Welcome to Tech Talents! In this newsletter, I share real-time key talent movements in the LatAm tech ecosystem, including founders entering and exiting stealth mode, executive-level movements in unicorns, and partner-level changes in local VC firms.
Here’s a quick look at what you’ll find in this week’s edition:
🎊 Startup Launches: Atthena, Snapshots
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: ex-Engineering Manager at Gringo, ex-Interim VP of Growth at Pipefy, ex-Senior Software Engineer at PagBank, ex-Co-Founder at Arado & more
🦄 Unicorn Movements: new CTO at Neon
📖 Recent Reads: OpenClaw creator podcast, The Adolescence of Technology & more
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Let’s dive in…
🎊 Startup Launches
Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.
Atthena
Overview
Startup Description: Atthena provides AI-optimized data infrastructure for Brazil’s capital markets, transforming CVM regulatory filings into a structured, relational, fully traceable database.
Industry: SaaS, AI
Team Size: 3
Time in Stealth: N/A
Founder Profile
Tiago Quadros - Co-Founder at Atthena
Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Associate at Seneca Evercore, ex-M&A Analyst at Singular Partners, Bachelor’s in Economics from Insper.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Co-Founder: João Terra
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Snapshots
Overview
Startup Description: Snapshots helps founders regain strategic clarity by running 2–4 week sprints that surface fresh customer insights through private, anonymous interviews and culminate in a decision‑ready strategic readout.
Industry: AI
Team Size: 1
Time in Stealth: 6 months
Founder Profile
Roberto Núñez Candiani - Founder at Snapshots
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Latitud Fellow, Unicorn Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Founder at Coffee Science, ex-Interim Managing Director at Finerio Connect, ex-VP of Product at Habi, ex-Head of the Digital Bank at Banco Sabadell México, MBA from IPADE Business School, Bachelor’s in Digital Technology from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Headquarters: Mexico
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🤫 Talents Entering Stealth
Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.
Bruno Luis Panuto Silva – Co-founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Unicorn Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Software Engineer at Embroker, ex-Engineering Manager at Gringo, ex-Senior Staff Software Engineer at will bank, ex-Senior Backend Developer at iFood, technical degree in Informatics from UNICAMP.
Headquarters: Campinas, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 3 months
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Elton Miranda – Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: Ex-Interim VP of Growth at Pipefy, ex-CEO at GrowthHackers, ex-Strategic Advisor at Nuvini, ex-Founder at Contentools, ex-Mentor at Google Launchpad.
Headquarters: Florianópolis, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Lucas Guellis de Souza – Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Tech Lead at MedCof, ex-Senior Software Engineer at PagBank PagSeguro, Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from UFSCar.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Manuel Honorio de la Torre – Cofounder & CTO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Top University
Previous Experience: ex-CTO at Zenfi, ex-Founder at Spott, ex-Cofounder & CTO at VoxFeed, Master’s Degree in Systems Optimization and Control & Automation from Universidad Panamericana.
Headquarters: Mexico
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Tiago Togores – Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Top University, Ex-Big Tech
Previous Experience: ex-Founder at Hephaestus, ex-Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, ex-Full Stack Engineer at Opus Software, Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Universidade de São Paulo, Bachelor’s in Computer Science from USP.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 2 years, 6 months
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Yuri Janotti – Co-founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Top University, Latitud Fellow, Ex-Consultant, Unicorn Experience, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Director of Operations at Veroo, ex-Co-Founder at Arado, ex-Product Management Consultant at Sciensa, ex-Data Product Manager at iClinic, ex-E-commerce Leader at Rappi, BBA in Business Administration from USP.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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🦄 Unicorn Movements
Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns’ executive-level.
Fabiola Marchiori – Chief Technology Officer at Banco Neon
Previous Role: VP of Engineering & General Manager at Nubank
Previous Experience: ex-Director of Technology at Itaú Unibanco, ex-CTO at iti Itaú, ex-Head of Digital IT Transformation LatAm at Itaú Unibanco, General Manager Program at INSEAD.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
📖 Recent Reads
My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.
OpenClaw took the tech world by storm this month. If you haven't heard about it, it's an autonomous AI assistant that lives on your computer, has access to all your files and apps, talks to you via WhatsApp, and can use any model you'd like. It was mostly built by Peter Steinberger and is available as an open-source project, meaning anyone can download and modify it as they wish.
In this Lex Fridman podcast, Peter goes over the story of how he created OpenClaw. What struck me most is that he attributes much of OpenClaw's success to the fact that he was building it for fun. While other companies trying to build agentic solutions took themselves too seriously, he just wanted it to be a fun, weird experience. That strategy seems to have worked out pretty well as OpenAI recently hired Peter to lead the company's personal agents efforts.
Until recently, most of the massive AI infrastructure capex from Big Tech was funded from their own balance sheets. That seems to be changing: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have taken on $121 billion in debt in 2025, up from $28 billion on average over the previous five years. For this year, AI capex is projected to consume all of Amazon's cash flow from operations, and most of it at Google and Meta. This is just another data point reflecting their conviction about the long-term opportunity of this technology.
Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic, recently released a new essay called The Adolescence of Technology. Unlike his previous piece, Machines of Loving Grace, which explored the potential benefits AI could bring to society and the economy, this one goes over the risks of the technology and how to mitigate them. In his words, powerful AI is akin to a “country of geniuses in a data center, […] 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist”. If and when we get there, what should we be worried about? Among the risks he outlines:
Autonomy risk: AI systems could develop unpredictable, coherent, and destructive behaviors. Not because misalignment is inevitable, but because the training process is complex and hard to fully control.
Misuse for destruction: A disturbed individual who lacks expertise could be walked step-by-step through creating a bioweapon. Anthropic’s models are already approaching the threshold where, without safeguards, they could enable this.
Misuse for seizing power: AI-powered mass surveillance and personalized propaganda, for instance, could enable permanent totalitarianism.
Economic disruption: AI will likely displace jobs faster, broader, and deeper than any previous technology.
Indirect effects: Unknown unknowns from rapid scientific acceleration (radical life extension, AI-driven changes to human psychology, and questions of human purpose in a world where AI exceeds us at everything).
Despite the gravity of these risks, I’m aligned with Amodei’s cautiously optimistic view of rejecting both doomerism and complacency. With decisive, evidence-based action, humanity can navigate this "technological adolescence" successfully.
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