We continually improve our skills and processes so we can create, build, and accelerate the most effective and pragmatic startups in Mexico and Latin America.
By using our curated, time-tested collection of tools, techniques, and processes, we consistently create companies and technologies that are scalable, well-architected, and that can form the foundation for future growth.
Because we use our captive in-house product design and development teams, we can bring a product to market in a fraction of the time it would otherwise require. If we invest on Friday, we can have a full team working on the solution by Monday.
By selecting market opportunities with an obvious pent-up demand, reducing the time to market, and lowering the risk of execution failure, our startups deliver profitability more quickly and reliably.
Andy Kieffer
General Partner
Oversees the fund. Identifies new projects. Mentors startup executives. 25+ years of serial entrepreneurship - the last 8 of which were in México.
Fabian Gosselin
Advisor
Provides strategic and operational guidance to portfolio startups and the fund. One of the founding partners of Alsea.
Isabel Martínez
Product Definition and Delivery
Works with portfolio companies to define the initial product feature set. Facilitates the process and teams to ensure an on-time, high-quality delivery. 10+ years in project management.
Melissa Montalvo
Director of Leadership Development
Collects, collates, refines, and teaches portfolio executives on the best practices of building and running a startup.
Freddy Domiguez
Advisor
Cofounder of ComparaGuru, and current head of Expedia in LATAM
Courtney McColgan
Advisor
Former Investment Analyst at Draper Fischer, VP Marketing of Cabify, currently the CEO of Runa
Alberto Pallares
Chief Technology Officer
Leads the internal Agave Lab development team and acts as a technical mentor to our portfolio companies.
We’ve assembled a team of developers, QA testers, designers, digital marketers, who are dedicated to the following core concepts:
We meticulously define our core goals, in terms of product and personal growth, and carefully monitor our progress towards them.
We look at things in terms of process definition, execution and retrospective. Just like a manufacturing company, each cycle iteration is an opportunity to review and improve the process for the next cycle.
We like coming to work and try to maintain a healthy life balance. When we find ourselves behind an urgent deadline, we dig in and get it done. However, we also look at the reasons that put us there so we can avoid crises in the future.