Since the very beginning of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with early-stage startups. First, I spent 18 years in Fundación Chile, an amazing innovation platform which has been pioneering VC and Impact Investing in our continent since 1982.

There, I experienced first-hand the development of the industry in Chile as we managed our spin-off portfolio companies and built our angel investment network, seed fund, early-stage fund and open innovation initiatives supporting hundreds of founders. I learnt that VC is about people, trust, purpose and passion.

I directly witnessed the transformative power that entrepreneurs have in society to improve people’s lives, regenerate our planet, create new quality jobs, promote meritocracy and generate social mobility, a purpose which I want to devote the rest of my career to. I learnt that in order to unleash that transformative power of entrepreneurs, we need to match their talent with adequate capital.

This is why I joined Kayyak, to mobilize private capital at scale to this industry and do my bit to improve the lives of millions of Latin Americans.

Sofía es based out of Santiago, Chile.

Contact
sofia@kayyakventures.com