Semilla.VC

On episode 33 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Ivan Montoya, Latin America’s Super Angel. He’s invested in over 50 investments (typically seed and Series A) in Latin America in FinTech, PropTech, as well as Logistics/Commerce, including Jeeves, Foodology, and Treinta, ju...

On episode 32 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Dr. Ricardo Ernst. Dr. Ernst is the Baratta Chair in Global Business and Executive Director of the Latin American Leadership Program at Georgetown University. He received his MA degree and Ph. D. in Operations Management fro...

On episode 31 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Jonathan Whittle, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital. Quona invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion across three emerging market regions. Jonathan exclusively focused on Latin American FinTec...

On episode 30 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Isaac Matzner & Daniel Pizzaro, Co-Founders of Teddy. This episode is particularly special because I had the privilege of investing in Teddy’s Pre-Seed round. São Paulo-based Teddy provides benefits and insurance to independ...

On episode 29 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Robert Terenzi, Attorney in the Latin America Group at Wilson Sonsini. While working after college at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School he was told by his supervisors to consider living abro...

On episode 28 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Mairon Sandoval, the CEO & Co-Founder of OneCarNow! This episode is particularly special because I am a Pre-Seed Investor in OneCarNow! They offer Car Subscription for Underbanked Gig Workers in Latin America. I invested in...

On episode 27 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Jimena Pardo, Partner at ALLVP. Prior to joining ALLVP, she was the Co-Founder and CEO of Carrot Carsharing, which actually was ALLVP’s first Investment! Jimena was also previously a Product Growth Manager at Facebook where...

On episode 26 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Hernán Fernández, Managing Partner of Angel Ventures Mexico, where he’s worked for the past 14.5 years helping Latin American entrepreneurs flourish. In this interview you will learn: ✅ The most challenging part of raising...

On episode 25 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Goffredo Rossi, Founder and CEO of Aptoclick, a marketplace for distressed real estate in Mexico and a Strategic Advisor to MX Proptech. He was previously the Founder of Wolf of Conversion, a real estate marketing firm. Goff...

On episode 24 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & General Partner of Infinita Fund, based in Prospera, a startup city with its own government and legal structure based on an island off the coast of mainland Honduras. Niklas is also the host of the...

On episode 23 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with CEO & Founding Partner of InspIR Group, an investor relations strategy firm, with offices in New York, San Francisco, and São Paulo, that enables private and public companies to build and strengthen their capital raising str...

On episode 22 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Ryan Croft, CEO & Co-Founder of Pacto, a Mexico City-based integrated ordering and payments platform for restaurants and bars with a mission to power the cashless economy. Ryan is also an investor in a number of startups and...

On episode 21 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Co-Founder & CEO at Crema, a payments solution tailor-made for creators, makers, and independent professionals offering everything you need to operate smoothly and worry-free as a business of one. Christian previously held r...

On episode 20 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Francisco García Osuna, Associate at Melek VC & Host of the Levantando Podcast—where he interviews top VCs in Spanish. He’s also the co-founder of Rising LatAm VCs where he’s building a community around professionals working...

On episode 19 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Mads Peterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Bogotá-based Hippo. Build. Prior to founding Hippo, Mads worked at Founder Institute, and held a number of roles at startups, accelerators, and venture capital firms in Bogotá including T...

On episode 18 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Ryan Bloomer, Founder and Managing Partner of K50 Ventures, which invests in pre-seed and seed companies in the US and Latin America that have a focus on improving access, affordability, and well-being across the categories...

On episode 17 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Carlos, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Upload Ventures. He’s also a Senior Partner at São Paulo-based Private equity firm CapSur and a Senior Partner at Corton Capital. He previously worked at Avant in Chicago and for 3G...

On episode 16 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Derek Brooks, Head of Venture at Flat World Partners. Derek has a wealth of international experience including a Fulbright in Austria, a Journalist for Reuters, worked at the Treasury Department, and also in Private Equity a...

On episode 15 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Patricio Brito, Co-Founder of Fitzer, Mexico’s first hard Seltzer. Prior to founding Fitzer, Patricio held roles for Lime in France, Spain, and Switzerland. Before Lime, he was Uber’s Lead Operations and Logistics Manager fo...

On episode 14 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Daniel Ospina, Co-Founder & CVO of Pygma, where he’s developing the venture capital arm of their accelerator. He’s a founding member of Farfala, a Latin American investor ecosystem with the goal of sharing deal flow and buil...

On episode 13 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Matthew Meehan, Co-Founder & CEO of Mexico City-based Kontempo, a Buy Now Pay Later solution for B2B in Latin America. He previously founded Centeo, a tech-driven lender in Mexico, and Dvdendo, a VC-backed automated investme...

On episode 12 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Melissa Toledo; Sales Manager for LATAM & Caribbean at Twilio. She’s on the LatinX ERG Board at Twilio and led similar initiatives in her previous role at Salesforce. She’s also worked at CallidusCloud, an SAP company, as we...

On episode 11 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Gil Herrera, who was previously product growth manager at Glitzi (YC W'21) and product growth at Bitso (Coinbase of Latin America), both in Mexico City, before moving to São Paulo to found a new startup that he is building i...

On episode 10 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Jaime Matus, Co-Founder at Cacao Capital/Venture Partner at Invariantes Fund and also Co-Founder of a stealth startup solving a problem for Latin American Venture Capitalists and start-up founders. In this interview you will...

On episode 9 of Semilla. VC, the podcast highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society, Trip Gorman spoke with Greg Mitchell, Managing Partner at AVP Ventures based in Lima, Peru. Greg got his MBA at Wharton while also getting a degree in Latin American & Spanish Language from the University of Pennsylvania. He’s worked in private equ...