Fernando Carranza
Investor at Cleveland Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Investor
2023 - Current
Cleveland Avenue is a venture capital firm investing in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage, and growth-stage companies.
Director of Venture Investments, HQ
2022 - 2022
Senior Associate, HQ
2021 - 2022
A new subsidiary of Digital Currency Group focused on working with the world's preeminent crypto, blockchain, and DeFi entrepreneurs and investors.
Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital.
Raised $1,300,000,000.00 from Francisco Partners, Capital Group, Pirata Capital Management, Davidson Kempner and Eldridge Industries.
MBA Associate
2021 - 2021
Dominion Capital is an investment firm that provides capital to small-cap and middle-market companies for growth.
MBA Associate
2020 - 2020
Achieve Partners is engineering the future of learning and earning by investing in cutting-edge technologies.
MBA Associate
2020 - 2020
Chingona Ventures focus on investing at the earliest stages.
Impact Investing Associate
2019 - 2019
Agora empowers entrepreneurs with the resources they need to succeed and transform the world. We believe entrepreneurs are the key to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals: challenging global inequity, fighting extreme poverty, and protecting our planet. Agora entrepreneurs operate high-potential, for-profit companies with an annual earned revenue between USD $50K and $2M. From last-mile distribution of solar lights, to sustainable agriculture solutions, to tech development and distribution, to local artisan empowerment, Agora entrepreneurs create impact across a multitude of industries and Sustainable Development Goals.
Agora Partnerships is accelerating the growth of entrepreneurs throughout Latin America.
General Manager, LTNtech Founders Incubator
2018 - 2019
The LTNtech Founders Incubator is a first-of-its-kind partnership between IHCC and 1871. The mission of the incubator is to create pathways for Latinx and underrepresented entrepreneurs to participate in and contribute to the tech and innovation economy. LTNtech Founders Incubator startups participate in a rigorous 12-week core curriculum that features four different “tracks” they can access depending on their stage: Explore, Build, Launch, and Grow. In addition, incubator companies benefit from constant feedback and networking with their Latinx peers, one-on-one coaching with the Latinx Incubator Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and curated sessions and resources dedicated to the unique experience of being a Latinx tech startup founder.
IHCC empowers entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses through specialized one-on-one training and networking.
Investment Banking Associate
2015 - 2018
Investment Banking Analyst
2014 - 2015
Societe Generale provides corporate investment banking, broad market access to issuers and smart investment solutions to investors.
Investment Banking Analyst
2012 - 2014
Investment bankers have extensive transaction and industry experience