Short pieces drawn from LADP reports — not a second research stream. Each report-derived post says so up front, cites sources, and links to the report overview and PDF.
Read the overview, then download the PDF. Earlier posts below predate the first report.
Identity Infrastructure, Institutional Capacity and the Path to Adoption
Whether decentralised identifiers, verifiable credentials and zero-knowledge proofs can work as practical infrastructure against AI privacy risk in the region. Five identity case studies examined, from QuarkID in Buenos Aires to Proyecto DIDI on LACChain, against what each could actually carry.
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Opportunities, Challenges & Recommendations
A study of 2,566 deep tech ventures across the region, the valuation discount they trade at, and twenty recommendations for closing it. Built from company-level classification, five roundtables and more than a hundred interviews with founders, investors and government actors.
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Biotechnology is 61% of Latin America’s deep tech companies and AI 11% by company count, on the IDB mapping that EMERGE’s 2025 Radar reproduces. Among companies founded between 2023 and 2025, Dealroom reports AI-core firms taking roughly 70% of the rounds those cohorts closed. Here is how to read the two together, and where the pair points a founder, an allocator or a ministry next.
Latin America and the Caribbean spend 0.57% of GDP on research and development against a 1.92% global average on UNESCO’s 2026 release. Raising that level is the highest-value policy move available to the region, and the instruments that would raise it are already running in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
From a 34-satellite constellation flown out of Buenos Aires to Antarctic DNA-repair enzymes in Montevideo: eleven of the fourteen companies we profiled are already recorded at TRL 9. What each one makes, who funded it, and what the set tells a founder, an allocator or a ministry about where the region is strong.
Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026, out this month, puts Latin America and the Caribbean at 65% clean electricity against a 41% global average, with fossil generation down to 35% from 47% in 2015. Here is what that supports for compute-intensive industry, the ventures and shared facilities already built on it, and the one count we are commissioning next.
The USGS puts an estimated 58% of the world’s identified lithium resources in the Lithium Triangle, and its Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 put the world reserve base at roughly 37 Mt. Reserves move with price, permitting and processing, which makes the conversion from resource to reserve the investable opportunity, and Japan, Korea and the UAE are already buying into it.
France’s DG Trésor reported EUR 14 billion invested and 160 funds homologated in February 2026, with a third phase now launched. The mechanism works. Latin America holds roughly US$1 trillion of pension assets across five markets, on OECD data, and an accreditable universe of managers already deploying into science. Here is the design, and the one institution the region still has to name.
MSCI’s Emerging Markets Latin America Index returned +55.67% in 2025, the strongest of its last four years, and the above-5% US fixed income yield that anchored the case for staying home fell away with it. Public markets have begun to reprice what our report called a temporary mispricing. The region’s private science ventures have not been repriced yet, and that is where the opportunity now sits.
China’s National Venture Capital Guidance Fund is authorised at RMB 1 trillion, about US$138 billion, over twenty years, with at least 70% earmarked for seed and early stage and roughly US$17.5 billion committed so far across three regional sub-funds. It is a domestic programme, and the part worth studying here is the plumbing: how a mandate, an ultra-long funding instrument and a regional allocation tier fit together. Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Brazil already run the small version of every tier, and the region’s pension pools are the balance sheet the design still needs.
Israel, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil each left behind design parameters a ministry can copy next year: a reimbursement ceiling, a public-private split, a co-investment ratio, a milestone trigger, a cohort composition rule. Here is what each one does and which ones a mid-sized economy can fund without a supplementary budget.
Two credible mappings of the region put Brazil at 40.8% and at 72.3% of Latin America’s deep tech companies. The difference is where each one files artificial intelligence, and reading that difference correctly tells you more about the region than either ranking alone.
EMERGE and Cubo Itaú’s Radar Deep Tech LATAM 2025, presented on 11 September, maps 1,316 deep tech companies in the region and reports 2024 private deep tech investment at US$607.2 million in Chile, US$486 million in Argentina and US$216 million in Brazil. Company formation and capital formation are concentrating in different countries, and that is the case for an investor who can work across all of them.
Cumulative deep tech investment in Latin America stands at roughly US$2.54 billion, against approximately US$52 billion in the United States, US$14 billion in Europe and US$13 billion in Asia. At US$15.25 per person and about 0.04% of GDP, the region funds frontier technology at a fraction of what it already builds. Here is how to size that headroom properly, and the one pool of domestic capital large enough to change it.
Twenty-two Latin American deep tech companies have secured a Series B or beyond, at a US$17 million median round. That is a cohort an allocator can work through company by company, and our forthcoming report maps the whole ladder, from a US$0.6 million seed to a US$100 million Series C, plus the instrument this stage actually needs.
The Latin American Dynamism Project's report on Latin America's Deep Tech investment landscape.
Why Latin America is a Lab for the New World Order
Insights from LADP's Second Convening
Everyone talks about AI and Biotech, but misses another wave of businesses that are contributing to the region’s technical development and scaling globally.
ILIA’s readiness ranking, the IDB’s 11% company-count share for AI inside deep tech, and what Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia each look like when you separate stock from value.
What makes the region attractive for biotech investment, which countries lead, and which companies are actually building.
Who invests in deep tech in Latin America and the Caribbean, how much they put in, and which sectors it goes to.
Ten deep tech companies from the region: what they build, and what they have raised.
Talent, lithium, clean power, connectivity and venture money, set against the institutions and fragmentation that still keep deep tech underfunded.
The first post from the Latin American Dynamism Project: what we are building, who we are talking to, and what we intend to publish.
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