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Thanks to Covid Latin American and US startups, engineers, VCs and Limited Partners may do business north and south more now than ever before
After 18 years of professional experience in the venture capital industry, I believe Covid has accelerated a major shift that has created opportunities for more business to flow between Latin America (LatAm) and the USA. Miami has always been an important meeting point and hub for Latin America but prior to Covid, very few venture capitalists lived in Miami, West Palm Beach, or anywhere in South Florida. When I did a book tour event in Miami in 2016 for my second book Masters of Corporate Venture Capital at my friends’ startup hub The LAB Miami we could not find any VCs to join my VC panel because none existed. I was able to effortlessly populate the VC panel with VCs I already knew in every other city in the US on my 15-city book tour and as well as cities across Europe, Singapore, and China. I normally had 5 to 7 VCs on each VC panel. In Miami we could not find one and so we had a CEO panel instead which may have actually been better!