Amidst a fast-growing techinnovation ecosystem, VC money has been flowing into the veins of startups in LatAm, which has nearly 30 unicorns. Yet, none of those startup ventures valued at $1 billion or more is an agtech company, although there are already 663 agtech companies in the region, according to Crunchbase's data, and the agriculture […]
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Susana García-Robles, la “arquitecta” del ecosistema venture capital de Latam: «En este momento lo que Chile necesita es un fondo de fondos»
La experta en capital emprendedor conversó en detalle con Startups Chilenas y repasó su rol en la creación de la industria regional y describió cómo debe ser este nuevo vehículo de inversión que se busca levantar a nivel local. Lo primero que se observa al entrar a su perfil de Linkedin es un «América Latina» que se desprende de lo alto de su […]
Angel Ventures invierte en Done Properly a través del Fondo de la Alianza del Pacífico AVPAF II
Done Properly concluyó con éxito su ronda de inversión con la participación de Angel Ventures y Endurance Investments. La compañía busca el escalamiento industrial de su tecnología para poder abastecer la demanda global que tienen las empresas líderes de alimentos en el mundo. En noviembre de 2020, Done Properly fue reconocida como la empresa […]
Capria Ventures invests USD $2 Mn in Angel Ventures Pacific Alliance Fund to boost Innovation in emerging markets
Capria completed three investments in LATAM in under a year, including its co-investment in Argentina-based Agrofy and its LP investment in Brazil-based SP Ventures. Angel Ventures will focus on addressing gaps in financial inclusion, food security and access to education and information in the Pacific Alliance region. Seattle, January 2021: […]
Global Ventures announces partnership with Capria Ventures
Global investment firm Capria Ventures makes first investment into the MENA region London, UK, December 17, 2020: Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm, is excited to partner with Capria Ventures (“Capria”), a Seattle-based global investment fund-of-funds. Capria has approved its investment in Global Ventures’ second fund, which […]
Capria Ventures Partners with SP Ventures to Invest in Latin American Agtech Startup Agrofy
This is Capria Ventures’ first direct co-investment in Latin America’s thriving agtech ecosystem. Listings on Agrofy have grown 89% YOY as more players in the market are adopting and becoming more comfortable with the e-commerce model. Seattle, October 29, 2020: Leading agtech startup, Agrofy, has raised USD 3 million in Series B funding from […]
AQ top 5 champions of gender equality: Susana García-Robles
Throughout her life, and after two decades developing Latin America’s venture capital industry, Susana García-Robles has learned that women’s empowerment is not something you talk about — it’s something you do. Growing up in Argentina with two sisters raised by their mother and grandmother, “nobody ever told me there was such a thing as advocacy […]
Entrevista: América Latina liderará el emprendimiento femenino en el mundo
Languages : Spanish | EnglishUNESCO Montevideo interviewed Susana Garcia-Robles, a leading woman in the field of global entrepreneurship who also participated in the colloquium "Entrepreneurship Ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean", within the cycle "Science in Motion", promoted by CILAC. In this note, she relates where the regional […]
Women investors: interview with Susana Garcia-Robles
COVID introduced an unexpected variable in the investment scenario Many entrepreneurs had to rethink their goals or directly look for new ideas. Knowing the investors and looking at the situation from their perspective is a necessary compass to chart a path in the middle of a complex scenario. Juan Manuel Barrero interviewed Susana García […]
The force of force majeure in a pandemic world
Face masks and frequent hand-washing are the new routine. But how can a company be safer in the new normal? “Good contractual hygiene,” says Joe Wallin, principal at Seattle-based Carney Badley Spellman. In particular, companies should be sure to understand – and where possible, standardise – force majeure language across all their legal […]
SP Ventures has reached the first closing of its USD50MM LatAm focused AgFood Tech venture fund
Sao Paulo, Brazil, August, 2020 SP Ventures, one of the most active global agtech venture investors & a sector leader in Latin America, has just announced the first closing of its latest early stage fund. The new investment vehicle, AgVentures II, targets a minimum of USD 50MM & a cap of USD 75MM to invest in 20-25 tech firms with the […]
Fondos de fondos, volver a lo básico, educación, salud y agro entre los retos del venture capital
El buen 2019 para la industria del venture capital en Chile explica, en gran parte, la actividad que ha seguido teniendo este año el ecosistema, pese a la compleja situación económica y social por la que atraviesa el país y el mundo entero a raiz de la emergencia sanitaria que ha generado la pandemia del coronavirus en estos ocho meses. Y las […]
