Daniel Arango

Founder & CEO at Pillar Finance · Agritech

Pillar Finance

Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)

11+ years experience

IESE

English, Spanish

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Overview

I started Pillar Finance to fix agritech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $13 million across 2 rounds. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Before that: Cemex and EY.

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agriculturerural distributionsupply chainfintech

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closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M seed for loyalty programmes for real-estate developers

Stage: Seed
Raising: $6M
Instrument: Priced round
Committed so far: Opening the round now
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: 18 enterprise pilots after 22 months
Use of funds: Engineering hires and the first sales team

18 enterprise pilots after 22 months. Looking for investors who know media and can help with pricing.

Buenos Aires, Argentinafintechsupply chainrural distribution

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Experience

Founder & CEO
Nov 2025 - Present
Pillar Finance · 11 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Grew the team to 106 people across 3 countries.
- Raised $38 million across 2 rounds.
Staff Security Engineer
Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
Cemex · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 4.
- Wrote the supply chain service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
Staff Embedded Engineer
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
EY · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 30 a week to 4.
- Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 30% in two quarters.
Android Engineer
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Ambev · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 34 a week to 4.
Engineering Manager
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
Meta · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Led the migration of 34 services to supply chain.
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 2.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company

2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling agritech.

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Education

IESE
MBA, Business Administration
2018 - 2020
ITAM
Licenciatura, Computer Science
2011 - 2015

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