ANNUAL VC LATAM SUMMIT 2024

His career has spanned across Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the Netherlands, England, Switzerland, and Uruguay. He is a renowned entrepreneur who founded, developed, and eventually sold his startup. He has also worked as an intrapreneur in major corporations such as Accenture and Telefónica/Movistar, overseeing innovation and digital transformation projects for large companies.

+20 years of experience in growth equity across Mexico and Latin America. Alfredo joined Glisco1 in 2003 and has been part of the team since the launch of Fund I. In 2016, Alfredo led the management buyout of Evercore Mexico Capital Partners, founding Glisco Partners. Previously, Alfredo founded Actimart, an internet B2B company focused on Latam. He has experience in Latam in PE (Banc of America Equity Partners), M&A (BT Wolfensohn), and management consulting (McKinsey & Co.). He is a former board member of LAVCA and AMEXCAP.

Alied is the Latam Lead at Diversity VC, working to foster DEI in Latin America alongside VC funds and partners. She is passionate about DEI and impact investing and spent the last 5 years working within the impact and VC ecosystem. Previously, she worked at Vox Capital, an impact investment firm in Brazil, and at EDP Ventures, investing in cleantech startups. She also writes about climatech in Latam and co-founded Elas&VC.

Andras is an entrepreneur and investor in deep tech and life sciences. He is Senior Partner at Starlight Ventures, a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. Starlight partners early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale.

Andras is founder, director & former CEO of Modern Meadow, a protein application platform company developing novel materials and ingredients for a healthier planet. Named as a 2018 Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Modern Meadow’s Bio-Alloy biomaterials and collagen-inspired fermentation-derived proteins address high performance and sustainable applications in fashion, beauty and wellness markets. Andras is also co-founder and chair of Fork & Good, a 2023 WEF Tech Pioneer, innovating in cellular agriculture to produce delicious, nutritious and sustainable meat without animals.

Andy is the Head at SVB’s Global Gateway Team, which assists innovation companies in the emerging markets with their US and international market expansion. He brings more than 20 years of experience banking dynamic companies in technology industries worldwide.

In his roles, Andy manages SVB’s relationships with venture capital and private equity firms outside the U.S., and also helps emerging market companies as they seek U.S. market entry and U.S. companies as they seek to expand abroad. In both capacities, he provides these firms with strategic advice and banking services, including debt financing, based on a deep understanding of their needs.

Previously, Andy led and helped found SVB’s U.K.-based operation, SVB Financial Group UK Ltd, which was established in 2004. For six years, he was responsible for building senior debt relationships with high-growth technology, life sciences and clean technology companies in the U.K. and Europe.

Ariel is Managing Partner at Brainstorm Ventures, a generalist VC firm that invests at the earliest stages in some of the most exciting tech startups in the Americas. Past and present unicorns include OpenTable, Zappos, KIO Networks and Turing.  He serves on the board of Defy Ventures, a nonprofit that provides entrepreneurship training to incarcerated people. He is the co-owner of Palau Moxó, an 18th century palace in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter.

Ariel began his career as an investor at Pacific Community Ventures, one of the pioneering growth equity impact investment firms, and still serves on the boards of its remaining portfolio companies. Previously, he worked as a consultant at the Bridgespan Group, an affiliate of Bain & Company. Ariel briefly led the United Nations Development

Nico is the co-founder and CPO of Arch, a Web3 asset manager that specializes in designing, creating, and maintaining cutting-edge investment products with unparalleled rigor, efficiency, and control.

Prior to Arch, Nico served as the CEO of Global-66, where he utilized fiat and crypto corridors for remittances in Latin America.

Since 2013, Bobby has led the venture community’s preeminent trade association focused on empowering the next generation of transformative American companies. As president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association, he champions public policy that supports the American entrepreneurial ecosystem, making NVCA the dominant voice of the U.S. startup ecosystem. Before joining NVCA Franklin spent ten years at CTIA, representing the entire wireless industry.

As the voice of the U.S. venture capital community, the National Venture Capital Association empowers its members and the entrepreneurs they fund by advocating for policies that encourage innovation and reward long-term investment. The NVCA also serves as the definitive resource for venture capital data and unites its members through a full range of professional services.

Brittany represents issuers and underwriters in complex, high-profile equity and debt offerings globally. She handles prominent equity and debt capital markets transactions on behalf of globally recognized brands, major investment banks, and private equity firms. She advises on matters involving a range of industries, with a particular focus on the technology, consumer retail, and healthcare sectors.

She is a board member of Claremont McKenna College’s Kravis Leadership Institute and a member of the Hispanic Lawyers Group in New York and Los Angeles. She previously worked in the firm’s London office.

Brittany helped pioneer direct listings in the groundbreaking Spotify transaction in 2018. She has co-authored numerous articles on direct listings, including a case study on Spotify’s direct listing. She also contributed to the chapters on direct listings and IPOs in the most recent edition of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, a best-selling book on deal-making and definitive resource for investment banks, private equity, investment firms, and corporations.

As the Director of Venture Capital at LAVCA, Carlos coordinates the organization’s relationships with venture investors, maintains the Latam Venture Bulletin, the industry’s leading source of VC/tech news in the region, and supports the generation of products and services for Latin America’s venture capital community. He also leads the VC/tech platform for the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA), including relationships with venture investors across Southeast Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East, China, and Central & Eastern Europe.

Carlos was nominated to the Mexican Council of Foreign Relations (COMEXI) and is an Ambassador for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO). He received his B.S. in Economics with honors distinction and Minors in Industrial Engineering and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Cristiane Nascimento is the International Head at the Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. She has been leading the Association´s international outreach for the past 14 years working closely with stakeholders from the private and public sectors. Prior to that, she worked in different roles at the GPCA (formerly known as EMPEA), as well as NatureServe and the Pan American Health Organization of the World Health Organization.

Christine is a partner at IGNIA, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in global
technology companies that are reinventing the way to do business across Latin America in sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, edtech and Saas. She currently serves on Boards for IGNIA’s portfolio and is an independent Board Member of ALSEA and the Kauffman Fellows.

In addition, she has been investing for the last 15 years to build the ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors, and professional women in Latin America. She is Co-Founder of Mujeres Invirtiendo, MBA Mujeres de México, and started the ESG committee as a Board member of the Mexican Association of Private Capital (AMEXCAP). Prior to joining IGNIA, Christine led operations in EF Education First, Google, the Guggenheim Foundation and EY Parthenon.

Cristóbal has more than 12 years of experience as a fundamental investor in public equities and mora than 4 years of experience in venture capital.

He co-managed a portfolio of US$ 1B of equities and high-yield securities in Latam at Bancard (Odisea) outperforming the benchmark by high-teens percentage points. Previously, he was a Senior Analyst at Orbis Investment Management.

Kayyak Ventures primarily invests in companies based in Latin America, but we also back businesses led by Latin founders in other places like the US or Europe.

In his role at IDB Lab, he leads the climate change and sustainability strategy of the investment area for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Previously, he served as project coordinator, portfolio manager and director of investments in private equity funds at (OCIR. He was also responsible for prospecting, due diligence, formalization and investment in private equity and venture capital funds focused on agribusiness and impact investment where FOCIR participates as Limited Partner. He also participated in the Board of Directors of several companies of the investment portfolio.

Founder and CEO of Betterfly, a leading technology company in the Insurtech space, which became the first social unicorn in Latin America in 2022. He is an Endeavor Entrepreneur, YPO member and board member of Teletón, a nonprofit organization in Chile working with children with developmental disabilities and their families.

He began his career working at J.P. Morgan. In 2014 he moved to Africa to work as a volunteer teaching English and Mathematics to primary school students in Moshi, Tanzania. He then founded Tyndall Group and Preserve in Community and was the former CEO of the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, the second largest international multi-sport event in the world after the Olympic Games.

In 2023 he was recognized among the 10 most innovative founders and executives across Latin America by the “CEOs Change Makers”; in 2022 he was awarded as “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young in Chile; in 2021 and 2022 he was recognized among the 500 most influential people in Latin America by Bloomberg; in 2020 he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year 2020” by UDD.

He has represented Chile in six occasions at the Ironman World Championships. He is a two-time world champion runner-up in his category at the Ironman 70.3 World Championships, as well as a three-time finisher of the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.

Federico Storani is an Executive Director for Riverwood Capital, which manages $5.9 billion and invests in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries globally. Before joining Riverwood, Federico was a Managing Director and Head of Latin America Telecommunications, Media, and Technology Investment Banking at Citigroup Global Markets based in New York.

Riverwood Capital invests in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. The firm seeks to invest in established businesses with a proven technology and business model, and the proper fit in terms of culture and values, in both minority and control situations. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and São Paulo, Brazil.

He has led 27 VC portfolio investments, over 10 angel investments and co-founded 3 companies. Board member at ACVC (ChileanVenture Capital Association); was senior advisor to the undersecretary of Economy in Chile for Technology, entrepreneurship and Venture Capital, advisor to CORFO, PUC and multiple technology companies; was CEO at DimercLabs, company builder for the Dimerc Group in Chile and Peru. Managing Partner at Austral Capital, co-founded and led Austral Colombia and Austral California, to support portfolio growth into both markets; was president at ASEMBIO and represented the Chilean Technology Federation in Alianza del Pacífico (Chile, Perú, Colombia and Mexico).

He is a partner at Carey, the largest law firm in Chile, co-leading the areas of venture capital, fintech, and investment funds. Francisco is the President of the Chilean Venture Capital Association (ACVC), Chair of the Latin American Regional Council of The World Services Group, and Director of InBest.

He has been recognized as a leading Venture Capital and Fintech lawyer by several foreign publications such as Chambers & Partners, Latin Lawyer, and The Legal 500, among others. In 2022 he received the Investment Lawyer of the Year Award by Best Lawyers.

He has been a postgraduate professor of corporate law and venture capital courses at several universities in Chile. He is the author of the book “Privileged Information in the Stock Market” (Legal Publishing, 2007) and frequently participates as a speaker in foreign investment seminars and events.

Gopi Rangan is the founding partner at Sure Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm investing in early stage startups. He invests with a mission to enable peace of mind. He is also the host of The Sure Shot Entrepreneur podcast and teaches entrepreneurship courses at Insead.

He is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist in his role as General Partner at Monashees. He also leads Monashees’ Network Services, the firm’s value-add platform for portfolio companies.

Before joining Monashees, Guto was an entrepreneur with Elo7, a Brazilian marketplace for handmade and custom-ordered products backed by Monashees, Accel, and Insight Partners, and later acquired by Etsy.

monashees is the pioneer venture capital firm in Latin America. It partners with outstanding founders who are revolutionizing large markets. The firm serves entrepreneurs starting with their very first movements, supporting their growth through its expansion funds. The monashees community includes over 130 companies and 300 founders.

Gyoung Joo Choe is focused on structuring and monitoring investments in Venture Capital funds in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also part of the WeXchange coordinating team, a platform that connects STEM women entrepreneurs with investors and mentors. Laila is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University – Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the University of Salvador in Argentina.

IDB Lab is the innovation and venture laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. Our purpose is to discover new ways to drive social inclusion, environmental action, and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDB Lab leverages financing, knowledge, and connections to support early-stage entrepreneurship, foster the development of new technologies, activate innovative markets, and catalyze existing sectors

Igor holds 13+ years of experience in economic development, business strategy, and venture capital with a focus on Latin America. He is also a member of the board of Scale Up Ventures(Brazil,) and a founding partner at Beacon Founders.

Endeavor Catalyst is Endeavor’s innovative co-investment fund that has been recognized as one of the most active global venture investors in markets like Latin America and the Middle East. Endeavor Catalyst has $500M+ AUM across four funds and has made 260+ investments to date in 35+ different markets. Today The Endeavor Catalyst portfolio has 49 companies valued at $1B+.

Jazmín Gustale Gill is a venture capital investor based in Latin America. Passionate about the impact and the potential of disruptive technologies to transform the region and accelerate sustainable development, she has a breadth of experience working in the innovation, policy, and social impact space. Before founding iThink VC, Jazmín led the creation of the first National Innovation Strategy in Paraguay, working in the Presidency of the country. She oversaw the development of the Strategy as a public-private initiative to foster the country’s innovation ecosystem (2018-2021). Before that, she served as the Vice Minister of Planning and Economic Development (2017-2018).

iThink VC is a venture capital fund investing in exceptional entrepreneurs solving the most pressing challenges in Latin America.

John Crowell leads buyout and growth equity investment activities for Accel-KKR across Latin America and the Iberian Region. Before joining Accel-KKR, he worked for a North American multi-family office, focused on buyouts and growth capital investments in software and tech-enabled service businesses in the Latin America region.

Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with $19 billion in capital commitments. The firm invests in software and IT-enabled businesses well-positioned for topline and bottom-line growth. Accel-KKR focuses on middle-market companies and provides a broad range of capital solutions from minority-growth investments to buyouts, recapitalizations, divisional carve-outs, and going-private transactions. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, Atlanta, London, and Mexico City.

José operates at the intersection of investment, technology and education. He has 30 years of experience as a finance professional, has led transactions over USD 1 billion and raised pioneering private equity funds in Perú and Colombia.  In his most recent initiative, he has led a pilot venture capital fund with 26 investments in eight countries, including those made in Edtech and Fintech.  He is currently raising a pioneering fund dedicated to the future of education and the Future of work for Latin America. As President at PECAP, he leads the promotion and growth of the industry in Perú.

Director of Business Development for Latin America and the US at PFG, a debt fund based in San Francisco. Based out of Miami, Julia leads their efforts to partner with Technology and Fintech companies as well as fundraising.

Before joining PFG, Julia was at Silicon Valley Bank, leading the bank’s LATAM efforts. She is also an angel investor.

Partners for Growth specializes in tailored debt solutions for entrepreneurs driving global growth in tech and innovation. With a history spanning almost four decades, we’ve collaborated with over 230 companies from more than 20 countries in tech-centric sectors. Our expertise is crafting customized debt and asset-backed financing solutions for high-growth companies designed to accelerate key stages of their journey.

Kim offers a unique combination of government, corporate and trade association experience. As CEO of CVCA she is the spokesperson for Canadian Private Capital and advocates for the best investment policy environment. She has been in this role for two years and prior to joining CVCA, she spent a decade working for Amgen, a Californian biotech multinational.

Laura is the founder & CEO at TheVentureCity, a global, early-stage venture fund, investing in product-centric startups across the US, Europe, and Latam. The fund’s experienced team of operators-turned-investors refuses to follow the conventional crowd, because they strongly believe in a product-led growth approach, prioritizing user retention over revenue.To date, the fund has $145M+ AUM with investments in over 100 companies across 14 countries Believing talent has no zip code. TheVentureCity hosts campuses in Miami and Madrid, along with offices in San Francisco and Sao Paulo.

An early employee of Facebook, Laura spearheaded international growth in Silicon Valley, and throughout Europe and Latam. Prior to Facebook, Laura held management roles at eBay and Siemens, and co-founded a tourism digital platform in 2000.

Liliana is CEO at AMEXCAP since April, 2018. Before, she was Venture Capital Director of the National Entrepreneurship Institute (INADEM). She has more than 15 years of experience in development banks in areas such as projects evaluation, technical assistance and project management with multilateral and bilateral funding. She has also worked as an independent consultant and project manager of local economic development projects financed with international cooperation funds.

Magdalena has been leading the Chilean Venture Capital Association (ACVC) for 6 years. Since her arrival as executive director, the association has increased by more than 75 members. She has also created and implemented a strategy of positioning, valorization and projection of the Venture Capital industry at national and Latin American level.

Her expertise is to connect the different stakeholders in the ecosystem and the generation of public-private collaborations for the promotion and growth of investment in innovation.

In addition, she has been a professor of methodologies for innovation and investment in startups at prestigious Chilean universities.

She co-founded a visual communication and design firm with more than 35 clients from large companies nationwide, Singular Diseño, where she developed as managing partner for 15 years.

Co-founder and Managing Partner of Newtopia VC, an early stage venture capital firm which invests in startups from and for Latin America and President of ARCAP (Venture Capital and Private Equity association of Argentina).

He was previously founder of Marea Venture Partners, a firm focused on value chain transformation, digitalization, open innovation & corporate venturing, working with governments, NGOs, corporations and startups.

As a partner of Tanoira Cassagne Law Firm, his career was focused on entrepreneurship and venture capital, both in advising startups and funds and in collaboration with leading institutions which promote entrepreneurship in Argentina.

She has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operator, investor, community leader, and philanthropist. A native to Miami, FL, Melissa Medina is Co-founder & CEO of eMerge Americas with a mission of helping transform South Florida into a global tech hub. With Melissa’s leadership, the eMerge Americas conference now attracts more than 20,000+ attendees from over 50 countries.

Melissa is also a Partner at Medina Ventures, an early-stage venture fund, as well as the President of the Medina Family Foundation, which has a mission to fund local initiatives that focus on mentoring children and empowering families.

Nico is the co-founder and CPO of Arch, a Web3 asset manager that specializes in designing, creating, and maintaining cutting-edge investment products with unparalleled rigor, efficiency, and control.

Prior to Arch, Nico served as the CEO of Global-66, where he utilized fiat and crypto corridors for remittances in Latin America.

Previously, Nicolás led the development and growth of Mach, a neobank with over 3M users in Chile.

Oscar is Principal at WildSur Inversiones (Leria Luksic family office) where he has developed a thematic investment thesis around decarbonization including a US$40M single-LP fund investing in climate tech VC across Latam and the US. He previously worked as an engineer at a renewable energy company and a startup in the circularity space.

Oscar advises organizations working on nature conservation like The Nature Conservancy and Fundación Parque La Tapera. He is also an advisor for Fundación Luksic which develops social programs around education, entrepreneurship and sports.

Paola Garcia has more than 20 years of professional experience in management and administrative positions in Spain and Colombia, in firms such as Dragados, Obras y Proyectos, CSI Complex Systems, also as a foreign investment promotion advisor at Invest in Bogota and ProColombia where she held positions as investment manager for Agroindustry, Logistics, Energy and Infrastructure; manager for investment attraction in Asia and vice president of investment. She has also been in charge of accompanying capital funds that have bet on the country and its companies. She has worked with Softbank in technology ventures, Brookfield in energy, KKR in telecommunications, MacQuarie and John Laing in infrastructure, and Acumen in impact projects, among others.

Paulo is a Managing Partner at Valor, responsible for the firm’s Growth Equity business. He is an investor with 16 years of experience. His areas of focus are growth equity and special situations. He has invested in private and public companies in a variety of asset classes: tech, listed companies, private equities, private credit, public credit, infrastructure, and real estate.

Valor Capital Group, LLC is an investment firm focused on Brazil and US-Brazil cross-border opportunities with a presence in New York, Silicon Valley, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. The firm operates across two investment strategies: Growth Equity and Venture Capital

Rami Reyes is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at NextEquity Partners,

a value-oriented Series B-D venture firm ($240m AUM), which he co-founded with former Apple Chief Software Officer Avie Tevanian, former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, and long-time private equity executive Adam Hopkins. Rami co-leads all investments at NextEquity and has invested in leading companies, like SentinelOne, Arctic Wolf, Bridg, and Ring.

Previously, Rami was a principal at Elevation Partners, where he worked on investments in leading tech companies, such as Facebook, Marketshare, Airbnb, and Sonos. Rami also co-founded SomosVC, a non-profit aiming to increase Latino representation in venture capital and helped with the launch of the SEO Scholars free high school program in San Francisco.

A native of Miami, Rami graduated with a BS in Economics from Penn’s Wharton School, where he received the Dean’s Award for Excellence, the school’s top graduation award.

Founding Managing Partner at Dalus Capital where he serves as director in multiple companies and has deployed more than $175M into 45+ deals since 2010.

Close to university ecosystems, Rogelio is a Trustee of Tec de Monterrey and chairs its Entrepreneurship Institute; also participates as a member of the International Board of Advisors at the University of Texas at Austin.

In the last decade, he has sponsored multiple ecosystem development initiatives like incMTY entrepreneurship festival (incmty.com), the ScaleUp Nation platform, and Catal1.5T initiative (catalist-initiative.eco).

Co-founder & Managing Partner at Bicycle Capital, a recently launched
firm focused on investments in growth-stage Latin American technology companies, which closed on over $500M of LP Commitments with Mubadala and Claure Group anchoring the fund with participation from over 30 Family Offices.

He also served in multiple senior investment roles at SoftBank Vision Fund and SoftBank Group International. He was most recently a Managing Partner at SoftBank Group International, where he launched and managed two separate funds.

Sylvia is an international executive and consultant who became a technology entrepreneur. She is Co-Founder and CEO of ThalesLab, a Company Builder and Technology Incubator based in Uruguay. She is co-founder and president of URUCAP (the Uruguayan Private Capital Association), a mentor at Endeavor, and Director of WeInvest, a community of investors in ventures in Latin America. Sylvia has been a university professor in engineering courses and innovation topics.