Claudio Barahona Jacobs
Founder of ComoLevantarCapital.com
Claudio Barahona Jacobs
Founder of ComoLevantarCapital.com
Chile
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2020 - Current
Investor and investments, transforming talent with energy & passion intro disruptive companies. In Alaya we look for: - High-impact entrepreneurs: Teams of people with a clear vision of business and the energy to implement ideas. - Innovative Companies: Startups and early-stage businesses with high growth potential. - Expanding markets: Companies focusing in Fintech, AgTech, HealthTech, Digital Marketing, UX, Digital TV, Biotech and KPO. - Global Scalability: Companies with high global potential. If your startups is looking for investment in Pre-A or A serie, we can invest between 300k-500k usd and help you scale through latinamercia with our knohow! Just DM me
Founder
2021
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Member Board Of Directors
2012
Representing Alaya Capital seat in the board: - www.Kilimoagtech.com - 2021 to now - www.Backstartup.com - 2021 to now - www.Houm.cl - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Inti-Tech.com - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Talently.tech - 2020 to now - www.Pago46.com - 2020 to now (observer) - www.Rocketpin.com - 2019 to now Representing Wayra (Telefónica CVC) seat in the board: - www.Webdoxclm.com - 2018 to 2019 - www.Cloner.cl - 2017 to 2019 - www.Zapping.com - 2017 to 2019 - www.ComunidadFeliz.com - 2017 to 2019 - www.Simpliroute.com - 2015 to 2019 - www.Ipsumapp.co - 2016 to 2019 - www.Rocketpin.com - 2016 to 2019 - www.Recorrido.cl - 2015 to 2019 - www.We-Techs.com - 2015 to 2019 - ams.asicom.cl - 2015 to 2019 - www.Nunchee.com - 2014 to 2019 - www.Autofact.cl - 2014 to 2019 - www.Wivoanalytics.com - 2014 to 2019 - www.Firstjob.me - 2013 to 2019 - www.Poliglota.org - 2012 to 2019 - www.UPlanner.com - 2012 to 2019
Board observer
2020 - 2021
Representing Alaya Capital observers seat in the board
Chief Open Innovation Officer Movistar Chile
2016 - 2020
Leader in Chile of Wayra, the global open innovation & corporate venture capital program from Telefónica. During his role as Country Manager he manages a team of outstanding professionals with years of open innovation experience, working as an investment partner with more than 50 entrepreneurs who are part of the local innovation portfolio, and at a level of directors and VPs in Telefónica Group looking for new income and efficiencies linking the corporation with startups. Part of his role is also managing the high-level relationship with the innovation ecosystem, with the government, venture capital funds and other corporations.
Head of Acceleration - Wayra Chile
2012 - 2016
Head of acceleration and business management in Wayra Chile, Telefónica’s worldwide startup accelerator with presence in 12 countries in Latam and Europe. Wayra invests in emerging technology ventures (startups), seeking to accelerate its growth through its global network, strategic assesment and business fit with the Telefonica group. More info on www.wayra.org Startup’s invested: U-Planner, Agentpiggy, Nibu, Poliglota, Benchbanking, Crowdsourced Testing, Familink, Firstjob, Purplu, Reqlut, Thinker Thing, Arriendas, Wivo, SmartboxTV, Snapp, Autofact, Recorrido, Guarnic, among others.
Angel Investor
2019 - 2019
Angel investor in ww.U-Planner.com, a latam startup that offers solutions based on our own mathematical algorithms and Artificial Intelligence for data analysis of Higher Education institutions. We look for universities to achieve high performance, adding new resources to their strategic plan, always with the focus on ensuring the main quality indicators. From 2012 to 2019 i had also the privilege to be of the Board
Director
2012 - 2019
Representing Wayra (Telefónica CVC) seat in the board.
Country Manager Chile
2016 - 2019
Leader in Chile of the global open innovation & corporate venture capital program from Telefónica Group. This program involves: - Crowdworking's Telefónica Open Future, innovative collaborative co-working spaces. - Wayra, the corporate startup accelerator and seed corporate venture capital arm of Telefónica. - Amerigo, a global fund of funds, with participation in the Chilean venture capital fund Scale Capital. - Telefónica Ventures, the CVC of Telefónica. During his role as Country Manager he manages a team of outstanding professionals with years of open innovation experience, working as an investment partner with more than 50 entrepreneurs who are part of the local innovation portfolio, and at a level of directors and VPs in Telefónica Group looking for new income and efficiencies linking the corporation with startups. Part of his role is also managing the high-level relationship with the innovation ecosystem, with the government, venture capital funds and other corporations.
Senior Innovation Product Manager - Movistar Innova
2011 - 2016
Project leader and founder of the coworking Center Movistar Innova (CMI), the epicenter of innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile, where national and foreign entrepreneurs can work on their projects and share with their peers in an environment that fosters co-creation , networking and the emergence of new companies with global potential. The Center Movistar Innova is now called Telefonica Open Future and has been the HQ of Startup Chile CORFO program. He also created the program Movistar Innova Business Accelerator, which aims to support the growth and internationalization of innovative companies with high potential.
Director
2018 - 2019
Leader of the corporate venture capital commission
Coordinator of Entrepreneurship and Human Capital
2009 - 2011
Coordination with the relevant institutions of the National Innovation System, including CORFO and CONICYT, overseeing the implementation of the strategic national innovation. Consolidating and analyzing statistics, indicators and the evaluation of the entrepreneurship, science, technology and innovation areas. Responsible for the government program "Education for Entrepreneurship" where the Ministry of Economiy and the Ministry of Education promote the teaching of entrepreneurial skills in schools. Founder of the "Guaranteed Credit for Gazelles Companies” (CGG in Spanish), initiative that delivers guaranteed credits given by SGR’s to emerging companies with difficult access to the traditional banking credit system
Executive for technology projects
2008 - 2009
Business consulting for startups and high innovative companies supported by the business incubator of University Adolfo Ibañez, adding value through strategic advicen and the design of the business plan; Market studies; rising networking and mentoring; being broker to obtain the public seed capital (CORFO) and private venture capital (investors) needed to launch the business.
Education
Diploma Program for Business Directors
2024 - 2024
Civil Industrial Engineer
2002 - 2009