InspirAcción Startup Podcast y Newsletter

Learn from LatAm startups & VC leaders to grow faster. Free podcast and newsletter with 2 exclusive interviews per month to startups and venture capital leaders. 

Join +500 entrepreneurs, founders and operators in the newsletter for free and receive exclusive interviews, summaries and shorts with stories, mistakes, actionable lessons and real advice from leaders of LatAm startup and venture capital funds like Mercado Libre, Jeeves, Uber, Rappi, Endeavor, 500 Global, Cathay Latam & MGV Capital.

Founder & Host

Ganas Ventures

Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.

Deal Partner

LvlUp Ventures

LvlUp is one of the most active venture capital firms globally, supporting and backing over 500 startups per year across every major startup hub in 6 continents. We strategically invest from pre-seed to Series A and are industry-agnostic, powered by a dynamic team of over 2,000 core and extended members.

The LvlUp Approach: Up to $10M, deep bespoke support, wide ecosystem.

+20 top VC funding partners inside LvlUp's ecosystem.

Venture Scout

Kinetic Investments

I focus on early-stage AI B2C and B2B2C startups, using AI as a core product and not an add-on, to enhance consumer experiences. This affiliation reflects my participation in the Kinetic Investments Venture Scout Network. Participation in the Kinetic Investments Venture Scout Network does not imply investment authority. All investment decisions are made independently by Kinetic Investments.

- They back startups with less than $1M ARR (Annual recurring revenue)
- The general size for initial checks is between USD 600K-900K
- They back startups with validated ideas, early adopters and strong demand.
- They support visionary leaders with proven track records, deep expertise and resilience.
- They back startups innovating in SaaS, AIaaS, e-commerce, and marketplaces.

Venture Scout Network - AI B2C & B2B2C Startups (Exclusively)

Techne Infiniti Ventures

Techne Infiniti Ventures (‘Techne’) is an early stage venture capital firm focused on hospitality technology and related sectors (Accommodation, travel, food & beverages, entertainment and recreation). Headquartered in Silicon Valley, and with offices in Amsterdam, Singapore and Mumbai, we invest globally. 

The leadership team has previously worked at Google, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Salesforce, Netflix, ServiceNow, HP, Oracle, Symantec and 200+ high growth startups. We also own a premium portfolio of hospitality assets, primarily in Silicon Valley. We uniquely operate at the intersection of hospitality + technology + startups + investments + innovation.

Learnt a lot about startups and venture capital.

Between 2020 and 2024, 381 Family Offices invested globally in real estate or hospitality. I contributed to obtaining their data for Techne Infiniti Ventures.

Venture Partner

Nomadreaming

Built bridges for millennials, gen Z & digital nomads, through hospitality and technology:

- Partnered with 2 Co-founders from Perú, united a founding team of 7 and also 7 top global advisors.
- We were part of a program of a startup accelerator from Austin, Texas, called Newchip.
- Partnered All-in-one hotel platform, Pxsol.
- Partnered leading loyalty SaaS, Currency Alliance.
- Acquired 12 Hotels, 7 in Argentina & 5 in Peru.
- We were able to be present in 8 destinations.
- Launched B2B website.
- Partnered with TECHO (ONG).
- Couldn’t raise the Pre-Seed round on time from Angel Investors.
- Thanks to Nomadreaming I met Mark Zawacki, who was willing to be our Seed round investor.

Founder & CEO

Hotels Conversion Up

Developed several strategic alliances with regional and global technology players, with several counting with integrations among them.

We provided several softwares and Revenue Management services to 12 hotels from Uruguay, Chile and Perú.

Co-founder

The Hotels Network

Responsible of the whole sales cycle and developing rapid growth, mainly with hotel chains. +100 hotels acquired from 7 countries of Latam. Participated and developed business at several international trade fairs. Also has been a speaker at trade fairs and THN´s own events. High client satisfaction and retention.

Market Manager - LATAM

Market Manager - South America Southern Cone

Hotels Allies

We worked to increase direct online sales, conversion and revenue of independent hotels and small hotel chains. We generated strategic partnerships with top hotel tech companies: Bookassist, The Hotels Network & Hotelgenius.

Director

Regency Rambla Design Apart Hotel

This was my first role in a hotel chain, Regency Hotels.
Here I learnt about better structured processes.
I also managed the responses of guest reviews in their TripAdvisor profile in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Front Desk Agent

Business Development Manager - South America | Venture Partner | People & Dot Connector

I’m passionate about adding value, helping people, preventing them mistakes, unlocking them problems and channeling positive impact.

Below is a quick overview about me and my work - past, present, and future.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked at the intersection of hospitality, entrepreneurship, and technology. I’ve worked directly with more than 150 hotels across 10 Latin American countries, launched three entrepreneurships, and collaborated with several B2B SaaS Travel Tech startups (including Bookassist, The Hotels Network, Asksuite, My Hotel, and Pxsol).

I’ve also participated in top-tier startup accelerator programs such as Newchip (USA) and Torrenegra Organization (Colombia).

In 2024, I collaborated with Techne Infiniti Ventures, an investment fund, venture studio, and accelerator for Travel Tech and related sectors startups based in Silicon Valley, USA.

Currently through "InspirAcción" (InspireAction in Spanish) Startup Podcast & Newsletter, I focus on inspiring people from the LatAm startup ecosystem, helping them to take better decisions, prevent mistakes, unlock problems and generate greater impact through actionable content from the best stories, mistakes, lessons and real advice from the leaders of startups and venture capital from LatAm.

Leaders from companies like Mercado Libre, Jeeves, Uber, Rappi, Endeavor, 500 Global, Cuota, Cathay Latam & MGV Capital.

I craft the questions and the content with the conviction of being able to help the speakers, their startups, venture capital funds, and other entrepreneurs, operators and venture capital investors from LatAm to drive greater impact in their startups, VC funds, clients, families, and communities.

Also proud for having been selected in July 2025 as one of 250 out of more than 1,000 applicants to join The Newsletter Accelerator by Beehiiv (alongside top newsletter and media operators from The New York Times, Forbes, Superhuman AI, and Axios) and The Feed Media.

Also very happy to be admitted between this August and September to work as venture scout at 3 venture funds: LvlUp Ventures + Ganas Ventures + Kinetic Investments.

Con ~33 años Marcelo Giuseppini pasó de ser Growth Manager a CEO en los inicios de Handy (Fintech). En los 4 años siguientes, escalaron a +25.000 Pymes de Uruguay y actualmente lidera a cientas de personas.

Con gran alegría les comparto el contenido de la entrevista a Marcelo Giuseppini. 

Marcelo es CEO de Handy, Ex-FNC - Fabricas Nacionales de Cerveza y KPMG Uruguay.

Fue una conversación súper interesante de compartir. 

Su humildad, mentalidad, transparencia, claridad mental, aprendizajes y consejos compartidos fueron tremendos.

𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞:

1️⃣ Aprendizajes clave de pasar a ser CEO rápido e impactar +25.000 Pymes en 4 años

2️⃣ Enfoque sobre gestión, liderazgo y feedback con cientas de personas 

3️⃣ Claves sobre cultura en Handy

4️⃣ Cómo ve hoy al ecosistema Fintech en Uruguay y Latinoamérica 

5️⃣ Tendencias impactando fuertemente al ecosistema Fintech en LatAm 

6️⃣ Perspectivas de los errores y alguno de los más grandes de su carrera 

7️⃣ Consejos para profesionales que aspiran a ser líderes en el futuro 

¡Y mucho más!

𝟒 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 - 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞

🚀 Clave de cómo Handy escaló a más de 25.000 Pymes en 4 años

🔄 Cambio de paradigma más grande en Fintech que ya está pasando

🧩 El desafío más grande al gestionar personas

🧭 5 Consejos para profesionales que aspiran a ser líderes


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Adolfo Diaz Gramont

InspirAcción Startup Podcast y Newsletter | 3x Scout @LvlUp Ventures + Ganas Ventures + Kinetic Investments

Cambio de paradigma más grande que ya está pasando y acelerando en Fintech - Marcelo Giuseppini, CEO Handy (Fintech).

Short de la entrevista en InspirAcción Startup Podcast y Newsletter.

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#StartupsLatAm #Fintech #FintechLatam #StartupsFintech #Innovación #InnovaciónLatam

Las 10 mejores lecciones y consejos sobre startups, growth, management, fintech y más tras traccionar 25.000 Pymes en 4 años, liderar cientas de personas y la inclusión financiera en Uruguay - Marcelo Giuseppini, CEO @Handy (Fintech).

1️⃣ 5 Consejos para profesionales

2️⃣ Clave estar cerca de las Pymes

3️⃣ El crédito es una palanca para crecer recontra importante

4️⃣ Es fundamental ir proactivamente, informar y validar

5️⃣ Clave mantener espíritu de Growth

6️⃣ Clave mantener lo más horizontal posible la estructura

7️⃣ Transparencia y honestidad, pilares clave de la cultura

8️⃣ Al reclutar, priorizo gente que se adapte al cambio

9️⃣ Error que suelo cometer sobre gestión de personas

🔟 El efectivo sigue siendo un gran enemigo para las Fintech

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10 Lecciones sobre startups, growth, management y fintech

En los últimos 3 meses entrevisté a 4 líderes de fondos de venture capital de LatAm y Estados Unidos. Debajo 4 carruseles con sus 44 mejores aprendizajes, errores y consejos accionables.

⏳ Aprende en minutos lo que a muchos les puede llevar meses, incluso años, ahórrate tiempo, errores caros, pérdidas de oportunidades valiosas y desbloquea problemas con la sabiduría de su camino recorrido (aciertos y errores).

♾️ Valor compartieron todos con gran transparencia y generosidad en InspirAcción Startup Podcast y Newsletter.

1️⃣ Damaris Mendoza Loera - Partner en 500 Global, Advisory Board en START Global y Kanat Wela', Miembra de WeInvest LatAm y Global Women in VC.

Enlace carrusel: https://lnkd.in/diehK7yz

2️⃣ Mariano González Vasconcelos - Fundador y General Partner en MGV Capital, Board Member en Alamo Angels, Tech Bloc, Ángel Inversionista en Angel Hub Ventures, Limited Partner en Seven Seven Six, 500 LatAm y Behind Genius Ventures 

Enlace carrusel: https://lnkd.in/dt37fFR4

3️⃣ Federico Gómez Romero - Head of Cathay Latam, parte de Cathay Capital y Cathay Innovation, fondos globales de venture capital y private equity.

Enlace carrusel: https://lnkd.in/dCEyMng4

4️⃣ Claudio Barahona Jacobs - General Partner en CVC Latam, Ex-ALAYA CAPITAL y Wayra. También es Fundador de ComoLevantarCapital.com y Board Member de startups.

Enlace carrusel: https://lnkd.in/dFnvWmQ5

♻️ Compártelo si crees que el contenido puede ayudar a emprendedores de startups levantando capital, también te invito a guardarlo para cuando te sea más oportuno.

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🎯 Las 10 mejores lecciones accionables sobre startups de etapas tempranas, levantar capital y VC de Claudio Schlegel en la entrevista de InspirAcción Startup Podcast y Newsletter.

Claudio es Ángel inversionista a tiempo completo hace 4 años. 

Ha invertido en 25 startups 🚀 incluyendo: Buo, Aplazo, Luable - MejorCDT (YC S21), Maslow, Pulsar y Axcent Software.

También es: Advisor, Mentor en Endeavor México, Board Member e Inversor en Podemos Progresar, Limited Partner en COMETA, Platanus y Fundador de Foundations Newsletter 

⏳ Aprende en minutos lo que a muchos les puede llevar meses, incluso años, ahórrate tiempo, errores caros y pérdidas de oportunidades valiosas.

1️⃣ Ejecución > Ideas excelentes

2️⃣ América Latina ≠ Silicon Valley

3️⃣ Define tu playbook de crecimiento

4️⃣ Maximiza con mínimos recursos en etapas tempranas

5️⃣ Busca feedback temprano de inversionistas

6️⃣ Demuestra capacidad de ejecución a los inversionistas

7️⃣ Coherencia, consistencia y transparencia

8️⃣ La resiliencia es fundamental

9️⃣ Entiende los diferentes caminos para el “Exit" (Salidas)

🔟 La actitud de pay it forward predomina

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