Why Latam?

639 MM inhabitants with half of the GDP of China and 2x India’s USD $10,5 Trillion economy with a growing mobile-minded middle class.

Vibrant culture with low cost labor and a knowledge hungry workforce but necessity-based and low degree of entrepreneurship.

Highly attractive for global tech companies with lower CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost) and higher CLV (Customer Lifetime Value) than in other regions.

Economic and political openness to collaborate with Asia to scale business models (Pacific Alliance).

why colombia?

Quickly emerging with a 4,7% avg GDP growth in the past decade. Stable policies attracting foreign investment.

Tech-based Entrepreneurship as the flagship of societal transformation with tangible initiatives as the C4IR, C-emprende (Innpulsa).

Accepted Latin American test bed for startups (Uber, Rappi) with big enough internal market of 45M inhabitants (Top 30 worldwide).

Bancoldex USD 100MM government Fund of Funds vehicle to invest in Colombian startups.

SOUTH EAST ASIA

654 Million inhabitants with USD $9.1 Trillion economy expected to growth its GDP for 2019 on average at 5%.

The Asian Century is not a marketing phrase but an economic tsunami with high growth innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Access to knowledge-intensive services because vast reserves of human resources from India and China.

Economic realities in SEA (Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia) are similar to many Latin American countries but solutions are advanced.

Singapore

Phase of economic development: Innovation-driven economy established hub for tech companies and government support (Temasek)

Opportunity-driven entrepreneurship ranks top on ASEAN-6 as the most entrepreneurial activity (GEM)

Highly educated, young and global population with one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.

SEA miracle city-state Ranks #1 on the ease of doing business index Country (Enterprise Singapore)

Latin Leap is officially registered with Enterprise Singapore as market entry consultant.