Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Riverwood Capital | Tech Investing and Business Building

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2025
VC🌍 United States
12
Total investments
2
Early stage
2
Mid stage
3
Late stage
19y
Years active

Portfolio

8 investments · sorted by recency
All investments
Early stage
Mid stage
Late stage
Board Member
Mar 2024
BigID Next connects the dots in Data & AI. Its the modern platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: built cloud-native, AI-ready, and made for what’s next. With BigID, organizations can see and secure their entire data landscape across multicloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem. Customers use BigID to reduce risk, automate security and privacy controls, stay ahead of compliance, and turn data into an advantage and AI risk into innovation - all in one platform.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Somos una HR Tech líder en soluciones tecnológicas para el mercado laboral. Contamos con tres unidades de negocios: los portales de clasificados, el software de reclutamiento y gestión de búsquedas Hiring Room y la plataforma tecnológica aplicada a la selección de talento Selecta y Staffing.
Board Member
Jun 2021
ShipHero gives brands and 3PLs eCommerce fulfillment superpowers. We make it easy to ship eCommerce direct-to-consumer (DTC) through our warehouse management software (WMS) and our full-service fulfillment solutions. Need shipping software for your warehouse? Our WMS software allows you to run a super-charged warehouse and fulfill customer orders at lightning speeds. ShipHero provides end-to-end automation, a mobile-powered workforce, and one-click integration to your Shopify or other eCommerce store. Want to be hands-off and have us ship DTC for you? ShipHero offers outsourced fulfillment at scale through our network of owned and operated warehouses around the US. We pick, pack, and ship eCommerce orders with our open API and one-click integration into Shopify and other eCommerce stores. Our full-service fulfillment solution helps over 5,000 eCommerce brands and 3PLs improve their transit times, shipping costs, and customer experience.
Board Member
Aug 2018
Greenhouse is the hiring operating system for people-first companies. Our industry-leading software brings a structured hiring approach to any company’s process, helping to promote more fair and equitable hiring practices and more data-driven decisions so companies can continuously get better at hiring. We’ve helped over 7,500 companies turn talent into their competitive advantage, so they can hire for what’s next. Some of the smartest and most successful companies like HubSpot, Buzzfeed, J.D. Power, Scout24 and The Knot Worldwide use Greenhouse for data and guidance on the behaviors and capabilities they need to improve their overall hiring performance as they move up the Hiring Maturity curve. Greenhouse has won numerous awards including Fortune Best Workplaces (2019-2022), Inc. Magazine Best Workplace (2018 – 2022), Glassdoor #1 Best Place to Work, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, Crains Best Places to Work NYC and Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces for Diverse Representation (2022).
Board Member
Aug 2016
The Best Global Workplace Coworking Access · Private Offices & Suites · On-Demand Meetings Rated #1 in Customer Satisfaction #SoIndustrious —— Industrious delivers the worlds best workplaces by making the office a welcoming, empowering, and delightful experience. From private offices to suites, meeting rooms, and desks, we make it easy to find a workspace that works for you, whether you want to use an office every day or just a day or two a week. Founded in 2012 and recognized as one of America’s 500 fastest-growing companies by Inc. Magazine, Industrious offers flexible workplaces at more than 200 locations in over 65 cities globally. For more information, visit industriousoffice.com.
mid stageHospitality
Board Member
Mar 2016
SUMA is a world class platform of SMB SaaS solutions, solving global and hyper-local problems for millions of entrepreneurs in Spanish-Speaking Latin America. Currently, Suma operates the leading cloud-based Small Business management platforms in Chile via www.nubox.com, Argentina via www.colppy.com, and Mexico via www.bind.com.mx while proactively expanding to other countries in Latin America.
Board Member
Jun 2012
GOintegro is the leading Employee Engagement & Benefits platform in Latin America. We combine technology innovation and HR expertise to deliver a platform with amazing products that enhance employee experience and organizational culture. Companies from 100 to 100,000 people from all industries, use our platform to make their employees’ lives better.
Board Member
Jul 2007
At Globant, we create the digitally-native products that people love. We bridge the gap between businesses and consumers through technology and creativity, leveraging our experience as an AI powerhouse. We dare to digitally transform organizations and strive to delight their customers. - We have more than 30,000 employees and are present in 33 countries across 5 continents, working for companies like Google, Electronic Arts, and Santander, among others. - We were named a Worldwide Leader in AI Services (2023) and a Worldwide Leader in CX Improvement Services (2020) by IDC MarketScape report. - We are the fastest-growing IT brand and the 5th strongest IT brand globally (2024), according to Brand Finance. - We were featured as a business case study at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. - We are active members of The Green Software Foundation (GSF) and the Cybersecurity Tech Accord. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/globant_com Follow us: http://www.twitter.com/globant http://www.youtube.com/Globant http://www.facebook.com/Globant https://instagram.com/Globant https://www.tiktok.com/@globant
Experience · 13 entries
All (13)
Investments (12)
Founder (1)
Board (12)
2025
Board Member
Jul 2025
We’re hiring! Check out our current openings at https://www.appzen.com/careers/. AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence software accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or duplicate spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses. To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com. Request an exclusive demo: https://www.appzen.com/request-a-demo
2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
BigID Next connects the dots in Data & AI. Its the modern platform for data security, privacy, compliance, and governance: built cloud-native, AI-ready, and made for what’s next. With BigID, organizations can see and secure their entire data landscape across multicloud, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem. Customers use BigID to reduce risk, automate security and privacy controls, stay ahead of compliance, and turn data into an advantage and AI risk into innovation - all in one platform.
2022
Board Member
Jan 2022
Somos una HR Tech líder en soluciones tecnológicas para el mercado laboral. Contamos con tres unidades de negocios: los portales de clasificados, el software de reclutamiento y gestión de búsquedas Hiring Room y la plataforma tecnológica aplicada a la selección de talento Selecta y Staffing.
2021
Board Member
Jun 2021
ShipHero gives brands and 3PLs eCommerce fulfillment superpowers. We make it easy to ship eCommerce direct-to-consumer (DTC) through our warehouse management software (WMS) and our full-service fulfillment solutions. Need shipping software for your warehouse? Our WMS software allows you to run a super-charged warehouse and fulfill customer orders at lightning speeds. ShipHero provides end-to-end automation, a mobile-powered workforce, and one-click integration to your Shopify or other eCommerce store. Want to be hands-off and have us ship DTC for you? ShipHero offers outsourced fulfillment at scale through our network of owned and operated warehouses around the US. We pick, pack, and ship eCommerce orders with our open API and one-click integration into Shopify and other eCommerce stores. Our full-service fulfillment solution helps over 5,000 eCommerce brands and 3PLs improve their transit times, shipping costs, and customer experience.
2018
Board Member
Aug 2018
Greenhouse is the hiring operating system for people-first companies. Our industry-leading software brings a structured hiring approach to any company’s process, helping to promote more fair and equitable hiring practices and more data-driven decisions so companies can continuously get better at hiring. We’ve helped over 7,500 companies turn talent into their competitive advantage, so they can hire for what’s next. Some of the smartest and most successful companies like HubSpot, Buzzfeed, J.D. Power, Scout24 and The Knot Worldwide use Greenhouse for data and guidance on the behaviors and capabilities they need to improve their overall hiring performance as they move up the Hiring Maturity curve. Greenhouse has won numerous awards including Fortune Best Workplaces (2019-2022), Inc. Magazine Best Workplace (2018 – 2022), Glassdoor #1 Best Place to Work, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Inc. 5000, Crains Best Places to Work NYC and Mogul’s Top 100 Workplaces for Diverse Representation (2022).
Show all 13 entries ↓
Investment activity
2007–2025 · 12 investments
20071201222015120162201712018120211202212024120251
Recent (last 2 years)Earlier