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YC-backed co-founder and CEO of Rappi, LatAm's $5B+ delivery super app
Credibility
Traction · 91th percentile
- Rappi last raised at a $5.25B valuation (Series F led by T. Rowe Price, July 2021), making Simón a unicorn founder.
Relationship Matrix
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current Co-Founder & CEO of Rappi, an active on-demand delivery super app across Latin America.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Rappi was co-founded with Felipe Villamarín and Sebastián Mejía, confirming multiple co-founders.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Rappi last raised at a $5.25B valuation (Series F led by T. Rowe Price, July 2021), making Simón a unicorn founder.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)rappi.com ranks #96,227 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past founder of Imaginamos, Grability, Ventrevista, and Elecciones.com.co prior to Rappi.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Rappi was backed by Y Combinator, as confirmed by the YC Q&A featuring the Rappi co-founders.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor with a portfolio of startups including Yuno, Vambe, and Fountain9.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has made at least 3 confirmed angel investments (Yuno, Vambe, Fountain9) per grounded sources.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has been investing since at least 2015, giving approximately 10 years of investing experience.
- 60%Probability of being accurate (60%)Invested in Truora (Series A, co-led by Propel Venture Partners and Accel) as a noted LatAm angel.
What you likely need
You're navigating one of LatAm tech's most consequential inflection points — a potential 2026 IPO — and Festival events that put you in the room with founders who've already rung the bell, U.S. institutional investors, and public-market advisors will move the needle fastest. You'd also benefit from curated gatherings that help you formalize your angel activity into a real fund and build the English-language profile that U.S. roadshow audiences will Google before your S-1 drops.
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.
- wellbeingA dinner with founders-turned-public-CEOs (think DoorDash, Grab, and MercadoLibre alumni) who navigated the founder-to-public-company-CEO transition to stress-test your personal readiness and build a standing advisory circle ahead of Rappi's 2026 IPO
- fundraisingA closed-door roundtable with U.S. bulge-bracket and tech-focused investment bankers (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Allen & Co) who led the Grab, Nubank, and DoorDash IPOs to pressure-test Rappi's path-to-profitability narrative and S-1 unit economics story across 9 countries
- fundraisingA dinner for LatAm-focused emerging fund managers and their anchor LPs — including Endeavor Catalyst and SoftBank Latin America Fund alumni — to help you formalize your angel activity into a named micro-VC or syndicate and attract institutional LP capital
- introsAn invite-only happy hour connecting RappiPay's enterprise fintech leadership with U.S. institutional fintech partners and Visa/Mastercard venture arms, leveraging your MIT Innovators Under 35 and Endeavor Entrepreneur networks for warm introductions
- hiringA tactical roundtable with CHROs and founders from Nubank, Kavak, and Clip who built structured leadership development and retention programs to keep senior talent locked in through their own high-stakes IPO or late-stage transition periods
- positioningA workshop-style dinner with LatAm founders who successfully built U.S. investor audiences — including Nubank's David Vélez and Loft's Florian Hagenbuch — to sharpen your English-language podcast, op-ed, and X/Twitter positioning ahead of the Rappi IPO roadshow
- tacticalA private office hours session with securities counsel and CFOs who shepherded Nubank's NYSE listing and Despegar's SEC filings to walk through preliminary S-1 documentation requirements and SEC comment letter patterns specific to multi-country LatAm super-apps