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Redpoint e.ventures Closes On $130M For Brazil-Focused VC Fund

Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch TV. Previously she worked for GigaOM, where she reported on startups and Silicon Valley. Earlier, Colleen reported for Mergermarket, an online newswire and subsidiary of the Financial Times focused on M&A. Before that, she was a contributing editor for Electronic News, the semiconductor industry trade newsletter. Colleen... ? Learn More Redpoint e.ventures, the venture capital fund pioneered by Silicon Valley VC firms Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures (previously known as BV Capital), has raised $130 million for its first dedicated venture fund. Redpoint e.ventures’ founding partners Yann de Vries and Anderson Thees will manage the fund together. According to the firm, this new raise makes Redpoint e.ventures the largest early-stage venture capital fund in Brazil. I recently sat down with Redpoint founding partner Jeff Brody and e.ventures co-founder and managing partner Mathias Schilling to talk about...