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We continue with our LatAm series and in this week’s episode we chat with Carlos Torras, partner at Fintech Collective.

Carlos has a very interesting career. Born in Barcelona, he studied in Brazil and US before working at JP Morgan in NYC in the FX options trading desk. After three years at the job he decided to move to Colombia to work at Suyo, an early stage startup that unlocks the value of low-income families' homes with land titling and property formalization technology, where he became COO.

After that experience, he moved back to the US to join Fintech Collective, an early stage fund founded in 2012 with offices in NYC and London that “backs entrepreneurs who are rewiring the way money moves through the world”.

Fintech Collective invests all over the world, especially in developing economies, and a big chunk of our conversation with Carlos explores the fintech opportunities in such markets: Latin America, Africa, India and other regions.

En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Ignasi Vegas, cofundador de la startup mexicana Cubbo.

Cubbo es una startup que ofrece un servicio de fulfillment para empresas de ecommerce, tanto tradicionales como de DTC (direct-to-consumer).

Ignasi lleva ya fuera de España 10 años, trabajando tanto en Estados Unidos como en Mexico, y aprovecharemos para hablar con él de cómo se ve el ecosistema español (y europeo) desde la distancia, de qué cosas han mejorado y qué cosas todavía deben mejorar más.

Ignasi nos explicará cómo funciona Cubbo y también la situación actual del mercado de ecommerce en Mexico (y Brasil), y por qué cree que es el momento óptimo para surfear la ola en el país.

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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Iñaki Berenguer, hoy en día fundador de LifeX (Life Extension Ventures), un fondo que invierte en “scientists and entrepreneurs launching technologies that extend the longevity of people and planet”.

Hablaremos con Iñaki de por qué montar LifeX y de los sectores a los que más le está prestando atención en estos momentos.

Antes de lanzar LifeX, Iñaki montó tres empresas en sectores muy diferentes y que todas acabaron en exit. Nos contará su experiencia creando y escalando Pixable, Klink y CoverWallet desde Nueva York.

En esta conversación hablamos también con Iñaki de cómo devolver a la sociedad y a la educación todas las ayudas que él recibió en su momento, y de muchos otros temas.

¡Esperamos que os guste!

In our first episode of European VC deep dives we chatted at length with Creandum.

In this occasion, our guests on the podKast are Dr. Florian Heinemann and Philipp Werner, General Partner and Partner, respectively, at Project A.

Founded in 2012, Project A is a leading early-stage VC firm investing all over Europe with offices in Berlin and London. The firm has more than €1b in AUM and is currently investing out of its 4th fund (€300m).

Project A is quite unique in Europe for various reasons. It defines itself as “the operational VC” because of the background of its founders and a big part of its partner team, but also because of the in-house platform of team of more than 100 full-time hands-on experts. Florian and Philipp will explain how the model works and how these experts collaborate with their portfolio companies.

We also chatted about their recently announced “Studio”, a pre-seed program to partner with entrepreneurs at the pre-idea stake, as well as the following topics:


Their 4 core areas of interest: inancial technology, climate & energy, resilience and global supply chains
How they’re organized internally and how they make investment decisions
How the founding partners make sure that Project A exists for many years

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This week's podKast is sponsored by Google Cloud Summit Madrid.

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In this week’s episode we had the privilege of chatting to Paulo Veras, co-founder of 99 Taxi, Brazil’s first unicorn.

Paulo has had a very interesting career and we went in-depth with him on both his personal and professional journey. He started coding as a teenager and founded his first company while still in university, which successfully raised funding from Goldman Sachs and later exited.

After that he co-founded daily deals site Imperdível and later served as the managing director of Endeavor, where he actually met Renato Freitas and Ariel Lambrecht, who would become his co-founders at 99 Taxi.

99 Taxi was a tremendous success in Brazil and fought in the now popular ride hailing battles against Uber, Didi and other well funded players in the mid 2010s. Did would end up acquiring 99 in early 2018 for $1 billion.

Paulo was super transparent during our conversation and shared all kinds of valuable details about his journey. Hope you enjoy it!

(0:00) Intro

(1:48) Paulo’s background, coding and first company (Tesla)

(20:07) The Endeavor experience

(26:12) Imperdível: daily deals debacle

(41:25) The story of 99 Taxi

(1:15:09) Fighting leukemia while being CEO (1:23:51)

(1:34:28) Selling 99 Taxi to Didi for $1 billion

(1:45:42) Life after 99 as a board member of traditional companies

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baby vc is an initiative run by students and young VCs that revolves around a 10-week venture capital bootcamp, surrounded by a community of passionate entrepreneurial talents from different backgrounds with the shared vision to democratise access to the European tech ecosystem, is coming to southern Europe and more specifically Iberia in 2024.

Since 2019, the program has already helped over 150 alumni secure positions in some of the most relevant European funds. It started off 5 years ago in France, expanded in the last 2 years to DACH and UK, and is now arriving in Iberia and Italy. The Iberian cohort will start in March 2024 and feature some of the most relevant funds in the region, such as Adara, Bynd, Kibo, JME, and ourselves at Kfund.

In this episode we chat with Ghita Benjelloun and Mehdi Benjelloun, co-founders of babyvc, and we're also joined by our own Jorge Campo.

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