Daniela Arruda is a co-founder at Babel Ventures who brings an unusual combination of legal training, serial entrepreneurship experience, and cross-border investment expertise rather than following a traditional finance-only path to venture capital. As one of the few Latina co-founders of a Silicon Valley VC firm that raised a $30M fund, she maintains dual roles as both a venture partner and Executive Director at BTG Pactual, giving her a rare blend of large-institution capital markets experience and early-stage investing across Latin America and Silicon Valley. Daniela Arruda is a co-founder at Babel Ventures who brings an unusual combination of legal training, serial entrepreneurship experience, and cross-border investment expertise rather than following a traditional finance-only path to venture capital. As one of the few Latina co-founders of a Silicon Valley VC firm that raised a $30M fund, she maintains dual roles as both a venture partner and Executive Director at BTG Pactual, giving her a rare blend of large-institution capital markets experience and early-stage investing across Latin America and Silicon Valley.