Davi Teixeira

Overview

I invest in climate at Banyan Growth, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Backed 34 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with go-to-market and energy. I mentor students through university programmes.

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Experience

1. Principal

   Mar 2026 - Present
   Banyan Growth · 7 mo · Contract · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Backed 13 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
2. Director of Engineering

   Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
   Banco do Brasil · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Moved 65% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
3. Backend Engineer

   Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
   Embraer · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Moved 95% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
4. Software Engineer

   Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 505ms to 141ms.
5. Senior Platform Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
   Google · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Moved 90% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 40% in two quarters.

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Education

1. IESE

   MBA, Business Administration
   2019 - 2021
2. ITAM

   Licenciatura, Finance
   2012 - 2016