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: Zenbild, Datamase, Figo Saúde, Alchemy ERP, Alia
🦄 Leadership Movements: Executive Director of Strategy & Expansion at Stay, Head of Product Marketing and Partnerships at Strattum
📖 Recent Reads: We Must Pace the Frontier, System One Models & Jev
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth: Ex-Technical Leader, GenAI Productivity at Mercado Libre, ex-Head of Marketing at a Brazilian neobank unicorn & more
🤝 Tech Talents Match: Veja vagas abertas em mais de 20 startups brasileiras, atualizadas diariamente. Acesse aqui.
Let’s dive in…
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Ainda tomando decisões no escuro?
🎊 Startup Launches
Founders who have just publicly announced what they are working on.
Zenbild
Overview
Startup Description: AI jobsite platform for contractors that centralizes communication, tasks, and files, automating updates to reduce paperwork, miscommunication, and rework.
Industry: Construction Tech, AI
Team Size: 4
Time in Stealth: 11 months
Joaquim Venancio – Co-Founder & CEO at Zenbild
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Previous Exit, Ex-Corporate, Investor, Unicorn Experience, Scaleup Experience
Previous Experience: Ex-Director of Product at Antiwire, ex-Director of Product at IBBX Wireless Energy, ex-Director of Product Management at QuintoAndar, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz.
Headquarters: United States
Co-Founder: Bruno Schmidt
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Datamase
Overview
Startup Description: Datamase is the orchestrator of business tools: it connects everything, cross-references information and generates insights, ideas and opportunities to increase revenue, reduce inefficiencies and improve decisions.
Industry: AI, SaaS
Ygor Canazar - Founder at Datamase
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #47
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters, Previous Exit, Top University, Ex-Corporate, Unicorn Experience
Previous Experience: Ex-Founder at Wisemade, ex-Design Manager at Brivia, ex-Staff / Growth Design Lead at Jusfy, ex-Senior Product Designer at Cielo.
Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Figo Saúde
Overview
Startup Description: Health data intelligence platform turning exams, wearables, history and habits into personalized decisions and continuous behavior change.
Industry: HealthTech
Team Size: 4
Time in Stealth: 1 year
Lucas Juffo - Co-Founder & CEO at Figo Saúde
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #21
Founder Highlights: Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant, Scaleup Experience, Top University
Previous Experience: Ex-Chief of Staff at Educbank, ex-Gerente de Novos Negócios at SOMOS Educação, Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from FGV.
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Co-Founder: Pedro Weber
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Alchemy ERP
Overview
Startup Description: AI-native ERP automating accounting and finance with 24/7 AI agents, real-time visibility, and 7-day setup for services and tech companies.
Industry: SaaS, AI, FinTech
Team Size: 6
Time in Stealth: 1 year
Willian Menegali - CTO & Co-founder at Alchemy ERP
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #48
Founder Highlights: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Ex-Corporate
Previous Experience: Ex-Cofundador at Alinea Health, ex-Product & Tech at Anthor, ex-CTO at Pip - Social Network of Recipes.
Headquarters: Curitiba, Brazil
Co-Founder: Fernando Ribeiro (CEO)
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Alia
Overview
Startup Description: Agentic team coordination platform helping companies reach goals faster.
Industry: AI, SaaS
Team Size: 7
Time in Stealth: 11 months
Livia Kuga - Co-founder at Alia
Previously featured as a Stealth Founder in Tech Talents #54
Founder Highlights: Masters, Top University, Doctorate, Ex-Corporate, Ex-Consultant
Previous Experience: Ex-Independent Consultant at Independent Consultant, ex-Partner and People ops in Hyper-growth at Stone Pagamentos, Doctor of Science in Business Administration and Management at FGV EAESP, MBA from FGV EAESP.
Headquarters: US
Co-Founder: Thomas Filshill
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+5 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.
Mara Santos - Executive Director of Strategy & Expansion at Stay
Previous Role: Chief of Staff at Buser Brasil
Previous Experience: Country Manager at LUZA Group, Project Leader and Consultant at Falconi, MBA from FGV.
Headquarters: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 3 months
Arthur Guttilla - Head of Product Marketing and Partnerships at Strattum
Previous Role: Founder & CEO at Tropicalia (Acquired by Strattum)
Previous Experience: AI and Emerging Technologies teacher at Link School, Account Manager at Google, Startup Sales Representative at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Headquarters: São Paulo, Brazil
Time in Current Position: 2 months
📖 Recent Reads
My quick takes on interesting articles, news and data that I’ve come across recently.
We Must Pace the Frontier by Dario Amodei
AI safety has taken over much of the public conversation in the past few weeks, and two episodes explain why. The first is the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, in which roughly over a thousand agents that were supposed to be isolated from one another managed to communicate, spontaneously organize themselves, and run a multi day attack on Hugging Face’s infrastructure, even trying to hack the grader that was evaluating them. The second is Jacob Coxon, a researcher who left Anthropic this month saying that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI is “acting responsibly”.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, responded with an essay asking frontier labs to pace the development of AI. His plan has three steps: embedded third party evaluators with employee level access inside the labs, coordination among democratic countries on common safety standards, and eventually global coordination, including with authoritarian governments. He is careful to say pacing is not a pause, and he pairs it with keeping the American lead intact through export controls, which is what makes the proposal politically viable at all. I am not sure competitors will adopt the plan as written, but I do think pacing matters, precisely so that labs have time to improve how they train models and to actually understand how they work before we move on to more capable and potentially more destructive ones.
System One Models & Jev by Diogo Almeida
A new kind of AI model launched last week, and it does not produce words like the LLMs we are used to. So how does it work? Jev is a decision model: unstructured context goes in, typed decisions with calibrated probabilities come out. Say you are building software that reads customer emails and decides whether the customer is angry or not. You don’t need a paragraph of reasoning, which is what existing models give you. You need a probability for each possible answer and a decision your code can act on. Giving up text generation makes Jev 40x to 200x faster than frontier models and dramatically cheaper and it cannot hallucinate or return a malformed answer because every possible output is defined in advance. It comes from TypeSafe AI, a lab that spent two years in stealth, led by Diogo Almeida, who worked at OpenAI and helped them build ChatGPT. It is now in early access and I can’t wait to try it out.
🤫 Talents Entering Stealth
Talents with relevant experiences who have just entered stealth mode.
Alan Julián De Angelis – Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Founder Highlights: Technical Founder, Ex-Big Tech, Unicorn Experience
Signals: Left Mercado Libre in Sep 2026, where he was the Technical Leader of GenAI Productivity. He brings a deep technical background in Go, backend, and distributed systems from Mercado Libre and McAfee.
Headquarters: Córdoba, Argentina
Time in Current Position: 1 month
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+3 more Stealth Founders this week with Pro, including:
Two years at Google and five at an investment bank, most recently in Brazilian energy trading, which he left in May. Now founder of a stealth venture in São Paulo.
Growth executive who ran marketing at a Brazilian neobank unicorn, was CMO at a health insurtech and VP of Growth at a top LatAm VC firm. Left a scaleup last month to join a stealth startup’s founding team.
Operations and ecommerce executive with corporate roles at a global eyewear group, a navigation tech giant, a Brazilian mobile unicorn and a state-owned bank. Founded an HR tech venture this year and is now building in stealth.