Fran Pasquini

Angel Investor

2024 - Current

Chief Financial Officer

2024 - 2025

Responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis, Budgeting, Payroll, Bookkeeping, Controllership, Financial Operations, Treasury, Taxes, ERP implementation, and other key financial functions. Led a team of 6 internal plus 6 external reports across Mexico, Brazil, the US, and other Latin American countries.

Venture Capital Investor

2024 - 2024

Short-term assignment to assist with priority deals and aid portfolio companies in overcoming specific challenges. Co-led business opportunity analysis and financial due diligence for B2B Marketplace Seed Round and SaaS HealthTech Series A.

Venture Partner

2023 - 2024

Ralicap is an early-stage VC focused on fintechs in emerging markets. My role as a Venture Partner was to discover (deal sourcing), build relationships, perform due diligence and invest in brilliant fintech founders during their pre-seed / seed rounds in LATAM.

CEO & Co-Founder

2018 - 2023

We pioneered the world's first mobile-phone equity loan. Traditionally, only exclusive assets like houses, cars, or crypto are accepted as collateral, limiting access to secured credit. Brelo democratizes this by allowing lenders to accept smartphones as collateral, promoting financial inclusion. Our tech enables remote and automatic approval of users' devices in real-time, locking them in case of non-payment to incentivize repayment. If needed, our partners can collect and pay for the smartphone, reducing losses from defaults. 2019-2021: Issued the world's first secured credit offering using used smartphones as collateral. Served 300k customers and released millions of dollars in loans with default rates 3.7x lower than unsecured loans. 2022-2023: Successfully launched the world's first API-connected infrastructure to secured credit products by using user's smartphones as collateral. Our B2B platform enables lenders to mitigate credit risk in just 7 days by providing a simple and scalable solution. Notable customers include Banco PAN (20M customers) and MercadoPago (45M customers). As CEO, I was in charge of several areas/efforts: Strategy, Fundraising, Product, Operations, Credit Underwriting, and Collections.

Business Developer | Startups

2015 - 2018

As the first company builder/VC in LATAM, Quasar pioneers the creation of tech-based businesses from scratch, guiding them from industry identification to founder team selection and execution. Co-founded by a former Managing Partner and Head of South Cone at Softbank, the fund portfolio was valued at 180M dollars in the first four years has created over 500 jobs (last update 2016). Personal key initiatives: - Developing an Uber for trucks MVP/beta testing in Brazil. - Conducting a Design Thinking process in the US to understand the lives of Long Haul truckers and explore opportunities in the $800M US trucking industry. - Leading a Design Thinking process addressing financial challenges faced by low- and middle-income populations in Argentina and Brazil, laying the groundwork for Brelo.

CEO & Co-Founder

2013 - 2015

At 26, I co-founded my first company, backed by 500 Startups. Our web platform addressed the growing demand for rapid video content production driven by the rise of social media and video content in LatAm. Notably, we achieved $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with clients such as Samsung, Kellogg's, Abbott Labs, P&G, and Unilever, among others.

Supply Chain Costs Planning

2011 - 2012

Responsible for std costing, planning and budgeting Supply Chain at Tenaris Global Branches and Asia Pacific Region (Middle East, Nigeria, Ecuatorial Guinea, North Sea, Australia, China & Japan)

Technology Specialist for industrial processes - GT Program

2010 - 2011

The Global Trainee Program aims to built up promising professionals with a strong industrial background and with potential to become future leaders.

Industrial Engineering Internship

2009 - 2009