Team
Local leadership, backed by a regional venture platform.
Bolívar Fund is built around Daniel Bolívar's local access, founder relationships, and Venezuela-specific judgment, supported by all-star founders across the region who bring LatAm investing discipline, LP access, operating infrastructure, and founder-to-founder pattern transfer.
The model is deliberately asymmetric: local leadership at the center, regional platform support behind it.
Leading Bolívar Fund locally
Daniel Bolívar
Local Lead · Bolívar Fund
Venezuelan operator, investor, and ecosystem builder.
Daniel leads Bolívar Fund's local strategy, founder relationships, and Venezuelan market access. His role is to source, underwrite, and support the companies best positioned to serve Venezuela's comeback economy across fintech, infrastructure, and consumer categories.
Before Bolívar Fund, Daniel worked at the intersection of mobility, venture building, fundraising, and corporate venture activity in Venezuela. His experience includes working with Ridery and Venezuela Mobility Ventures, supporting strategic investment activity, and building relationships across founders, investors, family offices, and the local startup ecosystem.
Bolívar Fund is designed around the idea that the best Venezuela investments require proximity: trusted founder access, local judgment, regulatory context, and the ability to understand how consumers, merchants, families, and capital are actually moving on the ground.
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Local founder access
Deep relationships across Venezuelan founders, operators, investors, and emerging startup categories.
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Venture-building experience
Experience at the intersection of mobility, fundraising, strategic investment, and local venture activity.
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Capital formation
Experience supporting fundraising conversations with retail investors, family offices, angels, and local capital sources.
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Market judgment
Focused on the 10–12 month window before broader institutional capital fully returns to the Venezuelan startup market.
Operating model
Daniel leads locally. The founder network compounds the leverage.
01 · Local
Local leadership
- Founder sourcing in Venezuela
- Local diligence and market context
- Relationships with entrepreneurs, operators, family offices, and ecosystem partners
- Sector judgment across fintech, infrastructure, and consumer
- Ongoing founder support and board-level presence where relevant
The fund is locally led by design. The regional founder network is the operating leverage behind it.
02 · Platform
Platform support
- Portfolio construction and underwriting support
- LP network and fundraising support
- Founder / operator mentor introductions
- Dealflow and research infrastructure
- Reporting and portfolio-management systems
- AngelList, legal, side-letter, and fund-ops playbooks
- Follow-on and SPV support where appropriate
Advisors & founder network
Regional investing discipline, founder networks, and operating experience behind Bolívar Fund.
Diego Gomes
Advisor
Supports fund strategy, LP access, portfolio construction, and founder/operator connections.
Carlos Parra
Founder · DocGuía
Supports judgment on consumer adoption and essential-services distribution in Venezuela.
Freddy Genatios
Founder · PagoASAP
Supports payments, merchant acquiring, and local rails perspective on new companies.
Gerson Gómez
Founder · Ridery
Supports operating cadence, marketplace scaling, and hiring judgment for local founders.
Global Winners, Local Builders
Pattern transfer, not passive mentorship.
Bolívar Fund connects Venezuelan founders with operators who have already built category leaders in other geographies. The goal is not generic advice. It is applied pattern recognition across pricing, distribution, underwriting, hiring, fundraising, governance, and expansion.
Left
Category-winning operators
LatAm and global operators who have already crossed the expensive learning curves.
Right
Venezuelan founders
Building fintech, infrastructure, and consumer companies inside the comeback economy.
Unicorn founder
Exited fintech operator
Consumer marketplace founder
Payments infrastructure builder
LatAm GTM executive
Capital markets operator
Why this team
Local access. Regional discipline. Founder leverage.
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Local access
Venezuela is not a market that can be underwritten from a spreadsheet. The best opportunities require trust, proximity, and local context.
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Regional discipline
All-star founders and operators across Latin America bring underwriting discipline, reporting infrastructure, LP access, and fund-building experience.
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Founder leverage
Bolívar Fund helps local founders borrow the right playbooks from operators who have already made expensive mistakes elsewhere.
Building or investing in Venezuela's comeback economy?
Founders, angels, operators, and ecosystem partners can connect with Bolívar Fund through the appropriate channel.