Forget the 90% failure rate - this VC wants 100% survival. | Javier Cueto, Imagine Ventures

<p>Javier Cueto has reviewed more than 12,000 startups across Latin America. Through Imagine Lab, he backed 120 of them at idea stage and hit a 30% survival rate, including two acquisitions that tripled his investments. He now runs Imagine Ventures, a pre-seed and seed fund investing in the future of work and future of finance across the region, where four years in, every portfolio company is still alive.<br /></p><p>He makes the case for why the Silicon Valley power law breaks down in LatAm, walks through the M&amp;A math behind targeting five or six 15X exits instead of one unicorn, and explains what emerging managers get wrong about fundraising timelines in the region.</p>