Idea
The bridge
Capital is abundant in Latin America. What is scarce is the bridge that connects it with the businesses that need it most, and that bridge is built with numbers and operations.
Before looking at the valuation, I look at the real unit economics, the installed capacity and the harvest cash cycle. My work turns operating data into investment decisions.
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Other ideas
- The grey zoneBusinesses with customers and margins that sit between microcredit and the fund, in what the industry calls the «missing middle».
- Investable bio-businesses, for whom?A company is ready for a specific capital. Each funder has its own thesis, its own ticket and its own proof.
- The systemA business scales when its decisions depend on a system of data, costs and processes.
- Financeability X-rayA self-assessment for an SME to know which financing instrument fits it today.
- The order of capitalPhilanthropic, concessional and commercial capital expect different returns and take different risks.