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The Brazilian stock market index (IBovespa) reached its peak 13.5 years ago, in May 2008, at 72,767 points. Adjusted to inflation (IPCA), this peak level would […]

The recent IPO of Toast and the direct listing of Amplitude raised again the issue of what is the best method to go public under the […]

Coursera believes that: “Learning is the source of human progress”. We do too. That’s why we invested in Coursera in June 2019. At the time, Coursera’s […]

At the half-year mark in 2021, the VC market is breaking all time records: 1) More than $288B was invested in VC worldwide — the prior […]

Two and half years ago we brought together a group of friends to start investing in Late Stage VC via club deals. We created a company […]

Palantir became Fabrica Ventures Fund first exit. Palantir is a data analytics company that enables customers to integrate, manage, secure and analyze vast amounts of data. […]

Venture Capital and Private Equity funds (VCs-PEs) are ‘closed end’, since they deal with illiquid assets, i.e., equity in privately held companies. Because VCs-PEs cannot sell […]

A heuristic (from the Greek ‘I find, discover’) is any approach to problem solving that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal […]

“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course” — Peter Drucker (1969). Traditional post-secondary education is doomed economically. There is little doubt that […]