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The J Curve with Olga Maslikhova

Gaston Irigoyen, Founder and CEO at Fintech Infrastructure Company Pomelo: Scale 10x Faster or Go Home

Mar 5, 2024
01:20:54

Welcome to Season 3 of The J Curve, a podcast about entrepreneurship in Latin America. My guest today is Gaston Irigoyen, founder and CEO at Argentinian fintech infrastructure company Pomelo that has recently raised $40m in Series B from the likes of Kaszek, monashees, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Endeavor Catalyst and Section 32. The latest financing brings the startup’s total raised since inception to $103 million. Gaston is a third-time founder, with two previous exits and former CEO of Naranja X, one of Argentina’s largest neobanks. 


In today's episode we will discuss: 


1. $103m from top VCs in 3 years: how to get real good at fundraising?

2. Horizontal growth strategy: pros, cons and examples

3. Beyond Brazil: why Argentina is a hot bed for tech talent?

4. Products, operations, regulations: a compete guide to fintech startup moats

5. From 3 to 300 people in 2 years: Pomelo's guide to building a great startup team


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Follow Olga on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Olga is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, mentor at Techstars and founder at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The J Curve⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Latin America's leading English speaking podcast about tech builders. She's been investing in the USA, SEA and Latin America for over 13 years. Companies she backed include tech unicorn ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody) and Vitalk (acquired by Gympass).

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