Investors in Uruguay

Linzor’s private equity investing targets middle market companies in the region with primary focus on Chile, México, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay and Perú. The firm operates out of four local offices in Santiago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Bogotá. The Partners are all locals in their respective markets, have complementary skills, and benefit from extensive regional networks having worked their entire careers in the Latin American investment and financial markets. In 2000, Tim Purcell and Alfredo Irigoin founded J.P. Morgan Partners Latin America, L.P. (“JPMPLA”), one of the leading private equity funds in the region. Additionally, Tim Purcell was responsible for J.P. Morgan Capital Corporation’s Latin American private equity portfolio from 1996 to 2005. Carlos Ingham was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan for approximately nineteen years where he was the Senior Country Officer responsible for the bank's activities in the Southern Cone, including Argentina, Chile, Perú and Uruguay. Prior to joining Linzor as Partners in 2010, Carlos Gomez and Cipriano Santisteban founded and managed Palmfund, a regional private equity fund. Matias Gutierrez has been with Linzor since 2007, having previously worked at JPMorgan.The Partners’ substantial track record includes strong returns on investments totaling over $930 million in 45 Latin American transactions across 10 industries.

L Catterton provides capital to companies to support acquisitions, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and turnarounds, as well as investment capital to support a company's continued growth and development. They consider investments across a number of targeted industry verticals within the consumer industry: food and beverage, retail and restaurants, consumer products and services, and media and marketing services. L Catterton was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Frontier Digital Ventures Limited is a private equity firm specializing in investing in and developing online classifieds business. The firm prefers to invest in property and automotive verticals and general classifieds websites. Frontier Digital Ventures Limited was founded in 2014 and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with an additional office in Melbourne, Australia.

IDInvest Partners SA, previously known as AGF Private Equity, S.A, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in direct investments, fund of funds investments, secondary investments, co-investments/ LBOs, growth capital, private debt / mezzanine, capital restructuring, senior loans, buyouts, spin off, refinancing, recapitalization, financing internal growth and acquisitions and debt refinancing in low and middle market segments. For direct investments, it focuses on venture capital and private equity investments and finances the creation and development of young companies and invests primarily in the first or second venture capital financing rounds. The firm also invests in younger or early venture and seed, and start-up companies, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, middle market, turnaround and mature companies. It invests in all sectors but it has a particular focus on information technology mainly on Web-based and web services, internet of things, e-commerce, Internet/media, digital software, systems software, smart cities, high-tech-intensive businesses in the software, semiconductors development companies, fintech, intelligent objects, telecommunications, enterprise software and networking equipment, mobile messaging, office and home productivity software, networks, retail, food, materials, infrastructure, distribution, components; environmental sectors and technologies mainly for preservation of natural resources, waste management and emissions reduction; innovative projects focusing on new technologies to encourage low carbon energy models, eco-mobility, healthcare focusing on biopharmaceuticals, biotechnology, diagnostics, medicine of the future, medical instruments and services, white biotechnologies, and life sciences; and clean technology focusing on renewable energy, energy efficiency and savings, alternative energy sources, renewable power generation, biogas, marine power, solar energy, and sustainable development sectors, photovoltaics, windmill, energy storage and storage technologies, and digital power such as in smart grid and intelligent power systems as well as in energy and resource efficiency, electric vehicles, electronics, air and water treatment, agriculture green chemicals, clean transportation, and carbon finance sectors. It also invest in climate change, smart city, agricultural modernization, food safety, health, environmental technologies, financial technologies, digital technologies, agri food industries, agricultural technology, Internet sectors, the clean energy production sector, especially in renewable energy, wind and solar power, biomass, geothermal, enterprise software, fintech, artificial intelligence, big data, virtual reality, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, robotization, chemical industry, materials, packaging. For fund of funds investments, the firm targets primary funds, secondary transactions, and co-investments in French funds, including mature private equity, venture capital and mezzanine funds, focusing on the middle market segments. It participates in leverage buyout co-investment operations on a case-by-case basis and also makes secondary acquisitions of stakes in funds or asset portfolios. It concentrates its investments in leverage buyout funds. However, the firm diversifies its investments moderately through venture capital funds in order to benefit from research and development into new products in Europe. The firm prefers to invest in mid-cap and unlisted small and medium size companies, though it also considers investments in listed companies based in the European Union focusing on France with a particular preference on the former French regions of Pays-de-la-Loire, Île-de-France, Centre, Brittany, Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Burgundy, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées even if their commercial activities extend to other geographical areas. It also invests in North America including United States, in North-East Asia, mainly in China, Japan and Korean and in Germany, Benelux and Northern Europe such as Switzerland and Norway. The firm provides private equity consulting in discretionary/non-discretionary investment services. It typically invests between €0.5 million ($0.7 million) and €40 million ($45.52 million) in each round, in companies with revenues of €1 million ($1.41 million) to €200 million ($227.53.44 million) and enterprise value between €10 million ($13.53 million) and €1000 million ($1353.52 million). The firm has the capacity to invest up to €10 million ($13.53 million) per company over several rounds of financing. IDInvest Partners SA invests between €2 million ($2.71 million) and €10 million ($13.53 million) per round and up to €15 million ($20.30 million) over the entire financing cycle. The firm typically invests between €3 million ($4.06 million) and €20 million ($27.07 million) per deal in LBOs. It acts as the leader or co-leader in its investment operations and generally takes a seat on the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board of its portfolio companies. The firm takes minority stakes of 10% to 35% in its investee companies but when co-investing it can take majority stakes. It seeks to exit its investments in three to five years. It was formerly part of Allianz till 2010. IDInvest Partners SA was founded in 1997 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany and Shanghai, China. IDInvest Partners SA operates as a former subsidiary of Groupe IDI.

Korelya Capital is a VC firm managing €200M that supports European tech start-ups in their growth in Asia.

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund. The company has expanded and broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London. Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Founded in 1984, Advent International is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity firms. With offices on four continents, we have established a globally integrated team of more than 195 investment professionals, focused on buyouts and growth equity investments in five core sectors. Since initiating our private equity strategy in 1989, we have invested $44 billion in over 345 private equity investments across 41 countries, and as of December 31, 2018, managed $36 billion in assets. Today, as we did more than 30 years ago, we seek to invest in well-positioned companies and partner with management teams to create value through sustained revenue and earnings growth.

Expon Capital S.A.R.L. is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments (pre-series A) and seed financing startups in the Fintech sector. The firm is sector agnostic but typically invests in private technology companies, digital technologies with a focus on cybersecurity, big data, digital health, telecommunications, satellite services, and Internet of things. It is a global investor with a strong focus on Europe and Luxembourg. Expon Capital S.A.R.L. was founded in 2015 and is based in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

CVC Capital Partners is a global private equity and investment advisory firm founded in 1981 as London-based Citicorp Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Citigroup. Its European presence expanded rapidly and, by 1993, it had branches in Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands. This same year, the management group wholly acquired the firm and renamed it CVC Capital Partners. Expansion continued with its first branch outside Europe opening in Hong Kong in 1999, closely followed by the Seoul office in 2000. The first American presence was established in New York in 2007, strengthened by the opening a second office - San Francisco - in 2015.

GR Capital focuses on co-investing only that allows to propagate cooperative spirit and develop strong partnerships with both portfolio companies and fellow funds. The fund particularly looks to invest in the companies leveraging SaaS, on-demand and marketplace models. GR Capital strives to be dedicated partners both for the companies and experienced co-investors by bringing unique value in business development and R&D build-up throughout Europe.