Built by founders

We back bold founders seeking to define a better future in Latin America and beyond, partnering with pre-scale companies that show early signs of product-market fit. Comprised of founders and operators who founded and scaled some of the biggest companies in Latin America (and the world), we know the challenges founders face every day and carry the battle scars to prove it.

Atlantico Team

  • Julio Vasconcellos

    FOUNDING PARTNER

    Former CEO & Founder of Peixe Urbano (sold to Baidu), Facebook’s first LatAm hire, EIR at Benchmark, and Founding Partner of Canary and Graph Ventures.

  • Ana Martins

    PARTNER

    Joined Atlantico at the very beginning with previous experiences in Investment Banking at BTG Pactual and Investing at Pear VC and Invus Opportunities.

  • Victor Ramos

    INVESTOR

    Previously worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company and with Logistics & Operations at Stone. Founding member of UFRJ's endowment fund.

  • Henrique Baruselli

    INVESTOR

    Previously worked as an Investor at Global Founders Capital and Country Launcher as well as Head of Growth and Strategy at Lemon Cash.

  • Bernardo Miura

    INVESTOR

    Previously worked as a Management Consultant at Bain & Company and with Public Equities at Opportunity Asset Management.

  • Maria Ernanny

    PLATFORM & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

    Maria was part of the team that launched WeWork in Brazil. She also worked with Business Development at both AWS and Grão VC.

  • Anna Sobral

    TALENT & PORTFOLIO SUPPORT

    Anna has over 10 years of experience in People & Community roles. She holds a Master’s in International Management from Bocconi and the University of Sydney.

Venture Partners

  • Hugo Barra

    VENTURE PARTNER

    A lifelong technologist Hugo was VP of Product for Android at Google, VP of Global Business at Xiaomi in China, and VP of Virtual Reality at Facebook. He is currently CEO of health diagnostics company Detect.

  • Mate Pencz

    VENTURE PARTNER

    Mate is the co-founder and CEO of Brazilian real estate unicorn, Loft. He previously founded e-commerce company Printi and is a founding partner at Canary.

  • Gui Telles

    VENTURE PARTNER

    Gui launched and ran Uber in Brazil as its local CEO/GM before becoming the Global Head of Operations at Jump. Most recently he was CMO & CSO of Brazilian fintech unicorn PicPay.

  • Ariana Poursartip

    VENTURE PARTNER

    Ariana founded Square Capital (at Square), served as the VP of Product at Petal, was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thrive, and a fintech product lead at Shopify.

Operating Partners

  • Alejandro Maldonado

    PEOPLE and LEADERSHIP

    Executive Coach and expert in leadership for CEOs.

  • Gustavo Andriani

    MARKETING

    Former CEO of MAC Cosmetics North America, SVP of Estée Lauder, CMO of Addi.

  • Irit Epellbaum

    PRODUCT

    VP of Product at Solv Health, VP of Product at Zap/Viva Real and early product leader at Trulia.

  • Rafael Dahis

    GROWTH

    Former Global Head of Growth of Instagram; Product-Growth at Patreon and Twitter.

  • Marcos Voltolini

    AI and ENGINEERING

    Former Engineering Lead at Nextdoor, Co-founder at Mercê do Bairro and Pixel Labs.

  • Rodrigo Schmidt

    ENGINEERING

    15-year Engineering leader at Meta (Head of Engineering for New Products, Sr. Director at Instagram, Facebook AI, Facebook).

  • Thiago Cyrino

    SALES

    VP of Global Head of Sales and Business Development at Gympass