Venture Building & Investing in LATAM – Is it the right...
Last week, Momentum Team held a small close door sharing session in Shanghai with about 20 people and our LATAM guest, Fernando Azevedo Pinheiro...
After $109M series A, Grin + Yellow = Grow?
In late January this year, two of Latin America's largest bike and scooter sharing companies, Yellow and Grin, merged to form a new company...
Momentum Works’ predictions for 2019 – Latam
The year 2018 has been a particularly vibrant one for Latin America’s tech and VC ecosystem. The competition between Amazon and Walmart is intensifying;...
New investment boom of property marketplaces?
Last year, a good friend of ours, who wanted to build a property marketplace (“à la Opendoor style”) in a country of 200+ M...
Didi clashes with Uber, again!
On November 21, six months after entering (the country of) Mexico, Didi finally announced that it had started operations in Mexico City (population 21...
[Spanish] Didi está luchando contra Uber, de nuevo
Didi ha declarado la guerra a los competidores globales: ¡Estamos aquí!
Why is Brazilian payment company StoneCo so popular?
Brazil's banking system is one of the most bureaucratic in the world, and the five largest Brazilian banks (namely, Itau Unibanco, Banco Santander, Banco...
Tencent puts US$200m in Brazil’s Nubank – is it a wise...
In 2014, when Nubank was a small company, it received a $14 million investment from Sequoia Capital. As for why Sequoia Capital ever noticed...
Baidu’s lost decade in international markets
It is still not too late, if it recognises the issue preventing its success in international markets over the last 10 years.
