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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(New York Times) DST Global, the investment firm started by Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner, led a US$80m round in Nubank, with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Prior…
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Movile and 500 Startups exited Peruvian movie ticket platform Cinepapaya, which sold to Fandango for an undisclosed amount. This is Fandango’s second acquisition to expand their growth in the region,…
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After raising capital from local investors, Colombian delivery startup Rappi, co-founded by Simón Borrero, Sebastian Mejia, and Felipe Villamarin, raised over US$9m from international VCs in April 2016. Investors included…
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(Press Release) ARCAP, the Argentine Association of Private Equity, Venture and Seed Capital, has been launched by a group of seasoned industry professionals. Members of the board include NXTP Labs’ Marta…
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Conekta is a Mexican online/offline payments platform that just received a US$6.6m Series A from local investors VARIV Capital and Jaguar Ventures, retail giant FEMSA Comercio, and Conconi Growth Partners…
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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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(Press Release) Conekta, a leading online payments company in Mexico, announced the closing of a US$6.6m series A funding round. The equity investment was co-led by VARIV Capital, FEMSA Comercio,…
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LAVCA heard from Liza Velarde, Co-Founder of Semka Biomedical Technologies, to learn more about Mexico as a market for creating (and not just manufacturing) early stage medical devices and the…
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(TechCrunch) The rise of “Chilecon Valley” — as the nascent startup scene is sometimes called — couldn’t have come at a better moment for the country.
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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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Scott Voss, Managing Director, HarbourVest talks about venture performance globally during the LAVCA Venture Investors NY Summit in September 2015 in New York, NY. At every one of our geographies (US, Europe,…
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Chinese internet search provider, Baidu, has launched a US$60m investment fund, Easterly Ventures, to invest exclusively in Brazilian startups.
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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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Terry McGuire, Founding Partner, Polaris Partners discusses the importance of alignment of interests during the LAVCA Venture Investors NY Summit in September 2015 in New York, NY. You want the founders…
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LAVCA spoke with Member firm and long-time Board Member Hernan Kazah, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at KaszeK Ventures about his shift from entrepreneur to investor, their experience fundraising over the last few cycles, and KaszeK’s investment focus, including their LatAm-specific strategy and the success they have found co-investing in the region.
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Following a US$30k investment made by NESsT in 2014, LAVCA spoke with Marcio Waked, Founder of Bio Fair Trade about generating sustainable income for artisans in Brazil and how the Projeto do…
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(Startupi) Basf and ACE (formerly Aceleratech) have partnered to form an agriculture accelerator for Latin American startups, AgroStart. A BASF, empresa química líder em inovação, e a ACE, premiada como…
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Alex Rossi, Managing Partner at LIV Capital, points out that making an investment decision comes down to people during the LAVCA VC in NY in April 2016 at Civi Hall, New…
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Founders Fund has made an undisclosed investment in Jusbrasil, a Salvador-based legal website with 750,000 registered Brazilian attorneys and 20M monthly users. This is Founders Fund’s first investment in legal…
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Brazil’s agtech startup Strider just raised a US$3m Series A from Monashees and Qualcomm. This marks Monashees first investment in agtech and Qualcomm’s first agtech investment in Brazil. LAVCA spoke…
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Andreessen Horowitz invested an undisclosed amount in Rappi, a Colombian grocery delivery service. This is Andreessen Horowitz’ first investment in Latin America. Redpoint e.Ventures invested previously.
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Michael Nicklas, Partner at Valor Capital, and Andy Tsao, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank, discuss the need for empathy in the founding team of a startup during the LAVCA…
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Movile and Just Eat injected another US$30m into iFood, the leading online food ordering platform in Latin America, just a year after a US$50m Series E. The funds will be used to expand its operations and establish a presence in Mexico by acquiring a portion of SinDelantal. Movile, in turn, raised a US$40m Series F last month from Naspers and Innova Capital.
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Goldman Sachs led a US$10m investment in Brazilian trucking startup CargoX, with participation from prior investors Valor Capital, Lumia Capital, Agility Logistics, former DHL Express US CEO Hans Hickler (also an investor in Mandaê) and Uber Co-Founder Oscar Salazar. CargoX has secured US$14m in funding to date.
