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Total Funding: $12M
Total Funding: $7M
Total Funding: $31M
Total Funding: $14M
Total Funding: $6M
Total Funding: $29M
Total Funding: $9M
Total Funding: $52M
Total Funding: $800K
Total Funding: $500K
2019
2019
Early stage venture capital investors backing bold founders seeking to define a better future in Latin America and beyond.
2016
2016
Canary partners with founders at the first investment round (seed and pre-seed) and supports them throughout their growth. Canary leads investments in approximately 30 companies per year - Learn more at Canary.com.br
2010
2010
Angel and early-stage investor having backed over 200 companies. More about us and portfolio at GraphVentures.com. Select US investments include Ipsy, Blue Apron, Picsart, BetterUp, Saildrone, Porch, Earnin, Envoy, MileIQ, Lever, Birdies, Spell. Select Brazil investments include: GrupoZap (VivaReal), Quinto Andar, Enjoei, Loft, Guichê Virtual, Descomplica.
2016 - 2019
2016 - 2019
Prefer sought to transform the future of work, building a new firm for the 21st century. We built a referral network for independent service professionals along with a set of tools to help them thrive as businesspeople.
2016 - 2016
2016 - 2016
Evaluated different business opportunities. Along with Benchmark partner Scott Belsky, co-founded Prefer, a company seeking to transform the future of work.
2009 - 2016
2009 - 2016
Worked as a regular columnist writing about innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. Started in 2009 as an online/blog writer for O Globo (one of Brazil’s largest newspapers), then had a monthly column at Folha de São Paulo (Brazil’s largest newspaper), and finally a column and video series for Veja.com (Veja is Brazil’s largest magazine)
2010 - 2015
2010 - 2015
/Started the leading local commerce and services company in Brazil /Grew the company to hundreds of millions of dollars in annual net revenues in less than 2 years /Recruited team of over 1,200 people across 6 countries and nearly 100 cities in LatAm /Raised 4 rounds of institutional venture capital from blue-chip VC, PE, and mutual fund investors /Led company through turnaround phase that cut expenses by 80% and reached profitability /Managed company's acquisition by Baidu Inc. (Oct. 2014) and delivered >100% y-o-y topline growth in 6 months post acquisition
2010 - 2010
2010 - 2010
First Facebook employee in Brazil. Member of Facebook's growth team responsible for international expansion and growth in Brazil. Primarily responsible for user acquisition and engagement. Left to start my own company (Peixe Urbano).
2007 - 2010
2007 - 2010
Joined Experience Project, at the time was the largest online community for sharing life experiences. The company used its deep content and expertise in machine learning and natural language processing to build Kanjoya, which is a cloud-based workforce intelligence platform. Kanjoya was acquired by Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI) in 2016. More on Experience Project can be found in our lecture at Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series at: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1821
2005 - 2007
2005 - 2007
iinnovate is an interview program on innovation and entrepreneurship. The iinnovate podcast was started by Julio Vasconcellos and Matt Wyndowe while they were students at Stanford University's business and design schools. Since its founding, iinnovate became the #1 podcast on entrepreneurship on iTunes and featured guests such as Eric Schmidt (CEO Google), Andy Grove (former CEO Intel), Andy Rachleff (co-founder of Benchmark Capital), Vinod Khosla (co-founder of Sun Microsystems), Hasso Platner, and many others. See http://iinnovate.blogspot.com