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Marcelo Canovas

Founder

Founder at Vendah

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

FoundedVendah · YC

About

Marcelo Canovas is co-founder and COO of Vendah, a platform for entrepreneurs and consumers. He previously co-founded Liv Up, where he led marketing and product development, and founded a software services firm offering CTO and CPO support to startups.

Founder at VendahYC W23

Intro paths

YC

Marcelo went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Vendah's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

In turn, Marcelo can intro founders to Vendah's investors below.

Co-founders at Vendah

Experience

  1. VendahCo-Founder & COOcurrent2021 — presentSão Paulo, Brazil
  2. Liv UpCo-founder - Marketing&Product (Growth)2016 — 2020Greater São Paulo Area
  3. UseBikeCo-Founder2015 — 2016São Paulo, Brazil
  4. HatchrEntrepreneur2014 — 2016Greater São Paulo Area
  5. Rocket Internet GmbHInternship - Business Development2013Greater São Paulo Area
  6. Escola Politécnica da USPUndergraduate Researcher2012 — 2013InovaLab@POLI

Education

  1. USP - Universidade de São PauloGraduado, Engenharia de Produção2009 — 2013

Skills & more

Competitive Intelligence2E-commerce1Lean Manufacturing1English20Business Strategy9Microsoft Excel30Strategic Planning3PowerPoint2Empreendedorismo12Empresas startups6Estratégia4Design de produtos1
+12 moreDesenvolvimento de produtosBusiness Model CanvasBlue OceanLean StartupMinimum viable productEntrepreneurshipProject ManagementEngineeringEstratégias de marketingPlanejamento empresarialDesenvolvimento de novos negóciosMarketing

Languages Inglês · Português

  • 2018 Fall Growth SeriesReforge

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