Julio Vasconcellos
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Next Tech Frontier: How Latin America Does It Best | Global Conference 2025
Rodrigo Bettini, Julio Vasconcellos, Roberto Campos Neto, Cesar Carvalho, Maya Dadoo, Scott Sobel, Cesar Gonzalez
Despite receiving a fraction of the venture capital allocated to other emerging markets, Latin American startups are generating superior global-scale outcomes through a unique combination of resilient talent, supportive public sector innovation, and venture funds outperforming global indices. Key success stories like WellHub and Worky illustrate how founders are leveraging regulatory tailwinds, such as Brazil's PIX system and Mexico's labor law reforms, to build defensible moats and achieve rapid international expansion. This trajectory is further accelerated by the Central Bank of Brazil's push for tokenization and Open Finance, which are dismantling legacy barriers and positioning the region as a future hub for programmable financial infrastructure and cross-border capital efficiency.
Julio Vasconcellos: Scaling to $100M and 1,200 Employees and then Cratering | 20VC #928
Julio Vasconcellos, Harry Stebbings, Scott Belsky, Andy Rachleff
Venture capitalist Julio Torres-Costa leverages his background as Facebook's first head in Brazil and founder of the high-growth startup Pace Urbano to guide Atlantico, a fund dedicated to Latin American early-stage investments. He advocates for capital concentration on product-market fit and disciplined single-focus strategies while rejecting bureaucratic overhead to capture the region's projected 10x digital growth over the next decade. Torres-Costa's approach prioritizes aggressive returns through a high-conviction "power law" portfolio, accepting higher failure rates to secure outsized wins that cover the fund's losses.