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Caracas is back in the spotlight. The sixth edition of the Startup Venezuela Summit kicks off this week with a lineup that seemed unlikely just three years ago: 25 investment funds, nearly 40 international guests, and Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, as the headline act. Behind the event is a thesis we at PitbullChain have been following closely: foreign capital has begun to see Venezuela not as a risk to avoid, but as a market with costly problems to solve and few competitors lining up to tackle them.

Horse Consulting published a new edition of its report _Thought Leaders 100_, a ranking that measures the influence of Latin American executives based on the analysis of hundreds of thousands of news articles, conversations on social media, and attendance at corporate events. The headline that drew the most attention here: five Venezuelans appear on the list of the 100 most influential names in the region.
Rafael Segrera (Schneider Electric), Francisco Aristeguieta (Scotiabank), Ricardo Arias-Nath (Starbucks), Carlos José Fiorillo Martínez (Fitch Ratings), and Leonardo Romero Domínguez (Procter & Gamble) hold positions ranging from 42 to 93. All of them lead or are part of the regional senior management teams of multinational companies in energy, banking, mass consumption, and risk rating.