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:
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Head of AI and Data at Solfácil, ex-Head of Product at Jusbrasil, ex-CRO at G4 Educação & more
🎊 Startup Launches: Orbit Labs
🦄 Unicorn Movements: New Chief Product Officer at Nubank, New CTO at EBANX
📖 Recent Reads: Interaction Models, Big Tech’s “other income” & more
🤝 Tech Talents Match: Vagas em startups brasileiras, atualizadas diariamente. Acesse aqui.
Let’s dive in…
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth
Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.
Eduardo Curado – Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Masters, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Head of AI and Data at Solfácil, ex-Head of Operations at Adianta, Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 7 months
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Thomas Marçal – Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Corporate, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Group Product Manager at Solfácil, ex-Risk Manager at Solfácil, Bachelor’s in Economics from USP - Universidade de São Paulo.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 7 months
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Gabriela Migliorini – Co-Founder & CPTO at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Masters, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-Head of Product at Jusbrasil (Jus IA), ex-Head of Product at Trybe, ex-Business and Analytics Consultant at EloGroup, Bachelor’s in Production Engineering from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Master’s in Data Science from ISIMA.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 4 months
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Rafael Maia – Chief Anything Officer at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: ex-CRO at G4 Educação, ex-Co-Founder at Kuke, ex-Chief Executive Officer at LUZ, ex-CRO at Flash Benefícios, ex-Vice President - Partners at Gympass, ex-Business Improvement Manager at Grupo SOMA, Bachelor of Social Communication in Marketing from ESPM.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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🎊 Startup Launches
Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.
Orbit Labs
Overview
Startup Description: AI transformation consulting for enterprises, from strategy to execution at startup speed.
Industry: AI, Consulting
Team Size: 4
Time in Stealth: 1 year
Founder Profile
Juan Pablo Guayacan - Co-Founder at Orbit Labs
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Big Tech
Previous Experience: Ex-Business Intelligence Analyst at Procter & Gamble, ex-Junior Consultant at Inmel Ingeniería, ex-Customer Service Representative at Amazon, Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Headquarters: Mexico
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🦄 Unicorn Movements
Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns’ executive-level.
Carl Rivera - Chief Product Officer at Nubank
Previous Role: Chief Design Officer at Shopify
Previous Experience: ex-VP Product (Merchant Services & Shop) at Shopify, ex-VP Product (Shop.app, Shop Pay) at Shopify, ex-Co-Founder & CEO at Tictail, ex-Digital Art Director & Partner at Identity Works.
Headquarters: United States
Time in Current Position: 1 month
Kalecser Pasquali Kurtz – CTO at EBANX
Previous Role: VP of Technology at EBANX
Previous Experience: ex-VP of Software Engineering at EBANX, ex-Software Developer at ACA Technology Solutions, ex-Team Lead at Objective Solutions.
Headquarters: Curitiba, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 1 month
📖 Recent Reads
My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced its new interaction models. Differently from current popular models like GPT and Claude that support one-way turn-based interactions (you talk and wait for the model's output to respond), this model has duplex real-time interaction capability. It can process audio and visual cues simultaneously, run searches while talking and listening, and produce visualizations while keeping the conversation going. The company claims a 0.40-second response time, roughly the speed of natural human conversation. It is easy to see useful applications for this technology, from more natural conversations with our agents to powering robotic hardware in industrial or household tasks. However, this was just a research preview, and it is unclear how the model will perform in real-world scenarios.
Speaking of new AI models, Anthropic announced its newest model, Mythos, in April. Its cybersecurity capabilities were so advanced that the company decided not to release it to the public yet, giving access only to a few select companies, including cyber-focused ones, so they could fix vulnerabilities before this technology is widely available. Mozilla was one of those companies, and they revealed that in April 2026, Firefox (their browser) shipped 423 bug fixes — nearly 14x the number from exactly a year earlier. Some of the bugs Mythos surfaced had been dormant in the code for over a decade. While AI is still not able to fully fix these bugs on its own, this highlights how far the technology has come in a short period of time.
Big Techs recently reported their earnings for the first quarter of 2026, and what caught the market's attention was not only their massive capex forecasts but also the increase in the "other income" line of their P&Ls, where gains (or losses) from private investments in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are accounted for. Alphabet, the biggest investor in Anthropic, booked $37.7 billion of "other income" in just the first three months of the year, accounting for over half the company's net income over the period. Amazon, also one of the biggest Anthropic backers, reported nearly $16 billion in other income, up from $2.7 billion in the same period last year. Together, Alphabet and Amazon generated $53 billion in other income in Q1, the group's largest collective share of earnings from this line in at least a decade, with $49 billion of it explicitly tied to equity stakes in private companies. This means these large AI players are not only boosting Big Tech's cloud revenues, but also lifting their other income lines through the appreciation of their own equity — nothing wrong with it, just another sign of the circular economies at play in this market.
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Talent movement usually tells you more about where the real opportunity sits than funding announcements ever do. The people quietly changing seats right now are effectively voting with their careers on which sectors actually have legs.