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July 9, 2017
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I went to Parallel 18, an equity free startup accelerator in Puerto Rico, as a mentor. Here's the talk I gave to their startups.
Magma Portfolio
June 2, 2017
I’m excited to finally be able to announce that our portfolio company PropertySimple closed a $3M round in the United States to help them continue to grow. I’ve been working closely with Adrian Fisher, PropertySimple’s founder and CEO
Articles
May 24, 2017
Startups in Latin America are using creative solutions to address not just local but also global problems. For investors outside the region, the prospect of working with these startups can appear attractive, yet complicated.
April 17, 2017
I’m excited to finally be able to announce our investment in GroupRaise. We first invested in GroupRaise in early 2016 after I’d been trying to convince Devin Baptiste, GroupRaise’s cofounder and CEO, to let us invest since we started Magma
January 12, 2017
Francisco, Diego and I first started working on Magma Partners in December 2013, which means we’re just passing our 3rd birthday. We originally planned to invest in 4-6 Chile based companies per year
January 8, 2017
As startups and tech investing has gone mainstream with things like AngelList, Shark Tank, The Social Network, the proliferation of accelerators and incubators, and the celebritization of founders and VCs
October 18, 2016
We're really excited to announce that we've invested in Jooycar, a usage based car insurance service (UBI) that charges customers for how much and how well they drive. I wrote a more detailed post on why we invested in Jooycar.
October 16, 2016
As more Magma companies start to do business in Peru, we've gotten more experience learning about the Peruvian entrepreneurial ecosystem. I decided to publish a short overview of the Peruvian Venture Capital Ecosystem.
August 6, 2016
We see many startups each year that have problems with their cap table that can make them uninvestable.
June 13, 2016
The Chilean government, via CORFO, has been seeding the entrepreneurial ecosystem to help build startups. They've done a great job, but there can always be room for improvement.
