This chat is one I have wanted to share for a while. Back in 2022, we at Latitud met and invested in Fabrício. He had just left his corporate job. He also had a precise diagnosis. Healthcare insurers in Brazil were losing 20 to 40 percent of their revenue to fraud, waste, and abuse. And he knew what the next step was. What happened next is a masterclass in early-stage execution. Fabrício and co-founder Rafael spent months designing the first product. That included val...
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This chat is one I have wanted to share for a while. Back in 2022, we at Latitud met and invested in Fabrício. He had just left his corporate job. He also had a precise diagnosis. Healthcare insurers in Brazil were losing 20 to 40 percent of their revenue to fraud, waste, and abuse. And he knew what the next step was. What happened next is a masterclass in early-stage execution. Fabrício and co-founder Rafael spent months designing the first product. That included val...
#171 - Santiago Gomez, Simetrik: the journey to a $55M Series B
Latitud Podcast
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1 year ago
#171 - Santiago Gomez, Simetrik: the journey to a $55M Series B
Back in 2018, Santiago Gomez and Alejandro Casas were just two young and hopeful founders, fresh into YC. However, with a team of 25 working on an e-commerce business, they struggled to find funding. "There's no founder-product fit", the investors would say. After a while, it clicked that their passion was elsewhere. They were challenged by a mentor to kill the startup and start building something, just the two of them, that really lit a fire under their feet. Oh yeah, and they should ...
Latitud Podcast
This chat is one I have wanted to share for a while. Back in 2022, we at Latitud met and invested in Fabrício. He had just left his corporate job. He also had a precise diagnosis. Healthcare insurers in Brazil were losing 20 to 40 percent of their revenue to fraud, waste, and abuse. And he knew what the next step was. What happened next is a masterclass in early-stage execution. Fabrício and co-founder Rafael spent months designing the first product. That included val...
