Mate Pencz is a co-founder and venture partner at Canary who simultaneously runs Loft, Brazil's first unicorn of 2020, giving him the rare dual perspective of being both an active serial founder and early-stage backer of other founders. Before Loft, he built and sold Printi to Nasdaq-listed Cimpress, and his hands-on experience across the full real estate transaction stack—from discovery to financing—allows him to evaluate founders tackling complex, regulated markets with deep operational understanding.
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Canary is a Brazilian venture capital fund founded and led by repeat tech founders that uses a systematic 40+ criteria framework to evaluate startups, positioning itself as the early-stage entry point for top global funds wanting access to Latin American deals. The firm runs JetPack, a program that provides $50k, office space, and operational support to first-time founders living abroad who want to start companies targeting inefficient Brazilian sectors like real estate, healthcare, and financial services.
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