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Event objectives
- Position Medellín as a smart capital hub
- Connect global and regional capital with real opportunities
- Explore new investment structures beyond traditional VC
- Facilitate public-private and corporate co-investments
- Share real-world investment best practices across LATAM
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Event Agenda
A high-level itinerary designed to maximize connections and capital efficiency over two intensive days.
October 7, 2026
Registration
Continued Registration and Opening Coffee Networking
Informal networking among investors and key stakeholders
Official Opening
Position Medellín as a smart capital platform
Keynote: Global Capital Flows & Fundraising 2026: Analyze how global capital flows, the geopolitical context, and macroeconomic variables — interest rates, exchange rates, and liquidity cycles — are redefining global fundraising, and what opportunities open up for Latin America in this new scenario.
Macroeconomic impact and LATAM opportunities
Panel: Growth Capital in LATAM: Series B, C and the Leap to Scale. Analyze how growth and late-stage funds make decisions in Latin America, what changes versus early stages, and what is needed to scale companies from the region to global markets.
Series B–C and the global leap
Coffee Break
Networking
Keynote: Reconfiguring VC in LATAM: Explore how leading funds are adjusting their investment theses in Latin America, integrating impact investment strategies that mobilize capital toward solutions closing gaps in financial inclusion, access to essential services, and regional resilience in a lower-liquidity environment.
Adjustments in tickets, stages and risk
Keynote — Strategies to Attract International LPs. Understand how global LPs think, what they evaluate when investing in emerging-market funds, and the most common mistakes that prevent raising international institutional capital.
Creatives investing in VC
Panel: Public–Private Co-investment: Show how the articulation between the public sector, development banks, and private capital can complement traditional Venture Capital and mobilize capital toward strategic sectors and high-impact projects.
Complement traditional VC
General lunch
Women in Investment Lunch
Strategic networking
Keynote: Exits, Secondaries and Liquidity in LATAM. Address one of the ecosystem's main bottlenecks: liquidity generation. Analyze exits, secondary markets, and emerging mechanisms to generate real returns for funds, LPs, and founders in Latin America.
Exits and secondaries
Capital Crossfire: Challenge the unwritten rules of capital in Latin America through a direct, contrasted debate format. Why invest in VC when there are better short-term returns today? Does CVC really create value, or is it a strategic illusion? Should the State invest, or only enable the market? Are we forcing LATAM to play a model that isn't its own?
Direct debate on VC and investments in LATAM e.g.: How to attract international LPs (criteria and pitfalls)
Panel — Creative Industry, New Wealth, and Venture Capital. Explore how industries such as music, fashion, and the creative economy are generating new wealth in Medellín and how this capital is beginning to invest in startups, Venture Capital, and alternative assets.
Launch of AI agents for investors
Mystery Dinner
Strategic conversations
October 8, 2026
Coffee
Prepare for conversations
Special Conversation: David Vélez (Nubank) and Simón Borrero (Rappi)
Role of early-stage capital
Investor Salons CVCs
Conversations by profile
Investor Salons Angel Investors
Conversations by profile
Investor Salons Funds
Conversations by profile
Investor Salons Investor Families
Conversations by profile
Private LP and GP Lunch
Diversification and investment
Lunch for attendees
Curated Startup Matchmaking
High potential startups
Curated Startup Matchmaking
Closing Cocktail
Consolidate relationships
Medellín City Tour
Show Medellín as a hub
LOCATION
Why Medellin?
Medellín is a city where innovation, real industry, new wealth, and smart capital converge. Smart Capital positions the city as a platform for the articulation and execution of investment across Latin America.
