#199 - Antoine Colaço (Valor Capital): the VC bridging the US and Latin America

This week’s guest is Antoine Colaço, managing partner at Valor Capital Group, an investment firm with more than $2.6b in AUM and more than 100 portfolio companies. Valor Capital was founded by Ambassador Clifford Sobel (former US ambassador to Brazil) and his son, Scott Sobel (who was part of the founding team of Net2Phone, which IPOed and was sold to AT&T for US$1.4b in 2000). The firm specializes in bridging the US and Latin America, and has invested in very well known companies such as Coinbase, Stone ($3.1b in market cap) and Satellogic, among many others. Antoine joined Valor in 2012 after almost 9 years at Google, where he held various roles including COO of APAC and Latam for the search giant. He was one of the first 1,000 employees at Google and joined pre-IPO. He has seen it all from both an operator and VC perspective, so in this conversation we went quite in-depth on his time at Google and also his learnings after almost 12 years as a professional VC at Valor. For more episodes on pur LatAm VC series, check the following links: Mariano Amartino (Microsoft): "Una defensa de la relación Latam - España" Eric Acher (Monashees): one of the founding fathers of LatAm VC Benjamin Gleason (Kamino): the beginning of the Brazilian fintech revolution Carlos (CK) Kokron: the history of Qualcomm Ventures, one of the best CVCs in the world, and the evolution of the LatAm VC ecosystem Edson Rigonatti (Astella): From opening to Nirvana to chasing unicorns in Brazil Jimena Pardo (ALLVP): reflections on going from founder to big tech to VC in Latam Alejandro Diez (DILA Capital): Puente Mexico - España y cómo ayudan a startups a cruzar el charco You can view and listen to our podKasts on: YouTube Apple podcasts Spotify Anchor.fm ‍ ‍