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I look to back founders who share an immigrant ethos: extreme hunger, resourcefulness, and the ambition to compete globally. I offer my founders maximum transparency and unwavering loyalty, because there is nothing more beautiful than building something from nothing together.
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I was born in Caracas into a middle-class family, in a moment that still felt full of possibility - a happy, tropical, progressive environment that shaped my early optimism. A one-time chance to spend a year in the US as a teenager changed my trajectory: it got me into MIT, the first major turning point in my career. From there I went through a number of jobs at prestigious consulting firms and New York investment banks, before an MBA at Harvard.
In 2004 I saw a gap nobody was filling: backing strong technical teams in Southern Europe and pushing them toward the US market and Silicon Valley-style exits. Back then the region had real engineering talent and a much lower cost basis, but almost no capital built for it. That's changed - founders across Europe are now building genuinely global, competitive businesses.
Even so, I don't buy the current obsession with tech sovereignty and isolationism. Europe has the research and the talent, but we have more to gain through collaboration - we must align with the ambition and scale of the US, not retreat from it.
I back founders who share the immigrant instinct I grew up with: extreme hunger and ambition, a high tolerance for risk, resourcefulness, scrappiness, a strong work ethic,
and a long-term orientation. People who understand that while Europe has come a long way, we cannot get comfortable - we have to keep promoting the drive to build things, take risks, and compete at a global level.
Working with me, founders can expect maximum transparency and loyalty to their company. I try to provide thoughtful advice, valuable connections, and encouragement - but I also know how to remove friction and simply stay out of the way when appropriate. For me, work matters because of the people: it's a beautiful thing to be part of building something from nothing, repeatedly, alongside founders who challenge and enrich me every day.
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