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We invest €100k to €10M in entrepreneurs with the capacity to create differentiated technology-based products and services, mostly in Southern Europe and Latam.

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We invest €100k to €10M in entrepreneurs with the capacity to create differentiated technology-based products and services, mostly in Southern Europe and Latam.

    218 - Paulo Veras and the story of 99 Taxi: Brazil's first unicorn

    218 - Paulo Veras and the story of 99 Taxi: Brazil's first unicorn

    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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    • 1 h 53 min
    #217 - babyvc: can you learn to be a VC?

    #217 - babyvc: can you learn to be a VC?

    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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    • 45 min
    #216 - Miguel Carranza (RevenueCat): Año 6 como founder CTO

    #216 - Miguel Carranza (RevenueCat): Año 6 como founder CTO

    Miguel Carranza, cofundador de RevenueCat (RC), vuelve al podKast por cuarta vez.

    Como en anteriores ocasiones, repasamos con Miguel su post anual de “My role as a founder CTO”, que publicó a principios de enero. Para entender bien la conversación y sacarle todo el partido posible es recomendable leer el artículo de Miguel antes de escuchar el podKast.

    En la visita de Miguel de este año hablamos con él sobre todo lo ocurrido en RevenueCat en 2023: los retos de producto y tecnología a los que se han enfrentado, los cambios que han hecho a nivel organizativo y de procesos para adaptarse a la nueva realidad de la compañía, aprendizajes sobre hiring y cultura y muchos otros temas.

    (0:00) Inicio
    (01:25) RC Fortress: la solución a los outages
    (06:35) Cómo mantener ritmo alto de delivery al escalar
    (14:15) Delegar demasiado (o no) la gestión de producto
    (17:11) Cambios en los equipos de diseño, producto e ingeniería
    (21:25) Contenido y comunicación para crear marca
    (25:28) Cultura de always be shipping y de velocidad
    (31:00) Por qué contrata, promociona y despide RC
    (34:10) Evolución del go-to-market de RC
    (37:56) Cómo construir y gestionar un board eficiente
    (43:33) Aprendizajes sobre hiring y cultura
    (59:59) Cuidarse mental y físicamente

    ¡Esperamos que os guste!

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    • 1 h 6 min
    #215 - APIs que mueven millones de euros: Devengo (Fernando Cabello) e Invopop (Sam Lown)

    #215 - APIs que mueven millones de euros: Devengo (Fernando Cabello) e Invopop (Sam Lown)

    En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Fernando Cabello, cofundador de Devengo, y Sam Lown, cofundador de Invopop.

    Fernando y Sam son dos personas que llevan involucradas en el sector fintech ya bastantes años. En el caso de Fernando, Devengo es ya su tercera o cuarta compañía fundada en el ámbito de los servicios financieros, tras su exitoso paso con Aplázame (comprada por Wizink).

    Devengo comenzó como una solución de adelanto de nóminas y hoy en día se ha convertido en una empresa de infraestructura que permita pagos instantáneos a través de una API. Una API que, precisamente, vende a varios de sus antiguos competidores.

    Tras su paso por Cabify como CTO y de haber fundado también Lana, una startup fintech en LatAm, Sam es ahora cofundador de Invopop, una empresa que ha desarrollado una API para automatizar el compliance con cualquier formato de factura electrónica en el mundo.

    Como os podéis imaginar, el podKast de esta semana está lleno de detalles y conversaciones interesantes sobre el pasado, presente y futuro del sector fintech y, más concretamente, del mundo de los pagos online.

    • 1 h 25 min
    #214 - Mike Packer and QED, THE fintech VC and its views and activity in LatAm

    #214 - Mike Packer and QED, THE fintech VC and its views and activity in LatAm

    If you’re a fintech founder with global ambition and relevant traction, it’s more likely than not that you’ve heard or even talked to QED Investors.



    QED was founded by Nigel Morris (founder of Capital One) with Frank Rotman and Caribou Honig in 2007 and has become the premier VC in the fintech space since then. With more than $3.6b in AUM, QED has backed well-known companies such as Credit Karma and Klarna.



    The firm has also been active in LatAm since 2015, and this specifically the main topic of our conversation with this week’s guest, Mike Packer. Mike was also part of Capital One and joined QED in 2016 as principal, becoming partner in 2018.



    Mike oversees QED’s activity in the region, which includes investments in the likes of Nubank, Creditas and Quinto Andar. In our conversation with Mike we chat about his professional career, the move to VC, what makes QED special, fintech in LatAm and many other topics.

    • 1 h 37 min
    #213 - Mastering Customer Success with Jonathan Sousa (Dropbox, Loom and Kfund venture partner)

    #213 - Mastering Customer Success with Jonathan Sousa (Dropbox, Loom and Kfund venture partner)

    Jonathan Sousa is a seasoned operator in the Customer Success space, and a profile we’re lucky to have working with the Kfund team in a Venture Partner capacity.

    From his time in the early days of Dropbox, through building customer success functions at Scoop and Loom, to working with First Round and Andreessen Horowitz in advisory and scout capacities, Jonathan combines a deep understanding of tech and start-ups with unrivalled knowledge in delivering happy customers who retain and grow.

    The podcast covered what customer success is and how it functions, how to integrate CS into a growing organisation, why net dollar retention is the purest metric for measuring customer success,and how it works alongside product/engineering to create a well oiled machine at scale.

    Jonathan provided invaluable insights into how to make your first customer success hires, across profiles and segments, and what he has looked for as the go-to signs for a new organisation to join.

    CS is perhaps one of the poorest understood functions within start-ups and scale-ups today, and this conversation is a fantastic start for anyone looking to improve their knowledge.

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    • 1 h 6 min

Ressenyes del públic

4,7 de 5
55 valoracions

55 valoracions

Manuel Silva ,

Me encanta

Simplemente como mejora os diría que añadieseis una sección de notas con recomendaciones (de libros, personas, etc) o hechos interesantes comentados similar a lo que hace Javier Aznar en su Podcast del Hotel Jorge Juan.

alejandroribo ,

Vale mucho la pena

Soy emprendedor y el podcast es muy interesante por las historietas de los invitados y a veces de los propios entrevistadores.
Felicidades

Javidvg ,

Un podcast imprescindible

Conversaciones muy interesantes con emprendedores. De todos los perfiles y experiencias. Gracias a todos los miembros de k-fund por apoyar este proyecto. Iñaki, Karina, Jaime y Pablo.

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