In an effort to raise the visibility of female investors in early-stage tech in Latin America, LAVCA has updated a list of the Top Women Investing in Latin American Tech.
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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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Driven by new members and increased deals, LAVCA has been growing its footprint in impact investing, particularly where impact converges with traditional PE/VC.
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Company: Gaszen Representative: Jennifer Reyna Title: CEO & Co-Founder Jennifer Reyna founded Gaszen in Mexico in 2016 to disrupt how energy is consumed in Latin America. Gaszen’s IoT gas management solution puts…
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Company: Kueski Investors: Variv Capital, Crunchfund, Rise Capital, Core Ventures Group, Richmond Global Ventures, Tuesday Capital, and others Interview with: Adalberto Flores, Founder and CEO LAVCA caught up with Kueski …
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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 sat down with Ben & Frank co-founder & co-CEO Mariana Castillo in Mexico City to hear how she is building an accessibly priced direct-to-consumer eyewear brand.
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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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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
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Fund: Barn Investments Executive: Flavio Zaclis, Founding Partner News Coverage: Search LAVCA
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This is a special contribution written by Andy Tsao of Silicon Valley Bank. This article also appeared on Medium.com. More than $84B of venture capital investment was made in 2017, the…
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Since its deployment, Telefonica Open Future_ has evolved its investment strategy to the interests of Telefónica, and today it only invests in startups that have a clear fit with the global corporate strategy or with the local strategy of its different units of business. Thus, to date, more than 62 Latin American startups are doing business with the Telefónica Group.
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1Doc3 is a digital health platform providing individualized medical information to over 1.5 million Spanish-speaking users per month. In this interview with founder Javier Cardona, we learn how 1Doc3 is innovating around access to medical information and care: “the digital revolution in the health industry has not even started, and we are playing the leading role.”
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An unnamed group of American, British, Colombian, Mexican, and Peruvian investors participated in the US$525k Series A for Autolab, an autoshop startup based in Colombia. Autolab was incubated at Polymath Ventures. In this interview, Founder & CEO Nicolás Azcuénaga explains how Autolab began as solution to a labor issue that quickly transformed an industry in decline into a first-rate service, disrupting a market expected to exceed $100b by 2021.
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Mesfix is a Colombian crowdfunding platform that has helped 80+ businesses collectively raise over US$4m. In 2017, InQlab and IKON Banca de Inversion made a US$1.2m investment in Mesfix. In this interview with founder and CEO Felipe Tascon Ortiz we learn about the challenges and opportunities of being Colombia’s first crowdfunding platform, and about the impact it can have on SMEs in LatAm.
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TPaga is a Colombia-based mobile payment platform for the unbanked. In 2017, Silicon Valley fund Green Visor Capital led a US$2.5m investment in Tpaga, and Y Combinator invested US$120k. Co-founder Andrés Gutiérrez talks with LAVCA about how TPaga emerged from running Tappsi, a Colombian taxi app that merged with Easy in 2015, the opportunity to bring mobile payments to the unbanked, and the importance of competition.
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Accion Venture Lab, Mountain Nazca Colombia, Invictum Capital, and several Colombian angel investors made an undisclosed seed investment in ESCALA Educación, a social enterprise that offers savings plans for higher education as an employee benefit with the goal of increasing access to education and ultimately reducing income inequality. This is the startup’s first institutional investment and Accion Venture Lab’s first investment in Colombia.
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The period January-June 2017 marked a milestone for Colombia venture capital. For the first time since LAVCA began capturing VC data, Colombia became the second most active market in terms of VC dollars with US$67m invested across six deals. In November, LAVCA participated in Smart Capital Colombia, hosted by Ruta N and Capitalia Colombia. READ LAVCA’s update on the Colombian startup ecosystem and download LAVCA’s presentation.
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Komal Dadlani founded Lab4U in Chile in 2013 to disrupt the way science is taught in classrooms across Latin America and the world. In this interview, Komal Dadlani talks about the US$37.8b edtech market and how she benefited from both local government funding in Chile (from Startup Chile and CORFO) and how winning WeXchange in 2016 helped better connect her with the investment community in the region and the Bay Area.
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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.