Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what’s in the pipeline. What’s exciting in your portfolio? Rodrigo Baer: One is a mid-stage company that just raised a $50 million round. They take small merchants and put them under one umbrella to sell into a large marketplace. From the marketplace’s perspective, it’s one store. It’s normally
Sramana Mitra: In the course of your introduction, you talked about two or three unicorns that have come out of your previous fund. Could you double-click down and talk about what they are, what problems have they solved, how they found traction, and why have they been successful? Rodrigo Baer: The one I did in
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a bit more in detail about the Redpoint e.ventures platform. All investments are happening in Brazil, correct? Rodrigo Baer: We have a Latin American mandate. We’ve done one investment outside of Brazil in the first fund. We were very lucky. We did the seed investment in Rappi, which is now a
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Rodrigo Baer was recorded in September 2019. Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint Ventures, Brazil, provides a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian ecosystem.