Santiago Marco Reyes

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Principal at Tamarind Ventures | ex-Bell Canada

Tamarind Ventures
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
9+ years experience
University of Toronto
English, Arabic
Investing
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Overview

9 years around startups; now investing in consumer. Sit on 5 boards. Most at home with venture capital and brands. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Questions about consumer
  • Working sessions on marketplaces
  • Second opinions on brands decisions
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
brandsventure capitalmarketplaces
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into pre-seed consumer in Africa

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Consumer, fintech
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Toronto, ONventure capitalbrandsmarketplaces
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Aug 2024 - Present
    Tamarind Ventures · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Backed 10 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Controller
    Apr 2023 - Jun 2024
    Bell Canada · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 4 straight quarters.
  3. Controller
    Jun 2020 - Apr 2023
    Lululemon · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 6 straight quarters.
    • Saved $2 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. FP&A Manager
    Jul 2018 - May 2020
    Rogers · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Saved $7 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Controller
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
    Amazon · 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Ran diligence on 3 acquisitions.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $71 million raise.

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Education

  1. University of Toronto
    BASc, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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