2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit

As Manager within the Village Capital’s Latin America team, Daniela has led the implementation of 12 acceleration programs and was previously involved in implementing another seven since 2017. This has meant providing support and quality service to more than 140 startups in 16 countries and five sectors.

While Daniela has been involved in five programs surrounding food systems, circular economy or sustainability, this is Daniela’s second year working in initiatives specifically focused around food waste and loss. In 2023, she led the first accelerator of its kind with eight startups focused on reshaping consumer environments in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. This year, she is in charge of the second accelerator program which will support eight to ten different startups working on Optimizing the Harvest, Reshaping Consumer Environments, Maximizing Product Utilization and Recycling Anything Remaining.

Daniela initiated her career in the entrepreneur support ecosystem in 2015 at ANDE (Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs), and has a degree in Visual Communications from Universidad Iberoamericana, as well as a postgraduate degree in Accounting and Finance from ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México). Most recently she completed a certificate in Strategy Execution from Harvard Business School