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Monday, July 6, 2026

Entrepreneurial finance and venture capital

Summary

Start date: Monday, July 6, 2026
Program duration: 80 horas (8.0 Unidades de Educación Continua CEUs)
Target audience: Professionals and entrepreneurs aiming to understand how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are financed, governed, and scaled in real-world environments, including emerging markets
Schedule: Live video conferences will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Modality: Hybrid
Investment: $1,190 plus IVA
Early bird: $952 plus IVA
*Applies up to 15 days prior to the start of the program. Review conditions.
Program type: Certificación
Language: English
Background:

This certification provides an analytical and applied introduction to entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, focusing on how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are valued, financed, governed, and scaled. Explores the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, investment decision-making, and startup growth strategies across international markets. Participants will analyze real-world venture capital cases, assess funding stages and investor expectations, and develop a strategic understanding of how entrepreneurs and investors create value in innovation-driven environments.

The course culminates in a group-based venture capital fund simulation in which students act as fund managers, selecting and valuing real startups. Group projects will be presented to and evaluated by three fund managers from leading private equity and venture capital firms in Portugal, with combined assets under management exceeding €2.5 billion. Guest speakers will rotate among venture capital fund managers from funds based in Spain, Portugal, Germany, US, and LATAM; angel investors, and founders with proven exits. The objective is to allow students to engage directly with professionals from the LATAM and European venture capital ecosystem.
Target audience:
  • Finance professionals and alumni who wish to deepen their knowledge of entrepreneurial finance and venture capital.
  • Startup founders with operational experience looking to enhance their ability to manage and scale their ventures through venture capital strategies.
  • Professionals and entrepreneurs aiming to understand how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are financed, governed, and scaled in real-world environments, including emerging markets.
  • Investment professionals aiming to increase their perspective with other funds' investment strategies, public policy incentives in Europe, and expand their vision comparing the Europe vs LATAM investment industry.
Objectives:
  • Evaluate startup business models under uncertainty.
  • Analyze and structure Venture Capital Term Sheets.
  • Apply venture capital valuation methods.
  • Understand Venture Capital fund mechanics and fundraising strategies.
  • Analyze real case scenarios and industry best practices: Europe vs LATAM.
Benefits:

Participants gain access to a learning experience designed to strengthen their professional capabilities, apply relevant knowledge, and create value within their organizations.

  • Institutional backing and academic excellence: Certificate awarded by Universidad San Francisco de Quito, through Escuela de Empresas of the School of Business, an institution recognized for its academic quality, international outlook, and commitment to business education and professional performance improvement.
  • Practical and applicable learning: The program integrates active methodologies, case studies, simulations, real-world analysis, and applied projects aimed at transferring learning to the workplace.
  • Market-aligned content: The curriculum responds to current trends, organizational needs, and the challenges professionals face in dynamic and competitive environments.
  • Development of decision-making and action-oriented skills: The program strengthens technical, strategic, and interpersonal competencies to analyze problems, propose solutions, and act effectively in real business scenarios.
  • Connection with a business community: Participants gain access to talks, forums, conferences, and events that promote networking, knowledge exchange, and the development of valuable professional relationships.
  • Engagement with experts and strategic partners: Escuela de Empresas collaborates with organizations, faculty, and consultants with applied experience, enriching the learning process with a practical business perspective.
  • Virtual flexibility: Access to Desire2Learn (D2L) enables participants to review materials, engage academically, and manage their learning flexibly.
  • Continuing education benefits: Participants receive preferential discounts on open-enrollment programs from Escuela de Empresas, supporting an ongoing development pathway.
  • Purpose-driven education: The program fosters professionals capable of creating value, improving team performance, and contributing ethically and effectively to organizational growth.

 

Foundations & emerging market context

Covers entrepreneurial finance vs. corporate finance, business model analysis, free cash flow forecasting, and three-stage valuation. Alongside this technical foundation, a dedicated session introduces the real dynamics of venture capital in emerging markets contrasting LatAm with European and U.S. ecosystems including structural gaps, capital constraints, exit challenges, and real-world cases of success and failure. The goal is to ground academic frameworks in actual market conditions, building strategic understanding beyond theory.

Valuation, uncertainty & investment decisions

Covers the Venture Capital Method, ownership and dilution across rounds, multi-stage financing as experimentation, and decision trees and real options. Participants simultaneously analyze real startups sourced from the Ecuacap ecosystem and present investment recommendations before a simulated Investment Committee composed of active practitioners, replicating the actual dynamics of VC investment evaluation and developing decision-making capabilities under real uncertainty.

Masterclass: AI Tools for fund management workshop

Daily AI tools for LPs and fund managers; AI-assisted fund operations; deal sourcing and screening; diligence workflows; portfolio monitoring; investor communications; LP reporting; CRM automation; meeting preparation; document analysis; risk management; practical prompts and workflow design.

Deal structure & seed financing

Covers preferred stock, liquidation preferences, control and governance mechanisms, convertible notes, SAFEs, and early-stage ecosystems including angels and accelerators. A hands-on workshop built around real, anonymized term sheets from the LatAm and European region runs in parallel, participants analyze, compare, and negotiate deal structures covering both economic and control terms, bridging the gap between contractual theory and actual execution.

Fund economics, strategy & integration

Covers LP-GP structure, carried interest, fund performance and return persistence, portfolio strategy, and emerging VC models. A masterclass on how venture capital funds are raised in practice at a regional level runs alongside sourcing LPs, fund structuring, building track records, and navigating the particularities of the emerging market context.

Portfolio Management and exits

Delivered by representatives from BlueCrow Capital (€800M AUM) and Cedrus Capital (€230M AUM). Focuses on the practical aspects of managing portfolio companies post-investment and executing successful exits. It covers value creation strategies, governance, performance monitoring, and exit planning across different stages.

Capstone project: venture capital fund simulation

Students act as fund managers, designing a €10 million fund and constructing a portfolio of at least 5 startups. Each group submits a professional investment memo covering fund thesis, startup selection, capital allocation, and portfolio-level rationale. Through Ecuacap's ecosystem integration, top-performing teams gain access to real startups, industry actors, and post-course opportunities including mentorship, exposure, and networking. Projects are evaluated by fund managers overseeing more than €2.8 billion in assets under management. The project hours will be delivered in an integrated manner throughout the program. The final session (4 hours) will be dedicated to the final presentations.

Extracurricular activities

Complementary talks

Aligned with the USFQ Liberal Arts philosophy, in which all areas of knowledge are equally relevant and contribute to intellectual development, this program includes talks on various current topics of interest. These are open to the general public or form part of other programs. This space strengthens the academic content of the program, and attendance is optional.

Business forum

The business forum is a meeting space between participants and panelists; entrepreneurs, business leaders, professors, and experts, who will share their perspectives, trends, and best practices. Forums will be organized according to the annual schedule, with participation from students in non-degree programs and master’s programs at Escuela de Empresas.
Modality and duration:

This is a hybrid program with a duration of 80 hours, distributed as follows:

Description Total hours duration Face-to-face hours Synchronous hours (videoconferences) Asynchronous hours (self-directed)
Courses or modules 50 4 46 0
Extracurricular activities
Virtual platform training (D2L) (self-directed) 2 0 0 2
Self-directed study for program preparation 12 0 0 12
Self-directed study for project preparation 12 0 0 12
Liberal arts and business talks 2 2 0 0
Business forum 2 2 0 0
Total hours of the program 80 8 46 26

*Depending on the shared activities, their modality may vary. The table presents them in an in-person format.

Classes are delivered synchronously and complemented by asynchronous activities and the use of resources on the virtual platform. The program follows an active, participatory, and critical methodology that links theory with practice. Students are required to access the Desire2Learn (D2L) virtual platform to become familiar with it, use the study resources, and complete the virtual activities. Access to the D2L platform remains active from the start of the program until one month after its completion.
Resources and activities:

The program promotes the practical application of knowledge by combining a strong academic foundation with hands-on experiences that enhance active learning. Participants have access to a variety of resources, including presentations, readings, case studies, and audiovisual materials that support conceptual understanding and critical analysis. These are complemented by interactive activities, workshops, forums, cases, and exercises that allow participants to apply the content and develop competencies transferable to the professional environment.
Evaluations:
  • The program requires participation, attendance, and the completion of evaluation activities assigned by the instructor.
  • The capstone project must have a minimum passing grade of 70/100.
  • Specifically, participants must achieve a minimum score of 70% in the following activities:
Category Detail Weight Rubric
Attendance and participation Attendance to classes
Class participation		 30% Attendance and participation
Assignments Assignments
Activities
Lectures		 20% Assignments
Capstone project Capstone project 50% Capstone project

The capstone project must have a minimum passing grade of 70/100.

 

Justin Schwartz

Investment professional holding the CFA designation, with experience in asset management and portfolio structuring across both private and public markets. He has a strong background in financial analysis, investment evaluation, and engagement with institutional investors. He has been involved in initiatives related to private equity and venture capital, bringing a disciplined, technical approach to decision-making. As a member of the board of ECUACAP, he contributes to strengthening Ecuador’s investment ecosystem by promoting best practices and international standards.

Managing Partner of IMPAQTO Capital, an impact investing fund providing flexible capital to early-stage startups in the Andean Region. Passionate about investing in entrepreneurs who are leveraging innovation to solve Latin America's most pressing problems.

Fabian Peña Cisneros

Fabian Peña Cisneros is a Partner at Augustus Private Equity, a Lisbon-based firm operating in partnership with Plural Holding and Doorway Ventures. The platform focuses on US late-stage / pre-IPO technology investments alongside venture debt in Europe, targeting mature companies undergoing digital transformation and approaching exit. Across the partnership, the group manages approximately €600M AUM, 54 portfolio companies, and 7 pre-IPO investments in the US. Prior to Augustus, Fabian worked in investment banking, advising deep tech startups on structuring funding rounds and accessing European capital sources, with particular exposure to energy, SaaS, and healthcare sectors.

Francisco Jorge Vale - Investment Team - Speaker and Jury panel Capstone

Cedrus Capital is a Lisbon-based private equity and venture capital manager (founded 2020) with approximately €160M in assets under management and a broad base of 700+ investors. The firm focuses on Portuguese small and mid-cap companies, positioning itself as a flexible fund structure rather than a traditional “single-strategy” PE or VC fund. Its core differentiator is the ability to design tailored investment vehicles aligned with specific investor constraints (tax, liquidity, risk profile).

Pedro André - Fund Manager - Speaker and Jury Panel Capstone

BlueCrow Capital is an independent Portuguese asset manager that structures and manages venture capital, private equity, and alternative investment funds across multiple asset classes. Its strategy is diversified across sectors (technology, energy, agriculture, healthcare, etc.) and stages, with a strong integration of ESG principles and long-term value creation. In venture capital specifically, BlueCrow focuses on early-stage, innovation-driven companies, particularly in deep tech, energy transition, and industrial innovation, helping startups move from R&D to commercialization and scale.

Bernando Patricio - Associate - Speaker

Oxy Capital is a leading Portuguese alternative asset manager (founded 2012) with more than €1bn invested across private equity, mezzanine debt, real estate, and public markets. Oxy operates multiple strategies ranging from traditional buyouts to restructuring and opportunistic investments. Its platform is characterized by a diversified fund base (e.g., PE, special situations, liquid strategies) and an active role in value creation across portfolio companies. The investment team consists of 25+ professionals, combining long-standing senior experience with younger profiles, enabling both institutional execution and strong local deal sourcing.

Emilio Jacome

Emilio Jácome is an Investment Professional at Potencia Ventures, a U.S. -based impact investment group deploying capital across early-stage startups and venture funds in EdTech and Future of Work in Latin America and the United States. At Potencia, he supports due diligence, financial modeling, and portfolio monitoring across a portfolio several companies and fund investments, and has built AI-enabled research and deal evaluation workflows that
have reduced manual inputs.

Prior to Potencia, Emilio served as Investment and Portfolio Associate at Startup Ventures Ecuador, an angel fund backed by business leaders representing approximately 10% of Ecuador's GDP, where he led due diligence on investments across CPG, Fintech, Consumer Marketplaces and others.

He also led AI-enabled research at Startupeable, Latin America's largest startup and venture capital media platform with over five million downloads, where he built and operated a research system integrating large language models to accelerate market analysis, founder assessments, and content production. He has conducted interviews and primary research with investors and C-level operators from firms such as NFX, Menlo Ventures, Kaszek, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ualá, Kavak, Rappi and Mercado Libre.

Carlos Córdova

Senior executive with extensive experience in financial services, specializing in data, digitaltransformation, and private capital. He serves as Executive Director of ECUACAP, leading initiatives to strengthen Ecuador’s private capital and investment ecosystem. He has held leadership roles in insurance and banking, driving data-driven strategies and innovation at scale. He is also a professor and advisor in finance, fintech, and digital transformation, bridging industry practice with academic insight.

ECUACAP is the Ecuadorian Private Capital Association, dedicated to developing and strengthening the country’s investment ecosystem across venture capital, private equity, and impact investing. It brings together key stakeholders—including funds, institutional investors, and ecosystem partners—to foster collaboration, innovation, and capital formation. The association promotes best practices, market intelligence, and strategic initiatives to position Ecuador as an attractive destination for private investment.

*La asignación de docentes podrá ajustarse según disponibilidad o por causas de fuerza mayor.

*Calendario sujeto a cambios por causas de fuerza mayor, desastres naturales o emergencias del profesor.

SUMMARY

Summary

Start date: Monday, July 6, 2026
Program duration: 80 horas (8.0 Unidades de Educación Continua CEUs)
Target audience: Professionals and entrepreneurs aiming to understand how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are financed, governed, and scaled in real-world environments, including emerging markets
Schedule: Live video conferences will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Modality: Hybrid
Investment: $1,190 plus IVA
Early bird: $952 plus IVA
*Applies up to 15 days prior to the start of the program. Review conditions.
Program type: Certificación
Language: English
DETAILS
Background:

This certification provides an analytical and applied introduction to entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, focusing on how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are valued, financed, governed, and scaled. Explores the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems, investment decision-making, and startup growth strategies across international markets. Participants will analyze real-world venture capital cases, assess funding stages and investor expectations, and develop a strategic understanding of how entrepreneurs and investors create value in innovation-driven environments.

The course culminates in a group-based venture capital fund simulation in which students act as fund managers, selecting and valuing real startups. Group projects will be presented to and evaluated by three fund managers from leading private equity and venture capital firms in Portugal, with combined assets under management exceeding €2.5 billion. Guest speakers will rotate among venture capital fund managers from funds based in Spain, Portugal, Germany, US, and LATAM; angel investors, and founders with proven exits. The objective is to allow students to engage directly with professionals from the LATAM and European venture capital ecosystem.
Target audience:
  • Finance professionals and alumni who wish to deepen their knowledge of entrepreneurial finance and venture capital.
  • Startup founders with operational experience looking to enhance their ability to manage and scale their ventures through venture capital strategies.
  • Professionals and entrepreneurs aiming to understand how high-growth, high-uncertainty ventures are financed, governed, and scaled in real-world environments, including emerging markets.
  • Investment professionals aiming to increase their perspective with other funds' investment strategies, public policy incentives in Europe, and expand their vision comparing the Europe vs LATAM investment industry.
Objectives:
  • Evaluate startup business models under uncertainty.
  • Analyze and structure Venture Capital Term Sheets.
  • Apply venture capital valuation methods.
  • Understand Venture Capital fund mechanics and fundraising strategies.
  • Analyze real case scenarios and industry best practices: Europe vs LATAM.
Benefits:

Participants gain access to a learning experience designed to strengthen their professional capabilities, apply relevant knowledge, and create value within their organizations.

  • Institutional backing and academic excellence: Certificate awarded by Universidad San Francisco de Quito, through Escuela de Empresas of the School of Business, an institution recognized for its academic quality, international outlook, and commitment to business education and professional performance improvement.
  • Practical and applicable learning: The program integrates active methodologies, case studies, simulations, real-world analysis, and applied projects aimed at transferring learning to the workplace.
  • Market-aligned content: The curriculum responds to current trends, organizational needs, and the challenges professionals face in dynamic and competitive environments.
  • Development of decision-making and action-oriented skills: The program strengthens technical, strategic, and interpersonal competencies to analyze problems, propose solutions, and act effectively in real business scenarios.
  • Connection with a business community: Participants gain access to talks, forums, conferences, and events that promote networking, knowledge exchange, and the development of valuable professional relationships.
  • Engagement with experts and strategic partners: Escuela de Empresas collaborates with organizations, faculty, and consultants with applied experience, enriching the learning process with a practical business perspective.
  • Virtual flexibility: Access to Desire2Learn (D2L) enables participants to review materials, engage academically, and manage their learning flexibly.
  • Continuing education benefits: Participants receive preferential discounts on open-enrollment programs from Escuela de Empresas, supporting an ongoing development pathway.
  • Purpose-driven education: The program fosters professionals capable of creating value, improving team performance, and contributing ethically and effectively to organizational growth.

 

CONTENT

Foundations & emerging market context

Covers entrepreneurial finance vs. corporate finance, business model analysis, free cash flow forecasting, and three-stage valuation. Alongside this technical foundation, a dedicated session introduces the real dynamics of venture capital in emerging markets contrasting LatAm with European and U.S. ecosystems including structural gaps, capital constraints, exit challenges, and real-world cases of success and failure. The goal is to ground academic frameworks in actual market conditions, building strategic understanding beyond theory.

Valuation, uncertainty & investment decisions

Covers the Venture Capital Method, ownership and dilution across rounds, multi-stage financing as experimentation, and decision trees and real options. Participants simultaneously analyze real startups sourced from the Ecuacap ecosystem and present investment recommendations before a simulated Investment Committee composed of active practitioners, replicating the actual dynamics of VC investment evaluation and developing decision-making capabilities under real uncertainty.

Masterclass: AI Tools for fund management workshop

Daily AI tools for LPs and fund managers; AI-assisted fund operations; deal sourcing and screening; diligence workflows; portfolio monitoring; investor communications; LP reporting; CRM automation; meeting preparation; document analysis; risk management; practical prompts and workflow design.

Deal structure & seed financing

Covers preferred stock, liquidation preferences, control and governance mechanisms, convertible notes, SAFEs, and early-stage ecosystems including angels and accelerators. A hands-on workshop built around real, anonymized term sheets from the LatAm and European region runs in parallel, participants analyze, compare, and negotiate deal structures covering both economic and control terms, bridging the gap between contractual theory and actual execution.

Fund economics, strategy & integration

Covers LP-GP structure, carried interest, fund performance and return persistence, portfolio strategy, and emerging VC models. A masterclass on how venture capital funds are raised in practice at a regional level runs alongside sourcing LPs, fund structuring, building track records, and navigating the particularities of the emerging market context.

Portfolio Management and exits

Delivered by representatives from BlueCrow Capital (€800M AUM) and Cedrus Capital (€230M AUM). Focuses on the practical aspects of managing portfolio companies post-investment and executing successful exits. It covers value creation strategies, governance, performance monitoring, and exit planning across different stages.

Capstone project: venture capital fund simulation

Students act as fund managers, designing a €10 million fund and constructing a portfolio of at least 5 startups. Each group submits a professional investment memo covering fund thesis, startup selection, capital allocation, and portfolio-level rationale. Through Ecuacap's ecosystem integration, top-performing teams gain access to real startups, industry actors, and post-course opportunities including mentorship, exposure, and networking. Projects are evaluated by fund managers overseeing more than €2.8 billion in assets under management. The project hours will be delivered in an integrated manner throughout the program. The final session (4 hours) will be dedicated to the final presentations.

Extracurricular activities

Complementary talks

Aligned with the USFQ Liberal Arts philosophy, in which all areas of knowledge are equally relevant and contribute to intellectual development, this program includes talks on various current topics of interest. These are open to the general public or form part of other programs. This space strengthens the academic content of the program, and attendance is optional.

Business forum

The business forum is a meeting space between participants and panelists; entrepreneurs, business leaders, professors, and experts, who will share their perspectives, trends, and best practices. Forums will be organized according to the annual schedule, with participation from students in non-degree programs and master’s programs at Escuela de Empresas.
METHODOLOGY
Modality and duration:

This is a hybrid program with a duration of 80 hours, distributed as follows:

Description Total hours duration Face-to-face hours Synchronous hours (videoconferences) Asynchronous hours (self-directed)
Courses or modules 50 4 46 0
Extracurricular activities
Virtual platform training (D2L) (self-directed) 2 0 0 2
Self-directed study for program preparation 12 0 0 12
Self-directed study for project preparation 12 0 0 12
Liberal arts and business talks 2 2 0 0
Business forum 2 2 0 0
Total hours of the program 80 8 46 26

*Depending on the shared activities, their modality may vary. The table presents them in an in-person format.

Classes are delivered synchronously and complemented by asynchronous activities and the use of resources on the virtual platform. The program follows an active, participatory, and critical methodology that links theory with practice. Students are required to access the Desire2Learn (D2L) virtual platform to become familiar with it, use the study resources, and complete the virtual activities. Access to the D2L platform remains active from the start of the program until one month after its completion.
Resources and activities:

The program promotes the practical application of knowledge by combining a strong academic foundation with hands-on experiences that enhance active learning. Participants have access to a variety of resources, including presentations, readings, case studies, and audiovisual materials that support conceptual understanding and critical analysis. These are complemented by interactive activities, workshops, forums, cases, and exercises that allow participants to apply the content and develop competencies transferable to the professional environment.
Evaluations:
  • The program requires participation, attendance, and the completion of evaluation activities assigned by the instructor.
  • The capstone project must have a minimum passing grade of 70/100.
  • Specifically, participants must achieve a minimum score of 70% in the following activities:
Category Detail Weight Rubric
Attendance and participation Attendance to classes
Class participation		 30% Attendance and participation
Assignments Assignments
Activities
Lectures		 20% Assignments
Capstone project Capstone project 50% Capstone project

The capstone project must have a minimum passing grade of 70/100.

 

FACULTY

Justin Schwartz

Investment professional holding the CFA designation, with experience in asset management and portfolio structuring across both private and public markets. He has a strong background in financial analysis, investment evaluation, and engagement with institutional investors. He has been involved in initiatives related to private equity and venture capital, bringing a disciplined, technical approach to decision-making. As a member of the board of ECUACAP, he contributes to strengthening Ecuador’s investment ecosystem by promoting best practices and international standards.

Managing Partner of IMPAQTO Capital, an impact investing fund providing flexible capital to early-stage startups in the Andean Region. Passionate about investing in entrepreneurs who are leveraging innovation to solve Latin America's most pressing problems.

Fabian Peña Cisneros

Fabian Peña Cisneros is a Partner at Augustus Private Equity, a Lisbon-based firm operating in partnership with Plural Holding and Doorway Ventures. The platform focuses on US late-stage / pre-IPO technology investments alongside venture debt in Europe, targeting mature companies undergoing digital transformation and approaching exit. Across the partnership, the group manages approximately €600M AUM, 54 portfolio companies, and 7 pre-IPO investments in the US. Prior to Augustus, Fabian worked in investment banking, advising deep tech startups on structuring funding rounds and accessing European capital sources, with particular exposure to energy, SaaS, and healthcare sectors.

Francisco Jorge Vale - Investment Team - Speaker and Jury panel Capstone

Cedrus Capital is a Lisbon-based private equity and venture capital manager (founded 2020) with approximately €160M in assets under management and a broad base of 700+ investors. The firm focuses on Portuguese small and mid-cap companies, positioning itself as a flexible fund structure rather than a traditional “single-strategy” PE or VC fund. Its core differentiator is the ability to design tailored investment vehicles aligned with specific investor constraints (tax, liquidity, risk profile).

Pedro André - Fund Manager - Speaker and Jury Panel Capstone

BlueCrow Capital is an independent Portuguese asset manager that structures and manages venture capital, private equity, and alternative investment funds across multiple asset classes. Its strategy is diversified across sectors (technology, energy, agriculture, healthcare, etc.) and stages, with a strong integration of ESG principles and long-term value creation. In venture capital specifically, BlueCrow focuses on early-stage, innovation-driven companies, particularly in deep tech, energy transition, and industrial innovation, helping startups move from R&D to commercialization and scale.

Bernando Patricio - Associate - Speaker

Oxy Capital is a leading Portuguese alternative asset manager (founded 2012) with more than €1bn invested across private equity, mezzanine debt, real estate, and public markets. Oxy operates multiple strategies ranging from traditional buyouts to restructuring and opportunistic investments. Its platform is characterized by a diversified fund base (e.g., PE, special situations, liquid strategies) and an active role in value creation across portfolio companies. The investment team consists of 25+ professionals, combining long-standing senior experience with younger profiles, enabling both institutional execution and strong local deal sourcing.

Emilio Jacome

Emilio Jácome is an Investment Professional at Potencia Ventures, a U.S. -based impact investment group deploying capital across early-stage startups and venture funds in EdTech and Future of Work in Latin America and the United States. At Potencia, he supports due diligence, financial modeling, and portfolio monitoring across a portfolio several companies and fund investments, and has built AI-enabled research and deal evaluation workflows that
have reduced manual inputs.

Prior to Potencia, Emilio served as Investment and Portfolio Associate at Startup Ventures Ecuador, an angel fund backed by business leaders representing approximately 10% of Ecuador's GDP, where he led due diligence on investments across CPG, Fintech, Consumer Marketplaces and others.

He also led AI-enabled research at Startupeable, Latin America's largest startup and venture capital media platform with over five million downloads, where he built and operated a research system integrating large language models to accelerate market analysis, founder assessments, and content production. He has conducted interviews and primary research with investors and C-level operators from firms such as NFX, Menlo Ventures, Kaszek, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ualá, Kavak, Rappi and Mercado Libre.

Carlos Córdova

Senior executive with extensive experience in financial services, specializing in data, digitaltransformation, and private capital. He serves as Executive Director of ECUACAP, leading initiatives to strengthen Ecuador’s private capital and investment ecosystem. He has held leadership roles in insurance and banking, driving data-driven strategies and innovation at scale. He is also a professor and advisor in finance, fintech, and digital transformation, bridging industry practice with academic insight.

ECUACAP is the Ecuadorian Private Capital Association, dedicated to developing and strengthening the country’s investment ecosystem across venture capital, private equity, and impact investing. It brings together key stakeholders—including funds, institutional investors, and ecosystem partners—to foster collaboration, innovation, and capital formation. The association promotes best practices, market intelligence, and strategic initiatives to position Ecuador as an attractive destination for private investment.

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