Carol Ortega Algarra
B.S. in Accounting. CPA. MSC. MBA
Leader, visionary, and pioneer in the legal Cannabis Industry in the Americas. Founder & CEO of
Muisca Capital Group, the first Latino investment management firm strategically focused on the
emerging legal industry of medicinal cannabis. Carol is the founder of the first “Shark Tank” type
platform in LATAM called “Latino Investment Summit – Cannabiz HUB / B2B Digital Pitch and Expo”
an event that is set to be summit of choice for regional and global sovereign wealth funds, family
offices, private and institutional investors and high-level fund managers. Last summit edition in
September 2019 gathered 150+ accredited investors from all over the world in Bogota, Colombia.
Founder of the first Scientific Cannabis Symposium in Spanish in the world “Latino Science Forum –
CienciaCannabica/B2CDigitalSymposiumandExpo”. Astateofthearteventanddigitalplatform
that promotes science, research, and good practices of the analytical laboratory of Medicinal
Cannabis in the Americas. Last Symposium edition in September 2019 gathered 1,500+ attendees
in Bogota, Colombia.
Educator and defender of the Latino legal cannabis industry in the Americas, promotes an inclusive
industry, with gender equality, participatory and collaborative, an integral industry. She works
towards eliminating disinformation, stigma, the gap between science and industry, the work as silos,
biopiracy, little research, few medical experts involved, and the worst thing that Latin-America
becomes just a ‘maquiladora’ region of cannabis.
Carol serves on the Colombian government’s cannabis policy making committee which has the
ongoing challenge to improve the existing regulation, and was instrumental in Colombia’s efforts in
developing medicinal cannabis. Also, Carol has co-wrote the accounting and financial standards for
Colombia, a legislation that converged the country regulations with international standards. In U.S.
Carol has been an active regulator member in Oregon and California, states where Carol ́s input has
been instrumental in law writing and regulations affairs for cannabis recreational legalization
efforts.
In terms of venture capital, she has experience as a consultant for fundraising in start-ups and at
companies in different stages of growth, winner of several international awards in which she holds
the first place in the “fast pitch competition”, space generated by the Portland Social Venture
Society, in order to mobilize capital towards disruptive ventures with great potential and impact.
Also, Carol was the lead researcher in the structure and creation of the largest program of incubation
and acceleration of Latino businesses in the State of Oregon, managing and exiting successfully
various fund directed to support Latino Entrepreneurs in various industries.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolortegaalgarra
Carol Ortega media:
English:
https://hightimes.com/culture/high-folks-carol-ortega-making-sure-latin-americans-have- seat-table/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/muisca-capital-groups-carol-ortega-192152858.html
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cannabis/19/07/14104714/cannabis-a-big-tent-
where-all-are-welcome