Paulo Cardoso

Overview

Partner at Pinecrest Growth, backing fintech companies. Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Google and Despegar. Most at home with board work and venture capital.

Experience

1. Partner

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Pinecrest Growth · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 437ms to 43ms.
   • Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 36 engineers.
2. Product Manager

   Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
   Google · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Launched the platform product in 7 markets.
   • Took platform activation from 25% to 37% in three quarters.
3. Principal Product Manager

   Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
   Despegar · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 16 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
4. Product Manager

   Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
   Deloitte · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Grew marketplace revenue from $6 million to $34 million ARR.
   • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 14 days to 3.
5. Principal Product Manager

   Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
   iFood · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · São Paulo, Brazil
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
   • Sit on 4 boards.

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Education

1. Universidad de Chile

   Ingeniería, Economics
   2006 - 2010