Guto Araújo

General Partner at Monashees Capital

Speaker

Guto Araújo is an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who joined monashees in 2021, focusing on consumer-oriented, marketplaces, and B2B SaaS companies. He also leads monashees’ Network Services, the firm’s platform for operational support to portfolio companies.

He works closely with companies such as BHub, Estante Mágica, Farmu, Flash, Flieber, Liti, and Yuca.

Before joining monashees, Guto was an entrepreneur with Elo7, a Brazilian marketplace for handmade and custom-ordered products, which was backed by monashees and later acquired by Etsy. Earlier in his career, he held product and general management roles at Yahoo and DivX.

Born and raised in Brazil, Guto currently lives in the US with his wife and children. He studied Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Communications at the University of São Paulo (USP), and holds an MBA from Kellogg. In 2023, he became a Kauffman Fellow.