Mate is founder and CEO of Loft, the largest transactional marketplace for real estate in Latin America. Leveraging proprietary transaction data and an end-to-end digital workflow, Loft facilitates the purchase, sale, financing, and lease of tens of thousands of homes every year. Since founding in 2018 and with the support of leading global investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, CPPIB, GIC, QED, Silver Lake, and others, Loft reached unicorn status faster than any other company in Brazil to date and has established itself as the nationwide market leader across home sales, mortgages, rent guarantees, and instant liquidity solutions. Previously, Mate co-founded Printi, a leading e-commerce platform for customized materials & services in Brazil and the United States. Printi has raised more than $70M in capital from financial and strategic investors including Cimpress (Nasdaq: CMPR). Mate is also a Co-Founder and Investment Partner at Canary, Brazil’s foremost seed-stage technology investment firm.
