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industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.
An increasing number of US and Latin American family offices and high net worth individuals are looking at making their first commitments to the region’s new generation of PE/VC managers. While large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds typically target managers with over $500m AUM, the universe of LatAm firms managing smaller funds is a natural fit for investors writing smaller tickets. Read more
Tags: outlooks, Public Offerings
In October, a special task force comprised of VCs, CEOs, investors and investment bankers issued a report citing a crisis in the US IPO market, particularly for new listings under $50m. I heard Kate Mitchell of Scale Ventures talk about the report at a meeting in Israel, and it got me thinking about the IPO market in Latin America. Read more
Tags: Deals, Exits, Fundraising, LAVCA
Earlier this month LAVCA announced 1H 2011 data on fundraising, investments and exits for Latin America private equity and venture capital. So what do the numbers tell us? Read more
Tags: Brazil, IT/Software, Venture Capital
I was in San Francisco recently to speak at the Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit and to meet with tech investors who have been heading south to São Paulo and Buenos Aires to close their first deals in Latin America. I found that as the market for consumer Internet plays bubbles over in the US, the number of Silicon Valley VCs backing tech startups in the region is fast expanding. Read more
Tags: LAVCA, LPs, Regulation, Scorecard
Last week I took part in a panel discussion on the impact of regulation on emerging markets private equity just days after LAVCA launched the 2011 Scorecard – our annual ranking which measures regulation and ease of investment for private equity and venture capital in 12 LatAm and Caribbean countries. Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia topped out the 2011 ranking. Read more
Tags: Asia, China, Deals, Executive Briefing, Fundraising, LAVCA
In February I headed to a conference in Hong Kong organized to promote investment between Asia and Latin America. I wanted to get a better understanding of what kinds of Asian investors are looking at LatAm, and whether they are ready to commit to private equity funds. Read more
Tags: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, GPs, LPs, Private Equity, Regulatory
Global investors who have historically concentrated their emerging market portfolios in Asia are expanding their horizons to Latin America – over the last year I’ve met with a who’s who of international GPs, LPs and funds of funds as they set out for due diligence trips to Sao Paulo, Bogota, Lima or Santiago. Read more
Tags: Argentina, Colombia, Events, Venture Capital
This week LAVCA is on the road in Buenos Aires and Bogota, and Yigal Erlich, the founding father of Israel’s venture capital industry, is making the trip with us. On Tuesday Erlich addressed the inaugural conference of ARCAP, the Argentine VC/PE/Seed Association, which was hosted with support from LAVCA’s regional office in Buenos Aires. Read more
Tags: Deals, Exits, Fundraising, LAVCA, outlooks, Venture Capital
Next week in New York we will be hosting a record number of investors at the 2010 LAVCA Summit, just days after The Economist declared on its cover that Latin America is “Nobody’s Backyard”. Expectations for Latin America have perhaps never been more bullish, and managers with established track records are well positioned to market new funds to an expanding pool of global and regional LPs. Read more
Tags: Argentina, IT/Software, outlooks
A decade ago Argentina was at the forefront of Latin America’s internet bubble, and its entrepreneurs and start-up companies were making inroads into international markets with high-profile IPOs on the Nasdaq exchange. Today the country is successfully positioning itself as a global player in IT-related industries including software development, business process outsourcing, internet businesses (social networks, semantics web, marketplaces, etc.) and video games and online social gaming. Read more
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