Throughout my professional life, I have worked in investing, mainly in public markets. After earning an MBA at Columbia Business School, I joined Orbis Investment Management, a global fund based in San Francisco, CA.

My experience taught me that a long-term investor's true competitive advantage lies outside the spreadsheet - it comes from understanding human behavior and a company’s culture. This realization led me to want to contribute to and invest in superior cultures from the beginning, and it's why I started advising startups and angel investing during my time in public markets.

As I became more familiar with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, I discovered that there is a huge opportunity in LatAm venture capital. Our best talent is no longer going to work for large corporations; instead, they are starting up companies to solve real challenges. This is both creating an excellent supply of companies to invest in and improving the economic and social fabric of the region.

As part of my desire to contribute to this change, I joined Kayyak's founding team with the goal of creating a firm that strives to be the benchmark in LatAm venture capital and helps mobilize capital to solve the problems we face as a society.

Cristóbal is based out of Santiago, Chile.

Contact
cristobal@kayyakventures.com