🎥 Season finale of the Latitud Fellowship in SF! Kicking off our teasers with timeless advice from Y Combinator & Vercel: 1. Listen to users longer 2. Build what they don't know how to ask for 3. Stay lean and lethal with your team + AI 4. Extreme focus: pick 1 thing and excel

Valuable insights can come from founders a few steps ahead. Our fellows felt it when having brekkie w/ Justo Ferraro, of Fudo. The Latitud portfolio company changes restaurant operations w/ software, and was a part of our LatAm VSaaS Roundtable🎥: bit.ly/42Zi17c

Wrapping up our week in SF, Latitud fellows picked the brains of a16z, DST Global, Pear VC, and Ribbit Capital. A teaser?🧠 1. Prove your core motivation and resilience 2. Talent magnetism is a real signal 3. Clarity = credibility 4. Find your customer group + nail distribution

@CallGigiAI just dropped. Gigi is the AI who knows everyone. She scraped your online life, psychoanalyzed you, and now she’s telling you who you should actually meet. You didn’t sign up. You already have a profile. You already have a ranking. You can run a vibe check on

1 unforgettable week in San Francisco. Yeah, it was about ambition and hustle. But more than that? Connection. The Latitud Resident Fellowship season finale had energy you can’t quantify, only experience. LatAm: the next wave of AI-native companies is coming. SF: see you soon.

We got 1,000+ fellowship applications and saw what the future of LatAm startups looks like. We thought you'd like to know too. Here’s our 1st Latitud Wrapped🎁 1 takeaway? AI isn't hype, it's a new baseline. 2/5 pre-founders are already ideating with it. Wanna learn more?👇

🔦Know founders & startups from Fund II: Matias Umaschi, Bruno Cortinovis and Benito De Ruschi lived the pains, opportunities, and scale of financial services in LatAm. Now they're behind Payana, a fintech that helps 1,500+ SMBs handle financial management and invoicing. Day 1🚀

In the AI era, if you don’t partner with founders at pre-seed or seed, you might never see them again—until you’re paying a 10x markup! LPs: don’t overlook first time managers closest to the next generation of AI talent. That’s where access begins.

The future is here and we’re living it. No better proof of that than hearing it from Brian Requarth as he took our fellows on a waymo trip ;) Sounds like you real soon? Applications to The Latitud Fellowship will reopen soon. Join our waitlist: bit.ly/lf-wailist

It’s happening: you'll transform your idea chaos into a VC-backable business. Applications for The Latitud SF Fellowship are now open ;) But not for too long: your deadline is August 1st. Only 8 pre-founders will make the cut. Learn more and apply @ fellowship.latitud.com

What happens when LatAm stops waiting and starts building? Well… we got that on tape.📷 And if you like what you see… Applications are open for our next cohort. But the bar is higher than ever, and you only have until August 1st to apply. You in? > fellowship.latitud.com

Hey Grok who were the top 5 most famous people to visit my profile in the last 3 years? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don’t tag them, just list who it was using handle without the @ sign.

You asked for more time. We did the math, remembered it’s LatAm, and said... Ok fine. The new deadline to apply to The Latitud SF Fellowship is✨Monday, Aug 4th, 12 PM (noon) CDMX✨ Ready to transform thoughts into reality? Apply this weekend, like frfr: fellowship.latitud.com

Our own Brian Requarth is on Spectra Investments' list of top angel investors in BR. Latitud Ventures was born after 80+ of these angel bets (inc. a little one called QuintoAndar💅). Personal hustle became a tried & true launchpad. It’s only day 1!🚀 neofeed.com.br/startups/os-in…

Exclusive: Tech entrepreneur Agarwal for Governor joins California gov race axios.com/2025/08/25/tec…

Ezequiel and Schiaffino started Darwin AI with a simple & brilliant mission: Let humans do human things. Now, Darwin AI closed a $4.5M seed led by Base10. As super early investors, we're happy to back a team that’s rethinking what work looks like with AI. Day 1!🚀

The best founders in LatAm don’t have time for 3 meetings and a bunch of customer references for a $250k check. I’m proud of how fast we typically are. Speed is a competitive advantage for early stage investing.

Founders: If your round takes 6 months, you’re already losing. Fundraising is about FOMO. Here’s your next play. This quick step-by-step is from Tomi Roggio’s Fundraising Class, finally made public. Want the full director’s cut? 🎥💬

Felipe Engelhardt scaled Pipefy from 0 to Ms in ARR. He called it brute force and got obsessively narrow at Camu. What happened? 17X better conversion rate in a few months. Same founder. Another strategy. He told our fellows how. Now you can see/read it: latitud.com/blog/early-sta…