Lorena Ortiz

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Principal at Westgate Partners | ex-Google

Westgate Partners
Montevideo, Uruguay · UYT (UTC-3)
7+ years experience
Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
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Overview

7 years around startups; now investing in B2B SaaS. Previously an operator for 8 years before investing. Led or co-led 13 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Learning Japanese, slowly.

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Skills
pricingventure capitalgo-to-market

Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Westgate Partners · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Led or co-led 28 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 49 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  2. Product Manager
    Nov 2021 - Oct 2024
    Google · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Grew payments revenue from $3 million to $15 million ARR.
    • Ran 164 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Product Manager
    Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
    Cencosud · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Took payments activation from 29% to 57% in three quarters.
    • Grew payments revenue from $7 million to $39 million ARR.

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Education

  1. Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
    Ingeniería, Economics
    2015 - 2019

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