Isaac de la Pena
Partner at Conexo Ventures
Isaac de la Pena
Partner at Conexo Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2018 - Current
Conexo Ventures provides a direct growth path to Silicon Valley for Latin startups (LATAM, Spain & Portugal). We invest in exceptional individuals with passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets. Let's change the world together.
Partner
2012 - 2018
Founding partner of a venture capital fund making seed investments in early stage technology companies, with great success internationalizing them towards United States. Our portfolio start-ups got acquired by firms such as Intel, Symantec, and Red Hat.
Co-Founder & CTO
2014 - 2018
Agora is a leading financial advisory firm working with investment portfolios that include a wide range public asset classes. Our methodology combines technical, fundamental and algorithmic techniques, providing a wider coverage of market activity. Our clients are investment funds, hedge funds, pension funds, SICAVs as well as high and medium net work individuals.
Co-Founder & CTO
2010 - 2012
Co-founder of a start-up that provides a safe, engaging and educational environment for young children to play and learn using mobile devices without the need of parental supervision.
Senior Vice President, eCommerce and Digital Media
2010 - 2011
Responsible for the e-commerce platforms and digital marketing activities of a $15 billion institution that provides financial services to 1.3 million members and over 95% online operations, as well as its fully owned subsidiary Prudential PenFed Realty with more than 3,000 agents nationwide.
Senior Director, Mobile and Social
2008 - 2010
In charge of MicroStrategy’s artificial intelligence and predictive analytics solutions at the convergence of mobile, social and cloud computing and in close cooperation with companies such as Facebook, PayPal and Amazon.
Head of Internet Strategic Initiatives
2006 - 2008
Orchestrated the expansion of Nokia's operations into cloud services.
Program Manager
2002 - 2006
Responsible over a portfolio of solutions at the Emerging Businesses and Technologies team by combining in-house research, licensing, partnerships and selective acquisitions.
Project Manager
2000 - 2002
Oversaw the development of the services platform for the first and widely popular Mobile Internet device, the Nokia 7110 (aka "The Matrix" movie phone) and the world's first Java enabled device, the Nokia 3650. Supported new market entry, product positioning, and corporate development for Nokia's mobile e-mail and workforce automation products.
Co-Founder & CTO
1998 - 2000
Development firm that built several high-tech projects, like a comprehensive e-commerce and banking platform in partnership with Telefónica and BBVA.
Technology Professor
1997 - 1998
Taught ICT courses (e.g. OS administration, programming, database management). Developed 10 new academic certifications for 40 “Data Training” franchises nation-wide.