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: Teller, Tail & more
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-CMO at Liti, ex-Head of Technology - Founding Member at Barte, ex-AI Engineer at BTG Pactual & more
📖 Recent Reads: The Org Chart in the Age of AI, Internal OpenAI Memo & more
🤝 Tech Talents Match: Now matching you with curated tech roles directly on WhatsApp. Get started here.
Let’s dive in…
🎊 Startup Launches
Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.
Teller
Overview
Startup Description: AI-powered platform transforming how people manage their money.
Industry: FinTech, AI
Team Size: 3
Time in Stealth: 9 months
Founder Profile
Eduardo de Brida Alves - Co-founder at Teller
Founder Highlights: Masters, Top University, Ex-Consultant, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Capital Markets Associate at Madrona Advogados, MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Bachelor’s in Law from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
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Tail
Overview
Startup Description: AI copilot for services procurement that converts requests into structured requisitions and syncs to ERP/e-proc for faster, auditable approvals.
Industry: Supply Chain, AI
Team Size: 4
Time in Stealth: 1 year, 3 months
Founder Profile
João Oliveira - Co-Founder & CTO at Tail
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #27.
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant
Previous Experience: ex-Principal Engineer, Data & AI at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, ex-Big Data Solutions Architect at Semantix Brasil, ex-Solutions Architect at TOTVS Labs.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
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Trix Travel
Overview
Startup Description: AI platform that automates travel logistics and itinerary planning in minutes, replacing spreadsheet chaos.
Industry: Travel, AI
Team Size: 1
Time in Stealth: 1 month
Founder Profile
Paulo Pena Junior – Founder at Trix Travel
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Masters, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Unicorn Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Partner & Product Growth Manager at Neon, ex-Demand Planning Lead - S&OP at Ambev, Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering from UEFS.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
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StockFY
Overview
Startup Description: Cloud WMS for SMEs to manage inventory, orders, picking and shipping, with real-time stock and ERP/marketplace integrations for e-commerce.
Industry: Supply Chain
Team Size: 8
Time in Stealth: 1 year, 6 months
Founder Profile
Natália Cassol - CEO & Founder at StockFY
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #36.
Founder Highlights: Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Head of Operations (COO) at gal, ex-Head of Global Logistics at Daki, ex-Head of Operations (Sempre em Casa) at Ambev, Bachelor’s in Business Administration (International Trade) from PUCRS.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
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+4 other recently announced startups over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth
Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.
Antonio B. – Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Masters, Top University, Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate, Investor, Ex-Consultant
Previous Experience: ex-Founder at AB Digital, ex-CMO at Liti, ex-Product Strategy Manager at Meta, ex-Consultant at Bain & Company, MBA from The Wharton School, BA in Marketing from ESPM.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 2 months
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Gustavo Gottardi – Building something big at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Masters, Ex-Corporate, Serial Founder, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Head of Technology - Founding Member at Barte, ex-Co-Founder at Mageda Code, ex-Senior Software Developer at KOIN, MBA from Centro Universitário UniMetrocamp.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Henrique Lemos Freire Matias – Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant
Previous Experience: ex-AI Engineer at BTG Pactual, ex-Junior Software Engineer at BCG X, ex-Founder at Inteli Blockchain, Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Inteli.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Ygor Canazar – Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Previous Exit, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Founder at Wisemade, ex-Design Manager at Brivia, ex-Staff / Growth Design Lead at Jusfy, Graduação in Information Technology (design-oriented) from Senac Brasil.
Headquarters: Brazil
Time in Current Position: 3 months
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Raffaella Bignardi – Building at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Big Tech, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: ex-Sales Director at AppsFlyer, ex-Head of Sales & Customer Success at Quanto, ex-Sales Strategy and Operations Manager, Americas at Google, Stanford Ignite.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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Rodrigo Vidal – Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Masters, Ex-Consultant, Unicorn Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Director of Engineering / Senior Staff Engineer at Stone, ex-Senior Data & ML Engineer at Cazoo, ex-Senior Staff Software Engineer at VTEX eCommerce Cloud.
Headquarters: Brazil
Time in Current Position: 11 months
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+4 other Talents to Watch (likely to move) over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro
📖 Recent Reads
My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.
OpenAI seems to be going through a bit of an identity crisis, highlighted by an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The company has historically been extremely successful with consumer-facing products like ChatGPT, but it is now doubling down on its B2B, enterprise offerings. The rationale behind this strategic shift, according to Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser, is how easy it has become for users to switch between AI models, and the belief that thinking "like a platform company with multiple entry points and one integrated enterprise offering" is the path to long-term success. The memo also takes direct aim at OpenAI's biggest competitor, Anthropic, accusing it of inflating its run rate and calling its decision not to secure enough compute a "strategic misstep", evidence that the fierce rivalry often depicted by the media very much transpires inside these organizations as well.
This article by Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, and Roelof Botha, partner at Sequoia, explores how the traditional organizational chart will change in the age of AI. From how the Roman Army solved the challenge of coordinating thousands of people across vast distances with limited communication through a nested hierarchy (groups of people with layers of authority and defined reporting lines), to Frederick Taylor breaking work into specialized tasks in the late 1800s, to more recent attempts by tech companies like Spotify, Zappos, and Valve to push past the limitations of hierarchical systems, org chart models are an ever-evolving concept, and AI is expected to drastically reshape it once again.
Block questions whether organizations really need to be hierarchically organized with humans as the coordination mechanism. Instead, they aim to replace human middle management with an AI-powered “world model” that captures how the company understands itself, its operations, performance, and priorities, composed through an intelligence layer that proactively assembles solutions for customers. Fortunately, people still have a place in the org chart proposed by Block: they sit at the edge, reaching into places the model can’t go yet and sensing what it can’t perceive — intuition, opinionated direction, cultural context, trust dynamics, the feeling in a room. Whether this will pan out for Block and similar companies remains to be seen, but the fact is that AI will change the traditional org chart.
Concentration is what defines the current venture funding landscape — and this CB Insights report exemplifies it. OpenAI's historic $122 billion corporate minority round represented 54% of the $226 billion raised by private AI companies in Q1 2026, a quarter that alone surpassed 2025's full-year total of $217 billion. Mega-rounds ($100M+ deals) accounted for 94% of total funding, pushing the year-to-date average deal size to $160 million, more than 4x the $38 million average in 2025. Several thoughts come to mind after reading this data: the astronomical amount of capital demanded by foundational model companies, the size of the eventual IPOs required to justify these rounds, the leverage these players now hold in the AI talent war, and the narrowing window for differentiation among startups outside the frontier tier. But most importantly, for founders, it underscores the importance of not taking headline numbers at face value. It's only when you drill down into the data that you understand the real state of the market.
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