Martin Lima
Founder of Emerging Venture Capital Fellows
São Paulo
Overview
Work Experience
Summer Intern - AI Research - KAUST Endowment
2024 - Current
AI Research project for the Strategic Asset Allocation and Risk Team of the KAUST Endowment - KIMC (U.S.), Inc., a multi billion US$ endowment ranked among the largest university endowments in the world.
MBA
2023
Berkeley Haas Finance Fellow: Highly selective scholarship program for 10 students with the most promising careers in finance.
Co-Founder and Board Member
2020
Emerging VC Fellows is the largest community of VCs in LATAM. The 500+ members from 190+ VC firms work together to produce unique content, share experiences, exercise analysis capabilities, and ultimately, do business.
Principal in Residence
2023 - 2024
Multi-stage venture firm. Partnered with teams such as Anduril, Dataminr, Turing, Mighty Buildings, Loft Orbital, Arris Composites, Frore Systems, Collaborative Robotics, Era (acquired by ServiceNow), Neon, Stoke Space, Odeko, Catch, Balbix, Freeform, Eano, Statespace.gg, OneNav and Graphiant.
Venture Fellow
2023 - 2024
Pre-Seed Fund & Accelerator that invests in global companies across all industries.
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
Venture Capital Principal
2021 - 2023
Indicator Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm based in São Paulo and Silicon Valley. Indicator manages the largest IoT-focused VC fund in Latin America (~US$ 70M AUM). LPs include Qualcomm Ventures, BNDES, Motorola, Lenovo, Multilaser, Banco do Brasil, 3G Radar, Telefonica, among others.
Associate
2019 - 2021
Analyst
2017 - 2019
Board Observer
2022 - 2023
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Board Observer
2018 - 2023