Pedro Trucharte has left his interim manager role at MásVentures, Spain-based telecommunications company MásMóvil’s startup accelerator, to join digital consulting firm Kairós Digital Solutions.
Trucharte told Global Corporate Venturing the company has appointed Álvaro del Portillo to lead the unit. Del Portillo had been head of strategic technical projects for MásMóvil and had sat on MásVentures’ executive committee since early 2018.
His role at MásMóvil involved Trucharte partnering seed-stage venture capital fund Inveready and setting up MásVentures in January 2019. He helped define the scheme’s open innovation strategy in a bid to identify and back companies developing innovative telecoms technologies.
“MásVentures is an initiative of corporate venturing aimed at boosting Grupo MásMóvil’s innovation processes through direct connection with startups to attract talent, technology and new business models that add value to both parties,” Trucharte said in a statement at the time of the unit’s launch.
Kairós has tasked Trucharte with starting a corporate venturing arm, Kairós Ventures, which will focus on business-to-business technology developers, though he was unable to comment on further details as the program and its goals are still being defined.
Photo of Pedro Trucharte courtesy of LinkedIn.
