The Latin American Business Conference was organized in conjuction by Wharton, NYU Stern and Columbia Business School
by Valor Team
February 7, 2025
Our 12th Annual Summit took place in beautiful New York City - check out the biggest insights from a day of inspiring conversations with our partners, founders and friends.
December 4, 2024
MBA Brasil held its second edition on November 11th. This year, the event was hosted by Chicago Booth.
November 12, 2024
FII Intitute held their 8th Edition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. During 3 days, the conference ignited discussions on how investment can serve as a catalyst for a prosperous and sustainable future, pushing the boundaries of what is possible for humanity.
November 1, 2024
The Milken Institute’s Global Investors' Symposium in Mexico City highlighted Mexico's pivotal role as a nearshoring hub and a gateway to opportunities across Latin America.
October 23, 2024
The Brazil Climate Summit held its 3rd edition in New York City, The event is a leading forum for positioning Brazil as a global hub for climate solutions, convening high-level decision-makers, including investors, banks, and leading companies, to drive climate action.
September 13, 2024
Colombia Tech Week is a week of exclusive events highlighting the region's tech ecosystem. Over 150 events were held over 5 days.
August 26, 2024
Valor was proud to co-host the FEMSA Tech Meetup 2024 which took place at the BBVA Stadium in Monterrey.
June 19, 2024
On June 2nd, the Valor team hosted its second Annual Crypto Event, in partnership with the Brazilian Central Bank. The event, which took place in the form of a workshop, enabled the fostering of connections within the audience composed of a wide-range of ecosystem players: founders, investors, multilateral organizations, financial institutions and operators, among others. Participants were instigated to address the main issues faced by the Latam crypto community and brainstormed solutions together.
June 16, 2024
Under the theme, “Invest in Dignity,” the FII PRIORITY Rio de Janeiro summit delved into how investing in the ecological transition, technology and innovation, and social inclusion can build a new global order that prioritizes dignity for all.
June 15, 2024
Colombia VC Week launched their first edition in BOgotá, gathering local startups and the most prominent funds in LATAM.
May 15, 2024
Brazil Week in New York gathered Brazilian executives, officials, experts and startups for a week of events and conversations aiming to foster investment in the country.
May 14, 2024
The 27th Milken Institute Global Conference brought together the world’s most influential minds to tackle urgent topics and explore promising opportunities. This gathering was a nexus where those with capital and influence met innovators reshaping health, finance, business, technology, philanthropy, industry, and society.
May 9, 2024
The South Summit is the largest global innovation and entrepreneurship event in Latin America. Taking place over three days, the events gathered over 20,000 participants which included startups, funds, investors and operators of LatAm.
March 20, 2024
Scott was a panelist at AMEXCAP, an event that joins the top investors in Mexico
March 19, 2024
Valor was happy to participate in UBS's Alternatives Day 2023 in São Paulo.
December 1, 2023
During our Annual Summit in NYC, we held a special session for our founders.
November 9, 2023
Mexico Tech Week ia a week-long celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship in Mexico.
October 29, 2023
Valor, a16z and more investors and entrepreneurs got together in Rio to talk about leadership and the Latam market outlook.
October 21, 2023
The event convened LAVCA’s unparalleled network of leading private capital investors from Latin America and around the globe.
October 12, 2023
Vamos Latam Summit 2023 gathered around 4,000 guests of the Latam startup ecosystem in São Paulo, for 2 days of panels, sessions and networking.
September 29, 2023
Our Principal Carol Lacombe joins Bhub Cast one more to chat about her career trajectory
August 9, 2023
The Startups Fever is a yearly event organized by Conta Simples, with the objective of connecting players of the startup ecosystem.
August 3, 2023
The Google team hosted an exclusive event for the Valor Portfolio, where founders were able use Machine Learning to identify wines according to their tastae preference.
July 11, 2023
VC AMA Series is a monthly digital event hosted by Google for Startups Cloud Program for the global startup and investment community.
June 21, 2023
Our team was once again at Brazil at Silicon Valley, the staple event in the US for Brazilian tech companies.
May 24, 2023
We participated at the first edition of Web Summit Rio, which took place over the first week of May
May 2, 2023
Our Managing Partner was a panelist at this year's ASU+GSV, the world's biggest conference in Education. He was joined by Coursera Chief Content Officer Marni Baker-Stein, Simplilearn Founder & CEO Krishna Kumar, MindCET CEO Avi Warshavsky, NEI CEO & Founder Frith Maier and Emeritus Chief Learning Officer Ashley Chiampo.
April 19, 2023
Valor co-hosted a fintech breakfast with QED Investors. Over 40 founders attended to hear discussions around the future of financial services in Latin America.
April 12, 2023
Berkeley invited Valor and FLOKI to co-host a seminar given to their part-time MBA students, who were visiting São Paulo for a class trip. Carlos Costa gave a class on the VC landscape in Brazil.
March 28, 2023
During our team's visit to Mexico City, we were glad to get together once again with founders and investors and hear about the exciting opportunities in the ecosystem.
March 27, 2023
The 2023 MIT Sloan Investment Conference theme was "Navigating the Turbulence", and panelists discussed the ways and perspectives on navigating the current turmoil including inflation, recession, war, post-covid and geopolitical tensions.
February 10, 2023
Michael Nicklas was onstage with monashees and Credit Suisse to discuss Divestment Opportunities in Latam
January 11, 2023
Valor's 11th Annual Summit was hosted on November 8th in New York City.
January 1, 2023
Last month Valor hosted its 10th Annual Summit. After a 2-year hiatus of the in-person version of our summit, we were glad to have portfolio founders, investors, our own team and the broader Valor network in New York.
December 12, 2022
In November we participated in the first edition of MBA Brazil. An event made by and for MBA students who were looking to understand opportunities in the Brazilian market.
November 13, 2022
Our Managing Partner Scott Sobel, Arjun Sethi, Vanessa Grellet, and Meltem Demirors, leading figures in the blockchain-powered ecosystem, took the stage at SALT New York to discuss investments in the future of fintech, Web3 and crypto.
September 12, 2022
We launched the first edition of the Valor Crypto Summit last June in Rio de Janeiro. Portfolio founders, regulators, government authorities, entrepreneurs, executives,institutional investors, and artists came from all over Latin America to discuss the latest in crypto during two days of packed content, networking and experiences.
August 16, 2022
Our Principal Carol Lacombe was a panelist at IDB Invest Sustainability Week in Miami.
June 28, 2022
Our Inaugural Crypto Summit took place in beautiful Rio de Janeiro in June. We hosted our global and Latam cyrpto community for two days of discussions and roundtables.
June 6, 2022
Our portfolio got together at Brazil at Silicon Valley, one of the most influential events on the Brazilian ecosystem
May 16, 2022
Once again we were at one of the world's biggest events around Education: ASU+GSV. It was a privilige to be amongst the brightest minds that are disrupting the sector and to discuss innovation in LatAm and the Brazilian market.
April 6, 2022
Valor’s 10th Annual Summit theme was "The World in Transition". Speakers included Henrique Meirelles, Jack Mallers, Mike Novogratz, Irene Arias, David Friedberg and Amb. Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez.
January 1, 2022
“Pandemics happen. They are a biological fact.” This was the opening of Mike Leavitt's speech during the “COVID-19: Assessing the Impacts of the Global Health Crisis” webinar, held by Valor Capital Group.
June 10, 2020
Everyone was set for the 2020 edition of Brazil at Silicon Valley, the most important event about Brazilian innovation. It was to happen at the Computer History Museum, in Palo Alto, with more than 700 attending people, including some of the top banks, companies and startups in the world.
June 2, 2020
Valor's Inaugural Crypto Summit was our first get-together to discuss all things crypto and web3 among the sector most prominent leaders and founders in Brazil, LatAm and the US.
January 1, 2020
Valor’s 7th Annual Partner & CEO Summit theme was "The New Economy: Brazil Reaches Escape Velocity". Speakers included Marcelo Claure of SoftBank, Scott Kupor of Andreessen Horowitz, Gillian Munson of Union Square Ventures and more discussing global innovation trends.
January 1, 2019
Valor’s 6th Annual Partner & CEO Summit theme was "Technology & Innovation: Engine for Prosperity". Speakers included Dan Schulman of Paypal, Stephanie Ruhle of NBC News, Michael Ovitz of CAA, and more discussing prospects for the future.
January 1, 2018
Valor’s 5th Annual Partner & CEO Summit theme was "Empowering Change". Speakers included Luis Alberto Moreno of IADB, Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, Raymond Chambers of United Nations and more discussing social, economic, and political changes technology is creating.
January 1, 2017
Valor’s 4th Annual Partner & CEO Summit speakers included Linda Rottenberg of Endeavor, Eric Schmidt of Alphabet, Nizan Guanaes of Group ABC and more in a day of cross border collaboration.
January 1, 2016
Our CEO Scott Sobel was at Mexico VC Day 2024, hosted by AMEXCAP.
We are proud to have, as part of Valor's community, some of the greatest minds and most influential individuals and institutions across geographies, industries, and generations. We are fortunate to be able to leverage our community to gather global insights, to make better informed investment decisions, and to create value and impact. The power of the community is in creating an open and collaborative environment to build long term and prosperous relationships.