Patrick sat down with Allan Boruchowicz, co-founder and Managing Partner of leading Central American fund Carao Ventures to talk about his journey into VC, the opportunities for the Central American region as an underserved market to invest in, how to maximise value add as a VC and how fast paced due diligence has created new dynamics in LatAm.
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About Allan Boruchowicz
Allan Boruchowicz is founding partner of Central American early stage VC Carao Ventures based out of San Jose, Costa Rica. He has worked with startups at different stages for the last 8 years, both in the US and Latin America. Allan has early-stage investment experience in SaaS, biotech, healthtech, fintech, AI, e-commerce, mobile technologies, and food & beverage industries. Allan led Carao Ventures' investments in Huli, Slidebean, Speratum, BildTEK, Singularities, GoPass and GoPato, and is a General Partner of the recently launched Carao Ventures Fund I, LP. Prior to founding Carao Ventures, Allan was an Associate at Mesoamerica Investments, a leading M&A advisory, strategy consulting and private equity firm in Central America and the Andean Region, with offices in San Jose, Costa Rica and Bogota, Colombia. Allan's previous professional experience includes investment portfolio management at UBS Wealth Management US.
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