months, with a 97% completion rate and 63% job placement rate.

Gray Matter’s coLABS, an early-stage gender-focused portfolio, made an undisclosed investment in Colombian employment outsourcing startup LikeU. (Conveners.org) Gray Matters Capital’s coLABS, an early-stage and gender-focused portfolio, announced that it…

The Jalisco government, along with local DFIs, investment funds and corporate investors, are preparing to launch Mexico’s first social impact bond which will focus on empowering women to become economically…

(Press Release) The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), member of the Inter-American Development Bank Group (IDB), will hold the third annual WeXchange, the leading Latin American forum dedicated to connecting and…

IDB/MIF (the Multilateral Investment Fund of the inter-American Development Bank) and NXTPLabs announced the launch of the Pitch Competition to elect the brightest Women Entrepreneurs with companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean.