Guto Araujo

⁠Born and raised in Brazil, Guto lives in the US with his wife and kids. He studied Computer Engineering at University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Communications at University of São Paulo (USP), and has an MBA from Kellogg.

Guto is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist as a General Partner at monashees, a venture capital firm with a sector-agnostic approach for Global Latam. He focuses on consumer-oriented, marketplaces, and B2B SaaS companies, and also leads monashees’ Network Services, the firm’s platform for operational support to portfolio companies. ⁠Before joining monashees, Guto was an entrepreneur with Elo7, a Brazilian marketplace for handmade and custom-ordered products backed by monashees, Accel and Insight, and later acquired by Etsy. Earlier in his career, he held product and general management roles at Yahoo and DivX.