Andres Barreto Investor and Entrepreneur

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General Partner

Firstrock Capital

Jan 2016 - Current (10 years 4 months)

Firstrock Capital is a VC fund that helps founders accomplish their goals faster by providing more than just capital. Firstrock adds value by helping founders recruit elite engineering teams. The Firstrock team has backgrounds in data science, technical recruiting, developer relations, hardware and software engineering. We are more likely to invest if your team has the following: - You are?—?or your co-founder is?—?able to write software. - You are solving a problem you’ve lived yourself. - You’ve managed to build and launch the product. - Your product is getting market adoption in the U.S. - You are open to?—?or already?—?have your engineering team in Latin America.

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Investor & Board Member

Socialatom Ventures

Nov 2012 - Current (13 years 6 months)

Socialatom Ventures is a seed capital investor that also provides in-house services to help entrepreneurs reach their goals faster. We normally participate in existing rounds, including as part of an accelerator, friends and family, angel round or Series A round with founder-friendly terms. We invest in digital startups across the U.S. and Latin America that offer solutions that are either global or applicable to all of Latin America. In certain cases we are able to leverage our our capital and services with non-dilutive capital from our financing partners. Companies we work with: Oppten, Oja.la, Micarga, Streem, Seahorse, Gone!, Ustraap, Geniusly, Playvox, Alltherooms, MortgageHippo, Letslunch, Viajala, Entryless, Cambly, Authy, Don

Founding Fellow

Coderise

Aug 2012 - Current (13 years 9 months)

In developing nations, being a bright kid with potential isn't enough to go up the socio-economic ladder or reach your full potential. In fact, for most kids born into low-income families, life is riddled with roadblocks to success. Coderise adresses this problem by training and empowering high-school level students with not just access to technology but with the programming skills that are in demand today. Our mission is to empower high-school students with demonstrated potential by giving them the tools and inspiration to dive into tech innovation and tap into their entrepreneurial spirit.

Advisor

Bunny Inc

Jan 2012 - Current (14 years 4 months)

At Bunny Inc., we help humankind reach its full potential by building end-to-end marketplaces that enable companies to delegate their creative projects to us. We fulfill projects quickly and easily using sophisticated algorithms to identify the best professionals in the planet for projects, all backed by our fanatical customer support and human-powered quality control. We offer predictability in terms of quality, costs, turnaround times, and awesomeness.

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Advisor

Ambassador

Dec 2010 - Current (15 years 5 months)

Ambassador is a social marketing platform providing the tools to reward customers for referrals.

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Co-Founder + President

Onswipe

Jul 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 6 months)

Onswipe enables publishers to provide the best browsing and advertising experience to their readers on tablet and touch devices. Acquired by Beanstock Media (http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/beanstock-media-acquires-onswipe/)

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Co-Founder

Cloudomatic

Mar 2010 - Dec 2010 (10 months)

Cloudomatic is the easiest way for businesses and individuals to discover Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Company acquired by GetAmbassador (formerly Zferral)

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Founder

Pulsosocial

Aug 2008 - Current (17 years 9 months)

Pulsosocial is the leading publication and community in the area of technology and entrepreneurship from Latin America. It’s readers include the most influential latin american journalists, early adopters, bloggers, entrepreneurs, investors and web professionals. We have journalists and bloggers publishing high quality original content from Miami, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Argentina

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Co-Founder + CXO/COO

Grooveshark

Apr 2006 - Oct 2007 (1 year 7 months)

As a founder I had to wear many hats, but mostly I focused on coordinating the areas of software development, design and marketing. • Web App Development • User experience design ( Information architecture, wireframes, visual design, usability ) • Marketing ( social media marketing, international marketing, community building, market research )

Founding Partner

socialatom

Oct 2005 - Current (20 years 7 months)

Holding Company that has spun out: Socialatom PR Socialatom Ventures AtomHouse PulsoSocial

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