Title COO Company Start-up Brasil Bio Felipe Matos has worked in IT management since 1995. He founded the first Latin American mobile website, Girando. Since 2002, Mr Matos is Partner and Founder at Instituto Inovação: an innovation management group that provides business acceleration, consulting, technology transfer services and venture capital investing. With solid management and technical skills, he has managed several start-up companies, all related to IT. Mr Matos has international experience in directing projects, including a new office opening in Bogotá, Colombia for Inventta, one of the companies of the Instituto Inovação Group. In 2011, he founded Startup Farm, an acceleration program for digital startups. Mr Matos is now the Chief Operating Officer of Start-up Brasil, a national program promoted by the Brazilian Government to foster and stimulate the start-up ecosystem in Brazil. It provides funding, space, business services and mentorship through intense acceleration programs in partnership with top accelerators. br.linkedin.com/in/felipematos/pt @felipematos felipe@startupbrasil.org.br