On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Manoela Mitchell, Co-Founder & CEO of Pipo Saúde.

Key Takeaways:

- How to successfully leave an established career in the private equity world to become a founder

- The journey of Pipo Saúde conquering the healthcare industry

- Why take the VC route

- D&I (Diversity & Inclusion) as a critical differentiator to attract and retain great talent

- How to level up the playfield for women founders

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Rui Brandão, CEO & Founder of Zenklub.

The story and why behind Zenklub

Building the mental and emotional wellbeing platform in Brazil.

Why Brazil is a great place to run a mental health platform

Go to Market lessons learned starting B2C and evolving into B2B

How to become a better CEO and grow faster than the company on a personal level

The importance of a strong founding team

The importance of KPIs to shape team culture

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with with Rasmus Holst, CEO of LMS365

Key Takeaways:

How to manage teams differently according to the cultural background

Lessons learned joining a company as a professional CEO with bold ambitions

How to manage a learning platform with more than 4 million users

Don’t lose the accountability about the things that matter

How to accelerate market entry and presence with M&A

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Gonzalo Parejo, CEO & Founder of Kamino

Key Takeaways

Differences between scaling up in Europe and LATAM; taking higher risks and seeking higher rewards

Building Kamino - the financial infrastructure to accelerate the ability for high-growth companies to scale up quickly

From helping to scale Groupon in Brazil to create a new fintech startup

If you are able to do it in LATAM, you can do it everywhere!

Lessons learned building and leading senior vs junior teams

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with João Ventura, Founder & CEO at Sling Hub

Key Takeaways

From financial markets to angel investor to founder

Becoming the youngest president of the oldest and largest Brazilian angel club

Lessons learned as an angel Investor and as president of an angel club

Investing in people and teams vs ideas/metrics in the pre-seed stage

Building Sling Hub - the “Crunchbase of LATAM”

Evolution of the LATAM ecosystem according to Sling Hub data

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Maite Muñiz, Co-Founder of Truora Inc.

Key Takeaways

What skills does a great Product Manager has to have

How to grow as a PM in a region where product management is a new discipline

The risk of not having the courage to say no to enterprise clients: the short line between a SaaS and a service company

How to handle moments of truth and uncertainty as a founder: from fraud management to customer acquisition through WhatsApp

How to handle a strategic pivot to address a larger TAM (total addressable market) with 100+ team

The importance of adapting the thesis for fundraising and lessons learned (15M series A with American funds)

Communication and change management lessons

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Marcelo Toledo, Co-CEO of Klivo.

Key Takeaways

From a fintech unicorn to a healthtech

From Nubank to Klivo

The story of Marcelo Toledo: From Nubank to Klivo

The story of Marcelo Toledo: From fintech to healthtech

From scaling a fintech unicorn to building a healthtech scaleup

Healhtech is the new fintech

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Izabel Gallera, Partner at Canary

Key Takeaways:

1. How Canary’s investment thesis transformed the Brazilian ecosystem in 2017

2. Building a strong relationship between founders and investors

3. The 3 pillars of a successful founding team: resilience, execution and a learning ability

4. You can’t recruit a co-founder, but you can recruit technical skills. Ensure that you have a co-founder that will stay with you in the ups and downs.

5. Success stories and lessons learned from Canary’s portfolio companies.

Do’s and Don't’s

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Aaron McDaniel and Klaus Wehage, Co-authors of the Book Global Class.

Key Takeaways

How the world’s fastest growing companies scale globally

How to successfully design an expansion strategy that actually works

The importance of knowing and respecting the culture where you want to expand to

Build a solid foundation before scaling up

Home market vs Initial market: What's the big difference?

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Brian Requarth, Co-Founder of Latitud

Key Takeaways:

Why Brian - an american - moved to LATAM

Starting and scaling a real estate venture in Brazil

How to start investing as a business angel - lessons learned from 80+ investments across LATAM

Brian’s vision to grow the LATAM ecosystem

The importance of a strong community and how it drives Latitud initiatives

How to go through the life and death moments of a startup

How to raise a family and build a startup - relationship with life partners and becoming a dad