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Sergio Alvarez Leiva

Investor at K Fund

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

Overview 

Sergio Alvarez Leiva is a seasoned professional with a strong background in front-end development and product design, having held key roles at companies like K Fund, Tinybird.co, and Vizzuality. He currently serves as a Board Member and Co-Founder at Vizzuality, where he leads the design team and contributes to data visualization projects, demonstrating expertise in user experience and interaction design. Throughout his career, Sergio has excelled in roles such as Chief Product Officer at CARTO and as a venture advisor at 7r Ventures, showcasing his ability to drive successful product strategies and provide valuable insights to startups in the consumer internet and enterprise sectors.

Work Experience 

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K Fund

  • VC

    2020 - Current

K Founders is under the K Fund umbrella that invests €100k in brave entrepreneurs.

kfund.vc
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Tinybird.co

  • Product

    2020

Tinybird is a data platform that provides tools to help developers convert data into real-time insights, actions, and values.

Raised $70,000,000.00 from CRV, Crane Venture Partners, Singular and Balderton Capital.

tinybird.co
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Vizzuality

  • Board Member

    2014

  • Co-Founder / Head of Design

    2009 - 2014

    Started the company at the age of 23 with the objective of helping decision makers to take Data-driven decisions. Designed, Managed and Developed projects for more than 30 International Organizations and Private companies focusing in Earth Conservation, Science and Transparency such as NASA, Google, World Resources Institute, The Open Government Partnership or the World Conservation Monitoring Center. Worked closely with engineering and created a team of 20 engineers and designers.

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INSTITUTO TRAMONTANA

  • Teacher and Program Director

    2019 - 2022

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2022

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CARTO

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2021

  • Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer

    2012 - 2017

    Managing Design and Product Management to launch and evolve all products across the company. Developing product strategy and roadmap, combining feedback from customers, engineering, and the CEO to set the strategic vision and lead the execution of features. Established tactics to achieve Product Market fit within a new market (Location Intelligence). Working closely with engineering to deliver a remarkable product that delights people and positions the company in a leading position. Directing all aspects of design - From requirements documents and Wireframes, to UI design - directly managing the Product team and defining product positioning. Created initial brand, and rebranded the company later. Created a product team of more than 40 engineers and designers.

Carto is a platform that turns spatial data into an efficient delivery route, better behavioral marketing, and strategic store placements.

Raised $93,986,557.00 from Kibo Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Accel, European Investment Fund, European Innovation Council, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital.

carto.com
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Inditex

  • Product/Tech @zara.com

    2018 - 2020

7V

7r Ventures

  • Venture advisor

    2017 - 2019

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IED | Istituto Europeo di Design

  • Professor

    2012 - 2014

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IE School

  • Teacher at Master in Global Environmental Change - Data Visualization

    2010 - 2012

Vostok Studio

  • Product Designer

    2009 - 2009

    Designed User Interfaces for digital products and advised the design team with technical input. Participated in projects such as Filmin.es (leading indie VOD platform in Spain) or verkami (first crowdfounding platform in Spain)

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