Scaleup Valley Podcast

On this Episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Miguel Arias, General Partner at KFUND. Key takeaways: Experience from being on all sides of the table of the innovation ecosystem: corporate leader, teacher, VC, operator, founder… The importance of psychology in creating and backing a startup How is the LATAM ecosystem developing? In what ways is technology shaping the new wor...

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Edouard de Montmort, Co-Founder at Velvet Key Takeaways: Building a startup as Founding Partner and Head of LATAM at Majoritas Building his first startup: Arvore Building his second startup: Velvet Velvet offers liquidity to the brightest people in startups all over the world so that builders can monetize their vested equity thr...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with with Jessica Chao, Founding Capital Partner at Iterative Key Takeaways Healthtech trends in the US, LATAM and Southeast Asia Exciting infrastructure-based startups that are re-shaping the healthcare sector Patterns to succeed as a leader in the healthcare sector: eager to learn and be mission-driven. The main challenges to start...

On this episode of the Scale Up Valley Podcast, Michael Sidler, Co-Founding Partner at Redalpine speaks with Mike Dias, CEO & Co-Founder of Scale Up Valley Key Takeaways Investing in vision and real disruption Top criteria to invest for Redalpine: The quality of a founding team. The passion of developing the European ecosystem Helping to create financial independence in Europe Challenges and oppor...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias with Mariano García-Valiño , CEO & Founder at AXENYA and Roebrto Vianna, CCO & CMO at AXENYA. Key takeaways The future of healthcare From IPO back into starting up Empowering Latin-America's healthcare ecosystem to plug into the future of medicine. How to align incentives of multiple stakeholders. How to deliver a value proposition that bene...

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...

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 person...

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 acceler...

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 fin...

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 Build...

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 tru...

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...

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...

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 i...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Luiz Guilherme Berardo, Co-Founder and CEO of Sami Key Takeaways: Lessons learned from building 3 healthcare ventures 1st venture - Clínica Premium Care: Building a profitable non VC backed player 2nd venture - Dr. Agora: Lessons learned building the first VC backed company and the importance of timing 3rd venture - Sami: Buildin...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Marcelo Wolowski, Partner & Founder at Invisto Key Takeaways: How investors pick the best founding teams How to design an investment thesis that is aligned with the maturity of your region Invisto's investment thesis Understanding the Southern Brazilian tech ecosystem The Brazilian opportunity for American and European funds Less...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Stefan Krautwald, General Partner at Latin Leap Key Takeaways Lessons learned scaling across LATAM as entrepreneur and investor An upcoming exciting region: Spanish-speaking LATAM Expansion from SEA to LATAM: differences and similarities The importance of having a local partner to expand to new markets

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Cristiano Englert, Healthtech Business Angel and Medical Entrepeneur. Key Takeaways How to develop an entrepreneurial mindset as a doctor - Learning how to embrace risk The big opportunity of the healthtech sector - Improving patient experience through AI and personalization. The big mindset shift that is happening in the health...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Isadora Kimura, Founder at Nilo Saúde Key Takeaways: Isadora’s journey in the healthtech ecosystem in San Francisco The calling to build a healthtech startup in Brazil (Leveraging learnings from the US to the exciting Brazilian market) How to create and measure impact How to create and nourish a diverse founding team in terms of...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Victor Gadelha, Head of Medical Innovation at Dasa Hospitals. Key Takeaways Understanding the evolution of the healthcare model in the last decades to discuss the future The potential of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality to improve the patient experience How to achieve the magical formula for healthtech: to bridge healt...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Fernando Ribeiro, CEO & Co-Founder at Alinea Health Key Takeaways Attracting the founder & CEO of the US Benchmark of Alinea Health as Business Angel The influence of strong purpose driven cultures of Bridgewater and Amazon in the process of building Alinea’s culture How to overcome the Nuclear Winter and emerge stronger than bef...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Puja Bharwani, Co-Founder and CMO & Samir Khadepaun, Co-Founder and CEO of Wizly. Key takeaways: How Puja and Samir are helping entrepreneurs and corporate leaders to solve specific issues with top experts Culture starts with the founding team The importance of having a diverse and united founding team Focus on measuring and achi...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Arturo Sánchez Correa, CEO & Co-Founder at Sofía Key Takeaways Challenges and opportunities of the Mexican market Focusing on solving huge problems in emerging markets Being transparent as a CEO instead of ‘protecting your people’ from the challenges the company is facing. Working on culture explicitly to make sure it stays alive...

On this episode of the Scaleup Valley podcast, Mike Dias speaks with Stephanie Von Staa Toledo, CEO and Founder at Oya Care Key Takeaways Breaking the barriers: 70% of women don't feel comfortable talking to their OB/GYN. Preventative care over curing disease to bolster health How to create a multi-skilled founding team with different kind of intelligences The importance of having a great Medical...