Santiago Rojas Montoya

General Partner

2025

We are Meridian75 🚀 A venture capital fund born from the strategic alliance between Cube Ventures and MKF Ventures, joining forces to scale Latin American innovation globally. 📍 Based in Lima, Bogotá, Medellín, and Miami, we will invest USD 20 million in pre-seed and seed stages, supporting the best founders in Latin America. 📊 Our partners' track record: ✅ More than 200 startups invested in and accelerated ✅ 4 VC funds: three deployed and one in fundraising ✅ USD 57 million invested to date 🎯 Our focus: investing in human-centered verticals that solve real and urgent problems in Latin America, generating scalable impact. 💡 Key Verticals: Edtech 📚 Future of Work 💼 Fintech 💳 Healthtech ❤️

Co-Founder - Managing Director

2020

Building a VC fund por early stage startups, led by exceptional, purpose-driven, underrepresented founders in spanish-speaking Latam. Educating investors partnering with top-tier universities world-wide and promoting succesful exits for medium sized startups in Latin America Built from scratch a pre-seed startup accelerator for Latin America. Portfolio is now 100+ companies from 9 countries in the region that collectively have generated over $4M USD in revenue, $2.9M in investment, and 2X MOIC for investors.

Co-Founder

2016

Phylo provides on-demand Legal Services, delivered to companies and/or supplied remotely. Currently not involved with day to day operations.

Angel Investor

2023

Fellow

2021

Sigma Squared Society is a non-profit organization and global community of the world’s most ambitious founders under 26 selected for their impact-driven initiatives and their ability to transform broken industries. We are present in 30+ countries with 1000+ members. Web: https://sigma-squared.org/ __ Formerly know as the Kairos Society Fellowship: www.kairoshq.com

Board Member

2022 - 2022

Member of the Board of Directors of Culto art gallery, a space where artists and designers meet to provide a lifestyle full of art. Our proposal is to connect the public with the creation of objects where artistic visions and design concepts are combined.

CEO & Cofounder

2018 - 2021

StartOp helps Small Retail companies manage their business through technology. We provide a cloud all-in-one solution for that integrates delivery services, POS, accounting, inventory, production, and human resources management. Selected by IBM for the Global Entrepreneurship Program ($120k USD grant), for the Ruta N Landing Program, and as one of the 100 best startups in Colombia (Open Innovation Summit 2018).

Kairos Fellow

2017 - 2021

Focusing the next generation on problems worth solving.

Co-founder

2017 - 2018

Founded a spaces as a service platform that gives access to multiple coworking spaces across the city under a unique subscription. Launched and developed web product, recruited spaces and led sales funnel generation.

Local Leader, Associate

2018 - 2018

Co-led the Colombian chapter of the premier idea-stage accelerator in the world. Responsibilities included interacting with mentors, recruiting founders, serving as liaison with local partners, organizing events, promotion, and making sure the execution was optimal.