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Startups Business Schools

Venture Capital & Angel inversores

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Global Corporations
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Public Sector supporting Incubators and Acelerators

Services for startups entrepreneur ecosystem

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 Basic statistics about Buenos Aires City entrepreneurial ecosystem |3

3M
inhabitants
13.9 M
people in the
17.3%
adults and Economically
31%
are between 31
23%
of National
(plus 3.5 M extrapeople Metropolitan area Active involved in some and 35 years old GDP
in the daytime) entrepreneurial activity

USD 18% 70% 51%

31.198
GDP per capita
have postgraduate
degree
of entrepreuners
are male
have a university
degree

Source: GEM 2016 Report (Global Entrepreunership Monitor).

 Basic statistics about Buenos Aires City entrepreneurial ecosystem |4

Argentina and Buenos Aires City in Buenos Aires City investors &
the “Tecnolatinas” map entrepreunerial ecosystem

of total “tecnolatinas” come from Argentina

22% (vs 48% from Brasil, 14% from México, 20% 12 VCs
(or 18%)
rest of Latam)
7 Accelerators
of Tecnolatinas ecosystem total value is
37% located in Argentina
7 Incubators
of Tecnolatinas are based in
20 Buenos Aires City Co Working Spaces + 6856 (Co-workers,
26 90% of them are startups)
4 of Latam Unicorns (value +USD$1B) come
9 from Argentina 4 Company Builders

Latin American Unicorns are based in Universities with entrepreuners centers

4 Buenos Aires City 13

Source: Creative Commons.

 Talent |5

Talent Innovation

in talent competitiveness in intellectual capitaland

#1 in Latin America #1 innovation in Latin America
Source: INSEAD, Adecco and Singapore´s Human
Capital Leadership Institute. Source: PwC.

in software development and

#1 multimedia design in Latin America
in English proficiency
#1 in the region Source: PwC.

30
Source: Education First English Proficiency Index.

Universities

Entrepreneurial environment Leading with San Pablo and Santiago as the

Best Universities of South America

of adult population
12% is entrepreneur in the region
+ 538 k
students enrolled in college

4 local unicorns + 73 k
foreign students

Source: Education First English Proficiency Index.

 Public policies |6

Public policies developed by the National Public Policies developed by the Buenos Aires
Government to foster argentinian City Government
entrepreneurship ecosystem

Mentoring
New
Academia BA Personal support
Entrepreneur Seed Fund
Emprende for one year by
Law
business leaders

Transfor
Entrepreneurs
Accelerator Expansión BA Incuba Design
to SMEs
Fund Fund and Technology
Fund Raising + VC
+ Angel Investors
 Other programs that add value to our long term policies |7

Fondo
PAC PAC
FONSOFT FONTAR Nacional de Incubar
Emprendedor Empresas
las Artes

PAC Inclusión Capacitación

FonaPyMe NACE
Franquicias financiera BA PyME
 Investment Ecosystem |8

Number of investments: 50
Alta Ventures VC
Total fund raised: $70,000,000

Axia Ventures Micro VC Founded: 2013

CITES (Sancor Seguros) Company builder Founded: 2014. Focus: biotechnology

Cygnus Capital VC Total fund raised: U$76 M Raised in co’s rounds

Grid Exponential Company builder Focus: biotechnology, nanotechnology, agtech

Imagine Labs Argentina Accelerator Number of investments: 4

Mountain Nazca Ventures VC Total fund raised: USD 80.000.000

NXTP Labs Accelerator Total fund raised: $103,500,000

Primary Ventures VC Number of investments: 6

Quarux Capital VC Founded: 2015. Focus: health tech

Quasar Builders VC Total funding amount: $5,400,000

South Ventures VC Number of investments: 6

WAYRA Accelerator Total fund raised: £8,000,000

Number of investments: 61
Kazek Ventures VC
Total fund raised: $430,000,000
Tech. Multinationals at Argentina |9
 Special Sectors: AgTech | 10

Agtech innovation Argentina and Buenos Participation in key

worlwide growing Aires thriving agtech events tio position
relevance: ecosystem: agtech innovations
from Argentina and
VCs focused in agtech From a total of 380 Buenos Aires:
increased from 30 startups in Argentina,
(2005) to +300 (2015), 33 are located in Ag Innovation
with a total cumulated Buenos Aires City. Showcase 2016
investments of USD and 2017, St. Louis,
+52 bilions. Moissouri, USA.
Succes Cases: Unicorns > US$1B | 11

Next Unicorns

US$100M-500M
IguanaFix (2013)
US$500M-1B InvertirOnline (2000)
Etermax (2009) Navent (2010)
Taringa (2004) Onapsis (2009)
Qubit.tv (2011)
Satellogic (2011)

US$25M-50M
US$50M-100M
Afluenta (2008)
Auth0 (2013)
Agrofy (2015)
Bluesmart (2013)
GoIntegro (2012)
Restorando (2011)
Jampp (2011)
Technisys (1999)
VU Security (2006)
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