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We are Copec Wind Ventures

We are the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of COPEC located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our purpose is to accelerate global startups, and boost their growth in the United States and Latin America. We work together with COPEC WIND Garage, an Innovation Garage located in Santiago, Chile. We are both part of Copec’s innovation ecosystem.

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  • 85 years of history.
  • Part of the Empresas Copec conglomerate, second largest corporation in Chile by market cap as of August, 27th.
  • A ‘most trusted’ brand throughout Chile and Latin America.
  • More than 3,300 service stations globally with over 600 in Chile.
  • #1 market share in Chile & Colombia.
  • Widespread operations across Chile, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic as well as the southeast United States.
  • More information at  www.copec.cl

With more than 3,300 fuel stations and a solid network of convenience stores associated, COPEC, together with its subsidiary Terpel, is positioned as one of the leading and most trusted brands throughout America. We leverage COPEC’s vast knowledge, expertise and resources to accelerate growth, primarily within Latin America, for startups and scaleups across the world in the new mobility, energy and retail sectors.

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What are we searching for?

We aim to lead the mobility, energy and retail sectors’ transformations by opening up COPEC’s knowledge, expertise and resources to help startups and scaleups around the world.

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Our Value Proposition

Our value beyond capital is the WIND growth platform that opens up COPEC’s vast resources to global entrepreneurs for “unfair” access to Latin America and the United States.

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Experience

Access

to key markets in the Americas

3,500

service stations

Large

customer base to leverage

60%

B2C clients

 B2C clients

B2B clients

Why Latam?

Latin America’s innovation eco system is growing quickly and is an important market for global startups. Also, LatAm has high growth potential in a wide variety of sectors.

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Large
& growing market

2 times the U.S. market with 650 million people.

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Highly
Urbanized

Equally urbanized as the U.S., more than Europe.

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Mass adoption
of smartphones

70% of the population has Internet; 2nd fastest growing mobile phone market.

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Prolific digital
consumption

Double the US daily mobile Internet usage; top consumers of social media in the world.

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Global clean
energy leader

Cleanest electricity generation mix in the world

Our Team

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Brian
Walsh

Head

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Bob Ma

Investment Manager

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María Gracia
Lagos

Associate

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Francisco
Larrondo

Strategy Manager

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Mark
Dryden

Senior Associate