It’s been a good week for Brazilian startups 99 and Nibo. The NY Times reported on May 24th that 99, Uber competitor in Brazil, raised US$100 million from Japanese firm Soft Bank, major investor in the Chinese company Didi Chuxing. Swedish firm Vostock Emerging Finance announced on May 15th that it invested US$3.3 million into Nibo,…
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Margarise Correa moved to the Bay Area in the late nineties and founded BayBrazil in 2010. This week she was named 2017 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, the only Brazilian woman ever nominated. She has a B.A. in Journalism and worked several years as news reporter in Brazil. BayBrazil: Why…
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When: May 11, 6pm-8:30pm Location: DocuSign, 221 Main Street, San Francisco, Suite 1500 – 15t Floor Our houses are getting smarter, self-driving cars are roaming around, healthcare will be redesigned thanks to Artificial Intelligence, specifically, recent advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The technology that models our brains is already changing the way we…
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Date: Tuesday, May 2nd, 6pm-8:30pmLocation: Silicon Valley Bank, 2400 Hanover Street, Palo Alto Corporations continue to play an increasingly active role in entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world. Despite a decrease of 2% in corporate venture capital deal activity globally, according to CB Insights report the number of new CVC firms making first-time investments reached record levels in…
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When: Friday, April 21st, 6pm-9pm Location: Facebook, 1 Hacker Way-Bld.15, Menlo Park, CA Corporate tech companies in the Bay Area continue to attract high-skilled Brazilian talent. Although there aren’t statistics data to clearly illustrate this trend, in these past years we’ve seen an increasing number of Brazilian professionals moving to the region. That’s why since…
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San Francisco has been a hub for immigrants from all over the world. When President Trump first issued the executive order on immigration, the city became the first in the nation to sue the Federal administration. Mayor Ed Lee has been a leading voice in this debate so, we had a conversation on his views…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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