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Learn about a network of resources in the Caribbean Basin and Central America specially designed for the international expansion of startups and early stage businesses. Funding channels, investors, allies, partners form part of a strong support network for expansion of startups and early stage businesses to Latin America.
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Want to expand your business to Latin America?Learn about a network of resources in the Caribbean Basin and Central America specially
designed for the international expansion of startups and early stage businesses
Lorenzo Lara Carrero, President
Mentoring and venture capital for startups landing in Latin America
• Negociosdigitales provides mentoring
services and access to angel and venture
capital sources, for startups and early stage
companies, for expansion and development
in Latin America
• We focus on tech based businesses,
specially Internet companies with great
growth potential in our region
• We work together with an international
network of high level expert and resourceful
partners and allies, with extensive
experience in developing and growing
innovative startups and early stage
businesses
A regional network of partners and allies, with experience
in developing and growing innovative startups and early
stage businesses in international markets
International acceleration in Medellín, Colombia
• Strong public and private institutions
committed to innovation and
entrepreneurship
• We work in cooperation with:
• Creame, provider of comprehensive
services for starting and growing
innovative firms doing business in
Colombia and Latin America.
• Capitalia Colombia, specialized
financial services firm for early stage
business with strong growth potential
• Business angels
• Seed capital and sidecar funds
• Mergers and acquisitions
Medellin, in Colombia, was named in 2013
the world's most innovative city in a
competition organized by the non-profit
Urban Land Institute with the support of The
Wall Street Journal and Citi Bank
Panama City and the City of Knowledge
• The City of Knowledge, in
Panama City, is an international
hub for innovative tech startups
which includes:
• The Panama Business
Accelerator (PBA) and
• The Venture Club: a group of
angel investors where we are
institutional members
San José, Costa Rica
• A platform for private offerings of debt,
convertible notes and stocks, for early
stage companies
• Mercado Alternativo Para Acciones
(MAPA) in the Bolsa Nacional de
Valores de Costa Rica
• We work together with Mora de la
Orden, Soluciones de Capital
Willemstad, Curaçao
• Startup Stock Exchange (SSX) in the Dutch
Caribbean Securities Exchange is an
evolution of crowdfunding enabling startups
and early stage companies to make initial
public offerings of stocks.
• SSX´s platform for buying and selling stocks
allows for stock liquidity and for presenting
an emerging international corporation to the
global financial industry.
• Our President, Lorenzo Lara Carrero, is a
member of SSX´s Board of International
Advisors
• We provide assistance in the IPO process
and beyond
¿What role can Venezuela play in the international
expansion of innovative businesses?
• Venezuelan markets are complex for
political, legal and economic reasons,
only attractive for foreign investment in
special segments like consumer
products or oil related services
• Nevertheless, our country offers
extremely interesting options for
building and leveraging a high quality
network of service providers to support
international business
Venezuela´s competitive advantages in building and
leveraging and international network of service providers• Caracas, where we have our home office, is a city
strong in high quality human resources adapted to
international markets requirements and very
competitive costs. For example:• Marketing, advertising, telecom services, software
development , content production…
• Sophisticated business design experience,
including financial structuring of international
deals
• Wide experience developing successful Internet
companies
• Strong softwarerdevelopment capabilities
• Specialized and tailored call centers
• Part of Venezuela´s talent network has spread all
over the world, specially to neighboring countries,
and is very accessible from any place through
online work platforms
Venezuelan diaspora
• The Venezuelan diaspora offers interesting
possibilities for international business
development. We have documented these
possibilities in several publications, in
Spanish, available by downloading from our
blog:
• Potenciando el valor de la diáspora
latinoamericana para los países de la región.
Marzo 14, 2008.Informe Final para la CAF
preparado por Latinos Globales S.A.
• Internacionalización de los venezolanos y de
sus empresas: capítulo preparado
especialmente para el libro de Michael
Penfold y Roberto Vainrub: Estrategias en
tiempos de turbulencia: Las Empresas en
Venezuela. Ediciones IESA, Caracas 2012
The Venezuelan diaspora
Setup shop in Medellín, …
Setup shop in Medellín, source your financing and service needs in the Caribbean Basin
and Central America, …
Setup shop in Medellín, source your financing and service needs in the Caribbean Basin and
Central America, leverage your service providers network in Venezuela and its diaspora
Contact
• Lorenzo Lara Carrero
• Skype: lorenzolara
• Whatsapp: +58 412 269 1408
• Blog: Capital Emprendedor
• Linkedin: http://ve.linkedin.com/in/lorenzolara/
