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- 300%Year-on-year growth of the Brazilian ICT sector in the first three months of 2022.
- 19.5bnUS$Amount of venture capital invested in Latin American startups in 2021.
- 10Number of Brazilian startups that reached unicorn status in 2021.
- 500mUS$Amount raised by Brazil's Nubank in 2021 to become the digital bank with the highest market value in the world.
- 21Total number of Brazil-founded unicorns.
- 6bnUS$Projected amount Brazil's travel tech scene will generate in 2022.



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Rodrigo Baer
Co-founder & Managing PartnerUpload Ventures
Edith Yeung
General PartnerRace Capital
Eric Acher
Founder & Managing General PartnerMonashees
Renata Quintini
Co-founderRenegade Partners
Zach Coelius
FounderCoelius Capital
Michael Nicklas
Managing PartnerValor Capital Group
Gina Gotthilf
Co-founder & COOLatitud
Gabriel Vasquez
PartnerAndreessen Horowitz
Izabel Gallera
PartnerCanary
Santiago Fossatti
PartnerKaszek
Laura Constantini
Co-founder & PartnerAstella
Mathias Schilling
Co-founder & Managing PartnerHeadline
Patrick Arippol
Co-founder & Managing PartnerAlexia VenturesMaria Gutierrez Penaloza
Co-founder & Managing PartnerNido Ventures
Ian Hathaway
Co-founder & General PartnerFar Out Ventures
Luis Lora
Managing PartnerGlobo VenturesAmee Parbhoo
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