Julio Vasconcellos

Brazil’s Canary sings with closing of biggest fund with $100M in commitments

Canary’s first two funds each invested in approximately 50 companies and the firm's expectation is to do around the same number of first checks with the third fund.

VCs say there are more startup opportunities to chase in Latin America

There are still founders in Latin America that are not benefiting from the funding boom, which implies that there is more capacity to absorb capital there than is currently being taken advantage of.

B2B marketplace ZAX targets Latin America’s wholesale sector with $6M in fresh capital

ZAX's platform unites freight, delivery and payments tools to connect sellers and buyers in Brazil.

Tuna raises $3M to address complexity of e-commerce payments in Latin America

Tuna is on a mission to "fine tune" the payments space in Latin America.

With Series A funding from Benchmark, Prefer takes the wraps off its new marketplace

Between Thumbtack, Yelp, Angie's List and Amazon, it wouldn't appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That's not the way Julio Vasconcellos sees i