By Naiara Lew and Oscar Caipo It is no news that in the past 4 months Latin American startups have increasingly struggled to raise additional capital from VC funds. Global macroeconomic conditions have led the VC and Startup ecosystems to a moment that juxtaposes the startup funding boom that we…

By Darly Bendo and Bruno Dalapria When we met Marcos, Fernando, and Laura in mid-2021, Inventa was only a Powerpoint presentation. The team’s energy and passion for the business were infectious and as mission-driven founders with exceptional track records, it did not take long for us to get excited about…

Ten years ago, after selling my startup to theFox International Channels, a division of NewsCorp ( NWS), I wrote my first book, Entrepreneurial Learning (‘Aprender a Emprender’). It took four years to write, illustrate, and publish, in part because I wanted every page and every example to be evergreen, larger…

Growing a startup is hard. And it is in the hardest of hard moments, when success looks farthest off, that you must stick tightest to the plan. Geoff Ralston, current president of YC, recommends developing a watertight story as a way of weathering difficult times. To move forwards, you must…

Good leaders never stop learning. That they are tirelessly curious about their products and world should be of no surprise. That they are just as driven to understand themselves should not be either. Of all the things one can study, the self is most transcendental and fundamental. …

Building a startup takes great personal and collective effort. This starts with the founders, but in the shortest amount of time it is required of the entire organization and its community. — A startup with a clear mission and purpose — one every employee and client can rattle off without hesitation — doesn’t get stuck at as many of the many, many crossroads one sees in business. To ask, ‘Is this what we’re about?’ requires self-knowledge. …

Latin American start-up, Spline, raises seed funding to provide designers, developers, and creators globally with an innovative 3D design platform March 19, 2021 Spline, a professional-grade and web-based 3D design platform, raised a seed funding round led by NXTP Ventures, a leading Latin American early stage VC, alongside YCombinator, Chapter…

When Auth0 co-founders, Eugenio Pace and Matias Woloski, approached NXTP in 2013 for a seed investment, they said they wanted to build the first modern identity management platform, pitching the company as the “Twilio for identity”. …

If you want to raise a seed round at a stratospheric valuation, then you’d best be sure that you find enough traction before your Series A — as that valuation will be based on metrics, not excitement. Transitioning from Seed to Series A A serious sticking point in any term…