Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Co-founded Loadsmart and responsible for all product strategy and development from day one. Working with a team of 60+ amazing people to revolutionize the logistics industry. First to launch truckload instant pricing/booking in the US (2015); first to launch One-Click load acceptance app for carriers (2015); first to launch instant pricing API for TMS integrations (2016).

Advised companies on corporate strategy and M&A in Brazil and New York for 8 years. Joined the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington to advise on sovereign guaranteed development projects for Latin American countries. Founded, developed and launched an online contest startup. Co-founded Loadsmart to help build a revolutionary product. Felipe holds Master degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (valedictorian), from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain - full scholarship) and an MBA from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). He taught Enterprise Recovery and Restructuring for senior students during 2 years at the Federal University of Santa Catarina at age 25, where he was granted a Professorship Honor from the students. Passed the Brazilian Bar Exam among the top 6% and the New York Bar Exam among the Top 3%, working for one of the Top 5 most prestigious law firms in the United States.

He won for Loadsmart, together with its Lead Designer, the DOGA award for interaction design in Olso, Norway.

Felipe is an amateur photographer, plays guitar, piano and Brazilian cavaquinho, has been to 44 countries and was granted the Extraordinary Ability in Business visa from the US Immigration Department. He is always ready to discuss and learn from behavioral and evolutionary psychology, economics and development, history and art (but not the modern one).

Random fact: his UPenn colleagues granted him the Funniest Person award, and voted him to a first-place-draw as Best Cook and Most Likely to Appear on the Cover of Times Magazine.