Despite its recent tensions of migration and tariffs between the US government and Latin American countries, the hemisphere's business ecosystem is dedicated to cross-border investments.
President Donald Trump before he introduced a 25% tariff for imports from Mexico in March, said Melissa Guevara, a senior companion to Costa Rico Ventures Caricaco Ventures, in December, Caricaco Ventures that the Latin -American venture capital space is “very adaptable”.
“Both investors and entrepreneurs are used to navigating the economic cycle, regulatory changes and political exchange,” he said at the time.
The US and Latin -American venture capital ecosystems have grown closer to the years as the impact of high money venture capital has spread outside Silicon Valley.
The 500 Global, one of the world's largest early stages of the venture, launched in Latin America in 2012, and Y Combinator made its first investment area with Colombia Platz in 2015. Both have continued hundreds of investments in the area together.
Today, cross -border and globally -minded venture capital companies and accelerator programs are spread throughout the area.
One such example is the global acceleration network commonly called GAN.
In connection with the international accelerator TechStars, founded in Colorado Denver in 2010, GAN is now owned by Morrow Global Network and has an estimated startup portfolio value of $ 10.7 billion. Gan curates the global community, the knowledge to be feasible and the thorough tools to expand the early stages of accelerators, studios and hubs.
According to Milenio, the Mexican news edition, the network recently added a prominent accelerator program from the Mexican University of Mexico to its global network.
Tecnológico de Monterrey Technology and Science-based Entrepreneurship Center Tecnológico de Monterrey-One Leading Engineering Engineering Union recently with the GAN network.
The aim of the program is to combine students, lecturers, founders, inventors and investors who are dedicated to the permanent and positive impact. It was founded in 2001 and has completed over 4,500 start -ups, creating more than 34,000 jobs, according to a social press release.
Their portfolio includes companies that are innovations in the field of digital products, biotechnology, artificial intelligence (AI), agricultural technology, climate equipment and food equipment. Current companies of the EBCT network have registered for tens of millions of dollars and raised funding over $ 5 million a year, and start -ups have gone to prestigious international acceleration programs, including TechStars and Y Combinator.
“We are pleased to invite the Tecnológico de Monterrey Technology and Science-based Enterprise Center Center for Excellence in our Excellent GAN community,” said Steve Hayton, Education Director of GAN. “We are confident that GAN offers the resources needed by the founders of Tecnológico de Monterrey to raise their business and have a permanent and positive impact on the world.”
Projects aimed at combining global start -up systems could help with Latin -American bounce backup funding, which it has experienced since 2022.
According to the Latin Times, the risk of Capital Latam will climb back after the pandemic funding boom after dropping. About 400 fund managers invested in Latin companies in 2024, including Japanese Softbanks and New York FJ Labs.
And even more, companies are cutting to help support Latin -American start -ups who want to jump into the US market.
At the end of last year, the Chilean venture capital company Impacta VC announced its Competa Miami soft processing program, which provides services and support for regional companies to create a shop in Miami – a city that has grown rapidly into a blooming technique.
Even in the context of growing political tensions, the business community is dedicated to cross-border investments between Latin America and the US.
