Juan Caro
Founder of LaunchScale Lab
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Early Investor
2024 - Current
Co-Founder
2024
●Strategic Process Development: Spearheaded the creation and standardization of core processes, enhancing the operational framework essential for startup growth and scalability. ●Market Intelligence: Utilized extensive market analysis to inform strategic decisions, ensuring our client startups are well-positioned to capitalize on market opportunities. ●Financial Foresight: Led financial strategy development, providing startups with robust financial planning tools and insights to secure their financial health and attract further investment. ●Product Testing and Optimization: Orchestrated comprehensive product testing phases, employing rigorous methodologies to refine product offerings and improve market fit. ●SMB Strategy Design: Crafted bespoke strategies for small and medium-sized businesses, focusing on long-term growth and sustainability in competitive environments.
Early Investor
2023
Early Investor
2023
B2B trading software for farms and buyers to manage direct negotiations, supply chain and payment processes in just one place. #AgTech
SMB & Startup Consultant
2022
● Market research & analysis: Identifying & reaching ideal customers (e.g., mapped 400+ LATAM users). ●Data-driven product strategy: Building methodologies for data transformation & success metrics. ●Product discovery & launch: Leading teams to design, test, & launch impactful products.
Angel Investor
2020
Partner
2023 - 2024
●Strategic Leadership: Spearhead the identification and engagement of promising startups across LATAM, with a focus on dynamic markets in Mexico and Colombia. ●Operational Excellence: Developed and implemented robust operational processes to streamline investment decisions, reaching over 30 startups. Investment Selection: Design and enforce evaluation criteria to meticulously choose the most innovative and scalable companies for investment. ●Collaborative Investments: Coordinate with other partners to strategically invest in three major projects annually, aligning with our fund’s vision and goals. ●Ecosystem Impact: Contribute significantly to the regional development of technology and entrepreneurship, fostering growth and innovation within the ecosystem.
Sr. Consultant Product Management
2023 - 2023
● Designed and facilitated discovery sessions with the Data and Analytics team to identify business use cases for the product ● Evaluated product effectiveness resulting in a 15% reduction in stakeholder decision-making time and increasing user satisfaction ● Coordinated and synchronized product initiatives like data pipelines design and implementation that helped stakeholders like the supply chain teams and finance make data-driven decisions ● Improved the UX of internal products by 20% through design and data testing experimentation ● Conducted user interviews to uncover usage issues and user needs, categorize them into different user personas, and identified 5 new features to be developed
Product Owner and Data analyst
2022 - 2022
● Developed Product roadmap from conception to launch and successfully Launched a B2B SaaS product MVP (ERP) ● Reduced development time by 20% using Scrum Agile, Jira to plan, organize, and prioritize users' requests and released 3 new features
Product Manager
2020 - 2021
● Developed Product roadmap from conception to launch, acquiring 1,000 new users and increasing revenue by $500,000 USD within 6 months ● Increased team productivity by 10% by defining clear product specifications, and key success metrics for B2C MVP product ● Designed customer and user journey maps to understand and articulate customer needs to solve and create opportunities for improvement