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The VC Finding Latin American Founders Before US Funds Do | Lorenzo De Leo, Enya Ventures
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- Top Decile Podcast
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- Jun 29, 2026
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Summary
Lorenzo De Leo spent more than a decade as managing director at Rocker, one of Miami's leading venture studios, where he helped build over 40 companies across the US and Latin America. That operator background is now the foundation of Enya Ventures, his pre-seed AI fund targeting Latin American founders at the moment before US capital starts paying attention. We get into why Latin America is at a tipping point for founder quality, what it means to back an AI native team versus one that just bolts AI onto the product, and why in the current environment distribution and data matter more than the model itself.