Summary
Javier Mata is a founder and CEO with nine years of entrepreneurial and operational experience building conversational commerce at scale through Yalo, a platform serving enterprises like Coca‑Cola, Unilever and Amazon across LatAm, India and Southeast Asia. He combines a systems-and-process engineering background from Columbia with hands-on startup experience dating to multiple co‑founding roles since 2011, and now also partners with early-stage Latin American founders via Bridge Partners. Javier is driven by a curiosity for why things work and a talent for creating what doesn’t yet exist, translating product vision into global partnerships and revenue growth. Comfortable at the intersection of product, sales and engineering, he has repeatedly launched marketplace and tech ventures under resource constraints. Outside work he pursues freediving and cooking, hinting at a calm, experimental mindset that informs his leadership.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Systems and Process Engineering Economics and Technological entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science Systems and Process Engineering Economics and Technological entrepreneurship at Columbia Engineering
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French