Common Traits of Unicorn Companies in Latin America

Název práce: Critical characteristics of Latin America unicorn companies
Autor(ka) práce: Gadala-Maria, Jose Raul
Typ práce: Diploma thesis
Vedoucí práce: Andera, Michal
Oponenti práce: Orel, Marko
Jazyk práce: English
Abstrakt:
The amount of companies reaching a $1B valuations, unicorn status, has been growing constantly for the last few years. This has been a global tendency. In this research, we aimed to analyze high-growth companies from the Latin America region in search of common traits. We evaluate 11 privately held companies backed by venture capital firms with valuations of $1B or more, from the Latin America region. By creating an overview of the market, the company history, founders‘ history, business model, and financing, between other aspects, we compared the findings and establish common traits found in our sample group. We have found similarities in founders‘ profiles, market conditions, and financing tendencies. From an entrepreneurial perspective, this study has created a better description of the main characteristics of high-growth companies in Latin America to provide entrepreneurs a better understanding of each company‘s conditions, that in order might represent the entrepreneurial environment in Latin America.
Klíčová slova: Latin America; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Start-ups; Unicorns; Founders
Název práce: Common Traits of Unicorn Companies in Latin America
Autor(ka) práce: Gadala-Maria, Jose Raul
Typ práce: Diplomová práce
Vedoucí práce: Andera, Michal
Oponenti práce: Orel, Marko
Jazyk práce: English
Abstrakt:
The amount of companies reaching a $1B valuations, unicorn status, has been growing constantly for the last few years. This has been a global tendency. In this research, we aimed to analyze high-growth companies from the Latin America region in search of common traits. We evaluate 11 privately held companies backed by venture capital firms with valuations of $1B or more, from the Latin America region. By creating an overview of the market, the company history, founders‘ history, business model, and financing, between other aspects, we compared the findings and establish common traits found in our sample group. We have found similarities in founders‘ profiles, market conditions, and financing tendencies. From an entrepreneurial perspective, this study has created a better description of the main characteristics of high-growth companies in Latin America to provide entrepreneurs a better understanding of each company‘s conditions, that in order might represent the entrepreneurial environment in Latin America.
Klíčová slova: Latin America; Venture Capital; High-growth companies; Entrepreneurship; Unicorns; Founders

Informace o studiu

Studijní program / obor: Ekonomika a management/International Management
Typ studijního programu: Magisterský studijní program
Přidělovaná hodnost: Ing.
Instituce přidělující hodnost: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze
Fakulta: Fakulta podnikohospodářská
Katedra: Katedra podnikání

Informace o odevzdání a obhajobě

Datum zadání práce: 19. 11. 2019
Datum podání práce: 13. 5. 2020
Datum obhajoby: 4. 6. 2020
Identifikátor v systému InSIS: https://insis.vse.cz/zp/71865/podrobnosti

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