Profiles

LAVCA recently spoke with Rafael Ramirez, Portfolio Manager– Private Equity & Special Opportunities at the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, a sovereign wealth fund originally seeded by state oil & gas…

The entrance of major global investors into a string of recent early and expansion stage rounds in Latin America is contributing to record investment dollars in Latin American startups.

MESA 24/7 is a Peruvian startup that wants to revolutionize the way restaurants interact with their diners including online booking servicea, mobile payment, and analytics. In this interview with CEO Pedro Callirgos, we explored the evolution of the operation, the business opportunity, and the growth plans of MESA 24/7, which already raised half a million dollars through friends & family and angel investors. Interview in Spanish.

Intellibrand is a digital trade marketing platform that received a R$5m investment from DGF Ventures to fund international expansion. In this interview with LAVCA, Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer Francesco Weiss talks about the digital marketing landscape in Brazil and Intellibrand’s expansion plans. Interview in Portuguese.

SpaceDat brings big data to agriculture with a drone enabled digital platform. Guillermo and his Co-founder & CEO, Cesar Urrutia, have 10+ years of experience in aerial imagery analysis and startup strategies, but agtech is underfunded in the region because the life cycle of the product is correlated to the life cycle of the crop.

Nibo is a fintech startup empowering small businesses to navigate Brazil’s complicated accounting and tax landscape. With 2,000 accountants on the platform, and integrations with over sixty major accounting software solutions in Brazil, Nibo raised a R$20m Series A from Swedish investor Vostok Emerging Finance, with participation from existing investors Redpoint eventures and Valor Capital, to scale their platform.

Suyo, a startup making it easier and more affordable for low-income families in Colombia to formalize their houses and land, recently received follow-on financing from Omidyar Network. In this interview with Suyo CEO Matt Alexander, we learn of the overwhelming size of the problem and opportunity.

LAVCA spoke with Dirk Donath, Managing Partner Latin America for L Catterton about the mid-market consumer sector opportunity in Latin America and the appetite from global LPs for a pan-regional fund. Earlier in 2017, L Catterton Latin America successfully closed on US$400+ million, exceeding its fundraising target.

Company: Mosyle Investors: DGF Investimentos   Mosyle is a Brazilian edtech startup with global ambitions to improve the classroom experience by using mobile devices that just raised an undisclosed round from DGF…

Company: Mercadoni Investors: Axon Partners, Grupo Pegasus   Mercadoni is a Colombian grocery delivery app that raised a US$6.2m investment from Axon Partners and Grupo Pegasus. In this interview with Mercadoni co-founder…