CEO and founder at Samba Ventures
Brazil
- Current
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- CEO and founder at Samba Ventures
- Past
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- Business Development Manager at MIH Group - Internet Division
- Investor and Director at British Colony
- Executive at Buscapé Inc.
- Executive Director at Bondfaro.com S.A.
- Education
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- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
- Connections
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- Industry
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- Websites
Gustavo Guida Reis’s Summary
Internet entrepreneur with substantial experience on making a startup venture to be successful. As a CFO, took part on the merger of Bondfaro and Buscapé former competitors.
Looking to participate on a new venture, early start-ups or even greenfields.
Gustavo Guida Reis’s Specialties:
Financial: Business plan building, M&A.
Marketing: Product development, usability.
Gustavo Guida Reis’s Experience
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CEO and founder
Samba Ventures
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
Samba Ventures is a Brazilian company dedicated to back up early stage startups. Our services range is broad: financial support, PR, technical development, etc.
We focus on LATAM market and our area of interest is e-commerce, social networks (both complementary tools to existing networks and brand new niche ones).
Our first project is about to be deployed in a couple of months. -
Business Development Manager
MIH Group - Internet Division
(Public Company; Internet industry)
November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Work at the bizdev team. Looking for investment opportunities in the Internet and Mobile media with focus in the Latin America. We also consider investing elsewhere.
MIH is a large international media conglomerate, committed to innovative media in the emerging markets. We are seeking investment opportunities in Internet, Mobile and media-related technologies. -
Investor and Director
British Colony
(Apparel & Fashion industry)
June 2007 — January 2008 (8 months)
One of the major investors. As Director, I organized the whole company; created the work flows; hired the team; negotiated the deals with the shopping mall where our first store is; bought hardware and software; supervised the building of our store; took care of all paper work and public licenses; etc.
Today I am helping the company as a board member. -
Executive
Buscapé Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — February 2007 (10 months)
Product VP since the merger (between Bondfaro and Buscapé), managed a team of almost 20 workers. The most important areas that I was responsible were:
1) websites (www.buscape.com, www.bondfaro.com, www.centraldedesejos.com.br);
2) User interactions (chat, email, mail marketing)
3) User experience/ usability. -
Executive Director
Bondfaro.com S.A.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2000 — May 2006 (6 years 3 months)
- Founder and Executive Director at Bondfaro.com
- Bondfaro.com is of one of the biggest shopping comparison sites in Latin America and provides shopping technology to Yahoo! Brazil as other portals.
Gustavo Guida Reis’s Education
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Bachelor , Economics , 1995 — 1999
Additional Information
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Gustavo Guida Reis’s Interests:
Investing, startups.
Gustavo Guida Reis’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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