LAVCA is excited to convene in person after a two-year hiatus and kick off LAVCA Week with a dynamic reception for LAVCA Members and Limited Partners hosted by Advent International.…
Events
LAVCA facilitates educational, peer-to-peer, and networking programs for the venture community to engage with local and global investors, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders.
LAVCA Week 2021
📅 Sept. 20-23
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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.
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CornerJob, the Barcelona-based jobs marketplace with presence in Europe and Mexico has raised a US$25m Series B round of investment. US$5m of the Series B came from TV Azteca’s new equity fund managed by Antai Venture Builder & Mexican VC, Variv Capital.
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Movile, Latin America’s leading mobile commerce platform, announced it has raised US$40m in Series F funding from Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division.
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(AG Funder News) Strider, a Belo Horizonte, Brazil cloud-based agriculture software that helps farmers track rainfall and monitor crop health, received US$3m in VC funding by Monashees Capital. Other investors…
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Mexican fintech startup Konfio just secured a US$8m Series A from KaszeK Ventures, QED, Quona, and Jaguar Ventures, marking both KaszeK and QED’s first investment in Mexico. With fintech heating up, LAVCA spoke to David Arana, Founder and CEO of Konfio about the opportunity for this sector in Latin America and how to effectively build relationships with investors.
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(PEHub) Konfio, an online Mexican lending platform, has raised US$8m in new VC funding. Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund led the round, and was joined by Quona Capital, QED Investors, Kaszek…
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(Link-Estadão) Brazilian fintech startup GuiaBolso has received a R$60m Series C funding round from new investor IFC and previous backers Kaszek Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and QED Investors. IFC Invests R$60m…
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(Businesswire) Kueski has closed a US$35M round of equity and debt funding. The $10M equity investment was co-led by investors Richmond Global Ventures, Rise Capital, CrunchFund and Variv Capital, with…
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Brazilian startup WebRadar is an international breakout in the big data space, crunching billions of data points per hour to drive efficiencies for clients in three sectors (telco, transportation and…
