Mario has +7 year of experience in Venture Capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem internationally. He spent over 3 years at Axon Partners Group, where as Investment Manager of their Latin American VC fund he performed 5 investments and managed a portfolio of 10 startups. Later he joined Equity Advisors as COO to lead all the projects of financial consulting and investment banking with startups and SMEs in Latin America, where managed a team of 12 analysts. He moved to the UK in 2021 to pursue a Masters at the University of Oxford, where he also led the activities of the student-managed Oxford Seed Fund. Mario joined Octopus Ventures at the beginning of 2023 where he focuses on B2B Saas in series A and B in the UK and Europe.