Felipe Matos

Felipe Matos is a reference in tech entrepreneurship and startups in Latin America. His initiatives have supported more than 10 thousand startups and attracted U$ 300 million in investments. Serial entrepreneur, he has played several roles in the entrepreneurial ecosystem: founder, angel investor, venture capitalist, educator, accelerator, policymaker, public speaker, evangelist, and writer. Felipe was the founder of Startup Farm, one of the leading startup accelerators in Latin America, and COO at Start-Up Brasil, a national public program created to foster the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Brazil via public and private funding partnerships. Matos works with startups since 1995. He founded the first Latin American mobile application, Girando, in 2000. In 2002, he co-founded Instituto Inovação: one of the first tech accelerators of the country, that also grew business units for innovation consulting, technology transfer, corporate education, and venture capital investments. Dealing with both management and technical skills, he has managed dozens of projects related to technological innovation for large corporations and governments. Currently, he is Head of Startup Ecosystem at In Loco, a Latin American tech company that uses hyper-geolocation technologies to provide media services, business intelligence and fraud prevention for brands and mobile app owners. He is also VP at Dínamo, a joint-initiative of private agents of the Brazilian startup ecosystem to promote public policy improvements for startups. He writes articles for Estadão newspaper and PEGN magazine, covering tech entrepreneurship, and serves as board member of several startups and supporting initiatives. Felipe has international experiences, such as leading expansions for Inventta in Bogotá, Colombia and organizing and hosting several business missions and cooperation initiatives in North America, Europe and Asia. He is the author of "10 Mil Startups" (10 thousand startups) book