Bio

Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and investor, having founded or co-founded 5 companies. Currently, he is President at Sepulveda Capital (HQ in Paris), focused on impact investing at growth-stage. He has been involved in 70+ financing transactions with 21 exits to date, including 3 IPOs (over $1b valuation each). After earning his Computer Science Engineering degree at EPITA in Paris, France in Operating Systems – Networks – Security, he started his career working with industrial, banking, retail and media clients for two large consultancies co-creating the Internet security, Internet strategy and online marketplaces practices. In the following 10 years, Rodrigo also led a number of digital strategy assignments as a free-lance consultant for public multi-billion revenue companies working closely with both Boards and CEOs. He also gained operational experience at large technology companies such as Intel, Novell and AOL. He became an entrepreneur after getting two MBAs (from the IAE at the Sorbonne University, and later at INSEAD with an exchange term at The Wharton School). He's also a graduate of the Singularity University executive program (Summer 2015), and of the INSEAD International Directors Programme (IDP28). In 2002, he co-founded and later ran Glowria, a video-rental and VOD service, that quickly became #1 in France and #2 in Germany. In 2005, he also co-founded and ran vpod.tv, an award-winning multi-media content management SaaS aimed at Fortune 500, with operations in France and Spain. Both had significant venture-capital financing and were acquired. Both were operated via a boutique investment firm RISC Partners that he had co-founded and later sold. In 2009, he became an active business angel and startup mentor (see http://angel.co/rodrigo) investing via his family office, Sepulveda Capital and participating in hundreds of podcasts on technology. In 2015 he co-founded Expon Capital, a multi-stage global venture capital firm based in Luxembourg with over $100m under management, and over 30 investments since launch (see http://www.exponcapital.com/portfolio). In his spare time, Rodrigo is an avid traveler, B&W photographer, genealogist, wine enthusiast (WSET Diploma in 2019; VIA Italian Wine Ambassador in 2022) and enjoys jazz, opera, fine dining, biking, rowing and snowboarding. Rodrigo is a dual Chilean and French national, fluent in French, English and Spanish, and has working knowledge of German, Italian and Thai.