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Early-stage VC fund investing in Latin America's best companies. 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇦🇷 🇺🇾 🇧🇷 🇨🇷

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Latin America’s real estate market is vast yet underdeveloped in tech. In this article, @alexa_clark delves into our approach to proptech in Latin America and what we look for in the companies we invest in. magmapartners.com/post/how-m…

How Magma Partners Thinks About Proptech in Latin America | Magma Partners

We've invested in many proptech companies, including Houm, Yave, Aptuno, Neivor, PropertySimple, and Plaza, and have evaluated hundreds more. Here’s how we think about proptech in Latin America.

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At pre-seed and seed, VCs will be mostly assessing the founders. But to raise a $10M round, VCs will talk to the rest of your leadership team to make sure you have the right collective team to execute. Learn how VCs evaluate startup teams: magmapartners.com/post/how-v…

How VC funds evaluate and identify strong startup leaders and teams | Magma Partners

This article is the second in a series of three articles about building a team that will help you raise $10M in Latin America.

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Most startups wait too long to assess and uplevel their team, and don’t know what VCs look for when doing their team due diligence. Use our pre-due diligence exercise to understand how VCs will evaluate your company and team: magmapartners.com/post/pract…

Practice Makes Perfect: How to prep your team before a VC due diligence process | Magma Partners

The third installment in our series is designed to help you prep your team so that they can shine during DD and help you close your funding round.

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If you want to learn more about how to build and manage a great team for your startup, check out more articles from Matt Muldavin here: magmapartners.com/topics/hr-…
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It’s really hard to raise $10M in Latam. VCs need to believe in more than just the founders and your traction, they need to be confident you have the right team to execute your vision. Read common team-building mistakes and how to avoid them here: magmapartners.com/post/you-n…

You need a great team, not just great traction, to raise a $10M round in Latin America | Magma...

This article is the first in a series of three articles about building a team that will help you raise $10M in Latin America.

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🚀 Building and preparing a team that helps you raise $10M in Latin America - a must-read series for Latin American startups looking to raise big rounds from VCs in the next 12-18 months, by @MattMuldavin, Head of Talent at Magma Partners 🧵
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🧵5/ - Write a great job description that attracts top talent and helps mismatched candidates self-select out. magmapartners.com/post/how-t…

How to write great a job description that makes top talent want to work with you | Magma Partners

The team you hire will make or break your startup's chances of success. If you want to hire the best, you have to prove that your company is best in class. Having a good job description is table...

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🧵9/ Reference Checking: If you haven’t worked with the candidate before, talk to someone who has to get a clearer picture of their capabilities and work style. magmapartners.com/post/refer…

Reference check team members before hiring, every single time | Magma Partners

After precruiting and interviewing you’ll have a finalist candidate who you think will be a good fit. Each step of the Talent Acquisition process leads into the next, with candidate references being...

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🧵10/ Want to dive deeper? Explore Matt Muldavin’s full series for in-depth advice on hiring, developing, and managing your startup team 📚 magmapartners.com/topics/hr-…
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🧵1/ @MattMuldavin, our Head of Human Capital, has been writing a series on building and managing a high-performing team. Follow Matt’s tips in our end-to-end recruiting guide to take the guesswork out of hiring. Here are some key insights:
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🧵4/ - Build a recruitment roadmap to match your company's needs with a strategy for finding great candidates. magmapartners.com/post/build…

Building a recruitment roadmap to find the right candidate for your startup | Magma Partners

Good hiring takes time and effort, but unfocused recruiting just eats up your time and gets you nowhere. The best entrepreneurs build great teams by removing the guesswork.

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🧵3/ - To make sure you really know what you need, start by answering these 14 questions before recruiting startup executives. magmapartners.com/post/the-1…

The 14 questions to answer before recruiting startup executives | Magma Partners

Hiring the wrong people can be even worse than not recruiting at all! This article will help you understand how to build a strong foundation before you start recruiting high-priced executives who...

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🧵2/ Precruiting: Finding the right person for the job saves time and money. Precruiting includes the following steps for figuring out what you need to hire for and how you’ll find and attract the best candidates. magmapartners.com/post/precr… Steps include:

Precruiting: Simple steps to help source the right candidates for your startup | Magma Partners

Founders always hear that hiring great people is one of the most important jobs. Do you want to hire a great team but don't know how to create a process that helps you find, hire, and retain great...

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We send quarterly investor letters to our LPs and share edited versions publicly. In our Magma Partners Q1 2024 Investor Letter, we delve into the concentration of investments in AI and the increasing capital flow to large funds. Read the full letter 👉magmapartners.com/post/magma…

Magma Partners Q1 2024 Investor Letter | Magma Partners

We send quarterly investor letters to our LPs about what we're seeing in the Latin America startup market. We share edited versions with our portfolio. We’ve decided to share a further edited version...

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🧵 1/ Magma’s head of talent, @MattMuldavin , wrote guides to help you build the right team for your startup. Here's a quick rundown! 👇
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5/ For building a performance culture, check out Matt’s summary of Frank Slootman’s insights on team building. latamlist.com/tips-for-build…

Tips for building a performance culture at your startup

Key takeaways from "The Knowledge Project Ep. #173, Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better"

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6/ Want to dive deeper? Explore Matt Muldavin’s full series for in-depth advice on hiring, developing, and managing your startup team 📚 magmapartners.com/topics/hr-…
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