The pandemic has affected the financial sector as well. Fund managers are finding it hard to raise money for a first or final close; those who have dry powder face the challenge of allocating it wisely, and investors in funds have to decide if they will look into new teams or go with the ones known pre-Covid-19.
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Argentina’s Agrofy is an independent agricultural marketplace platform that empowers farmers by leveraging competition for their business, encourages disintermediation, and provides them access to independent information.
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As a global network of fund managers looking to continue their investing despite lockdowns and travel restrictions, we’ve all been exploring the best tools and processes for investing without travel — embracing remote due diligence. At the same time, the realities of the pandemic have caused many in our network to re-look at their investment […] Read More
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 for women,” […] Read More
Languages : Spanish | English UNESCO 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 challenges of the entrepreneurial world, […] Read More
I’v started a personal blog that I’ll post every quarter or so, sharing topical learnings and observations from my perch co-managing a $100M family of investment funds and a network of 20 fund managers who invest in more than 25 countries in emerging markets. Here’s my first installment – feedback is always appreciated. To “V” […] Read More
COVID introduced an unexpected variable in the investment scenario
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Face masks and frequent hand-washing are the new routine. But how can a company be safer in the new normal? “Good contractual hygiene,” says Joe Wallin, principal at Seattle-based Carney Badley Spellman. In particular, companies should be sure to understand – and where possible, standardise – force majeure language across all their legal contracts. Wallin, […] Read More
The first closing included Syngenta Ventures, BASF Venture Capital, the Interamerican Development Bank & Capria. The fund seeks earl stage technology firms with the potential to reinvent the region’s agfood value chain
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El reciente reporte 2019 de Acafi reveló que a diciembre de 2019 los 44 fondos vigentes de private equity y venture capital con financiamiento Corfo han invertido US$ 574,6 millones, 10% más que en el ejercicio previo.
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