Laura Gaviria Halaby

Laura Gaviria Halaby is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and operator. She is a member of the Founding team at Faktory, a generative AI platform that enables knowledge workers to build AI Agents using plain English for increased productivity. Laura also serves as an Operator Advisor for prominent Latin American Unicorns such as Rappi, Kavak, and Konfio, and is an active angel investor.

Previously, Laura held the position of Operating Lead for the US$8 billion SoftBank Latin America Funds, where she provided operational support to portfolio companies to accelerate their growth. She has also contributed to the tech industry as the Global Head of Fintech Acceleration at Citibank, facilitating the implementation and launch of digital products through open innovation. In addition, Laura supported and invested in tech startups as the Chief Acceleration Officer at The Venture City and as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Laura holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from American University (Cum Laude) and an MBA from MIT.

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AI's hardest problem isn't the model. It's distribution.

Technology alone doesn't create outcomes. Partnerships, customers, capital, and ecosystem adoption do.

I've spent my career operating at that intersection.

I scaled fintech and innovation ecosystems at Citi, SoftBank Latin America Funds, and IDB Lab. I was part of the founding team at Faktory, an AI agents company, from day one. Today I lead Strategic Partnerships and Investor Relations at SubQ AI. Across all of it, my work has focused on connecting technology with the people, institutions, and markets that help it scale.

Across 30+ countries and five continents, I've learned that the companies that win rarely have the best technology alone. They build the strongest networks around it.

That's the work I do today in AI and the work I take on with the founders, investors, and institutions I partner with.