Neruda Ventures is co-founded by a Chilean-American fantasy author and Scientific American contributor who brings an unusually literary background to venture capital, combined with first-hand startup operating experience from simultaneously running Gatsby, a social-commerce platform. The fund focuses on Latin American emerging markets from its New York base, hunting for inefficiencies across multiple sectors rather than specializing in a single industry or stage, while maintaining deep involvement in economic-mobility nonprofits and mentoring underrepresented technologists.