Welcome to Season 3 of The J Curve, a podcast about entrepreneurship in Latin America with me, Olga Maslikhova. My guest today is Adhemar Milani Neto, founder and CEO of Kovi, an ‘all-inclusive’ car subscription platform for gig workers. Kovi has raised $145M from top investors like Valor Capital, Prosus Ventures, Quona, Monashees, Norte, Maya Capital, Globo Ventures, and Peter Thiel’s family office. In this episode, we talk about Brazil’s unique mobility landscape, the lessons from transforming Kovi from a pure tech company to an operational technology business, and how Adhemar is building a holistic company culture—plus so much more.
In today's episode we discuss:
- Driving innovation: how Brazil’s mobility challenges are reshaping the market with subscriptions and connected technology
- Connect the dots: how transparency and proactive communication build stronger founder/VC partnerships?
- Complexity doesn't scale: how to build scalable operations with purpose and precision?
- Break down silos: how to create synergy between tech-driven culture and operations in a startup
- Clean win: how Brazil’s renewable edge and gig economy fuel EV growth?
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Follow Olga on LinkedIn or Instagram Olga is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, mentor at Techstars and founder at The J Curve, Latin America's leading English speaking podcast about tech builders. She's been investing in the USA, SEA and Latin America for over 13 years. Companies she backed include tech unicorn ClassPass (acquired by Mindbody) and Vitalk (acquired by Gympass).
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