CB

Claudio Barahona Jacobs

Managing Partner at ALAYA CAPITAL - Venture Capital in LatAm & Corporate Venturing Expert

Chile

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $300,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $400,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2020

    Investor and investments, transforming talent with energy & passion intro disruptive companies. In Alaya we look for: - High-impact entrepreneurs: Teams of people with a clear vision of business and the energy to implement ideas. - Innovative Companies: Startups and early-stage businesses with high growth potential. - Expanding markets: Companies focusing in Fintech, AgTech, HealthTech, Digital Marketing, UX, Digital TV, Biotech and KPO. - Global Scalability: Companies with high global potential. If your startups is looking for investment in Pre-A or A serie, we can invest between 300k-500k usd and help you scale through latinamercia with our knohow! Just DM me

  • Founder

    2021

    If you are an entrepreneur, this is your opportunity to understand how to raise capital with investors. You are looking for money for your startup but have never heard of concepts like Dataroom, SAFE, Pitch, Onepager, LTV / CAC and Due-Dilligence. Don't worry, here we show you everything you need to know to make yourself look good at your next meeting with investors. --> comolevantarcapital.com

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2012

    Representing Alaya Capital seat in the board: - www.Kilimoagtech.com - 2021 to now - www.Backstartup.com - 2021 to now - www.Houm.cl - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Inti-Tech.com - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Talently.tech - 2020 to now - www.Pago46.com - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Rocketpin.com - 2019 to now Representing Wayra (Telefónica CVC) seat in the board: - www.Webdoxclm.com - 2018 to 2019 - www.Cloner.cl - 2017 to 2019 - www.Zapping.com - 2017 to 2019 - www.ComunidadFeliz.com - 2017 to 2019 - www.Simpliroute.com - 2015 to 2019 - www.Ipsumapp.co - 2016 to 2019 - www.Rocketpin.com - 2016 to 2019 - www.Recorrido.cl - 2015 to 2019 - www.We-Techs.com - 2015 to 2019 - ams.asicom.cl - 2015 to 2019 - www.Nunchee.com - 2014 to 2019 - www.Autofact.cl - 2014 to 2019 - www.Wivoanalytics.com - 2014 to 2019 - www.Firstjob.me - 2013 to 2019 - www.Poliglota.org - 2012 to 2019 - www.UPlanner.com - 2012 to 2019

2020 - 2021

  • Board observer

    2020 - 2021

    Representing Alaya Capital observers seat in the board

2012 - 2020

  • Chief Open Innovation Officer Movistar Chile

    2016 - 2020

    Leader in Chile of Wayra, the global open innovation & corporate venture capital program from Telefónica. During his role as Country Manager he manages a team of outstanding professionals with years of open innovation experience, working as an investment partner with more than 50 entrepreneurs who are part of the local innovation portfolio, and at a level of directors and VPs in Telefónica Group looking for new income and efficiencies linking the corporation with startups. Part of his role is also managing the high-level relationship with the innovation ecosystem, with the government, venture capital funds and other corporations.

  • Head of Acceleration - Wayra Chile

    2012 - 2016

    Head of acceleration and business management in Wayra Chile, Telefónica’s worldwide startup accelerator with presence in 12 countries in Latam and Europe. Wayra invests in emerging technology ventures (startups), seeking to accelerate its growth through its global network, strategic assesment and business fit with the Telefonica group. More info on www.wayra.org Startup’s invested: U-Planner, Agentpiggy, Nibu, Poliglota, Benchbanking, Crowdsourced Testing, Familink, Firstjob, Purplu, Reqlut, Thinker Thing, Arriendas, Wivo, SmartboxTV, Snapp, Autofact, Recorrido, Guarnic, among others.

2012 - 2019

  • Angel Investor

    2019 - 2019

    Angel investor in ww.U-Planner.com, a latam startup that offers solutions based on our own mathematical algorithms and Artificial Intelligence for data analysis of Higher Education institutions. We look for universities to achieve high performance, adding new resources to their strategic plan, always with the focus on ensuring the main quality indicators. From 2012 to 2019 i had also the privilege to be of the Board

  • Director

    2012 - 2019

    Representing Wayra (Telefónica CVC) seat in the board.

  • Country Manager Chile

    2016 - 2019

    Leader in Chile of the global open innovation & corporate venture capital program from Telefónica Group. This program involves: - Crowdworking's Telefónica Open Future, innovative collaborative co-working spaces. - Wayra, the corporate startup accelerator and seed corporate venture capital arm of Telefónica. - Amerigo, a global fund of funds, with participation in the Chilean venture capital fund Scale Capital. - Telefónica Ventures, the CVC of Telefónica. During his role as Country Manager he manages a team of outstanding professionals with years of open innovation experience, working as an investment partner with more than 50 entrepreneurs who are part of the local innovation portfolio, and at a level of directors and VPs in Telefónica Group looking for new income and efficiencies linking the corporation with startups. Part of his role is also managing the high-level relationship with the innovation ecosystem, with the government, venture capital funds and other corporations.

  • Senior Innovation Product Manager - Movistar Innova

    2011 - 2016

    Project leader and founder of the coworking Center Movistar Innova (CMI), the epicenter of innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile, where national and foreign entrepreneurs can work on their projects and share with their peers in an environment that fosters co-creation , networking and the emergence of new companies with global potential. The Center Movistar Innova is now called Telefonica Open Future and has been the HQ of Startup Chile CORFO program. He also created the program Movistar Innova Business Accelerator, which aims to support the growth and internationalization of innovative companies with high potential.

2018 - 2019

  • Director

    2018 - 2019

    Leader of the corporate venture capital commission

  • Coordinator of Entrepreneurship and Human Capital

    2009 - 2011

    Coordination with the relevant institutions of the National Innovation System, including CORFO and CONICYT, overseeing the implementation of the strategic national innovation. Consolidating and analyzing statistics, indicators and the evaluation of the entrepreneurship, science, technology and innovation areas. Responsible for the government program "Education for Entrepreneurship"​ where the Ministry of Economiy and the Ministry of Education promote the teaching of entrepreneurial skills in schools. Founder of the "Guaranteed Credit for Gazelles Companies” (CGG in Spanish), initiative that delivers guaranteed credits given by SGR’s to emerging companies with difficult access to the traditional banking credit system

2008 - 2009

  • Executive for technology projects

    2008 - 2009

    Business consulting for startups and high innovative companies supported by the business incubator of University Adolfo Ibañez, adding value through strategic advicen and the design of the business plan; Market studies; rising networking and mentoring; being broker to obtain the public seed capital (CORFO) and private venture capital (investors) needed to launch the business.