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Evolution of Smart Products

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I have to share this cartoon by @marketoonist 😂

Marketoonist cartoon on the evolution of smart products: a toaster goes from just making toast to Wi-Fi enabled, data-driven, as-a-service, ad-supported and finally an AI that refuses to make toast.

Updated Latam Climate Startup Radar

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We just gave our Latam Climate Innovation Startup Radar a major update. You might have seen the previous version when we released it for the first time last year. It’s a cool tool that helps map out startups that are working on solutions to combat climate change in Latin America. These startups are broken down into four main categories: AgTech, Energy, Green Consumer, and Mobility. You can grab the high-res version of the radar by clicking here.

The new version of the radar includes 191 startups, which is a huge jump from the 147 we had before – a 30% increase. If you know of any other startups that should be on our radar, make sure to let us know by filling out this form.

Latam Climate Innovation Startup Radar by Dalus Capital (January 2023 edition), mapping climate startups by sector.

We have also updated the Latam Climate wiki. Please check it out.

Latam Startups, Tech and VC events list 2023

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I stumbled upon a comprehensive list of startups, tech, and venture capital events in Latin America for 2023 and wanted to share it with others. Cool idea and, to my knowledge, there hasn’t been a similar comprehensive compilation for events in Latam. While the list may be still incomplete, I hope that its creator, Eduardo Paperini, will continue to update and improve it during the year.

Check the list in this Google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IxFRoY-1gZ-fSxclKFJrCaQovjHoJUo5jcZIN9Z1RrA/edit#gid=193725780

Future is bright in Latin America startup ecosystem despite current volatility

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LAVCA – the Latin America Venture Capital Association – just reported venture capital investment data for the first half of 2022. The results are in line with what anyone can perceive in the market. Fundraising has slowed down, impacted by 1) the steep adjustment in valuations of public tech companies, especially in the US market, and 2) many VC investors are on the sidelines as they wait for the market uncertainty to pass while concentrating their attention and resources on their existing portfolio companies.

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Latin America Climate Innovation Startup Radar and other resources

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I am happy to share several resources we put together at Dalus Capital for the Climate Innovation space in Latin America. This is an emerging ecosystem and we hope these initiatives will help its development.

  • The first Climate Innovation Startup Radar for Latin America. This is the first version with the startups in the region we have identified. Feel free to download and distribute this startup radar. If you know of other startups in Latin America that we should include, please share them with us here.
  • We also created a collaborative Latam Climate wiki that you can check out here: latamclimatewiki.com. Also open to all collaborations and suggestions on what to include.
  • Finally, you can check out here the videos of all the sessions we had at the first LATAM Climate Innovation Summit in Mexico City last July.
Latam Climate Innovation Startup Radar by Dalus Capital, first edition, mapping climate startups by sector.

Reach out if you want to collaborate on some of these initiatives.

First Latam Climate Innovation Summit

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Latam Climate Innovation Summit 2022 logo.

The Dalus Capital team organized the first edition of the Latam Climate Innovation Summit in Mexico City last week. We partnered with several sponsors including the U.S. State Department, Amazon for Startups, INCmty, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Grupo Habita, Buna Coffee, Cultura Colectiva, and Daikin. Special shoutout to Dalus team members Chris Down, Eugenia Rendon, and Jimena Buitron, who led the effort.

Climate change represents an existential challenge for humanity today. The future of civilization is at risk if collectively we do not achieve a net-zero world. At Dalus, we are strong believers that multiple solutions are required including many tech-based that already exist today or that will need to be developed.

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Podcasts

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Recientemente fuí invitado a dos podcasts a hablar de emprendimiento e inversiones. Me gustaron mucho estas conversaciones. Se las comparto aquí:

  • Conversando con Jonathan Ruiz y Mauricio Moreno en el podcast Disruptivo con el tema “Invertir en Startups es como jugar al ajedrez”. Escuchen el podcast en spotify.
  • Conversando con Pepe Toriello de RDF Outlook sobre como un emprendedor puede dar el primer paso para acercarse a un fondo de venture capital levantar una primera ronda de inversión. Escuchen el podcast en spotify o apple podcasts.

Climate innovation news at Dalus

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Personally and at Dalus Capital, we are very concerned about climate change. If humanity does not transition out of fossil fuels soon enough, the warming of the earth would have catastrophic consequences on life on the planet, including on humans. You can see an animation at the bottom of this post that very graphically shows the scary trend we have created.

I believe the solution to the climate change challenge will require many complementary solutions, including startups using technology to mitigate emissions or generate resilience and adaption to the change that is happening.

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Podcast Momentum

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Cover of episode 1 of Momentum, a G2 podcast, with Diego Serebrisky, co-founder and managing partner of Dalus Capital, on what it takes to reach a Series A.

Les comparto el nuevo episodio del podcast de Momentum, donde me invitó mi buen amigo y también inversionista Jorge González Gasque a tener una conversación muy entretenida sobre startups y venture capital. Espero lo disfruten y como siempre todos los comentarios son bienvenidos.

También disponible en Apple Podcasts.

VC office hours

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Around two months ago, several venture capital investors from Latin America were invited/challenged to establish open office hours by Twitter user @Esmartinvestor with one tweet:

I decided to take on the idea (as well as several of my fellow Latin American colleagues) and started right away opening my schedule for 20-minute zoom meetings that anybody could schedule. This is one more way to support the development of the ecosystem in the region.

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