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2022 fue un año de retos, hitos, tragedias y celebraciones.
Talks about eventos globales 2022, emprendimiento en América Latina and crecimiento económico
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Santiago Rojas Montoya
Founder of Cube Ventures Accelerator
Colombia
Overview
Santiago Rojas Montoya is the Co-founder & Managing Director at Cube Ventures Accelerator in Colombia, with a background in investments, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. Highlights of his career include founding Cube Ventures VC Firm and serving as CEO & Co-founder of Startop Co.
Santiago has a Doctor of Law degree from Universidad de Los Andes and has invested in various companies as an angel investor, with a focus on sectors like Advertising, SaaS, and FinTech.
Work Experience
Co-Founder - Managing Director
2020 - Current
Building a VC fund por early stage startups, led by exceptional, purpose-driven, underrepresented founders in spanish-speaking Latam. Educating investors partnering with top-tier universities world-wide and promoting succesful exits for medium sized startups in Latin America Built from scratch a pre-seed startup accelerator for Latin America. Portfolio is now 100+ companies from 9 countries in the region that collectively have generated over $4M USD in revenue, $2.9M in investment, and 2X MOIC for investors.
Co-Founder
2016
Phylo provides on-demand Legal Services, delivered to companies and/or supplied remotely. Currently not involved with day to day operations.
Angel Investor
2023
Angel Investor
2024
KredFeed is an online financial platform that specializes in account receivable processing, working capital, and CFO tools.
Fellow
2021
Sigma Squared Society is a non-profit organization and global community of the world’s most ambitious founders under 26 selected for their impact-driven initiatives and their ability to transform broken industries. We are present in 30+ countries with 1000+ members. Web: https://sigma-squared.org/ __ Formerly know as the Kairos Society Fellowship: www.kairoshq.com
Board Member
2022 - 2022
Member of the Board of Directors of Culto art gallery, a space where artists and designers meet to provide a lifestyle full of art. Our proposal is to connect the public with the creation of objects where artistic visions and design concepts are combined.
CEO & Cofounder
2018 - 2021
StartOp helps Small Retail companies manage their business through technology. We provide a cloud all-in-one solution for that integrates delivery services, POS, accounting, inventory, production, and human resources management. Selected by IBM for the Global Entrepreneurship Program ($120k USD grant), for the Ruta N Landing Program, and as one of the 100 best startups in Colombia (Open Innovation Summit 2018).
Kairos Fellow
2017 - 2021
Focusing the next generation on problems worth solving.
Co-founder
2017 - 2018
Founded a spaces as a service platform that gives access to multiple coworking spaces across the city under a unique subscription. Launched and developed web product, recruited spaces and led sales funnel generation.
Local Leader, Associate
2018 - 2018
Co-led the Colombian chapter of the premier idea-stage accelerator in the world. Responsibilities included interacting with mentors, recruiting founders, serving as liaison with local partners, organizing events, promotion, and making sure the execution was optimal.