Claudio Barahona on Clubhouse

Bio

Claudio founded his first startup being 18 years old, which he sold six years later. He is a Civil Industrial Engineer from the Universidad de Chile and has devoted a large part of his career to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile. In addition, he was director of the Chilean Venture Capital Association from 2018 to 2019. Diario Financiero, one of the main business media in his country, recognized him as one of the "Young Influencer 2017" for his outstanding career in the national innovation ecosystem.

From 2011 to 2019 he was Open Innovation Manager of Movistar Chile and leader of Wayra, the initiative of Telefónica that connects the company with startups and innovation ecosystems and invests as corporate venture capital in innovative technology companies with global scalability. In 2019 he founded the initiative Corporate Venturing Latam, that seeks to map and incentivize CVC in LatAm.

He is currently Managing Partner of Alaya Capital, an Latin American Venture Capital fund, and dedicates some of his time promoting CVC and making angel investments in startups.