What we look for
At pre-seed, the evidence is rarely complete. But it should point to something specific, urgent, and capable of becoming much larger.
What counts as signal
It is fine to be in love with your solution — but at pre-seed the problem matters more. We need to see it is real, big, and genuinely painful for the people who have it, not a story built to fit a product you already wanted to build.
Waitlists, LOIs, paid pilots, repeat usage, fast sales cycles, unusual retention, or workarounds customers already build themselves. This is what traction looks like to us before the company is polished.
The starting point can be narrow, but it should reveal a path to a broader system, market, workflow, or distribution advantage.
Real usage, real customer conversations, and workarounds people already rely on tell us more than any projection. We weight what is already happening.
Founder fit
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You see a specific customer pain more clearly than outsiders do, and your read on it keeps sharpening as you talk to the market.
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You learn and move fast. Every serious customer conversation makes the product, the story, and the plan sharper.
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You treat AI as part of how you think and operate, not a label. You know what to hand to a machine and, just as important, what to keep human.
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You believe this can become a consequential company — something that matters far beyond the first niche, not just a useful local business.
How we work
We think Latin America's next wave — the companies and the funds that back them — gets built as a collective effort, not by people working in isolation. We are collaborative by default, and we look for founders who are the same: people who share, connect, and make the ecosystem around them stronger, rather than only drawing from it.
Before you share
Use this when you put together what you send us. Clear answers to these will go further than a polished deck.
Substance before polish
We have been founders, worked with founders, and seen enough early companies to know the difference between noise and real signal. Substance matters more than polish. You do not need to make the company look institutional before showing it to us. Show us the real customer pain, the evidence you have, what you are learning, and why this wedge can become much larger.