Federico Antoni

Federico Antoni is managing partner at ALLVP, an early-stage VC based in Mexico. He is a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Federico Antoni

Every year I teach an MBA course at Stanford about the exciting opportunities for tech investors and entrepreneurs in developing economies.

In emerging markets there are no copycats, just budding entrepreneurs
AI

Not another AI post

4:00 pm PST • February 26, 2017

This post is about a better world brought by human ingenuity. It’s about a human opportunity, an invitation to founders and investors in advanced economies to come and help us…

Not another AI post

Nothing tells the story of how the Mexican tech ecosystem is steaming ahead in Latin America quite like the rise of fintech. The financial services space ticks all the right…

The rise and rise of Mexican fintech
Startups

About those Mexican sharks

10:00 am PDT • April 28, 2016

You know entrepreneurship has gone mainstream when a local Shark Tank hits cable TV. I was approached by the Shark Tank production team in Mexico to recommend startups for the…

About those Mexican sharks

Mexico is one of Uber’s largest and most profitable markets.

Will Uber save e-commerce in Mexico?

“The minute a major Silicon Valley VC sets up a branch in Mexico, you will be out of business,” a Mexican founder told me over dinner at last year’s Mexico…

The Next Great Startup Will Be A ‘Unicornio’