Jeremie Leclercq

Co-founder

2024 - Current

We Connect, Tropicalize and Operationalize Global SaaS Startups in the Brazilian market From strategic planning to operational venture partnership, our commitment is to partner with you to plan, soft land, and jointly expand your business in Brazil. We execute a concise path to growth and profitability with speed-to-market, capital efficiency, and cost-effectiveness as our guiding principles. If you’re a non-Brazilian startup looking to conquer the Brazilian market, please reach out to us. To learn more, visit our website: brazilventure.partners

Venture Capital | Principal

2021 - 2023

Verve Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with founders in Latam // Networking and relationship building // Deal sourcing // Investment Analysis // Due Diligence // Transaction process // Portfolio Management

Partner

2019 - 2023

Liv up Corporate solution - Head of Operation & Growth

2020 - 2020

VYA was acquired by Liv Up, where it now operates as the corporate solution (B2B arm) of the new entity. With the acquisition of VYA, Liv Up now provides both B2C and B2B solutions, offering a range of frozen and fresh ready meals. Strategic development // Design strategic planning and implementation roadmap for our new corporate solutions Business developement: // New corporate client acquisition // Creating new solutions and benefits for our corporate partners // New product developement: creating new digital and food products Existing Customer Relationship management: // Structuring and managing relationships and partnerships with our corporate clients (120 of the biggest corporations in brazil) Success Metrics and Analytics // P&L and KPIs focus // CAC, Rentention cohort analysis // Uncovering frictions and insights with quantitative and qualitative analysis

Venture Advisor

2020 - 2021

GV angels is VC arm of the FGV university // Advising companies backed by GV Angels in Product, Tech, Marketing and Sales

COO & Growth (Co-founder)

2019 - 2020

VYA is a 'full-stack' food delivery company that creates and provides ready meals for businesses through smart fridges. It serves as an alternative and disruptor to the traditional corporate canteen for 150 of the largest startups, corporations in Brazil. Strategic development // Design strategic planning and implementation roadmap for our new corporate solutions Business developement: // Revenue growth: retention: new corporate client acquisition, conversion, onboarding and retention // New product developement: creating new digital and food products // Go to market of new products Existing Customer Relationship management: // Structuring and managing relationships and partnerships with our corporate clients (120 of the biggest corporations in brazil) Market analysis // Leveraging data to understand macro-trends and micro-trends // Identify new potential ICPs Success Metrics and Analytics // P&L and KPIs focus // CAC, Rentention cohort analysis // Uncovering frictions and insights with quantitative and qualitative analysis

COO & Co-founder

2017 - 2019

VYA is a 'full-stack' food delivery company that creates and provides ready meals for businesses through smart fridges. It serves as an alternative and disruptor to the traditional corporate canteen for 150 of the largest startups, corporations in Brazil. Operation management // Building operation from "0 to 1": supply, purchase, production, logistic // Structure and optimize processes // Optimize costs // Identify and solve problems with agility // Ship quality products faster and cheaper Strategic development // Design strategic planning and implementation roadmap for our operation Strategic partnerships // Strategic partnerships to develop and scale our operation // Partnership negociation and diligence: cost/quality risk analysis Compliance management // Regulation tracking and compliance with the regulator (ANVISA) Team management // Recruit and managing 80+ collaborators Success metrics // ops and logistic success metrics // Focused on the bottom lines of our unit economics (food cost, food waste, productivity, logistic cost)

CEO & Co-Founder

2014 - 2016

MB is a Food tech to reach underserved communities in Rio de Janeiro. We disrupted the way people were acquiring and consuming ready meals at the start of the food delivery era in Brazil. Operation management // Building operation from "0 to 1": supply, purchase, production, logistic // Structure and optimize processes // Optimize costs Financial management // Financial planning, modelling, P&L New business development // Partnership with the French Olympic committee to supply food during the biggest worldwide event (Rio Olympic games)

M&A Associate

2009 - 2014

Hessings is a small advising boutique to SME's. Focusing on traditional investment banking services such as M&A (buy or sell side, fund raising) // Market analysis // Deal origination // Financial analysis, modelling, valuation // Due diligence, negotiation and closing of SME deal // Customer relationship management

Economist - analys

2007 - 2008

Daxia bank was the European leader for credit lending to the public sector. // Producing financial analysis of french cities, departments and regions // Producing macro-economic reports on french cities, departments and regions // Facilitate assessment of credit offering to public entities

Summer Legal Intern

2005 - 2005

Monceau Conseil is a legal firm assisting SMBs in corporate services such as: // SMB creation // SMB legal protections // SMB fund raising // SMB M&A activities