Produced by LAVCA’s Director of Venture Capital Strategy, Julie Ruvolo, with contributions from LAVCA staff and the venture community, LAVCA Venture Investors Analysis provides insights on venture activity and trends in Latin America.
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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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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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Mediação Online, a legal dispute mediation service for Brazilian businesses and consumers, recently received R$500k in investment from 500 Startups, having previously been accelerated at Wayra Brasil. In this interview with founder & CEO Melissa Felipe Gava, we learn about Brazil’s “stratospheric” number of litigation proceedings, and how Mediação Online is working to lower the cost of mediation services…
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Company: Kingo Founder: Juan Fermín Rodriguez Investors: ENGIE, FCP, FMO, Proparco, and H-Reff, PeopleFund Kingo, a Guatemalan startup providing pre-paid solar energy kits to almost 50,000 low-income households across Central America, raised…
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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.
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Despite its status as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Peru has traditionally ranked lower than its Latin American counterparts in terms of the development of the venture capital ecosystem. In fact, until recently Peru had almost no country-dedicated VCs and between 2011-2015 consistently captured fewer venture investment dollars than Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, according to LAVCA Data. Where does Peru stand as of 2017, in terms of a mature VC ecosystem?
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The global transport wars are heating up in Latin America with major investments from new Asian players. A few months after Chinese transportation giant Didi Chuxing announced a US$100m co-investment…
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Fintech investments are on the rise in Latin America, growing 31% (in terms of dollars) and 81% (in terms of deal count) in 2016. Startups in Latin America raised US$500m…
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September/October 2016 was a busy time for LatAm VCs in terms of new fundraising and deals (we recorded 20+ deals in October alone). At the same time, investors were active…
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Venture investments in Latin America continue to climb, despite the economic uncertainty in Brazil, the region’s leading venture market. VC transactions in Latin America are up 46% year over year,…
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LAVCA Director of Venture Strategy, Julie Ruvolo, lays out the venture capital opportunity for local and international investors in Latin America. (TechCrunch) Latin America just might be the most overlooked…
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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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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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As LAVCA’s research team tracks down deals closed in 1H2014 to produce data on investment activity, we are carefully monitoring the evolution of the early stage space – the number…
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Last week I escaped frigid NYC for Palo Alto, where LAVCA teamed up with the NVCA and Silicon Valley Bank for the third year to host a gathering for LAVCA…
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Travel Blog: Sao Paulo I was in Sao Paulo this month to participate in a conference hosted by the Brazilian angel group Anjos do Brasil, and for meetings with some…