En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Ignasi Vegas, cofundador de la startup mexicana Cubbo.

Cubbo es una startup que ofrece un servicio de fulfillment para empresas de ecommerce, tanto tradicionales como de DTC (direct-to-consumer).

Ignasi lleva ya fuera de España 10 años, trabajando tanto en Estados Unidos como en Mexico, y aprovecharemos para hablar con él de cómo se ve el ecosistema español (y europeo) desde la distancia, de qué cosas han mejorado y qué cosas todavía deben mejorar más.

Ignasi nos explicará cómo funciona Cubbo y también la situación actual del mercado de ecommerce en Mexico (y Brasil), y por qué cree que es el momento óptimo para surfear la ola en el país.

¡Esperamos que os guste!

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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Iñaki Berenguer, hoy en día fundador de LifeX (Life Extension Ventures), un fondo que invierte en “scientists and entrepreneurs launching technologies that extend the longevity of people and planet”. Hablaremos con Iñaki de por qué montar LifeX y de los sectores a los que más le está prestando atención en estos momentos. Antes de lanzar LifeX, Iñaki montó tres empresas en sectores muy diferentes y que todas acabaron en exit. Nos contará su experiencia creando y escalando Pixable, Klink y CoverWallet desde Nueva York. En esta conversación hablamos también con Iñaki de cómo devolver a la sociedad y a la educación todas las ayudas que él recibió en su momento, y de muchos otros temas. ¡Esperamos que os guste!

In our first episode of European VC deep dives we chatted at length with Creandum.

In this occasion, our guests on the podKast are Dr. Florian Heinemann and Philipp Werner, General Partner and Partner, respectively, at Project A.

Founded in 2012, Project A is a leading early-stage VC firm investing all over Europe with offices in Berlin and London. The firm has more than €1b in AUM and is currently investing out of its 4th fund (€300m).

Project A is quite unique in Europe for various reasons. It defines itself as “the operational VC” because of the background of its founders and a big part of its partner team, but also because of the in-house platform of team of more than 100 full-time hands-on experts. Florian and Philipp will explain how the model works and how these experts collaborate with their portfolio companies.

We also chatted about their recently announced “Studio”, a pre-seed program to partner with entrepreneurs at the pre-idea stake, as well as the following topics:

• Their 4 core areas of interest: inancial technology, climate & energy, resilience and global supply chains
• How they’re organized internally and how they make investment decisions
• How the founding partners make sure that Project A exists for many years

Hope you enjoy it!

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This week's podKast is sponsored by Google Cloud Summit Madrid.

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In this week’s episode we had the privilege of chatting to Paulo Veras, co-founder of 99 Taxi, Brazil’s first unicorn.

Paulo has had a very interesting career and we went in-depth with him on both his personal and professional journey. He started coding as a teenager and founded his first company while still in university, which successfully raised funding from Goldman Sachs and later exited.

After that he co-founded daily deals site Imperdível and later served as the managing director of Endeavor, where he actually met Renato Freitas and Ariel Lambrecht, who would become his co-founders at 99 Taxi.

99 Taxi was a tremendous success in Brazil and fought in the now popular ride hailing battles against Uber, Didi and other well funded players in the mid 2010s. Did would end up acquiring 99 in early 2018 for $1 billion.

Paulo was super transparent during our conversation and shared all kinds of valuable details about his journey. Hope you enjoy it!

(0:00) Intro

(1:48) Paulo’s background, coding and first company (Tesla)

(20:07) The Endeavor experience

(26:12) Imperdível: daily deals debacle

(41:25) The story of 99 Taxi

(1:15:09) Fighting leukemia while being CEO (1:23:51)

(1:34:28) Selling 99 Taxi to Didi for $1 billion

(1:45:42) Life after 99 as a board member of traditional companies

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baby vc is an initiative run by students and young VCs that revolves around a 10-week venture capital bootcamp, surrounded by a community of passionate entrepreneurial talents from different backgrounds with the shared vision to democratise access to the European tech ecosystem, is coming to southern Europe and more specifically Iberia in 2024.

Since 2019, the program has already helped over 150 alumni secure positions in some of the most relevant European funds. It started off 5 years ago in France, expanded in the last 2 years to DACH and UK, and is now arriving in Iberia and Italy. The Iberian cohort will start in March 2024 and feature some of the most relevant funds in the region, such as Adara, Bynd, Kibo, JME, and ourselves at Kfund.

In this episode we chat with Ghita Benjelloun and Mehdi Benjelloun, co-founders of babyvc, and we're also joined by our own Jorge Campo.

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Miguel Carranza, cofundador de RevenueCat (RC), vuelve al podKast por cuarta vez.

Como en anteriores ocasiones, repasamos con Miguel su post anual de “My role as a founder CTO”, que publicó a principios de enero. Para entender bien la conversación y sacarle todo el partido posible es recomendable leer el artículo de Miguel antes de escuchar el podKast.

En la visita de Miguel de este año hablamos con él sobre todo lo ocurrido en RevenueCat en 2023: los retos de producto y tecnología a los que se han enfrentado, los cambios que han hecho a nivel organizativo y de procesos para adaptarse a la nueva realidad de la compañía, aprendizajes sobre hiring y cultura y muchos otros temas.

(0:00) Inicio (01:25) RC Fortress: la solución a los outages (06:35) Cómo mantener ritmo alto de delivery al escalar (14:15) Delegar demasiado (o no) la gestión de producto (17:11) Cambios en los equipos de diseño, producto e ingeniería (21:25) Contenido y comunicación para crear marca (25:28) Cultura de always be shipping y de velocidad (31:00) Por qué contrata, promociona y despide RC (34:10) Evolución del go-to-market de RC (37:56) Cómo construir y gestionar un board eficiente (43:33) Aprendizajes sobre hiring y cultura (59:59) Cuidarse mental y físicamente

¡Esperamos que os guste!

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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Fernando Cabello, cofundador de Devengo, y Sam Lown, cofundador de Invopop.

Fernando y Sam son dos personas que llevan involucradas en el sector fintech ya bastantes años. En el caso de Fernando, Devengo es ya su tercera o cuarta compañía fundada en el ámbito de los servicios financieros, tras su exitoso paso con Aplázame (comprada por Wizink).

Devengo comenzó como una solución de adelanto de nóminas y hoy en día se ha convertido en una empresa de infraestructura que permita pagos instantáneos a través de una API. Una API que, precisamente, vende a varios de sus antiguos competidores.

Tras su paso por Cabify como CTO y de haber fundado también Lana, una startup fintech en LatAm, Sam es ahora cofundador de Invopop, una empresa que ha desarrollado una API para automatizar el compliance con cualquier formato de factura electrónica en el mundo.

Como os podéis imaginar, el podKast de esta semana está lleno de detalles y conversaciones interesantes sobre el pasado, presente y futuro del sector fintech y, más concretamente, del mundo de los pagos online.

If you’re a fintech founder with global ambition and relevant traction, it’s more likely than not that you’ve heard or even talked to QED Investors.

QED was founded by Nigel Morris (founder of Capital One) with Frank Rotman and Caribou Honig in 2007 and has become the premier VC in the fintech space since then. With more than $3.6b in AUM, QED has backed well-known companies such as Credit Karma and Klarna.

The firm has also been active in LatAm since 2015, and this specifically the main topic of our conversation with this week’s guest, Mike Packer. Mike was also part of Capital One and joined QED in 2016 as principal, becoming partner in 2018.

Mike oversees QED’s activity in the region, which includes investments in the likes of Nubank, Creditas and Quinto Andar. In our conversation with Mike we chat about his professional career, the move to VC, what makes QED special, fintech in LatAm and many other topics.

Jonathan Sousa is a seasoned operator in the Customer Success space, and a profile we’re lucky to have working with the Kfund team in a Venture Partner capacity.

From his time in the early days of Dropbox, through building customer success functions at Scoop and Loom, to working with First Round and Andreessen Horowitz in advisory and scout capacities, Jonathan combines a deep understanding of tech and start-ups with unrivalled knowledge in delivering happy customers who retain and grow.

The podcast covered what customer success is and how it functions, how to integrate CS into a growing organisation, why net dollar retention is the purest metric for measuring customer success,and how it works alongside product/engineering to create a well oiled machine at scale.

Jonathan provided invaluable insights into how to make your first customer success hires, across profiles and segments, and what he has looked for as the go-to signs for a new organisation to join.

CS is perhaps one of the poorest understood functions within start-ups and scale-ups today, and this conversation is a fantastic start for anyone looking to improve their knowledge.

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En el episodio de esta semana hablamos con Mario Cantero, cofundador de IMU Biosciences, empresa de nuestro portfolio que acaba de anunciar una ronda de financiación de £11.5 millones.

Mario ya estuvo en el podKast hace unos años para hablar de Melio, la compañía de la que surge IMU. Precisamente hablaremos con Mario de los orígenes de IMU y del pívot desde Melio: Melio era una compañía de salud B2C, que ofrecía a consumidores la posibilidad de monitorizar su salud de forma recurrente a través de análisis de sangre.

Sin embargo, y por los motivos que Mario cuenta en el podKast, ese modelo tuvo que ser aparcado y fue entonces cuando surgió IMU.

IMU Biosciences es ahora una compañía de biotech que busca revolucionar la medicina personalizada a partir de su plataforma de análisis del sistema inmunológico.

¡Esperemos que os guste!

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This week we welcomed Mitiga Solutions’ Alex (Alejandro) Marti to the Kfund Podkast.

Alex has had a highly varied career covering the intersection between climate risk and artificial intelligence - as CEO and co-founder of Mitiga, Chairman of the UN-ITU Focus Group on AI for Natural Hazards, a researcher within the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (from which Mitiga was spun out), as well as as a climate researcher at the UK’s Met Office, data lead at the State of New Jersey’s Research department, and a research fellow at Rutgers University.

We were fascinated to discuss how Mitiga brings a data heavy, physics led approach to climate risk, moving from traditional stochastic models to probabilistic models using machine learning, and the vital role of transition risk analysis will play in the coming years for businesses across sectors.

The discussion also covered the functioning of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and how it manages tech transfer into spin-out ventures, what Alejandro has learned about bringing in and retaining world class scientific talent in a commercial enterprise (+50% of the Mitiga team hold PhDs), the growth of the data-led risk analysis space, as well as Mitiga’s journey raising funding rounds and traversing the venture capital landscape over the past half decade as a deep-tech climate business.

A highly insightful hour - big thanks to Alejandro for taking the time to speak with us.

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