About
A curation of insights straight from the sources, by Florian Hagenbuch.
Who is Florian Hagenbuch?
Florian is the Founder and President of Loft, which is moving Brazilian homebuying into the ecommerce age, bringing transparency, liquidity and credit to millions of Brazilians, delivering home ownership and happiness on the back of a full stack digital solution. Loft is backed by leading global proptech and fintech investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, QED, D1, DST, Thrive, Altimeter, Vulcan Capital, Silver Lake, among others and has raised more than $1B in equity and debt capital to date.
Previously, Florian co-founded Printi, Latam's leading online printing marketplace, having started the company in 2012, raising over $50M in equity and ultimately selling the business to US-based global online printing leader Vistaprint (Nasdaq:CMPR).
In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Florian is an active angel investor, having invested directly in over 100 companies globally. In Brazil, his investing activity evolved into the formation of Canary, the leading seed-stage investment firm in Latin America where he currently serves as Partner. Canary has over $300M in AUM and has invested in over 100 companies since its inception in 2017 and is continuously ranked as a top investor in the region.
Florian is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around the world. Since 2014 he is an Endeavor Entrepreneur, an organization that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He currently resides in São Paulo and is married to Geraldine and together they have a small dog called Kingsley.
