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12 Jan: Latin America forecast to stay on strong VC growth path this year

The prospects for 2022 for entrepreneurs in Latin America are promising as the venture capital industry expects the trend that began in 2020 to consolidate. Marta Cruz (in photo), co-founder of NXTP Ventures, an investment fund that focuses on B2B companies, said that from 2020 many foreign funds that were not operating in Latin America began to develop asset management in the region, attracted by the entrepreneurial ecosystem that was already underway. "This momentum will continue in 2022, consolidating the venture capital industry in a strong way," she told BNamericas. Cruz expects US investors to invest abroad "like never before."
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22 Dec: En búsqueda de financiamiento: cómo levantar capital

Para Susana García-Robles no hay un solo camino para volverse inversora y lo dice desde su propia experiencia. Su trabajo comenzó con las non-profits, fundaciones que promovían el liderazgo de niñas, adolescentes y mujeres, participando en temas de desarrollo y población, hábitat y mujeres y luego de varios años decidió retirarse y comenzar su aventura en el venture capital a través del FOMIN (Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones), hoy BID Lab, y después de haber invertido en 90 fondos de capital semilla y emprendedor y haber diseñado programas de desarrollo del ecosistema emprendedor en América Latina y el Caribe, se unió al Fondo Capria Ventures, de la cual es socia actualmente y también Asesora Senior de LAVCA.
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02 Dec: No hay un solo camino para volverse inversora

Para Susana García-Robles no hay un solo camino para volverse inversora y lo dice desde su propia experiencia. Su trabajo comenzó con las non-profits, fundaciones que promovían el liderazgo de niñas, adolescentes y mujeres, participando en temas de desarrollo y población, hábitat y mujeres y luego de varios años decidió retirarse y comenzar su aventura en el venture capital a través del FOMIN (Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones), hoy BID Lab, y después de haber invertido en 90 fondos de capital semilla y emprendedor y haber diseñado programas de desarrollo del ecosistema emprendedor en América Latina y el Caribe, se unió al Fondo Capria Ventures, de la cual es socia actualmente y también Asesora Senior de LAVCA.
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09 Nov: How VCs Can Build Killer Pitch Decks To Attract Potential Investors

As someone who has been building the venture capital industry in Latin America since 1999, what is happening right now in the region feels very rewarding. The resilience shown during the pandemic is finally paying off, as the astounding funding numbers of the first half of 2021 begin to come out: LAVCA shows that companies raised approximately $6.2 billion in VC investments in the first half of the year, a 51 percent increase over the total invested in 2020. Compared to the last half-year, the increase was 138 percent. The need for more local VC funds providing a continuum of financing rounds is clear, but are these funds finding it hard to attract sizable investment? Crunchbase, August 19, 2021
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08 Nov: What 22 years of investing in LatAm and the Global South has taught me

I started my VC investing journey in 1999 during the dot-com boom and subsequent bubble burst. Never did I imagine that I would witness the growth and consolidation that is happening today in LatAm. Especially, since 2020, when the whole world entered a global pandemic. Contrary to predictions, VC activity has multiplied – look at this chart from the LatAm regional private capital association below – and the number of unicorns has only increased. LatAm is on the investors’ map, attracting investors looking for resilient businesses with steady returns.