Capital readiness: what must be resolved before raising capital In the startup ecosystem, raising capital is often associated with preparing a pitch deck, building financial projections and beginning conversations with investors. However, a funding round does not...

For most of the last century, the question of what a company had to disclose was answered by a single word: materiality. Information was material, and therefore reportable, if a reasonable investor would consider it important in deciding whether to buy, hold, or sell...

When founders bootstrap a startup, they rarely think of the money they put in as a financial transaction. It feels like fuel for a mission. But the day an institutional investor wires a check, the question of how that earlier founder money was treated suddenly matters...

For years, many conversations about Latin America started from the same assumption: the region was “behind.” Less financial infrastructure.Lower levels of digitalization.Limited access to capital.Fragmented markets. But more and more ecosystem leaders are proposing a...