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🚀🌎 Just 60 days to go! Miami is set to become the 🔬🌱 global hub for Latin American biotech innovation at the Biohunt Summit 2026 hosted by The Ganesha Lab This is more than a conference — it’s where 🧬 science meets capital, 🌍 LATAM meets the world, and 💡 bold ideas meet real opportunity. 📍 Rubell Museum, Miami 🗓 April 21, 2026 🤝 Founders | 💰 Investors | 🧪 Scientists | 🏥 Industry Leaders | 🌱 Ecosystem Builders Expect high-impact conversations, cross-border partnerships, and breakthrough innovations shaping the future of: 🧬 Biotechnology 💊 Life Sciences 🌎 Global Health 🌱 Climate & Sustainability If you care about scaling science from Latin America to the world — this is the room you want to be in. 🔥✨ Let’s build bridges. Let’s fund innovation. Let’s accelerate impact. 🚀🌍💡 #BiohuntSummit2026 #Biotech #LATAM #LifeSciences #StartupEcosystem #GlobalHealth #Innovation We at First Flight Venture Center are excited to partner and work with Matias Rothhammer, Markus Schreyer, Monica A Lopez Pinochet and team at The Ganesha Lab

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Mexican Association of PE & VC Funds (AMEXCAP) Summit. Mexico is no longer competing just on manufacturing. It’s expanding to who designs, patents, and captures the value. Deep tech conversation anchored by the Savia Ventures ecosystem — led by Kiyoshi Tsuru, with Maria Teresa Arnal and Dylan Roman on stage bridging corporate tech adoption and founder innovation. This is where the next industrial layer is being built. Sergio Fuentes Rodríguez Daniela Delgado

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Excited to be leading Kavak.com's Series F! Building a profitable used-car marketplace in a developing market is an incredibly complex problem, and when Kavak started, much of the infrastructure they needed didn’t exist yet. They ran towards the difficulty, building essentially 10 companies in one. A decade in, they operate profitably across Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and the GCC region. They’ve also rearchitected their entire company with AI as the foundation. And they were early to AI: In 2017, CEO Carlos García Ottati sent an email to his executive team envisioning a future where Kavak would use automation to accomplish 1000x more than humans could do alone. Kavak understands that they are solving an AI-shaped space and attack every problem with an AI-first approach. Combining atoms (vehicle sales) with bits (AI agents), they are well positioned to be one of the big beneficiaries of the AI revolution. This is our first large, late-stage investment in the region, and we’re proud it’s with Kavak. Andreessen Horowitz Santiago Rodriguez Lebrija Gabriel Vasquez

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Jaime Tabachnik is the CEO and co-founder of Solvento, a fintech company aiming to modernize payments and working capital solutions for Mexico’s fragmented freight industry. From being born out of an MBA pitch competition at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management to announcing its Series A round of over $12 million last fall, Solvento’s mission has remained the same: to help carriers digitize their workflows and get paid faster. In this Episode, we’ll dive into Jaime’s path to founding Solvento, explore the nuances of the freight ecosystem in Mexico, and learn how Solvento’s product offerings are bringing automation and trust to one of the country’s most essential industries. Link to full episode in the comments #startups #venturecapital #latam

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🚀 Draper Founder Spotlight: FRANCISCO RAMIREZ, CEO of MEDPLACE CHILE Draper House Americas Draper Startup House Three years ago, Francisco made the bold decision to leave a senior role in healthcare to tackle one of Latin America’s biggest medical challenges: the shortage of doctors and nurses to cover hospital shifts. That leap gave birth to Medplace, a platform connecting validated health professionals with hospitals and clinics to ensure surgeries and procedures aren’t canceled for lack of staff. 📈 In just 24 months: 20+ clients onboarded 30,000+ professionals using the platform 19,000+ shifts covered across Chile, Brazil, and now expanding to Argentina & Mexico Francisco joined the Draper Founders Program in Chile, won the competition, and earned a scholarship to Draper University in Silicon Valley. That experience — as he says — “opened my head to the real scale of what’s possible.” On #StartupSounds by Draper House Americas 👉 Watch his full story here: https://lnkd.in/dZZGRGhX 🎧 Or listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dT6-vmzT We’re proud to see Draper Startup House founders transforming industries. 🌍

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Excited to share this important milestone for us at Mundi Ventures. The first closing of Mundi Ventures LatAm Fund I marks a strong step forward in our long-term commitment to Latin America and the Caribbean, a region with exceptional entrepreneurial talent and significant untapped potential in the growth investing stage. Through our previous global funds, we’ve already had the privilege of backing companies like Sami, Betterfly, Raincoat and Olé life, supporting founders expanding access to financial and health protection across the region. With this new fund, we are doubling down on that mission, investing in the next generation of AI-driven companies across fintech, insurtech, healthtech, cybersecurity and climate, helping close the protection gap and strengthen resilience at scale. Grateful to partner with such a strong group of LPs, including IDB Invest, COFIDES and leading insurance players. This is just the beginning. 🔗 Read more below

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Excited to share that we’ve raised $4.2M in Seed funding to continue building the digital infrastructure for residential real estate across Latin America. We’re building the digital backbone for residential real estate transactions in underserved Latin American markets, making it easier to buy, rent, and invest in property across the region. To date, we’ve already processed over $300M in transactions across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Panama. As part of our regional expansion, we’ll also be launching in Honduras and an additional market before the end of the year. Huge credit to the team, partners, and investors who made this possible. More on the news Bloomberg Línea: https://bit.ly/4b3r8Yv

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Miami-based venture capital firm Kiara Capital has raised $40 million in its first fundraising round to invest in early-stage B2B fintech startups in Latin America. The firm was co-founded in 2023 by Miami based fintech entrepreneur Michael Esrubilsky (left) and Brazilian investor Daniel Arippol (right). Esrubilsky has over 25 years of experience and led four successful exits in Brazil worth nearly $1 billion, while Arippol brings 15+ years of expertise in private equity and venture capital. Kiara has already reviewed 160+ opportunities, made five key investments, and invested $2 million across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and the US. Notable investments include Astride, a US-based fintech offering accounting solutions for foreign investors, and Payana, an AI platform improving financial operations for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Mexico and Colombia. The founding partners will stay the largest investors, making sure their interests match those of the other investors. Kiara plans to invest in 15-20 startups, with initial investments of $500,000 and additional funds set aside for follow-up investments. This story was initially published in this week’s issue of Global Fintech Insider. To read the other crunchy fintech stories covered in it (or to join the 3,300+ fintech pros that already signed-up for FREE), click the link in the comments.

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💥 2.3%. That’s how much global VC funding went to female-only founding teams in 2024. And Carina Abreu and I are part of that 2.3%. While $289 billion in venture capital was deployed globally last year, only $6.7 billion reached women building companies from scratch. Meanwhile, 83.6% went to all-male founding teams. Yes — the numbers improved slightly from 2023. But at this pace, the world won’t see gender parity in venture funding until 2065. As two female tech founders building C-MORE — a European AI-native intelligence company — we feel these numbers deeply. Not as statistics, but as lived reality. Every milestone takes more resilience, more proof, more traction, more “show me again.” And yet, we keep building. We keep scaling. We keep proving that greatness has no gender. Because innovation is not male or female — it’s courageous. Carina Abreu and I didn’t enter tech to fit into an existing system. We entered to redesign it. To build a company that makes intelligence accessible to the 99% of businesses who get left behind — the same way female founders often do. So here’s to the 2.3%. To every woman building something that statistics say shouldn’t exist. To every founder rewriting the norms. To every team proving that excellence doesn’t need permission — it just needs a chance. And may we accelerate the path so the next generation doesn’t have to wait until 2065. See the study here: https://lnkd.in/dB9AS4rH #WomenInTech #FemaleFounders #AI #StartupLife #Leadership #Innovation #Sustainability #RiskIntelligence #Entrepreneurship #NoPermissionNeeded

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🔔 Attention Miami founders, investors, and startup ecosystem players! 🔔 If you're raising or thinking about it, this is one you won't want to miss. Very excited to be participating on this panel tomorrow night (March 17th) at The LAB Miami, where we will bring 5 distinct fundraising perspectives together for what promises to be an insightful conversation. Here's who's on the panel: 🦄 2x Founder Michael Assraf - $60M raised across 2 companies (Vicarius and Flamingo) 💸 VC investor Anuj Maheshwari, CFA of Fuel Venture Capital - an investor in Replit's $3B Series C round 😇 Angel investor Sonja Markova - Executive Director at University of Miami Cane Angel Network 🚀 Serial entrepreneur Sam Payrovi of ARKHAUS - pursued alternative funding and raised across crowdfunding and private investors 📈 Early-stage investor & advisor Ryan Martin (me!) - Managing Partner at Five Spheres and Investor-in-Residence at Seaworthy Collective Moderated by Grace U. - angel investor and Director of Founder Institute Miami. We'll get into the things nobody puts in a pitch deck: → When you're too early to raise (and what to do instead) → How angels and VCs actually evaluate early-stage companies → What fundraising mistakes keep costing founders → Why "alternative" funding isn't a consolation prize If you're building in Miami, this conversation was designed for you. 📍 The LAB Miami | ⏰ 6:00 PM | 🗓️ March 17th Hosted by Founder Institute - the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, with an alumni base that's raised $2B+ in funding. RSVP link in the comments 👇

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