#1 Best Selling Author on Amazon - https://xitter.cf/t.co/kld94AEKTA | Co-Founder & CEO at Latitud | Investor @SharkTankMex

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Congrats Igor! Great to see you. Thanks for joining us
Congrats to @igmarinelli, Gabriel, and @Tractian (W21) on their $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation! Tractian builds sensors and AI that predict when industrial machines will fail, before they do. Most industrial equipment has no instrumentation at all, so factories find out about problems when something breaks. Tractian retrofits machines with a dozen kinds of sensors measuring vibration, temperature, and pressure, and its AI recommends maintenance ahead of the breakdown. They’ve now passed $100 million in ARR, growing 90% year over year. theinformation.com/briefings…
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Been using it this week and find it pretty interesting and useful!
Wabi 2.0 is live! personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it. a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets. the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it go start a thread with your people 👇
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This is why LatAm founders in the US will thrive. They won’t quit until the oxygen is out. We were bred on economic adversity and on stubborn pride. LFG
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.@velez_david is a one of a kind person & entrepreneur. His story is in the making. Having had a front row seat as one of Nubank’s first customers and the privilege to get to know David on a personal level, I’m sure an entire continent is cheering for him. The US is next!!
David Vélez is the founder of Nubank, a bank with 140 million customers and a market capitalization of $60 billion. When he started the business in 2013, no one thought it would work, not even his investors. He has faced down regulators, oligopolies, and corruption to build Latin America's largest digital bank. Now he is bringing Nubank to the United States, where he faces his biggest challenge yet. @gabi_imarques, who grew up four miles from Nubank's headquarters in Brazil, spent time with @velez_david in São Paulo, where the business started, and in Miami, its latest beachhead. She profiles a man who is no stranger to a fight, having grown up in Medellín, Colombia, when the city was at war with Pablo Escobar. Six-year-old Vélez would pull on layers of sweaters before stepping outside, hoping, as a child might, that the extra padding would cushion any bullets. colossus.com/article/david-v…
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An AI agent can buy something in seconds. Can the business receiving that order tell who sent it, what it can do, or whether to let it through? We built @beltichq to answer that. We're out of stealth with $8.8M raised to make agent traffic verifiable.
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Big news from OpenZeppelin. One more case of a LatAm born founder that built a leading global company. Demi shared his thoughts recently on this latamgoesglobal.latitud.com/… Hats off to the team!
Big news: S&P Global has entered an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin. We started in 2015 with the vision of a secure, open financial system powered by blockchains and smart contracts. Ten years and $37 trillion in value transferred later, the standards and rails our team and community built carry major DeFi protocols and blockchain networks as well as the largest stablecoins and tokenized funds. With @spglobal, those standards and rails can now reach the benchmarks, risk frameworks, and institutional reach global markets already run on. Proud of the @OpenZeppelin team, everything we’ve accomplished, and everything we’ll continue to build together! openzeppelin.com/news/spglob…
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We've been working with the top frontier labs to improve their design model capabilities. Today we're bringing that to your agents. Introducing our first agent tool: the Brand API. As the cost of creation goes to zero, and slop floods around us, the challenge is creating things worth existing. Agents need the right tools to craft great things. This helps gen AI agents solve 3 problems: - Extract: produce on-brand assets when users already have a brand - Search: find and retrieve brands for inspiration, from our curated index - Verify: check their own work against, see what's off brand and how to fix it Anyone can try it for free today at tastelabs.com/api Check out the full blog, and case study with @intelligenceco below.
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Replying to @brianrequarth
@brianrequarth just told a room full of founders they're in. Watch what happens when you find out that... You made the cut for the newest Latitud Fellowship cohort. 🎥 We already know this cohort's building some of the boldest global bets we've seen yet. More on who's in soon.👁️
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New fintechs and digital banks such as @nubank in Brazil increased country´s GDP by R$1.6 Trillion reais in one decade as they competed away the banking oligopoly - the beauty of competition! poder360.com.br/poder-econom…
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What we're solving in the world is too important to ignore, and if we are successful: no one will notice. That's the reality, our customers are fighting silent enemies daily.. And if they succeed they are not going to get a medal for it, but your product will arrive in time, your gas will be at the pump in time, your internet will work without any disruptions; it will literally be one more uneventful day for the world, luckily.. We are hiring like crazy (116 roles) to work with me at our new HQ. DM me if interested
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The thing that makes you feel outside the room may be the thing that helps you see the market differently. @brianrequarth on why founders should not rush to erase the perspective that makes them dangerous.
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Had to do it with our @latitudglobal fellowship house 🥹🥹
🤖 Made with AI
很喜欢这种把旅行照片收进田野笔记里的方式。 照片留住现场,旁边那枚略微缺墨的彩色橡皮章,只刻下最值得记住的轮廓。 树、穹顶、海岸都没有被讲满,反而像旅途中随手盖下的一页,安静,又很有地方感。 prompt: 请将我上传的每一张照片分别制作成一张独立的「橡皮章旅行田野笔记海报」,每张照片单独输出,不要多图拼贴。 整体采用4:3横版构图,将画面划分为左右两个区域,但不要绘制明显的分隔线。 左侧约占画面58%,忠实保留原始照片。准确保持主体身份、地形、建筑、植物、人物、空间关系、自然光影、真实质感和原有色彩氛围,仅进行克制的艺术出版物级摄影调色,并加入极轻微的细腻胶片颗粒。为适配版式可以自然裁切,但不得拉伸、扭曲、移动、替换或重新绘制主体。 右侧约占画面42%,使用温暖的米白色旧纸作为背景。纸张具有细微纤维、天然颗粒、轻微使用痕迹和哑光触感,同时保留大面积未经印刷的纸张留白,让空白成为版式的重要组成部分。 分析原始照片,从中提取最具地点辨识度的主体轮廓、建筑结构、地形走势、植物姿态、道路、水岸线或其他关键视觉关系,将其压缩成一枚小型多色橡皮章图像。 不要逐项复制照片中的全部内容。只保留能够让人一眼认出原始地点、主体和场景关系所必需的最少信息。删除人群、车辆、密集窗户、重复建筑、细碎植被、装饰构件和无关背景。 章印位于右侧纸张区域的中下部,整体只占右侧区域高度的约30%—38%,周围必须保留充足留白。章印不能放大成普通插画、完整风景画或品牌Logo。 根据原图构图决定章印的组织方式: - 标志性建筑:保留最有辨识度的外轮廓、屋顶、穹顶、拱门、塔楼或主要结构。 - 山地聚落:将建筑压缩成沿地形排列的少量阶梯状色块。 - 海岸风景:保留山体走势、聚落层级、岸线和少量断续水纹。 - 城市远景:保留主要天际线、一个标志性建筑及一两层远山。 - 自然景观:保留主要山体、树木、水岸或道路的方向关系。 - 近景遮挡物:如果其对原图叙事重要,可作为前景章印轮廓保留。 从原始照片中提取2—4种专色油墨。优先使用炭黑、深绿、砖红、赭黄、灰蓝、灰褐等经过降低饱和度的颜色,但不得强行套用固定色盘。保留原照片最有辨识度的色彩性格,仅允许一个小面积颜色作为视觉强调。 每一种颜色都要呈现为分别手工盖印的效果: 真实橡皮章雕刻纹理、手工刻痕、粗细不均的排线、轮廓缺口、断裂边缘、干燥缺墨、纸张透底、颗粒状油墨、压力不均、局部重影,以及约1—2毫米的轻微套色偏移。 不同色层之间允许出现自然错位,边缘不能数字化平滑。印迹应像真正刻制后压在旧纸上的橡皮章,而不是套用滤镜的照片、平滑矢量插画或线稿Logo。 根据照片中的地点、主题和视觉意象生成文字: 地点英文名称 No. 编号 三个简短英文关键词 西元年份 文字放在章印下方或邻近留白处,使用小型、克制、略带机械误差的打字机字体。排版应像旅行者的田野记录,而不是广告标题。确保所有文字拼写准确,不添加无关标语、品牌或装饰性文案。 整体气质像建筑师、旅行作家或自然观察者保存的田野笔记:安静、克制、触感真实、地域明确、带有手工误差和收藏感。照片负责记录现场,章印负责留下记忆中最值得辨认的部分。 Avoid:明显的中央分隔线、圆形印章、中文红色印章、邮票齿孔、蜡封、贴纸拼贴、旅游纪念品模板、平滑矢量Logo、通用城市图标、完整复制所有建筑、密集刻画、儿童手工感、卡通风格、3D渲染、塑料质感、光滑数字渐变、过度饱和、过多文字、装饰堆积,以及重绘或改变左侧原始照片。
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introducing the @tastelabs research fellowship! for those excited to work on evaluating model creativity, distilling human preference, and ending slop. you'll get compute, custom data, time with top designers and researchers, and a competitive stipend. in person in SF or remote, full time or part time. check out some of the research questions you could explore and apply here: tastelabs.com/blog/requests-…
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Hace un minuto hablé con David Vélez, quien me manifestó su decisión de aportar $100.000 millones para ayudar a los colombianos afectados por esta tragedia. ¡Gracias, David, por este inmenso gesto de solidaridad y amor por Colombia! Cuando nos unimos alrededor de un mismo propósito, demostramos que somos capaces de levantarnos ante cualquier adversidad. Así construimos juntos nuestra Patria Milagro. ¡Firme por la Patria! (A.D.L.E.) 🇨🇴🐅
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LatAm founders have been quietly building some of the most important tech companies in the world. Most people just haven't noticed yet. Today we're publishing a report on that. 🧵
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A glimpse into the future, from Brazil: a *vertical foundational model* working at scale, deployed into tens of millions of customers. Trained on proprietary data, running on Nubank’s own GPU cluster. Revolut has its own model too, called Pragma. Nubank’s start: the acquisition of Hyperplane, a @latitudglobal portfolio company, in 2024. World class team now building at the frontier. @eoghan wrote a great piece about the Age of Vertical Models a few months ago. We’re already there
Nubank $NU Q2 2026 earnings call: “About a year ago, we introduced nuFormer, our foundation model for financial behavior. Since then, we have focused on one objective, building a single AI platform that powers business and customer decisions across Nubank. We first deployed nuFormer in our flagship credit portfolio in Brazil. Through 2025, we replicated the model in Mexico. During the first half of this year, we extended it to unsecured lending in Brazil and to the next generation of our core credit models. We are now testing it in credit cards for SMEs and for our Colombian customers. Underwriting is only one application. Today, AI agents handle more than 60% of customer support conversation in Brazil, with customer ratings at or above human parity. Beyond underwriting and customer support, we are using artificial intelligence to optimize decisions across credit, deposits, and growth. It allows us to recommend the products that maximize long-term customer value, personalize the app experience, and move toward our vision of an AI private banker.”
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Applications close this Friday 🪽
A reminder from @tomi_roggio: don't chase the transaction, the term sheet. Chase the relationship. How? One great way: meeting VCs in their offices. In SF. Our fellows did just that. You have until this Friday to maybe join us next time. Apply: apply.latitud.com/r/gDzAAd
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The tech supercycle has kicked off a *behavioral* cycle among global talent. International founders are pouring into SF. LatAm-born talent is not an exception. At @latitudglobal we’ll continue to build the platform for them to land in Silicon Valley. Network, community, space, visa support, capital. And some fun. Applications for our new SF Fellowship cohort close today.
1/ Talent is everywhere. Access is not. Earlier this year we picked 8 founders from nearly 1,000 Fellowship applicants and flew them to San Francisco for a week of meetings, mentorship, and company building. We filmed it.
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