Juan Francisco de Carranza, senior investment associate at Globant Ventures, is one of our top 50 Rising Stars in corporate venturing for 2025.
As a global digital transformation services company operating in more than 34 countries, the ventures team at Latin America-based Globant Ventures has a large network of more than 1,000 clients that it can connect its startup investments with.
Juan Francisco de Carranza is part of the team at Globant who scouts startups and also works to connect those portfolio companies to its client network.
De Carranza networks with VC funds in Latin America, in particular, to find startups that are looking for a strategic investor that connects them with big clients.
The ventures team also connects portfolio companies with business units at the parent. “Once we invest in a company, we start working with business units inside Globant that are interested in taking that product along with the services that Globant provides.”
“Once we invest in a company, we start working with business units inside Globant that are interested in taking that product along with the services that Globant provides.”
Formed in 2003, Globant is a relatively new company that advises global corporations on digital transformation. The ventures arm provides introductions with its startups to clients such as Google, Disney and FIFA. The team sees it as beneficial to both startups and its clients.
“I have been the person responsible to share this different thesis with the startup and VC ecosystem, for investors and founders to know that they can have a strategic investor like us in their cap table,” says de Carranza.
“I would say that few companies that fit our thesis are not brought to us by someone, thanks to this positioning effort.”
The ventures team invests in startups between the seed and series B stages across sectors. Investments include Connectly, an AI-powered marketing automation platform, and VU, a global fraud prevention and identity protection company.
De Carranza co-founded and leads the Argentine chapter of Emerging VC Fellows, a networking group in Latin America.
See the full list of Rising Stars 2025 here.
