Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
My guests today are Julio Vasconcellos and Mate Pencz, who are partners at Canary and Atlantico, leading early stage investment firms in Latin America. They're also both successful entrepreneurs. Mate is the Co-founder and CEO of Brazilian real estate unicorn Loft. Julio was Facebook's first country lead for Brazil, an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark and the former founder of Peixe Urbano, which sold to Baidu.
This conversation was a great opportunity to dive into the state of investing in business in Latin America today, and what the opportunity set looks like on the ground. Please enjoy my conversation with Julio and Mate.
The Investing Landscape of Latin America
Patrick
So Julio and Mate, great to have you both here to talk about the investing landscape in Latin America. It's one of those funny places that I have somehow never been really. I've never been in South America. I've been in Central America and have just developed a fascination with the whole region, with a number of amazing companies that have been built there, like Loft.