JC

Juan Caro

Leveraging my product & finance expertise, I help high-growth startups and SMBs achieve impact through

San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Work Experience

  • Early Investor

    2024

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    ●Strategic Process Development: Spearheaded the creation and standardization of core processes, enhancing the operational framework essential for startup growth and scalability. ●Market Intelligence: Utilized extensive market analysis to inform strategic decisions, ensuring our client startups are well-positioned to capitalize on market opportunities. ●Financial Foresight: Led financial strategy development, providing startups with robust financial planning tools and insights to secure their financial health and attract further investment. ●Product Testing and Optimization: Orchestrated comprehensive product testing phases, employing rigorous methodologies to refine product offerings and improve market fit. ●SMB Strategy Design: Crafted bespoke strategies for small and medium-sized businesses, focusing on long-term growth and sustainability in competitive environments.

2023

  • Early Investor

    2023

  • Early Investor

    2023

Tocaro Consulting LLC

2022

  • SMB & Startup Consultant

    2022

    ● Market research & analysis: Identifying & reaching ideal customers (e.g., mapped 400+ LATAM users). ●Data-driven product strategy: Building methodologies for data transformation & success metrics. ●Product discovery & launch: Leading teams to design, test, & launch impactful products.

  • Angel Investor

    2020

  • Partner

    2023 - 2024

    ●Strategic Leadership: Spearhead the identification and engagement of promising startups across LATAM, with a focus on dynamic markets in Mexico and Colombia. ●Operational Excellence: Developed and implemented robust operational processes to streamline investment decisions, reaching over 30 startups. Investment Selection: Design and enforce evaluation criteria to meticulously choose the most innovative and scalable companies for investment. ●Collaborative Investments: Coordinate with other partners to strategically invest in three major projects annually, aligning with our fund’s vision and goals. ●Ecosystem Impact: Contribute significantly to the regional development of technology and entrepreneurship, fostering growth and innovation within the ecosystem.

2023 - 2023

  • Sr. Consultant Product Management

    2023 - 2023

    ● Designed and facilitated discovery sessions with the Data and Analytics team to identify business use cases for the product ● Evaluated product effectiveness resulting in a 15% reduction in stakeholder decision-making time and increasing user satisfaction ● Coordinated and synchronized product initiatives like data pipelines design and implementation that helped stakeholders like the supply chain teams and finance make data-driven decisions ● Improved the UX of internal products by 20% through design and data testing experimentation ● Conducted user interviews to uncover usage issues and user needs, categorize them into different user personas, and identified 5 new features to be developed

  • Product Owner and Data analyst

    2022 - 2022

    ● Developed Product roadmap from conception to launch and successfully Launched a B2B SaaS product MVP (ERP) ● Reduced development time by 20% using Scrum Agile, Jira to plan, organize, and prioritize users' requests and released 3 new features

  • Product Manager

    2020 - 2021

    ● Developed Product roadmap from conception to launch, acquiring 1,000 new users and increasing revenue by $500,000 USD within 6 months ● Increased team productivity by 10% by defining clear product specifications, and key success metrics for B2C MVP product ● Designed customer and user journey maps to understand and articulate customer needs to solve and create opportunities for improvement