A number of BayBrazil partners and members travel often to Brazil to participate in events, visit local clients and deepen their ties with the local tech community. Jackie Hyland, Silicon Valley Bank’s Director for Latin America, wrote this article for BayBrazil on her recent trip to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Last week,…
When: Wed, March 8, 6pm– 8:30pm Location: Evernote, 305 Walnut Street, Redwood City, 94063 According to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report it will take 170 years before there is global equality between men and women. Around the globe, women earn less, work more, have less participation in the labor force and is…
When: Wed, Feb 8th, 6pm-8:30pm Location: DLA Piper, 2000 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Although in a slower growth pace than many would like to see, the Brazilian entrepreneurial ecosystem has been evolving in the last few years thanks to both private and public initiatives & the work of talented founders, teams, investors and…
When: Wed, Jan 18, 2017, 6pm-9pm Location: Google SF Startup Space, 301 Howard, San Francisco While 2015’s challenges are not yet behind, economies around the world are ending 2016 with a new set of troubles. A recent IMF study reviewed that global debt reached a record $152 trillion last year, a much higher amount than…
As we get closer to the end of 2016, we wonder what is the perspective of recovery for the Brazilian economy and how the change in the U.S. Government may impact the country. To help us understand it, we had a conversation with Daniel Motta, CEO of BMI, PhD in Economics, professor, author and leader…
In these past few months there has been an increase in the number of Brazilian entrepreneurs contacting BayBrazil for advice on expanding their companies into the US. Market. We brought some of their questions to the experts! Here is our conversation with Matt Svetich, Partner at Drummond Advisors, who has extensive experience working with both…
Michelle Messina pioneered the Silicon Valley best practices training of startups in 2004 and has worked in more than 35 countries, including Brazil. In our interview, she talks about her new book and how she helps entrepreneurs to understand the what and how of building, scaling great companies and ways to successfully leverage the resources, capital and…
Date: Friday, Nov 4th – 6pm-8:30pm Location: Pillsbury, 2550 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA Pre-registration The intersection of data & media has revolutionized the advertising industry. According to PwC, digital advertising is poised to grow from $135 billion in 2014 to $240 billion in 2019. A recent e.Marketers report shows that digital ad spending…
For the past two years Flavio Feferman has led an initiative to bring the Berkeley-Haas Lean Launchpad entrepreneurship training program to Brazil. In this interview, he discusses the program, how BayBrazil members can participate, as well as his new book on broadband internet in Brazil. BayBrazil: What is the vision for Berkeley’s…
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 6pm–8:30pm Location: Udemy headquarters, 600 Harrison Street – San Francisco, CA Investments in startups focused on education technologies were getting traction in the last few years, reaching a record high in 2015 when funding was over $3 billion. However, according to CB Insights, in Q1 2016 funding dropped to…
On Sep 14 & 15, 2016, BayBrazil & Google Developers Launchpad organized a unique workshop to help Brazilian startups with training and mentorship. On Day 1, startups CEOs, CTOs, founders gathered at Google headquarters in Mountain View where they met with Google engineers, product managers for a series of discussions on product development and mentors…
BAYBRAZIL ANNUAL CONFERENCE EDITION #5 From a 7.5% GDP growth, in 2011, to the worst recession in history, in 2016. The backwards turn Brazil took in just about 5 years was unimaginable by many. It shocked even Brazilians who have experienced past crisis. The troubling economy coupled with the largest corruption scandal in the country’s history…