11th Annual LAVCA Deal Awards

2025 Private Capital Deal of the Year

Patria is recognized for its investment in Delly’s, a Brazilian B2B food distributor serving restaurants, retailers and food service clients. With 18,000 orders fulfilled daily and 105,000 monthly customers, Delly’s holds 11% market share in its target regions and plays a key role in connecting small retailers to large food processors.

2025 Environmental Responsibility

SP Ventures wins for its investment in Gênica, a Brazilian agri-biotech innovator advancing regenerative agriculture. In 2024, Gênica’s diverse team — 52% women — supported more than 1,300 farmers, 58% of whom are small and medium producers. The company’s practices helped avoid the use of 800,000 tons of chemical products and impacted over nine million hectares of farmland.

</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">2024 Social Impact Award</h2> <p><strong>Deetken Impact</strong> received the <strong>2024 Social Impact Award </strong>for its investment in <strong>Puntored</strong>, a Colombia-based alternative pa<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>yment methods company that provides digital financial services to small business owners. Puntored’s model enables over 75,000 shopkeepers in 938 municipalities to earn extra income through fee-sharing. Covering 77% of under-banked rural areas, Puntored reaches over 12.5 million users. Nearly 90% of its shopkeepers are low to middle-income individuals, with 97% seeing improved incomes. Women operate nearly 60% of Puntored’s “tiendas” and hold 38% of senior management positions.</p> <div style="position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 56.2500%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;"><iframe style="position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" src="https://www.canva.com/design/DAGVDtCqZoc/I86DlIjbljUELGiE7Osk4w/view?embed" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" data-mce-fragment="1"><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><br />

2025 Social Impact

DNA Capital is acknowledged for its investment in Sanar, a Brazilian healthcare education platform specializing in lifelong learning for physicians. Since DNA’s investment in 2020, Sanar has grown its monthly course participants from 19,900 to over 69,000, and in 2024 alone, supported the specialization of over 5,000 doctors.

2025 Innovation

Crescera Capital receives the award for its investment in BomConsorcio, a fintech providing pre-purchased financing pools widely used by lower-income Brazilian families to acquire high-value assets. In 2024, the platform had 11.2 million active members and enabled nearly BRL17b in credit, offering lower interest rates and favorable tax conditions.

2025 Better Tech

Lightrock is recognized for its investment in Konfio, a Mexican fintech accelerating SME growth through improved access to credit and digital payments. Leveraging tax data from Mexico’s IRS, Konfio developed automated credit models that have served over 35,000 borrowers annually for three consecutive years — with approvals in just seven minutes. In 2024, a new SME credit model increased approval rates and average loan sizes while maintaining expected credit losses, contributing to 35% of first-time originations in Q2 and Q3.

The LAVCA ESG Deal Awards showcase outstanding private capital investments, specifically targeting environmental, social and gender diversity initiatives. Winners are selected from among deals submitted by LAVCA Member firms through a rigorous evaluation process by a distinguished panel of institutional investors comprised of development finance institutions, pension funds and funds of funds. Watch the recording from the LinkedIn Live event.