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Crossing Borders with Nathan Lustig
by Nathan Lustig
Crossing Borders with Nathan Lustig: Where I interview entrepreneurs doing startups across borders and the investors who support them, with a focus on companies that have some relationship to Latin America.
Episodes
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Greatest Hits Episode: Pedro Pablo del Campo: Building Bridges Between Latin America & the USA, Ep 206
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Pedro Pablo del Campo, Partner of Magma Partners Pedro Pablo del Campo is a Chilean entrepreneur and the newest addition to our Magma Partners team. Born in Punta Arenas, one of the most...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Rebecca Fischer, Divibank: Helping Brazilian entrepreneurs scale with non-dilutive capital, Ep 205
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Rebecca Fischer, cofounder and CEO of Divibank. Before Divibank, small and medium enterprises in Brazil only had two financing options: getting debt from a bank or raising venture capital....
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Greatest Hits Episode: Juan José Leaño, Parco: Digitalizing Latin America’s parking industry, Ep 204
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Juan José Leaño, founder and CEO of Parco. As an intern at a law firm, Juan hated parking in cash-only parking lots. After having to go to the ATM or getting countless parking tickets, he...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Luis Rubén Chávez: Helping Mexicans build their financial health, Ep 203
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Luis Rubén Chávez, founder and CEO of Zenfi. Luis Rubén Chávez, co-founder and CEO of Zenfi, is changing the way people in Mexico think about financial health. Zenfi is a complete digital...
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Aron Schwarzkopf: Kushki Building Latin America’s Payments Infrastructure, Ep 202
Online payments in Latin America are rapidly growing, creating significant opportunities for businesses and consumers. In 2022, cash only represented 37% of all formal retail payments in LatAm's top six markets, marking a decline from pre-pandemic when cash represented around 70%. Aron…
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Monty Schmidt: From boom to bust and back again, Ep 201
This episode was recorded on March 20, 2023 In the 90s, technology stock valuations soared rapidly in the US. Investors were pouring money into Internet-based companies, and the value of equity markets grew exponentially. In 2000, things started to change. Between 2001 and 2002, the dotcom bubble...
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Cristina Randall, Somos: Empowering Mexicans to take control of their health, Ep 200
Mexico's metabolic health is alarming, with only one out of ten individuals falling in the “healthy” range and nearly 20% of Mexicans have diabetes. Lifestyles have drastically changed over the years, poor eating habits, little physical activity and rest have had a negative impact on people's...
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Alejandro Matamala, Runway: Unlocking AI potential to streamline multimedia content creation, Ep. 199
Generative AI is becoming a game changer for creative industries by boosting content creation with more efficient and cost-effective processes. Alejandro Matamala is the cofounder and CDO of Runway, a pioneering company that develops AI-powered tools designed to improve creative workflows. I sat...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Dan Green, Gunderson Dettmer: Legal Structures for Startups in Latin America, Ep 198
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Dan Green, Partner at Gunderson Dettmer. An avid traveler from a young age, Dan Green’s relationship with Latin America stretches all the way back to his childhood trips to Mexico and…
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Greatest Hits Episode: Doménica Obando, Talently: Empowering Latin American tech talent, Ep 197
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Doménica Obando, CEO, and co-founder of Talently Doménica Obando, CEO and co-founder of Talently, is helping build Latin America into the next tech talent hub while offering better jobs to...
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Greatest Hits Episode- Pedro Moura, Flourish Fi- Building the tech infrastructure to help people make better financial decisions, Ep 196
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Pedro Moura, Co-Founder, and CEO of Flourish Fi. We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did Pedro Moura moved from Natal, Brazil to the US at a young age, overcoming many...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Maricel Saenz, Compound Foods: Coffee without Coffee Beans, Ep 195
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Maricel Saenz, Founder, and CEO of Compound Foods. People continue to experience how global warming can have devastating effects on the world. Crop yields have already started to decline…
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Greatest Hits Episode: Javier García, Femsa: Collaborating with the most disruptive startups in Latin America, Ep 194
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Javier García, Director of FEMSA Ventures. Javier García knew that there were at least 50 ways of doing corporate venture capital the wrong way, which is why he took a couple of years to...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Mariana Costa, Laboratoria: Transforming Latin America’s Tech Sector with Female Talent, Ep 193
For this week on the Crossing Borders podcast, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Mariana Costa, CEO, and Co-founder of Laboratoria. Mariana Costa, founder of Laboratoria, a programming bootcamp for Latin American women, found a way to mix two worlds she was passionate...
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Greatest Hits Episode- Santiago Aparicio, Ontop- Transforming the future of work, Ep 192
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Santiago Aparicio, CEO, and Co-founder of Ontop. The future of work is going to be remote and decentralized, according to Santiago Aparicio, Co-Founder and CEO of Ontop, a payroll software...
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Alejandro Gálvez, 99 Startups: From Latin American angel investor to starting a VC fund, Ep 191
Alejandro Gálvez was an early Mexican angel investor and now is Managing Partner of 99 Startups, a venture capital firm that invests in Latin American pre-seed and seed stage companies. After studying law, Alejandro’s first step into the tech world was learning to code. However, it was…
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Cristobal Perdomo, Wollef: A closer look at Latin American Venture Capital, Ep 190
Cristobal Perdomo is cofounder and General Partner at Wollef, a Latin American VC firm. Five years ago, I sat down with Cristobal to talk about Latin American venture capital in what turned into Episode 34 of Crossing Borders, where we covered the state of play of VC in 2018. Listen to our...
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Fernando Sucre, R5: Helping Colombians improve their financial health, Ep 189
Cars and motorcycles are the most valuable assets for many Latin American families. People use them to access better opportunities and open income streams. Colombian fintech R5 solves a major pain point for vehicle owners by offering low-cost, fast, and fair insurance and loans for vehicles. Its...
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Cinthia Merlos, Vexi: Helping Mexicans Build Credit, Ep 188
Only one inf ten Mexicans has access to a credit card. Many people have monthly incomes that are too low for traditional banks, or they are part of the 55% of Mexicans who form the informal, cash-based economy. Vexi helps Mexicans get their first credit cards by analyzing data that banks don’t in...
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Nicolas Girard, Oxio: Simple and Programmable Access to Global 4G and 5G Infrastructure, Ep 187
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to start a mobile telecom company, you had to either buy an existing company or build out extremely expensive infrastructure. Now, Oxio allows you to spin up your personalized, cloud-based mobile service in minutes using a simple API. In this episode, I sat down…
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Rebecca Fischer, Divibank: Helping Brazilian entrepreneurs scale with non-dilutive capital, Ep 186
Before Divibank, small and medium enterprises in Brazil only had two financing options: getting debt from a bank or raising venture capital. But most startups don’t meet bank financing requirements, and not every company can raise VC or wants to raise VC. Divibank provides a third alternative for...
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Manuel Beaudroit, Belo: How cryptocurrency is helping Latin Americans, Ep 185
Argentina has the most US dollars in circulation of any country after the US. Argentina’s high inflation rate, currency controls, and multiple devaluations make it difficult for people to plan for their future. Saving is hard, and many people don’t have the tools to save efficiently. Manuel...
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Laura Martínez, Magma Partners: How an investment analyst evaluates Latin American startups, Ep 184
Laura Martínez is a Senior Investment Analyst at Magma Partners, and she joined the team in 2021. Previously, she spent two years at Mastercard, where she helped launch an in-house accelerator program and fell in love with startups. In this episode, we went through Magma’s investment process…
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Gregorio Gilardini, Leasy: Driving financial inclusion for Latin Americans via cars, Ep 183
Gregorio Gilardini is the co-founder and CEO of Leasy, a Peru and Mexico-based startup that provides car financing for Latin Americans. Starting with ride-hailing drivers, Leasy is helping drivers who have good credit and income but that banks won't lend to. In this episode, Gregorio shares his...
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Alessandra Angelini, Influur: From breaking news to breaking the internet with influencer marketing, Ep 182
Almost two-thirds of consumers ages 18 to 40 say ads are disruptive and annoying, while 54% say they don’t spend any time watching television with advertising, according to a study by Marketing Dive. The survey found that 73% of younger consumers trust product reviews from “a person that seems…
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Juan José Leaño, Parco: Digitalizing Latin America’s parking industry, Ep 181
As an intern at a law firm, Juan hated parking in cash-only parking lots. After having to go to the ATM or getting countless parking tickets, he thought there had to be a better way. In 2016, Parco was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and has since expanded into 28 cities across the country. Parco...
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Alexa Clark, Magma Partners: From International Relations to investing in startups in Latin America, Ep 180
Alexa Clark is an Associate at Magma Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund based in Latin America. After working for four years at an accelerator in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alexa joined the Magma team as an Investment Analyst and worked her way up to Associate. Although she majored in...
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Lucas Mendes (Revelo) and Giuseppe Belpiede (Listopro): Creating synergies to become LatAm’s largest tech talent platform, Ep 179
Two months ago HR tech startup Revelo acquired Listopro, a Mexican tech talent marketplace. In this episode, I interviewed the founders of both companies: Lucas Mendes (Revelo) and Giuseppe Belpiede (Listopro). Together, these startups have more than 300,000 tech professionals and are the largest...
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Daniel Otero, Ozon: Financing motorcycles to bring financial inclusion to gig workers, Ep 178
There are nine million motorcycles in Colombia, a country of 60M compared to eight million in the US, a country seven times larger, and Brazilians own 14+ million motorcycles. In Latin America, motorcycles are not transportation, they're also a work vehicle for delivery and courier workers....
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Greatest Hits Episode: Benjamin Labra, Houm: Streamlining the Real Estate industry in Latin America, Ep 177
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Benjamin Labra, CEO and Co-founder of Houm. Latin America’s real estate market is opaque, broken, and bureaucratic. The home buying process in the region can take up to a year, and even just...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Gonzalo Blanco, Quansa: Building the future of financial health in Latin America, Ep 176
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Gonzalo Blanco, Co-founder of Quansa. For years, Gonzalo Blanco and Mafalda Barros have seen how the misaligned incentives in Latin American financial products push the average person to make...
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Greatest Hits: Maribel Dominguez, Círculo de Belleza: Building a vertical marketplace to supply the professional beauty industry, Ep 175
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Maribel Dominguez, Founder, and CEO of Circulo de Belleza. After graduating from university in the US in 2009 at the height of the financial crisis, Maribel Dominguez decided to move back to...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Agustin Feuerhake, Fintual: Redefining what it means to invest in Latin America, Ep 174
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Agustin Feuerhake, Founder of Fintual. For retail investors in Latin America, the options to invest are limited. This space is often dominated by traditional banks that charge very high fees...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Ximena Aleman, Prometeo: Transforming Latin America’s financial landscape via Open Banking, Ep 173
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Ximena Aleman, co-CEO and co-founder of Prometeo. ~70% of Latin Americans are unbanked or underbanked. That means that there’s a huge opportunity to improve access to financial products and...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Deepak Chhugani, Nuvocargo: Using software to modernize trade between Mexico and USA, Ep 172
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Deepak Chhugani, CEO and founder of Nuvocargo. Deepak Chhugani’s multicultural background was considered rare and unexpected in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where he grew up most of his life. He was...
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Izabel Gallera, Canary Ventures: Leveraging the power of connections to help early-stage Latin American startups, Ep 171
Izabel Gallera is a Partner at Canary, a venture capital firm born in Brazil that invests in early-stage Latin American startups. She describes Canary’s core business as leveraging its network to create connections and help founders fundraise for their startups. Izabel is from Brazil, and as an...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Caterine Castillo, Neivor: Streamlining real estate administration in Latin America, Ep 170
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Caterine Castillo, CEO and co-founder of Neivor. In Latin America, a building manager typically has to handle thousands of apartment units and tenants. This means simultaneously dealing with...
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Santiago Suárez, Addi: Helping Latin Americans make and accept payments Ep 169
Santiago Suarez is the CEO and co-founder of Addi, a Latin American fintech company. Addi promotes and enables digital commerce in Latam. As Santiago puts it, Addi’s mission is to enable every Latin American to buy and shop digitally. Addi offers “buy now pay later”, and is currently active in...
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Greatest Hits Episode:Gabriela Estrada, Vexi: Bringing Credit to the Underbanked in Mexico, Ep 168
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Gabriela Estrada, CFO and co-founder of Vexi. Only one in ten adults in Mexico have access to a formal credit card, according to Gabriela Estrada. That’s more than 70 million people that…
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Stefan Moller, Klar: Transforming Mexicans’ relationship with money, Ep 167
Stefan Moller, CEO of Klar, a Mexican fintech democratizing access to banking, wants to change the way Mexicans think about money. Stefan grew up between Mexico and Germany and worked traditional jobs to finance his own ventures. His experience working traditional jobs and startup companies led…
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Banafsheh Fathieh, Prosus Ventures: Supporting the next generation of Latin American high-impact entrepreneurs, Ep 166
Banafsheh Fathieh invests in startups that positively impact their communities in Latin America. As an early-stage venture capitalist looking for opportunities in the Latin American market, Banafsheh is the Head of Investments at Prosus Ventures, the venture arm of Prosus Group, the international...
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Doménica Obando, Talently: Empowering Latin American tech talent, Ep 165
Doménica Obando, CEO and co-founder of Talently, is helping build Latin America into the next tech talent hub while offering better jobs to skilled developers and data scientists. Originally from Peru, Domenica worked in an NGO and the public sector before becoming a full-time entrepreneur.…
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Greatest Hits Episode: The Story Behind the Cornershop Acquisition, Ep 164
Daniel Undurraga never thought he would sell even one Latin American company to a company in the US market, but with the recent US$225M acquisition of Cornershop, a grocery-delivery app he has officially sold two startups to US companies. His first startup, Needish, was the basis for Clan...
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Luis Rubén Chávez, Zenfi: Building credit score awareness for Mexicans, Ep 163
Luis Rubén Chávez, co-founder and CEO of Zenfi, is changing the way people in Mexico think about financial health. Zenfi is a complete digital finance platform focused on lending that strives for the financial health of its customers. With more than 2.5 million users, the platform provides...
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Sophia Wood, Magma Alumni: An entrepreneur’s journey into venture capital and wildlife conservation, Ep 162
Originally from the US, Sophia Wood is a political scientist turned tech entrepreneur, ghost writer, VC, and now leads a tourism company dedicated to boosting conservation in emerging markets as CEO of Friends of Wallacea. Sophia’s journey from the US to Africa to Latin America shows what a...
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Daniel Peña, LocalAdventures: Helping Latin Americans travel around the world, Ep 161
From a young age, Daniel knew he wanted to create something new, but he didn’t know exactly what it would be. His curiosity and drive led him to always have several side businesses, even as a teen when he started a (painful!) business raising bees and honey. Daniel pushed himself to try new...
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Greatest Hits Episode: Mariana Castillo, Ben & Frank: Direct-to-Consumer Eyewear for the Mexican Market, Ep 159
For this week’s episode of Crossing Borders, we’re revisiting one of our greatest hits episodes featuring Ben & Frank’s co-founder Mariana Castillo. Mariana Castillo believes that the eyewear shopping experience in Mexico is broken. It’s generally reduced to an impersonal exchange that only...
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Santiago Aparicio, Ontop: Transforming the future of work, Ep 158
I sat down with Santiago to talk about his experience as an entrepreneur, while Santiago shared the story of Ontop and their meteoric growth in their first fifteen months (actively operating in over 190 countries, transacting over $2M per month).
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Maricel Saenz, Compound Foods: Coffee without Coffee Beans, Ep 157
In this episode, I sat down with Maricel to talk about Compound Food’s mission in tackling climate change, her career in science without being a scientist, her journey of building a company at the start of the pandemic and the future of the coffee industry.
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Juanma Gironella, Guros: Reshaping The Latin American Insurance Industry, Ep 156
In this episode, I sat down with Juanma to discuss how Guros is making inroads into the insurance industry and gaining market share with a digital model that is democratizing access to insurance and bringing new opportunities to innovate, improve customer experience, and ultimately, driving growth.
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Crossing Borders with Nathan Lustig: Where I interview entrepreneurs doing startups across borders and the investors who support them, with a focus on companies that have some relationship to Latin America.
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