GCV was delighted to head to São Paulo in October to co-host the fifth annual Corporate Venture in Brasil conference, in partnership with ApexBrasil, and to hold our inaugural GCV Academy in the region.

The conference brought together nearly 700 local investors and a delegation of international corporations.

Augusto Pestana, business director of Apex-Brasil, opened the fifth annual Corporate Venture in Brasil conference with a key message: “Brazil will succeed.”

In many ways, Brazil, the biggest country in Latin America, already has. It is the eighth-largest economy in the world, according to CIA’s World Factbook, and is a member of the trade bloc Common Market of the South (Mercosur) with Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Edison Fu

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