Thiago Viana Silva

Head of Prosus Ventures · LatAm | Senior Director of Innovation & Business · iFood | Based in Brazil

Venture Capital Operator-Investor LatAm AI iFood Ecosystem

Prosus Ventures at a Glance

231+

Portfolio companies globally

$400M+

Deployed in FY25

$88M

Into AI companies in FY25

Signature Moves

Advolve Acquisition — Nov 2025

Early-stage Prosus investment → operational collaboration on iFood Ads → full acquisition. Delivered 4× return on incremental ad sales for brand partners.

Web Summit Lisbon

Ursula — Emotional AI Investment

Brazilian "emotional AI" startup for digital characters. Co-invested alongside Betaworks, Worldbuild.vc, Norte Ventures, Village Global (Gates, Iger, Bezos).

AI-Native

iFood Ads 5× Ambition

Public target to 5× the Ads business by 2030, integrating consumer-goods industry partners.

2030 Target

How He Speaks

"A gente está começando a construir, não só na América Latina, mas no mundo, enquanto Prosus, um ecossistema de empreendedores."

"Aumentar o volume de sinergia, aumentar acesso ao capital para você pegar esse seu sonho e transformar ele num sonho 200 vezes maior."

"Inclusão como estratégia de crescimento: Como a democratização digital acelera a inovação."

Vocabulary Tells

EcossistemaSinergiaEmpreendedores Early stageGrowth stageInteligência artificial DemocratizaçãoRelevância global200 vezes maior Raízes fortesAmérica Latina

LatAm Ecosystem Anchors

iFood

120M+ monthly orders

Despegar

30M+ customers

Sympla

Events platform

BrainLogic AI

AI-native startup

Good Claude Code Exercise Angles

Deal sourcing and diligence agents tuned for LatAm — scanning startup ecosystems in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia.
Portfolio-to-iFood integration tooling: identifying which early-stage Prosus Ventures companies could plug into iFood Ads, Mercado, Farma, or loyalty.
Investment memo and diligence automation, drawing on founder interviews, product audits, and Latin America market data.
Ecosystem-mapping agents — who's building what in LatAm AI, and where could iFood or Decolar add disproportionate value as a distribution partner?
iFood Ads performance tooling: automating analysis of brand-campaign results, surfacing which CPG partners should scale up investment.