
Managing partner en @DraperCygnus - early-stage, deep tech latino founders. Cofounder de @Embarcamza
Miami, Florida
Joined October 2012
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📷 Signals I look for in early-stage deep tech startups
In deep tech, conviction comes before certainty. Behind every deck, there is a deeper story about what truly makes a startup investable.
📷A short thread
Valentina Terranova retweeted
For the past year, I have been building Rial, a platform to certify real evidence. A world where nothing is real is a very scary world to me. We no longer trust public discourse, most institutions, and less and less do we trust what we see. When what we believe is not based on evidence, it all reduces to rhetoric, and those who get to control it have more power today than ever in human history.
In 2024 I was part of an AI Safety community in Buenos Aires and was at the same time working in fraud prevention, financing a documentary I desperately wanted to shoot. It was about the effects of the installation of internet antennas in a rural community in Argentina. The study was led by anthropologists, and I was shooting with the excuse of recording visual evidence of the process. Because of my busy schedule and limited resources I knew it would be a long time before I finished editing it, and I thought, when this comes out, AI image generation models will be so accurate this could as well be generated content, and then, what was the point?
I made Rial because I believe we have the right to know what is real. I don’t want to chase fake content, I want to give the power back to anyone who speaks with truth. Our V1 is thought for businesses, accessible to anyone now through our webpage or your coding terminal. You can already request images and include Rial in any flow using our mcp. Please use, criticize, give feedback.
Let’s recover trust in visual truth.
Nobody can tell what’s real anymore, so we built something that can.
Today we are introducing Rial, the verification layer and infrastructure for visual evidence.
For insurers paying claims, marketplaces managing returns, newsrooms spreading the news, delivery companies, logistics, home inspections, if you make decisions based on visual evidence, this is for you.
So, what can you do with Rial today?
Valentina Terranova retweeted
What if treating mental health didn’t mean taking a pill every day for the rest of your life? We invested in Eywa Biotech because they are building for a different future. Moving mental healthcare from chronic daily medication toward medicines that can create meaningful, lasting change with one or a few treatments.
Now they are taking orders for their first GMP psilocybin capsules in 25mg, 5mg and placebo.
They are being produced for clinical trials and research, and for regulated and emerging markets including Australia, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.
Researchers, clinics and pharmaceutical companies interested in working with Eywa can reach [email protected] or [email protected].
And they’re not stopping there. Victoria Costa Paz and her team are using synthetic biology to make these medicines more accessible and scalable.
Hay mucho camino recorrido para las mujeres en VC. Ahora toca dar el próximo salto: pensar más grande, tomar riesgos y animarnos sin tener todas las respuestas. Y también hablar de inversiones y decidir sobre nuestro capital. forbesargentina.com/negocios…
El Carlo tenía razón. Le falló el timing nada más
SpaceX confirmed in their IPO filing that they still plan to offer point-to-point terrestrial travel on Earth using Starship
It will enable passengers to fly anywhere in the world in about 30 minutes or less on Starship.
• Los Angeles to New York: 5h 25m → 25 min
• Bangkok to Dubai: 6h 25m → 27 min
• Tokyo to Singapore: 7h 10m → 28 min
• London to New York: 7h 55m → 29 min
• New York to Paris: 7h 20m → 30 min
• Sydney to Singapore: 8h 20m → 31 min
Get ready, the future is wild.
Valentina Terranova retweeted
We visited @splight_ai offices in SF during our Annual Summit. One of our earliest bets and proof of why we invest before the consensus forms. The energy problem is transmission.
Splight solves it with software.
Now, let Thomas Vadora (Co-founder) speak for himself🎥
#Portfolio
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Last week, our portfolio founders met with @TimDraper and @AdamDraper at the #DCAnnualSummit2026 in San Francisco.
Private meetings where they talked about what they're building, the technical challenges behind it, and where they're taking these companies long-term💪🏻
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Ninth year coming to Silicon Valley and third year bringing portfolio founders with us.
The Draper Network held its 41st Summit in Half Moon Bay and we showed up with companies building at the frontier. 🧵
#DraperCygnus #SiliconValley
Valentina Terranova retweeted
The first night of the #DCAnnualSummit2026 started over cocktails in Half Moon Bay.
Just founders, investors, and builders actually talking. @TimDraper set the tone: "We're going to mine asteroids, go to Mars, grow you a new kidney". A timeline for what's next🚀
#DraperCygnus
Valentina Terranova retweeted
The Annual Summit 2026 kicked off today in San Francisco.
Welcome coffee, the first signs of what the week is about, and a visit to @vercel's offices.
Day one set the tone for what the week is actually about. 🧵
#DraperCygnus #AnnualSummit2026
Valentina Terranova retweeted
In 2016, Unleash Immuno Oncolytics was an Argentine biotech engineering a virus to hunt tumor cells. No validation, no consensus, and no obvious market.
We invested anyway. Now, the company was acquired for USD 12,5M🚀
LATAM deep tech, 9 years early.
→ goo.su/II9oU
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Replying to @SatsOnFire
@SatsOnFire closes a $2.7M Seed round 🔥
Huge congrats to Franco Rodriguez Viau and the team. At 22 years, he's building critical infrastructure to tackle one of the fastest-growing global risks: wildfires.
Proud to be part🚀
#Portfolio
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Replying to @silorealok
@silorealok raises $2.5M to turn grain into financial infrastructure 🌾The company enables remote verification of grain assets, making them insurable and financeable without moving them.
Proud to back @UrangaDelfin and the entire team💪🏼
🔗 goo.su/RGGNA
#Portfolio
Atentos: Manana sale mision tripulada a la lunaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Action. Wonder. Adventure. Artemis II has got it all. Don't miss the moment. Our crewed Moon mission will launch as early as April 1.
Learn how to watch: nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Hoy me reuni con Office of Space Commerce del Departamento de Comercio de US y con Office of Space Affairs del Departamento de Estado de US.
Hablamos de la colaboracion entre nuestros paises para hacer crecer la industria espacial Argentina.
Se viene una nueva era comercial a nivel mundial y Argentina puede ser lider.
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Guillermo Rauch @rauchg from @vercel interviewed by Hernan from @KaszekVentures at Argentina Week discussing the next steps in AI.
“The argentinian culture is extremely compatible with innovation.”
Valentina Terranova retweeted
Elon Musk: “My last words would be: I would encourage everyone to be optimistic and excited about the future. For quality of life, it’s better to err on the side of being an optimist and wrong rather than a pessimist and right.”
Valentina Terranova retweeted
The GOAT @joeymalysz from @vercel team demoing @autonomaai at ShipAI.
Test it for free here: vercel.com/marketplace/auton…

























