Jose Marin

Jose Marin General Information

Biography

Mr. Jose Marin served as a Partner at True Global Ventures. In 1999, he co-founded DeRemate.com (replica of eBay for Latin America). The company raised over 75 million USD in capital, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq (end of 2006 at $2 billion USD). Jose was the founding partner and Managing Director of eVision Partners, an investment company in the technology space for emerging markets. In this adventure, participated in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (Pan European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006). Currently, Jose is the Managing Director and co-Founder of IG Expansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets, mainly Spain and Latin America. Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in 48 start-ups. Currently 42 active investments, one liquidated and 5 exits yielding over 2.5 x return on the total capital invested.