LATAM's new startup factory
Caribe Ventures
As Founding Partner, I lead thesis and dealflow from Barranquilla. We invest pre-seed in Caribbean Colombian founders using AI to reinvent industries.
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Thesis at a glance
- Geography as thesis: the Colombian Caribbean is under-capitalized relative to its talent.
- Stage: pre-seed.
- Sector focus today: applied AI reinventing industries.
- Long horizon: the substrate of the next wave—robotics, physical AI, hardware. We invest today in the software/AI generation that will birth it.
- Structure: Delaware, standard for international co-investment.
- Proprietary dealflow: 3,000+ person ecosystem (Costa Digital, FCA, Tech Centre, flagship events).
- Integrated model: hackathon → acceleration → Demo Day in Barranquilla.
Barranqui-IAMay 22–24, 2026
Barranqui-IA
The Caribbean Colombia's first AI hackathon and the region's largest, where participants compete for 48 hours to build functional prototypes solving problems across different thematic areas. Also includes workshops as part of Google's Build with AI program.