U.S. Venture Capital Industry Expected To Shrink While Emerging Markets Grow

This is directly relevant to the article that Hildete Vodopives posted earlier on this blog on the topic of technology investment in Brazil. Link to article on influential tech blog, techcrunch Study: U.S. Venture Capital Industry Expected To Shrink While Emerging Markets Grow by Leena Rao on Jul 13, 2010 Deloitte and the National VentureContinue reading “U.S. Venture Capital Industry Expected To Shrink While Emerging Markets Grow”

Embraer expands in China

The Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is setting up a maintenance center in Beijing, its first wholly owned subsidiary in China.  It will receive investments of U.S. $ 18 million. Embraer China Technical Services will begin operations within a month, to support customers in China. The Brazilian company has been in China for 10 years. There are more thanContinue reading “Embraer expands in China”

French multinational Louis Dreyfus to expand business in Brazil

Known for the size of its business in orange juice, grains, and more recently in sugar and alcohol, the French multinational Louis Dreyfus Commodities has decided to incorporate Brazil to its global platform marketing of rice, says Jornal Valor. Starting this year, the company, which grossed U.S. $ 7.3 billion in 2009, will start theContinue reading “French multinational Louis Dreyfus to expand business in Brazil”

BRIC Internet Firms

This article about Internet firms in Russia and China has some important ideas for emerging markets technology/ internet firms. Link to article Internet investment’s new champions The emerging online giants DST, Naspers and Tencent have made promising internet investments in many emerging markets. Now even Western internet financiers are emulating them Jul 8th 2010 THEYContinue reading “BRIC Internet Firms”

Brazilian millionaires

Brazil has 127k families with net worth above US$1mn, according to Boston Consulting Group research just made public recently. This means that Brazil is 17th in the ranking of countries with the most millionaires. The US ranks 1st  with 4.1mn households, Japan comes in 2nd, and China, 3rd. India and Brazil, together with China, are the only emerging markets on the 20-countryContinue reading “Brazilian millionaires”

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