We recently announced the closing of our fourth fund for US$115M to invest in the best companies in the Spanish-speaking world. This is our promise. With the closing of DILA IV, DILA is now one of Latin America’s largest and most active venture capital funds. We have been extremely lucky…

And Why We Invested in Cobee Most of you have probably been in this situation: you get a job offer, glance at the salary, and either ignore benefits or find them so confusing that it is easier to simply dismiss them. As a candidate, it’s certainly not core or even…

The Bond-trading Revolution in the Emerging Markets The rise of e-trading that took over equities, futures, FX, and commodities markets in the 1990s has just recently started to reach the hard currency bond market vigorously. Fixed-income markets have been the last to digitize due to their oligopolistic nature and lack…

(and why we invested in mattilda) We, at DILA, have been advocates of the verticalization of financial services for a long time now. Our view is that every sector has different operational and financial needs. …

Selling products door to door with a catalog in hand is a very common business and practice in Latin America (“LatAm”). This industry, direct catalog sales, has been a dominant retail channel for many years in the region, helping millions of people have an additional source of income and helping…

We would like to start this post by reminding readers that this is written by the entire DILA Capital Team as part of our “Why We Invested” series. This particular article was led by Joaquin Abal. A special thank you to Julian Arber for helping out as well. In the…

The role of storytelling while fundraising Throughout human history, we have told each other stories. Before we invented writing, we learned through stories. This is how we communicated and shared information. Some stories were told face to face, some around campfires, and others while hunting and gathering. …

(and why we invested in Fairplay) Note: This article was written by the DILA Capital Team. As investors, we don’t get to check all the boxes too often in an investment. Most of the time we need to take a leap of faith and trust a great team. …

2021 is over . . . and what a year it was. I learned a lot this year and I would like to share some of my learnings with you and leave you with my thoughts: Latin America is a very attractive market. Particularly Mexico, which (especially, in the eyes…