As crisis in Brazil deepens in these last weeks of 2015 with another ratings agency downgrade, our members wonder what are the prospects for 2016. So, we had a conversation with Pedro Sirotsky Melzer, Managing Director of e.Bricks Ventures, a Sao Paulo-based independent offshore VC firm with a focus on early stage internet and mobile technology companies.…
BayBrazil & Zendesk present: Brazil in 2016 When: Wed, January 27, 2016, 6pm-9pm Location: Zendesk headquarters at 1019 Market Street, San Francisco, CA Pre-registration Brazil is in its worst recession in decades. The country’s GDP is projected to contract by 3.7% and, in these 12 months through mid-December, consumer prices jumped 10.7%. Adding pressure to the…
On Nov 2nd, 2015, BayBrazil hosted Nicolas Szekasy and Hernan Kazah, co-founders of Kaszek Ventures, one of the most active VC firms in Brazil and Latin America. In an exclusive conversation with Andy Tsao, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank, and BayBrazil members, the co-founders discussed their latest investments, the opportunities they envision in the Latin American…