Alex Urdea, CFA

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📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021
VC🌍 United States
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Board Observer
Feb 2021
With a dedicated focus on Latin America, we acquire and scale e-commerce merchants that sell outstanding products and have excellent customer ratings. A passion for brands and products combined with depths of expertise and a strong capital base allows us to significantly scale acquired merchants and help them reach the next stage. Valoreo is a technology-driven consumer holding that creates long-term value by focusing on up-and-coming brands, specific product niches and outstanding customer satisfaction. We are one of Latin America’s fastest growing startups backed by top-tier institutional investors and international business angels. Our experienced and dynamic team is guided by the vision to build Latin America’s premier brands and excited about new challenges and growth.
Board Observer
Dec 2020
Clutch is Canada’s largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car buying and financing experience to drivers everywhere. Shop thousands of used cars online, get the right one delivered to your door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-day Money-Back Guarantee. You can even sell or trade in your car and get an instant cash offer. How sweet is that? Clutch. Cars done right.
Board Observer
Dec 2020
Elevate Brands is building the future of CPG, today! We acquire consumer leading Amazon brands and we elevate them to their full potential!
mid stageRetail
Board Observer
Oct 2020
We are world-class multi-brand developers combining operational excellence with customer-centricity to improve the lives of millions of families across the globe. ​We focus on brands with outstanding customer reviews and a proven track record of leading bestseller lists in high-growth niches.
early stageRetail
Board Observer
Dec 2019
Rally is a platform for buying & selling equity shares in collectible assets. Together, we rally to make investing behind ideas, emotions, and communities safe, easy, and accessible. The result… A 21st Century Portfolio, for everyone.
Board Observer
Jul 2019
ComFreight is the first company focused on democratizing finance and technology for one of the most critical essential industries: transportation and logistics. We’re automating credit and payments to level the playing field for the 90% of freight and logistics companies that are small businesses. Helping them to grow and thrive. Our software and API support complex payment scenarios and factoring for a massive and growing market. We’re driven by a passion for making the complex elegant and easy. We’re backed by the same investors as Coinbase, Instacart and Udemy. Our software enables freight and logistics companies to offer and receive faster payments, finance their growth with the best terms, eliminate credit risk and automate manual processes easily and safely.
Board Member
Nov 2018
Thrasio is on a mission to reimagine how the world’s most loved products become accessible to everyone. So we use world-class expertise and the smart application of data science to figure out why particular products garner great ratings, reviews, and rankings. We work to make these items better or create new ones to meet changing demands. Then we help get those products to more people, so everyone can love the stuff they have. We seek out entrepreneurs who share our passion. And we constantly look to the future, searching for ways to make our company more diverse and inclusive, our processes more sustainable, and our world more equitable. This constant pursuit of better has helped make us the world’s leading next-generation consumer goods company.
early stageRetail
Experience · 15 entries
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2022
Mentor
Dec 2022
Endeavor is the leading global network of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs innovating Elsewhere. We support 3,000+ high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurs across 50+ markets.
Venture Partner
Jul 2022
We are Latin Americas premier Seed Fund and Venture Studio, built by serial entrepreneurs. We build and invest in transformative companies for the emerging middle-class in Latin America. A growing and empowered middle class is the foundation of a more equal, stable, and prosperous society. Our mandate is to create impact through disruption, building for an abundant Latin America.
2021
Board Observer
Feb 2021
With a dedicated focus on Latin America, we acquire and scale e-commerce merchants that sell outstanding products and have excellent customer ratings. A passion for brands and products combined with depths of expertise and a strong capital base allows us to significantly scale acquired merchants and help them reach the next stage. Valoreo is a technology-driven consumer holding that creates long-term value by focusing on up-and-coming brands, specific product niches and outstanding customer satisfaction. We are one of Latin America’s fastest growing startups backed by top-tier institutional investors and international business angels. Our experienced and dynamic team is guided by the vision to build Latin America’s premier brands and excited about new challenges and growth.
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