1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Fernandez of Angel Ventures Mexico (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How relevant do you think is Silicon Valley to the B2C side of the Mexican venture ecosystem? Not just Mexican – Latin America. If you’re doing B2C, how relevant is Silicon Valley for you? Hernan Fernandez: I think it’s growing in terms of relevance. I really wished Silicon Valley took a little bit

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jose Deustua of UTEC Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How much of your portfolio has this follow-on funding? Jose Deustua: All of them have raised funds. Sramana Mitra: All of them have received funding from what source? What is the primary source? 

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Fernandez of Angel Ventures Mexico (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of these B2C trends are big in India as well. We cover India extensively. The Indian B2C market is more advanced than Latin America. A lot of these trends are very active trends in India as well. The commonality across all this is that the consumer logistics part is very broken

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jose Deustua of UTEC Ventures (Part 3)

Jose Deustua: We also have a platform called Anvi. They teach English. Currently, we know that most people in Latin America are not good in speaking English. They need to speak English to progress in their work. Even though there are a lot of solutions about how to learn English, this platform is new in

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Fernandez of Angel Ventures Mexico (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is FinTech a sector that you have invested more in? This is a global trend. Hernan Fernandez: Yes. We were lucky enough to be in the middle of the FinTech wave. When we started the fund in 2013, we had no idea that we were going to see FinTech deals. When we started

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Jose Deustua of UTEC Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about the companies. What problems are they solving? Jose Duestua: We have one startup that’s focusing on changing the way teachers teach in K12. In Latin America, we’re lagging behind in using technology in classrooms. This startup is trying to put all textbooks on a platform where you can learn from the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hernan Fernandez of Angel Ventures Mexico (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You said you invest in Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Are the angel investors also from all the four countries or are they all Mexican investors? Hernan Fernandez: We have a very broad base of angel investors that represents 15 nationalities. We do have investors from the US and Canada, but the core

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Michael Smerklo of Next Coast Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The geographies that you’ve mentioned, we have quite a bit of experience in some of them. Utah is really booming. Utah has taken that bootstrapping ethos to the ultimate levels of success. They have seen company after company bootstrap to success. Utah really stands out. Michael Smerklo: We think this is a major

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