Founders Stories

Brian York, Josu Gurtubay and Ignasi Vegas are transforming city space throughout Latin America by providing a tech-driven fulfillment solution for e-commerce direct-to-consumer brands. Cubbo’s e-commerce fulfillment platform facilitates last-mile delivery, who use Cubbo as their urban hub to deliver items on time.

Latin America’s health care system is profoundly inefficient. These profound inefficiencies serve as a clear leverage point for innovation and change. Prixz is doing just that.


We asked Michael Selden, Finless Foods Co-founder and CEO, to address some questions about climate issues and the role investors can play in investing.

GEn1E has created a rich pipeline of next generation immunomodulators in a time span of 2 years with $5 million spend – something that would have taken traditional companies about 7 years and over $100 million.

As recently as a decade ago, credit cards were a challenging proposition for Mexican businesses. Many didn’t accept them, and the ones that did had to acquire a separate terminal for every bank (and wade through the mire of bureaucracy that came with it).

Crystal Nyitray, Ph.D. and Grace Wei, Ph.D. shared an idea about creating living medicines for a patient when the patient needs them. The resulting company, Encellin, leverages cells as molecular factories.

While fintech is arguably the most popular VC topic in Latin America right now, Vilash Poovala realized the LatAm advantage well before most founders and investors.

The desire to liberate merchants in Brazil from inequitable and broken systems is what drives Lucas Chita, Vinicíus Fernandes, Marco Korehisa and Gira forward
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The Decision Analysis practice enables us to frame our intuition, minimize bias, focus on what matters and streamline the diligence process.

Typically, it takes up to 10 years and around $400 million to launch a new product in advanced materials. Ares went from product identification to customer acceptance in less than 18 months
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Nebia initially began as a Kickstarter campaign. Today, the company’s products are in more than 100,000 homes. In 10 years, the founders anticipate that everything in your home that touches on water use will have a Nebia component

In late 2021, we celebrated our first exit from Fund I when Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired the precision medicine startup Combinati. 


Timely diagnostic testing is often the key to living a longer and healthier life. And yet, across the world, 4 billion people on the planet lack access to reliable testing services.


Compared to the industry standard of more than three hours with significant sample volumes, Correlia’s assays are complete in just under 15 minutes with minuscule samples.

Insurtech startup, Onuu, is removing obstacles that keep people from obtaining financial security.

Torch’s novel IoT system warns users of fires while they are still containable, leveraging a mesh network across large swathes of variable terrain 


The gene-editing tool kit is continuing to expand, which will enable the development of therapeutics for previously incurable genetic disorders.

Mello is building a new standard for companies to measure, track and act on burnout, inspiring happier, healthier and more motivated teams

Patients suffering from obesity have had no safe options to turn to when diet and exercise fail. Until now

A glimpse into SVLC's 2022 Investor & Founder Summit.

During Día de los Muertos in 2021, we had the opportunity to meet with our founders safely, where we could finally reconnect, celebrate milestones, sip coffee and eat delicious food.