Paola Valenzuela

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Principal at Foxglove Capital · Consumer

Foxglove Capital
Buenos Aires, Argentina · ART (UTC-3)
8+ years experience
IESE
English, Spanish
Investing
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Overview

I invest in consumer at Foxglove Capital, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 28 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Before that: Microsoft and Nubank. Most at home with venture capital and marketplaces. I mentor students through university programmes.

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  • Founders building in consumer
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Skills
marketplacesbrandsventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into seed consumer in India and SEA

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Consumer, AI applications
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 1 weeks.

Buenos Aires, Argentinabrandsventure capitalmarketplaces
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jul 2025 - Present
    Foxglove Capital · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2023 - Jul 2025
    Microsoft · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Wrote the marketplaces service that now handles 47 million requests a day.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
    Nubank · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Led or co-led 19 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
    Despegar · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Wrote the brands service that now handles 65 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 2.

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Education

  1. IESE
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. UNAM
    Licenciatura, Finance
    2014 - 2018

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