Rodrigo Mendezes, Flavio Pripas and Rosario Cannata addressed the opportunities and challenges for Brazilian startups and corporate venturing units.
Rodrigo Menezes, partner at law firm Derraik & Menezes Advogados, hosted a panel on Brazil’s ecosystem featuring Rosario Cannata, investment manager at EDP Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of energy utility EDP, and Flavio Pripas, corporate venture officer at venture capital Redpoint eVentures.
Mendezes kicked off proceedings by asking: “Why are we only now on the global radar and why should we remain there?”
Pripas explained that the market was very new and Redpoint had only started investing about 15…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
