Carao Ventures

Allan Boruchowicz is Founder and Managing Partner at Carao Ventures, which he started in 2012 to give Latin American entrepreneurs access to resources comparable to those in more developed markets. He has over 15 years of experience in private capital investments, having previously spent more than five years at Mesoamerica Investments (in Costa Rica and later Bogotá, Colombia) and a year at UBS Wealth Management US. He is a Kauffman Fellow and holds a B.Sc. in Business Management with a concentration in Finance and Economics from Babson College.

Conrad Kopper provides legal support to Carao Ventures and has more than eight years of experience in corporate law. He began his career working on mergers and acquisitions and since 2019 has concentrated on legal services for venture capital, startups, emerging businesses, social enterprises, and impact investors in Latin America, developing expertise in fundraising structuring and fund formation. He is a Partner leading the transactional team at iitos, and holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica and a diploma in Entrepreneurship from Aden Business School.

Edwin Meyers is a Partner at Carao Ventures with around 15 years of experience investing in Latin American startups and micro-enterprises. He previously worked in the Corporate Development and Private Equity divisions of Cuestamoras, a Central American family office, and served as an external consultant at Invermaster, a regional M&A, PE, and consulting firm. He is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served as an Economic Development Facilitator in Costa Rica, and holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a double major in Economics and a minor in Spanish from the University of Maryland, plus an MBA from INSEAD.

Luisana Apestegui provides legal assistance to Carao Ventures and has over a decade of experience in law. She began her career working in tax and corporate law, and since 2018 has advised participants in Latin America's venture capital and impact investment ecosystem. She is part of the transactional team at iitos, a boutique services firm focused on venture capital and startups in the region, and holds a law degree from the University of Costa Rica and an LLM from the University of Texas at Austin.

Tomás Arias is an analyst at Carao Ventures, where he supports the investment team with research and evaluation of new opportunities and works with portfolio companies and founders. He is a senior studying Business Administration at the University of Costa Rica, where he has served as a teaching assistant and contributed to research on Costa Rica's entrepreneurship landscape. He previously interned in partner enablement at VMware.