Tuesday, May 31: For this episode of The J Curve I am thrilled to bring you my conversation with Jorge Vargas Neto and Vanessa Muglia, co-founders at BHub a Brazilian startup that offers full back-office SaaS for small and medium businesses in Latin America, that has recently raised $20m in Series A from the lines of Monashees, Valor Capital and QED Investors.
Prior to BHub, Jorge co-founded Zen Finance that was sold to Rappi and Biva that was acquired by PágSeguro. Vanessa was a co-founder at Civi, an app that makes cities safer by providing security-related information and notifications in real time and prior to that she spent a decade as a lawyer.
In today's episode we will learn:
1) What are most challenging aspects of managing growth?
2) How did the fundraising environment change with rising interest rates and inflation?
3) What's Jorge and Vanessa's fundraising advice for tech founders?
4) What are the out-of-the-box go-to-market hacks that BHub used to launch?
5) What are the key learnings of building and selling Zen Finance and Biva that Jorge brought to BHub?
6) How big of a role luck plays in startup success?
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