What is Colombia?

Gabriel Vasquez on Latin American unicorn founders failing to connect across borders before a16z intervened.

“The Brazilian unicorn founders weren't talking to the Colombian unicorn founders or the Mexican unicorn founders.”

250,000 families in Colombia depend on growing coca for their livelihood.

“We have 250,000 families in Colombia that grow cocoa to survive.”

Crypto aggregators quote 20 to 50 bps above mid-market in exotic remittance corridors such as Colombia, Egypt, and Israel, revealing a liquidity gap rather than a technology gap.

“Most of these crypto aggregators were quoting above the mid-market rate like 2050 bips that's a lot and especially for in exotic quarters like in places like you know Colombia and Egypt and Israel and it's a liquidity problem it's not a technology problem.”

Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Colombia are developing nascent biotech industries that European companies are largely not yet paying attention to.

“There's a lot of a growing presence of Latin American biotech companies and you have to start paying attention to what's happening countries like Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay even Chile Colombia are seeing you know some fledging biotech industry there as well.”