Santiago Bustamante Villa

Co-Founder at EFEX
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Stanford, California, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Co-Founder
      • Jul 2022 - Present

      Building a new B2B multi-rail payment platform & API to help companies send and automate their cross-border transactions. - Backed by NFX, Bridge VC, 500 Startups, Nido Ventures, 99Startups, Iluminar Ventures & other strategic investors. - StartX '22, Latitud '22, Finaccelerate '22

    • Peru
    • Education Management
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Board Member
      • Jul 2022 - Present

    • Founder & CEO
      • Nov 2019 - Jul 2022

      We are democratizing the access to the best universities in the world. - Leading and scaling a college admissions startup with 40+ employees and 1,000+ customers. - Designing and managing the business dev, marketing, content creation, and technical teams of our DREAM Web App: https://www.dreamuni.org/en/new-home-english/ - Designed and implemented CLOUD, a project incubator for high school students that want to undertake social impact and development projects in their communities… Show more We are democratizing the access to the best universities in the world. - Leading and scaling a college admissions startup with 40+ employees and 1,000+ customers. - Designing and managing the business dev, marketing, content creation, and technical teams of our DREAM Web App: https://www.dreamuni.org/en/new-home-english/ - Designed and implemented CLOUD, a project incubator for high school students that want to undertake social impact and development projects in their communities. Our students receive training, mentorships, and access to resources.

    • Mexico
    • Financial Services
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Product Management
      • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

      - Scaled Bitso+ savings account in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, & Argentina. - Worked alongside Bitso product managers, designers, and engineers to bring crypto solutions closer to Latin American consumers. - Ideated and executed marketing campaigns to increase transparency of crypto to consumers.

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Blockchain Researcher
      • Feb 2022 - May 2022

      Palo Alto, California, United States - Wrote paper about the future of crypto in Latin America and a deep dive into “Learn to Earn” models. - Worked with the GSE CTO & faculty.

    • Director Of Partnerships and CEOs advisor
      • Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

      - Worked to change the value proposition, business model, program curriculum, and partnership system to scale up the NGO's impact on Latin America. - My work contributed to the growth of 50 to 120 students in one month.

    • Co-Founder
      • Jul 2020 - Feb 2021

      - Designed a web platform where students from all over the world can have the opportunity to read and publish research articles. - Built a virtual environment where students can publish and promote their high social impact projects from an early age.

    • Data Analysis Intern
      • Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

      - Worked as a data analyst and consultant for the ORAS CONHU team of the Peruvian government to analyse the situation of the COVID pandemic during the first 4 months of the crisis in Latin America. - Produced 10 papers that were sent to the chancellors of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Chile.

    • Spain
    • Utilities
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Independent Agent
      • Dec 2018 - Feb 2019

      Lima, Peru - Worked with the Peruvian Commercial Manager on international trade transactions. - Built a fruitful relationship between "Acciona's" branch in Peru and "Afianzada de Aduanas S.A." to import containers at lower costs.

    • Peru
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Market Research Analyst
      • Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

      Lima, Peru - Finalist in this university-level marketing national competition - Proposed an idea for a national ad campaign for Gatorade with an economic and market analysis. - Presented a paper to the board of Gatorade with insights on the Peruvian culture and how to use that data to implement effective marketing efforts.

    • Colombia
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Junior Economic Analyst and Consultant
      • Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

      Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia - Only international student accepted into the "Junior Economic Analyst and Consultant" initiative. - Participated in the economic analysis of public hospitals and presented a paper with systematic solutions to the health authorities of the city.

Education

  • Stanford University
    Bachelor of Computer Science & Economics
    2020 - 2024
  • Newton College
    IB Diploma and "Bachillerato Peruano"
    2007 - 2019
  • Latitud
    Fellow
    2022 -

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