Ask LATAM VC Dalus Capital

Ask MX VC Dalus Capital!
December 12, 4-5pm PT
Rogelio De los Santos is the founding managing partner of Dalus Capital in Monterrey, MX, where he serves as director in multiple companies and has deployed more than $175M into 50+ deals since 2010.
A a timely juncture for cross-border US-LATAM investment opportunities, Dalus Capital focuses on large and growing market opportunities in Latin America stretching across the U.S. and China as supply chains and reshoring expands. The venture firm specializes in seed, series A and B investments in tech scaleups. Its VC funds are supported by the IFC and IDB, as well as pension funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals.
Close to university ecosystems, De los Santos is a Trustee of Tec de Monterrey and chairs its Entrepreneurship Institute; also participates as a member of the International Board of Advisors at the University of Texas at Austin. In the last decade, De los Santos has sponsored multiple ecosystem development initiatives like incMTY entrepreneurship festival (incmty.com), the ScaleUp Nation platform, and Catal1.5T initiative (catalist-initiative.eco).
De los Santos earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tec de Monterrey, a master’s degree in business leadership from Duxx, received an honorary degree from Babson College, and obtained an ecosystem-builder certificate from MIT.
Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin, host, Ask A VC show
Rebecca A. Fannin is an author, speaker and media entrepreneur known for for trend-spotting tech innovation and startup ecosystems. She is the founder of Silicon Dragon Ventures, an events and content group that publishes a newsletter and produces the online AskAVC show. At CNBC online, she is a special contributor on global tech trends and the Disruptor 50.
Her work has led to public speaking at Brookings, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Oxford and many tech festivals including SXSW, and appearances on CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg. Additionally, she is a venture scout at Alumni Ventures.
Her four books covering global innovation trends by region - Silicon Dragon (2008), Startup Asia (2011), Tech Titans of China (2019) and Silicon Heartland (2023) - have been translated in 10 languages, and she co-authored a textbook, Innovation in Emerging Markets (2016).
Formative years of career include at Red Herring and the Asian Venture Capital Journal, where she was an international editor and became one of the first American journalists covering China’s entrepreneurial boom. See more at LinkedIn.
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