Daniel Porras Reyes

Associate

2023 - Current

AI focused Seed-stage venture capital firm based in Boston and New York City. With over $1 billion under management across six seed funds and nine network funds, portfolio companies include: Arcee.ai, BetterCloud, BitSight, Bowery, Chief, Codecademy (acq: SKILL), FalconX, Firebase (acq: GOOG), Habi, Infracommerce (BVMF: IFCM3), MadeiraMadeira, MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Open English, Splice and Troj.ai.

Angel Investor

2022

B2B marketplace, connecting small businesses directly with Asian manufacturers. https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/pandas-latin-america-business-asia/

Associate

2022 - 2022

Senior Analyst

2021 - 2022

Venture capital fund focused in supporting the best entrepreneurs creating innovative businesses in Mexico and Latin America (formerly called Alta Ventures Mexico). Investing three funds with AUM of $175M+ in Series Seed, A & B in Latam and US.

Investment Manager

2021 - 2021

Leading venture capital firm in Colombia with 16 active investments across two portfolios. • Developed the processes and criteria to pick and monitor the investments for the second fund. • Prepared investment memorandums for the investment committee which led to 3 investment approvals. • Assisted portfolio companies, which included being placed as temporary financial controller in one company, in which I managed to define the viability to achieve returns and created a roadmap to achieve a turnaround.

Investment Analyst

2020 - 2021

Financial Consultant

2020 - 2020

Hogaru is a fast-growing startup that is transforming how small businesses and homes are cleaned in Colombia. Hogaru perform +40k cleaning services per month, operate in 5 cities in Colombia, and employ directly +850 professional cleaners. Winter 2017 batch at YCombinator. • Developed a direct cash flow model with sensitivity analysis of the main variables. • Assed cash associate risk regarding Corona Virus, information used to make significant strategic decisions by de CEO.

Co-founder

2018 - 2019

Fintech savings company in Colombia that allow users to digitize the change when making cash purchases • App with 2600 users and 44 partner stores, reaching the top 30 finance applications in the App Store. • Achieved 23% growth in user acquisition in 20 days by implementing big data driven analysis to segment the market and allocate commercial efforts to strategic locations and user. • Participated in a Google acceleration program, being selected among the top 10 most promising fintech startups.

Investments Intern

2019 - 2019

Privately-owned international business group active in 35 countries across six continents. The Group is focused on six core sectors: aviation, energy, finance and diversified, hospitality, real estate, and shipping. • Performed the valuation of Convergen Energy using DCF and multiples, and pitched the results to the senior management. • Conducted financial and legal real state market research for the COO of Elandis. Research was included in the final pitch deck presented to potential investors. • Conducted research and prepared presentations about the renewable energy market in the United States for the new CEO of Greenwood Energy.