This blog is part of the Latin American Dynamism Project (LADP), which works on Latin America’s deep tech ecosystem. Over the coming months it will carry updates on our research, what we hear in interviews with founders and investors, and the milestones as we reach them.

The Thesis

Latin America has the inputs: natural resources, a fast-improving education system and high internet penetration. What it has not had is coordination. Corruption, market fragmentation and public and private efforts that never line up have held back AI, climatetech, quantum, blockchain and biotech alike.

The thesis is simple: give public and private decision-makers a clear, sourced account of where the deep tech opportunities are, and more money follows.

The Map

In its first phase, LADP is building a deep tech map profiling companies from early to growth stage across AI, crypto, climatetech, biotech and others. It names the ventures and the funding gaps, so investors, founders and policymakers can see both. It is meant to be kept current rather than collected once.

The work rests on interviews and surveys with founders, investors and policymakers across Latin America and the global north. Those conversations are how we learn what each country is actually dealing with, from São Paulo to Mexico City and Bogotá, and they decide what we end up recommending.

Key Outputs of the LADP

We will write about the ventures themselves: the technology, what they are trying to do, and what founders run into when raising money and scaling under regulation that was not written for them.

The other half of the work is the coalition: venture capital, public policy and founders in the same room. Getting the private and public sides to work together is what long-term growth depends on.

What Success Looks Like

Success is more money flowing into deep tech in the region, domestic and international, and the people who could coordinate actually doing it. A comprehensive map and a coalition of the main actors are how we intend to get there. What we want to see is more Latin American startups clearing the stages that currently stop them, and selling abroad.

The first product is the map: an interactive view of the region’s leading deep tech ventures by sector, technology, location and funding stage. Making the ecosystem visible is the point; the investors and the introductions follow from that.

Get in Touch

We are talking to deep tech founders across Latin America in AI, biotech and quantum computing; to local and international investors funding the next generation of these companies; to policymakers who set the conditions for both; and to the universities, accelerators, NGOs and service providers around them.

If you are a policymaker, investor or deep tech founder, we want to talk to you. Our initial survey is the fastest way in, and what comes back shapes what we work on next.

The next post goes sector by sector, with what other countries and regions have already tried and the companies worth knowing about. Subscribe if you want it.