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Arturo Torres

Partner at LoM Smart Finance. Corporate finance advisors for tech startups. Co-founder Inspirit Angels.

Argentina

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2018

Inspirit Angels

2012

  • Co-Founder

    2012

    Inspirt Angels is an angel fund that have invested in the initial rounds of tech-based startups in 23 companies in Latam, Canadá and USA. We are angel investors in Auth0, Satellogic, Tienda Nube, Jampp, Mural and The Other Guys, among others.

2019 - 2023

  • Managing Partner

    2019 - 2023

    Draper Cygnus is a venture capital fund management company that invests in seed & early stage startups building global companies. We are proactively looking for talented teams applying modern tools like AI, synthetic biology, precision farming, IoT, and blockchain to solve key problems in the Fintech, Agtech & Food, Life Sciences and Sustainability verticals and targeting large current or future markets.

2017 - 2018

  • Chief Financial Officer

    2017 - 2018

Secretaría de Emprendedores y PyMEs - Ministerio de Producción de la Nación

2016 - 2017

  • Director Nacional de Capital Emprendedor

    2016 - 2017

2012 - 2015

  • Program Director

    2012 - 2015

    NxtpLabs is an early-stage investment fund with an accelerator program for technology startups

  • Investment Manager

    2008 - 2012

    - Investment Manager of Nexo Emprendedor, the bank's seed & venture capital unit. - Member of the Investment Committee of PYMAR - a USD 22 million venture capital fund focused on investments in high-growth Argentine SMEs.

  • Vicepresident Investment Banking

    1996 - 2008

    - Mergers & Acquisitions transactions, including opportunity screening, business plan modeling, valuation, deal structuring and negotiation for local and international clients. - Business case analysis, deal structuring and negotiation in Private Equity and Venture Capital transactions for the bank's private equity unit.

Banco General de Negocios

1992 - 1996

  • Equity Research Analyst

    1992 - 1996

    - Equity Research covering stocks in different sectors (agribusiness, technology, telcos) - Investment recommendations to local and international clients

1990 - 1992

  • Junior Trader

    1990 - 1992

    - Trading oilseeds & byproducts in the Vegetable Oils Division