The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Karime Hajar Alves, mergers and acquisitions manager, TOTVS Ventures
Karime Hajar Alves, mergers and acquisitions and new business development manager at Brazil-based software company TOTVS, understands ecosystems.
Having studied marine engineering at Sao Paulo’s university in Brazil, she completed a master’s degree in sustainable development at ParisTech in France. After this, she studied innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capital in an academic partnership with US-based Berkeley that finished in 2010.
Her first role was analysing venture-backed agribusinesses in the state of Sao Paulo for early-stage investment firm Criatec. After a year, she moved to boutique holding firm and strategic consultancy Trigger Participações to pinpoint healthcare dealflow. In her own words, Alves joined TOTVS in 2012: “In order to develop and run TOTVS Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm from TOTVS.”
Since then, she has − to use her words − “invested and disinvested” in a few, undisclosed startups and led an international startup contest. From the beginning of 2014, she also took on the role of mergers and acquisitions manager.
In a LinkedIn testimonial, Bruno Ghizoni, a partner at Brazilian lender PortBank, described her as having: “A global vision of business − always dedicated to helping entrepreneurs.”
