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Puentes is a curated week in SF for top engineers from Latin America from Antigravity Capital to bridge the best talent to the city. The program has a competitive selection process and only accepts the top 3% of applicants.
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Laís grew up in Fortaleza and learned to love math through logic games with her grandfather. She went on to win gold multiple times in Brazilian math olympiads and represent Brazil internationally, often in rooms where she was the only girl. At Teachy, she joined as one of five founding engineers and turned the student side of the platform from an afterthought into a product that grew from 150,000 to 1.2 million students without paid media. In parallel, she helped build Projeto Sem Parar, which recruits and mentors girls in STEM and has now reached more than 4,000 of them across Brazil.
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Agustin grew up in a town of 30,000 in Córdoba and was leading one of Argentina’s best Clash of Clans clans before most of his teammates knew they were taking orders from a 10 year old. At 16, he sold his Xbox to buy Bitcoin, then used sneaker raffle bots and resale arbitrage to make money and accumulate more. At 17, he taught himself to code and, within months, landed a job at a renewable energy company and moved to Italy. There he realized he needed to build a stronger foundation in engineering and CS, so he moved to Buenos Aires to study at ITBA, where he earned a full scholarship and finished at the top of his class. After helping The Network grow from 5 to 15 people and reach $1 million ARR in six months, he left both his job and university to go all in on AI.
Alejandro Cañada built Unigow at 17 and turned it into a real company with 15,000 users, 20+ institutional clients, and more than €50,000 in revenue. To find its first users, he snuck into Spain’s biggest student fair with a regular ticket and a stack of flyers because he could not afford a booth. After proving he could build and sell early, he pushed himself in a different direction: AI work at Freepik in San Francisco, then research at Imperial building models from EEG brain signals to detect biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s.
At 15, Andrés Viera was already running a FiveM server with more than 100 daily players and about $1,000 a month in revenue from Montevideo. He later cold-emailed founders like Andrés Bzurovski and Sebastián Mejía just to get closer to stronger rooms, then at 21 built Foliume’s voice-AI infrastructure from an empty repository into the company’s most revenue-critical lane, now driving tens of thousands of monthly insurance quotes. On the side, he shipped NERV, an AI voice-practice app, to the App Store in two weeks and got paying subscribers.
David came out of Bogotá with a deep conviction that AI is the most important technology in human history and a determination to help push the frontier forward. That conviction carried him from Colombia to Purdue and then to one of six spots worldwide in Cohere’s Scholars Program, a path he reached without the standard elite-school research pipeline and only after being rejected once and coming back stronger. Today he works on multilinguality and the data and evaluation problems behind coding models and software agents.