Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Kaszek Ventures · Joined 2011
View Live Interactive Profile →Hernán Kazah spent 12 years building MercadoLibre from scratch as a co-founder and COO before its 2007 Nasdaq IPO, giving him a genuinely rare credential when he and Nicolás Szekasy founded Kaszek Ventures in 2011: he'd already built the exact kind of category-defining Latin American technology company he was now trying to back in others. That operating experience shaped Kaszek's founder-first approach from day one - offering hands-on strategic guidance and local network access, not just capital, at a time when institutional venture capital had largely written off the region. His early conviction in Nubank, when it was still just founder David Vélez and a slide deck, became one of the clearest validations of that thesis once the Brazilian neobank went public in 2021.