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Founder166Current founder
93rd percentile
Investor52Current investor
84th percentile
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Rappi co-founder (unicorn) now building The Zeal Co. and Tako
Credibility
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Traction · 91th percentile
- Rappi last raised at a ~$3.5B total funding valuation as a private unicorn (per SEC Form D and multiple sources).
- Rappi is a profitable / breakeven company per Bloomberg Línea reporting.
- Tako has raised $49.1M in total funding across 2 prior rounds.
- Grability has raised $2.1M in total funding.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)34,875 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)rappi.com ranks #96,227 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of The Zeal Co., and active co-founder/board member at Rappi.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Rappi was co-founded with Simon Borrero and Felipe Villamarin.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Rappi last raised at a ~$3.5B total funding valuation as a private unicorn (per SEC Form D and multiple sources).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Wikidata entity (Q114874447) exists for Sebastian Mejia, confirming public notability as co-founder of Rappi.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Google Knowledge Graph maintains a knowledge panel for Sebastian Mejia as Co-Founder of Rappi.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Featured in a dedicated TechCrunch panel profile as a new-wave Latin American founder, demonstrating regional entrepreneurship domain expertise.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Recognized as an Endeavor Entrepreneur, a notable global entrepreneurship honor for high-impact founders.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Tako has raised $49.1M in total funding across 2 prior rounds.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Rappi is a profitable / breakeven company per Bloomberg Línea reporting.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Grability has raised $2.1M in total funding.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Appeared in a company-corroborated YouTube video with ~1,143 views as a thought-leadership signal.
Investor score
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Rappi is backed by Sequoia Capital, which partnered with Sebastian Mejia in 2016, confirming investor-network credibility.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Listed as an Advisor at Oak HC/FT, a recognized healthcare-focused venture capital firm.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor across multiple portfolio companies including Belvo, LoopiPay, Nuvocargo, Yuno, Truora, Morado, and Cercli.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made at least 7 confirmed active investments (Belvo, LoopiPay, Nuvocargo, Yuno, Truora, Morado, Cercli) per grounded sources.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Has approximately 10 years of investing experience, active since at least 2015 based on Rappi co-founding and concurrent angel activity.
What you likely need
As the co-founder of Rappi — one of Latin America's most prominent unicorns — and now actively building The Zeal Co. and Tako, you're at the intersection of serial founding, angel investing, and LatAm tech leadership. You'd benefit most from high-trust founder dinners with other unicorn-scale operators who've navigated hypergrowth and are now building again, as well as curated investor roundtables where your angel portfolio and LatAm expertise can open doors to co-investment. Connecting with other founders scaling AI-native HR and legal products in emerging markets would sharpen your go-to-market for Tako's next phase.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA dinner for unicorn-scale founders (Rappi, Nubank, Kavak alumni) to share lessons on building second companies after a breakout exit.
- fundraisingA LatAm-focused angel investor roundtable to co-invest in fintech and logistics seed rounds alongside Belvo, Nuvocargo, and Yuno-tier deals.
- fundraisingA Series A fundraising prep workshop with founders who've raised from Sequoia and SoftBank for B2B SaaS in Brazil and LatAm.
- tacticalA dinner with founders building AI-native HR and recruiting tools (Ashby, Karat, Mercor alumni) to benchmark Tako's product roadmap.
- introsAn Endeavor Entrepreneur happy hour to reconnect with high-growth LatAm founders and surface warm intros for The Zeal Co.'s go-to-market.
- introsA Sequoia portfolio founder networking night to leverage the 2016 Rappi partnership for warm intros to current Sequoia-backed AI infrastructure companies.
- positioningA positioning workshop for serial founders building their second company to craft a compelling narrative around The Zeal Co. for press and investors.
- hiringA LatAm tech operator dinner with C-suite leaders from Rappi, iFood, and Mercado Libre to recruit senior talent for Tako's Brazil expansion.