DH

Derek Hall

Investor at Startups

São Paulo

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2022 - Current

  • Investor

    2017

    Accomplish Health, AMARO, Arcadia, Assis, Astra, Backtracks, Beacon Founder Society, Birthday App, Bolt, B2B Stack, Calm, Cameo, Carta, Cerebral, Cinch, ClassPass, Clover Health, Cobli, Compra Rápida, Cortex, Courageous Land, DigAÍ, Dolado, Drivably, EasyPost, Extendeal, Fair, Flexport, Flieber, Grain, Igual, Iggy, Imagen Technologies, Kaya, Kolab, Mercê do Bairro, Meru, Mira, mParticle, Nav, Neofin, Office Hours, Pachama, Pattern, Q Bio, Slice, Sonoma Market, Sproutfi, Tala, Time Capsule, Turo, Vence, Walrus, Workfront, Zippi

  • Founder

    2013 - 2023

    Founder of Torcedores - one of Brazil's premier sports media companies. Acquired by Better Collective.

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2021 - 2023

    Acquired

  • Partner

    2017 - 2020

    Investing in growth startups

  • Private Equity Associate

    2011 - 2012

  • Executive Director

    2011 - 2012

    Led a group of 70+ angel investors focused on early-stage venture capital investments. I managed the full deal process: sourcing, due diligence, investments analysis, syndication, structuring. Made investments in GroSocial (acquired by Infusionsoft), Catheter Connections (acquired by Merit Medical Systems), Fuze Network (acquired by Ingo Money) and several others.

  • Intern

    2010 - 2010

    BoomStartup is a mentorship driven seed stage investment fund. I worked with founders on business development and product strategy.

  • Marketing Director

    2008 - 2010

  • Game Day Announcer

    2008 - 2010

    As Game Day Announcer, I announced Starting Line-ups, National Anthem, and play-by-play descriptions of basketball and volleyball games for live audience of 5,000 fans.

  • Sports Broadcaster

    2008 - 2010

    Pregame and postgame host for broadcasts of live sporting events, Play-by-Play Announcer and Color Commentator for BYU-TV, covering Men's and Women's Basketball and Volleyball.

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