Valetec Capital Investments will manage the investments.

Brazil-based web services company Locaweb has set up a corporate venture capital program to invest BRL100m ($17.9m) over four years.

Local venture capital-as-a-service provider Valetec Capital Investments will manage the investments that connect to Locaweb’s e-commerce ecosystem. (Peter Seiffert, founder of Valetec, spoke at the prior GCV webinar alongside Apex-Brasil as part of the annual Corporate Venture in Brasil conference series.)

“In addition to the capital contribution involved in this type of transaction, these startups see in Locaweb’s…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.