Jay Lanners Jr

Sr. Manager - Head of Strategy & Planning - Individuals @ Mercado Pago Brazil

2024 - Current

Venture Scout

2024

Partner

2022 - 2023

Investing in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups in Brazil Investments: -Oya Care -FLOKI (exited) -Genial Care -Assis -Kuri Saúde -Comp -Covalenty -Neofin -TBA SAAS

Co-founder & CEO

2018 - 2021

We founded Ânimo to be a wellness super-app, starting with fitness and meditation content. We raised USD 300K in Venture Capital. We built a world-class team of experts in Product, Technology, Strategy, Finance, Operations, and Marketing. We built a great app with exponential growth in usage but had a tough time monetizing. We pivoted to an offline-to-online model, acquiring over 400 subscribers and reaching R$20K MRR, but the pandemic got in our way at every point. We did a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong. It was an amazing learning experience, and I am now a much better entrepreneur and startup investor as a result of this experience.

Investment Associate

2017 - 2018

Opened the LATAM office for Amadeus Made Series C Investment in Creditas

MBA Intern

2017 - 2017

Corporate Development, Strategy & Investor Relations

2013 - 2015

Corporate Development (M&A and Corporate Venture Capital), Strategy, and Investor Relations

Associate Consultant

2011 - 2013