Latitud Podcast

Caetano Lacerda and Raphael Dyxklay scaled their fintech from $1M to $40M in revenue in just two years. And they did it all out in the open. Barte is a financial control center that helps medium to large companies manage their cash flow. Co-founders Caetano and Raphael decided to build this in public as soon as they found product-market fit. Since then, they’ve shared their wins, their failures, and everything in between. That became one of their biggest competitive advantages. It he...

This chat is one I have wanted to share for a while. Back in 2022, we at Latitud met and invested in Fabrício. He had just left his corporate job. He also had a precise diagnosis. Healthcare insurers in Brazil were losing 20 to 40 percent of their revenue to fraud, waste, and abuse. And he knew what the next step was. What happened next is a masterclass in early-stage execution. Fabrício and co-founder Rafael spent months designing the first product. That included val...

Fintech is the most mature startup segment in Latin America. But we still have a long way to go. Tomás Mindlin had an insight — companies that scale their user base need a payment network that can walk alongside them. And that’s how tapi was born. In just three years, the Buenos Aires-born fintech became the largest payment network in Spanish-speaking Latin America. A year ago, it raised a 22 million dollar Series A round, led by Kaszek and Andreessen Horowitz. At Latitud Ventures...

Santiago Rosenblatt has been hacking since he was a kid growing up in Uruguay. Curiosity turned into a career: as an ethical hacker, Santi led cybersecurity efforts at companies like AstroPay and PedidosYa, now part of Delivery Hero. But he had a hunch that this pain was actually massive, and faced by businesses of all sizes, sectors, and headquarters. Chats with company leaders proved that they were trying, but failing, to cover their safety vulnerabilities. That’s how Santi created St...

Jorge Vargas Neto is now on his third journey as a fintech founder – and we had the pleasure of being not only one of their first customers, but also their first venture capital check. In three and a half years, the fintech achieved a $20M ARR and went from -696% to 63% gross margin. BHub now supports over seven thousand companies in Brazil, through backoffice services powered by AI. Jorge’s back to the pod to give us a masterclass on how to successfully incorporate artificial intelligence in...