In this week’s episode we chat with Benjamin Gleason, a key figure in the Brazilian and LatAm startup and tech ecosystem.

Born and raised in Missouri, Benjamin has spent the majority of his professional career in Brazil, across a wide variety of roles. His first tech role in the country was as the managing director and CFO of Groupon Brasil, at a time of incredible growth for the company.After that he co-founded GuiaBolso, one of the first fintech companies out of the region, which was sold to PicPay after raising $66m from notable funds such as Ribbit Capital, QED and others.

His last entrepreneurship endeavor is Kamino, another fintech play that aims to make it easy for Brazilians and founders to launch and manage their companies. This is the second appearance of one of Kamino’s co-founders on the podKast. We had Gonzalo Parejo a couple of months ago.

In this episode, we chat with Benjamin about the following topics

Brazil and LatAm:

Company building:

VC and investing:

Life and motivations:

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Monashees is an iconic VC firm in LatAm. Founded in 2005 by Eric Acher and Fabio Igel, the firm has seen the evolution and explosion of the LatAm startup ecosystem firsthand.

In this week’s episode we chat with Steven Tey, senior developer advocate at Vercel.

Steven has been at Vercel for almost two years to help the company build and scale its developer relations function. In this conversation, you’ll be able to learn:

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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Iñaki Arriaga, cofundador de Acumbamail, una startup con sede en Ciudad Real que ha desarrollado un producto de email marketing con más de 4.000 clientes en España y Latam.

La historia de Acumba es “diferente” por varios motivos: 

Iñaki nos hablará del crecimiento de Acumba con mucha transparencia y también de sus aprendizajes después de haber pasado ya por varios procesos de venta.

¡Esperamos que os guste!

En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Víctor Rodado, cofundador de Hackio. Víctor ya estuvo anteriormente en el podKast para hablar de Minmalism, otra startup cofundada por él.

Hace unos meses, Víctor publicó un post en LinkedIn en el que explicaba por qué creía que el marketing online había sufrido un cambio acelerado en los últimos dos años. En este podKast hablamos precisamente de esto, y de los nueve puntos que Víctor destacaba en su momento:

¡Esperamos que os guste!

In this week’s episode we chat with David Peterson, partner at Angular Ventures and also one of the first employees at Airtable.

David had an extensive career as an operator before joining Airtable, where he led the growth and partnership teams. He’s now moved to the other side of the table, joining Gil Dibner, another previous guest on this show, as partner of Angular.

In this episode, we chat with David about the following topics:

I’m joined in this podKast by Victoriano Izquierdo, co-founder of Graphext, one of our portfolio companies.

En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Mariano Amartino, encargado de gestionar la relación de Microsoft con startups en las regiones de Canadá, USA y Latam.  

Mariano es una persona que lleva muchos años involucrada en el sector de la tecnología desde diferentes roles. Ávido escritor desde su blog Uberbin, antes de llegar a su puesto actual en Microsoft como Americas Managing Director fue también Director Global de Wayra, la aceleradora y brazo inversor de Telefónica.  

En este podKast, hablamos con Mariano de los siguientes temas: 

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Humberto Ayres is the co-founder of Rows, a Porto and Berlin-based early stage startup that has created "the spreadsheet where data comes to life".

Prior to founding Rows, Humberto was already an Excel geek and former founder, having built two successful B2C companies out of Portugal. With Rows, the team has the goal of re-inventing the way spreadsheets work, by creating a product that not only allows users and businesses to build traditional spreadsheets, but also connect these to internal and external data.

In this episode, we chat with Humberto about the following topics:

In this week's episode we chat with Gonzalo Parejo, CEO and co-founder of Kamino, a Sao Paulo-based startup that's reinventing the way startups and companies are set up from a financial standpoint in Brazil. Kamino has raised a pre-seed round of more than $6M, one of the largest in Brazil to date, from well-known funds such as QED, Propel, Global Founders Capital and others.

This is not Gonzalo's first entrepreneurial endeavor. Prior to co-founding Kamino, Gonzalo also co-founded Madrid-based Ontruck and spent several years in Brazil working for various startups, including an incredible stint at Groupon (if you listen to the podKast, you'll understand why it was such an interesting experience!).

If you want to improve your understanding of Brazil's large startup ecosystem and why there's such a large opportunity for Kamino, this is your episode.

In this week’s episode we chat with Antonio Molins, co-founder of Justos, a Brazilian insurtech company that’s changing the way car insurance is sold and priced in Brazil.