Semilla.VC
Highlighting the most exciting and revolutionary figures in Latin American Venture Capital, Tech, and Society with Trip Gorman.
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Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
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 OneCarNow! Because there are 10 Million couriers in Latin America and while the average food/grocery courier using only a motorcycle earns only $480 per month, if they had access to a car to be a Uber or Didi driver, their average income would triple to $1,530 per month. But the current process of getting cars as an underbanked gig worker is slow, with low approval rates, slow processes, and high initial costs…so it’s no surprise that Mairon and his team at OneCarNow! are seeing massive growth.
In this interview you will learn:✅ OneCarNow!’s new partnership with Didi.✅ How OneCarNow! is solving gig workers’ problems in an unprecedented way.✅ Why Mairon chose Mexico City to build OneCarNow!✅ How user feedback has improved OneCarNow!’s offering.
and much, much more!
Thanks for making this happen Ali Jamal, Founding Partner at First Check Ventures!
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Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
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 she led local landings for different Facebook products in different Latin American markets.
In this interview you will learn:✅ Jimena’s experience shifting from being a founder to being an investor. ✅ Her experience co-founding and successfully exiting Carrot Carsharing✅ How Facebook tailors their products for landings in different Latin American countries.✅ Why Mexico's domestic tech talent is excellent.
and much, much more!
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
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 his first fund, pitching LPs, and how he caters his LP pitches for different audiences.✅ What it’s like going to college in Mexico vs. getting an MBA at MIT Sloan.✅ Where Hernán sees Mexico following Brazil’s growth trajectory and where he sees it deviating.✅ What most Americans get wrong about Mexican students in the United States.
and much, much more!
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Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
Tuesday Nov 15, 2022
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. Goffredo previously held a number of marketing roles in Panama.
In this interview you will learn:✅ Why he moved from Italy to Latin America to work and then found Aptoclick.✅ The difference between starting a company in Europe vs. Latin America.✅ How Proptech is different in Latin America vs. the United States.✅ Goffredo’s experience in Pygma’s accelerator program.
and much, much more!
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Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
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 Stranded Technologies Podcast.
In this episode you will learn:
✅ What a startup city is and how did Prospera get founded?✅ What it’s like to live in the startup city of “Prospera” in Honduras as well as the challenges, problems, benefits, and future predictions.✅ What are Stranded Technologies?✅ What it’s like being a digital nomad. ✅ Niklas’ process of founding Infinita Fund.
and much, much more!
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Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
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 strategies. She’s also an Executive Board Director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Monique has previously held executive positions with responsibility for corporate finance and strategic communications, and investor relations, at companies like AOL, Melia Americas, and Sky Latin America.
In this interview you will learn:✅ Monique’s incredible stories and lessons from her deep experience in Latin America.✅ What every founder should know about investor relations.✅ What role Wharton plays in Latin America.✅ How Latin American Technology has changed in the past few decades since Monique began working in the region.
and much, much more!
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Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
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 an entrepreneur-in-residence at Georgetown University and was previously the Co-Founder of TransitScreen. He also was a fellow in both the On Deck and Latitud programs. In this episode you will learn: ✅ What it’s like to live in Washington D.C. but travel very frequently to build Pacto in Mexico with his Mexico City-based team.✅ Why Ryan is bullish on Latin American Technology.✅ Ryan’s thoughts on Miami and Mexico City as technology hubs.✅ Ryan’s time as a baseball scout in the Dominican Republic.✅ What Ryan would tell American founders about founding in Mexico.
and much, much more!
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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
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 roles at Vetta, a corporate start-up generator. He was previously Co-Founder at okboy, ultra-fast propane delivery in Mexico and Agave Blanco, an online marketplace for flexible-wholesale of Mexican artisanal products
In this interview you will learn:✅ How his startup okboy collapsed due to mafias in the Mexican propane delivery market.✅ Mexico City’s founder and VC ecosystem, including discussing the specific neighborhoods where they live and meet up: like La Roma, Condessa, Polanco, and Del Valle. ✅ Why Christian is betting on Mexico for the long term, while others might not be.✅ If you can be a VC or startup founder as a non-Spanish speaking English speaker.
and much, much more!
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Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
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 in the expanding Latin American Venture Capital field. Fran was previously a Senior Investment Analyst at Dux Capital.
In this interview you will learn:✅The differences in salary & benefits between LatAm-based VCs and US-based VCs, and how the work experience and compensation of Latin American VCs will improve in the next decade.✅How and why https://youtu.be/I7NrVGFKw9Y have changed over the past year.✅Why where you went to school matters in the Mexican Venture Capital ecosystem.✅How Mexico’s Technology and Venture Capital growth compared to Brazil 3-5 years ago, and thus what we should expect to see in Mexico in the coming 3-5 years.
and much, much more!
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Follow Fran on Twitter: https://twitter.com/frangaos
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Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
Tuesday Oct 25, 2022
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 Tul, Marathon Labs, Latin Expansion Group, and Imaginamos.
In this interview you will learn:✅ How Mads & Hippo got into Y Combinator by disagreeing with a YC partner during their interview.✅ How he saved $9000 for a customer paying just $25.✅ Why LatAm isn’t that dangerous.
and much, much more!
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Hosted by Trip Gorman
Trip Gorman is a rising junior at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service studying Global Business and currently a Venture Capital Intern for The Cannon Project.
He will be attending a study abroad program during his junior fall in Buenos Aires, with weeklong trips to Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
At Georgetown, Trip is a Microeconomics Teaching Assistant and the Vice President of Venture Capital at Georgetown Student Capital Partners.
He interned over the spring as a China Research Intern for the U.S. Department of State and interned over the winter as a Venture Capital Investment Analyst Intern for a Shanghai-based VC fund, SOSV.
Last summer Trip interned in person for both SOMOS Internet (YC W'21) in Medellín, Columbia as well as California Senator Dianne Feinstein in her Capitol Hill office.
Trip spent his freshmen spring semester interning for Quicknode (YC W'21) while taking his online Georgetown classes from Monteverde, Costa Rica and previously spent a summer living in Elías Piña, Dominican Republic.