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: Carro Claro
🦄 Leadership Movements: CMO & CCO at Fintalk, Chief Marketing Officer at Revena & more
📖 Recent Reads: Hype in Tech, The Future is for Everyone
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Founder at Linker (acquired by Omie), Senior Staff Software Engineer at Wildlife Studios, Stanford GSB MBA & more
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Let’s dive in…
🎊 Startup Launches
Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.
Carro Claro
Overview
Startup Description: AI-powered vehicle history and risk-check platform turning multi-source data into simple used-car reports with a 0–100 risk score.
Industry: Mobility Tech, AI, B2C
Team Size: 1
Time in Stealth: 1 year, 2 months
Founder Profile
Adriano Garcia Venancio - Founder at Carro Claro
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant
Previous Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Play2sell S.A., ex-Founder and Product Leader at CodeAgil, MBA from Boston University, Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Centro Universitário Fundação Santo André.
Headquarters: Brazil
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+1 other Announced Startups over the past two weeks with Tech Talents Pro
🦄 Leadership Movements
Promotions, new hires, and other movements in local unicorns and scaleups’ executive-level.
Fernanda Papini - CMO & CCO at Fintalk
Previous Role: CEO at Medban
Previous Experience: Ex-Executive Vice President of Retail & Wholesale at Getnet Brasil, ex-Gerente Vendas Corporate Senior at Cielo, ESPM.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 2 months
Adriana Rangel - Chief Marketing Officer at Revena
Previous Role: Chief Marketing Officer at Nilo Saúde
Previous Experience: Ex-Marketing Director - Middle East & Africa at UiPath, ex-Marketing Director - Middle East & North Africa at VMware, Executive MBA from USP, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Science from UFU.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 5 months
Rafael Soares Gonçalves - Chief Design & Experience Officer (CDXO) at Bys Insurance
Previous Role: Executive Director at Mutant
Previous Experience: Ex-Director of People & Culture and Strategic Planning at Cadastra, ex-Senior Consultant at Paralelo Sandbox, Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Centro Universitário Belas Artes.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 3 months
📖 Recent Reads
My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.
Sequoia Capital partner Konstantine Buhler shared an interesting chart that tackles a question the tech industry has argued about for decades: should you chase hype or ignore it? He ranked the most hyped topics on Hacker News (a social news site run by Y Combinator) for every year since 2007 and, under each year, added the most valuable company founded that same year. Konstantine cites three observations and the most interesting one is that generational companies were founded in years in which the most hyped topics had nothing to do with their own businesses. Uber arrived in 2009, when the hype was around low-level programming; Anthropic was founded in 2021 when everyone was talking about crypto. The one thing I will point out is that Hacker News is mostly accessed by technical people, so it will be worth following their next studies on different social channels such as X and LinkedIn.
Mark Zuckerberg released an essay titled “The Future is for Everyone” in which he argues that everyone should have access to personal superintelligence. The text was published alongside the release of Meta's new open source model Muse Glimmer, which can run on a regular laptop, and this was no accident, since he believes open models will be essential to achieving the democratization of advanced AI. Different from other essays from other high-profile AI leaders, Mark's is overall extremely optimistic, and he says outright that he does not understand why the discourse from other labs is "so filled with doom." He does go over some of the risks around the technology and put real proposals on the table, including handing Meta's independent board the power to approve safety criteria for model releases. But nearly every mitigation resolves back to the same answer: distribute more and give superintelligence to everyone, which seems a bit too convenient. Regardless, any public manifestation about how these leaders think about the future of AI is positive, and Meta remains the only US frontier lab treating open weights as a strategic pillar, something I fully agree will be essential for harnessing the potential benefits coming from this technology.
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth
Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.
David Mourão - Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Previous Exit, Masters, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Scaleup Experience, Fintech
Signals: Repeat fintech founder with an exit (Linker, acquired by Omie).
Previous Experience: Ex-Managing Director - Financial Services at Omie, ex-Founder & CEO at Linker, ex-Interim Managing Director at Ektos, ex-Alternative Investments Manager at Vinci Partners, MBA in Finance from Duke Fuqua School of Business, Bachelor’s degree in Economics from PUC-RJ.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 8 months
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Lucas Tavolaro Ortiz – Builder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Top University, Ex-Big Tech, Technical Founder, Fintech
Signals: Building in AI + Education since Jun 2026; prev. Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Wildlife Studios and Solutions Engineer @ Meta.
Previous Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager - Checkout: Payments & Fraud at HTS (Hopper Technology Solutions), ex-Senior Staff Software Engineer at Wildlife Studios, ex-Solutions Engineer at Meta, ex-Software Developer at Avature, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Headquarters: Argentina
Time in Current Position: 2 months
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+6 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:
Ex-COO of a LatAm proptech through its exit, then COO of a 400-person regional group. Stanford GSB MBA, class of 2026.
Ex-Nubank and fintech scaleup, now on a second venture straight off a two-year co-founder run.
Repeat founder whose last company raised a $1.5M pre-seed and reached ~500 retail clients.