NEWS
> João Ricardo and José Eduardo Mendes are back in charge at Hotel Urbano after acquiring the 51% stake that belonged to Insight Venture Partners, Tiger Global and Priceline. The brothers are eyeing a new capital injection in the next three months.
> Ronaldo Lemos, the
instigator of Brazil’s landmark Marco Civil registration, calls Argentina’s
new Ley
del Emprendedor proposals envy-inspiring for
the rest of the region.
> Leo Branco at Exame dives into the agtech startups thriving in the interior of São Paulo.
> In Latin America, capital
committed by impact-investment funds increased to roughly US$2b by the end of
2013, from US$160m in 2008, representing a 12-fold growth in just five years. Access The Impact Investing Landscape in Latin America, a report produced by LAVCA, ANDE and LGT Impact Ventures.
> Following the recent WSJ
story on Andreessen Horowitz’s returns, Mattermark breaks
down realized vs unrealized
IRR.
> CBInsights has 2016 data on startups acquiring other startups. Dropbox and Infor top the list.
> 300 million of Facebook Messenger’s billion users are using
audio/video call features, which is about the size of Skype’s entire user base.