Built by founders
We back bold founders seeking to define a better future in Latin America and beyond, partnering with pre-scale companies that show early signs of product-market fit. Comprised of founders and operators who founded and scaled some of the biggest companies in Latin America (and the world), we know the challenges founders face every day and carry the battle scars to prove it.
Investment Team
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Julio Vasconcellos
MANAGING PARTNER
CEO & Founder of Peixe Urbano and Prefer, Julio is a serial entrepreneur. He was Facebook’s first country lead for Brazil, an EIR at Benchmark and is a Founding Partner of Canary and Graph Ventures.
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Ana Martins
PARTNER
Ana graduated from Stanford in Political Science with a minor in Engineering and co-founded the non-profit Brazil at Silicon Valley. Her previous experiences include Investment Banking at BTG Pactual and Investing at Pear VC and Invus Opportunities.
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Victor Ramos
ASSOCIATE
Previously worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company and with Logistics & Operations at Stone. Victor graduated from UFRJ in Industrial Engineering and is a founding member of UFRJ's endowment fund.
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Caio Raimundo
DATA & ANALYSIS
Focused on data science and research. Previously worked in an early-stage VC firm and Hashdex. Graduated from Insper in Business.
Venture Partners
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Gui Telles
VENTURE PARTNER
Gui launched and ran Uber in Brazil as its local CEO/GM before becoming the Global Head of Operations at Jump. Most recently he was CMO & CSO of Brazilian fintech unicorn PicPay.
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Hugo Barra
VENTURE PARTNER
A lifelong technologist Hugo was VP of Product for Android at Google, VP of Global Business at Xiaomi in China, and VP of Virtual Reality at Facebook. He is currently CEO of health diagnostics company Detect.
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Mate Pencz
VENTURE PARTNER
Mate is the co-founder and CEO of Brazilian real estate unicorn, Loft. He previously founded e-commerce company Printi and is a founding partner at Canary.
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Ariana Poursartip
VENTURE PARTNER
Ariana founded Square Capital (at Square), served as the VP of Product at Petal, was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thrive, and a fintech product lead at Shopify.
Platform Team
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Maria Ernanny
PLATFORM & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Maria was part of the team that launched WeWork in Brazil. She also worked with Business Development at both AWS and Grão VC.
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Larissa Ribeiro
TALENT
Larissa has 10 years of talent acquisition experience. She helped scale both XP's and Vitreo's teams. Most recently she was at Pipo Saúde.
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Edde Rodrigues
FUND OPERATIONS
With over 15 years of experience, Edde has worked in companies like Volkswagen, B3, and Omega Energia.
Operating Partners
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Rafael Dahis
GROWTH
Former Global Head of Growth of Instagram; Product-Growth at Patreon and Twitter.
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Irit Epellbaum
PRODUCT
VP of Product at Solv Health, VP of Product at Zap/Viva Real and early product leader at Trulia.
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Thiago Cyrino
SALES
VP of Global Head of Sales and Business Development at Gympass
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Gustavo Andriani
MARKETING
Former CEO of MAC Cosmetics North America, SVP of Estée Lauder, CMO of Addi.
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Rodrigo Schmidt
ENGINEERING
15-year Engineering leader at Meta (Head of Engineering for New Products, Sr. Director at Instagram, Facebook AI, Facebook).
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Marcos Voltolini
AI and ENGINEERING
Former Engineering Lead at Nextdoor, Co-founder at Mercê do Bairro and Pixel Labs.
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Alejandro Maldonado
PEOPLE and LEADERSHIP
Executive Coach and expert in leadership for CEOs.