The Brazil-based educational services firm has reorganised its structure and intends to create a corporate venturing arm called Cogna Ventures next year.

Cogna Educação, the Brazil-based educational services provider formerly known as Kroton Educacional, will launch a corporate venture capital arm in 2020 called Cogna Ventures, it has announced.

The company’s investor relations officer, Carlos Lazar, will head Cogna Ventures, which will focus on innovative and disruptive opportunities in different segments of the education business. The size of its fund has not been disclosed.

Rodrigo Galindo, CEO of Cogna Educação, was quoted as saying at an event in São Paulo: “This venture…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.