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Venezuela's first venture studio

We build. We invest. We operate.

Overlooked. Underbuilt. Ready.

One studio. Three tracks. An operator inside every portfolio company.

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30MPopulation. An unserved market.

US$4B+Annual diaspora remittances.

US$0Institutional VC. Ever.

65%Of transactions in USD.

#1First mover. The window is open.

The thesis

Why here.
Why now.

The early-stage capital stack doesn't exist. Neither does a network of operators who have scaled companies here. And the talent is leaving. To anyone arriving to invest and wait, these are obstacles. To anyone arriving to build, they are the order of the work.

Talent drain

They leave and don't come back without a reason. Building one is part of the mandate.

Diaspora capital waiting to return

7.7M Venezuelans abroad send more than US$4B a year in remittances, with no structured way to invest in the country's growth through a venture capital vehicle.

These aren't bugs. They're the roadmap.

No capital infrastructure

Angel, pre-seed and seed do not operate inside the country.

No operator network

Nobody who has scaled companies or found product-market fit here.

The product isn't the capital. It's the operator.

You get a full-stack builder who lives inside the company and answers for outcomes, not deliverables. Not a consultant. Not a board seat. A co-builder.

Venture Studio

6/6

The idea starts at Tepuy. We recruit the founding team and build from zero.

The idea starts at Tepuy

First capital from Tepuy Capital

Internal origin

Co-Found

4/6

The founder brings the idea. We come in as real co-founders.

Shared P&L responsibility

Tepuy Capital leads the seed

Open to founders

Operator VC

2/6

We invest in companies with traction and embed an operator with a defined mandate.

The operator has a defined mandate

Follow-on path with the Studio

Open to founders

We don't teach. We build.

Check sizeUS$50K – US$500K

StagePre-seed and seed

Horizon3 to 7 years

PrincipleOperator first

Go-to-market

Operations

Hiring

Unit economics

Fundraising

Scope of the embedded operator

We're not starting from zero.

Timing, network and model. Venezuela is at the bottom of the cycle and at an inflection point; BNCI already has live infrastructure inside the market; and the embedded operator was designed for exactly this kind of high-uncertainty market.

Backing

Operating infrastructure, corporate network and cross-sector relationships.

Proof of execution

A revenue operations SaaS in production. Our proof of execution.

Funding

Deploys capital and operators across the three tracks.

One company in production. The portfolio is under construction, and we say so plainly.

Tell us what you're building.

We don't ask for a deck on first contact. We ask for the problem, who already pays you to solve it, and what's missing to win the next customer.

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