Brian Requarth
Co-founded VivaReal, later merged and sold to OLX Brasil, then co-founded Latitud, the community and platform for Latin American founders that also publishes some of the region’s most cited angel-investor rankings.
Track record
VivaReal
Co-founded the Brazilian real-estate listings platform VivaReal, which later merged into Grupo ZAP and was ultimately sold to OLX Brasil — one of the more prominent US-founder-in-Brazil exit stories of its generation.
Latitud
Co-founded Latitud with Gina Gotthilf, building a community and platform for Latin American founders that runs programs, publishes research, and — notably for this site’s purposes — compiles recurring, founder-voted rankings of the region’s most active angel investors.
"Viva the Entrepreneur"
Wrote a book of the same title chronicling the lessons from building VivaReal, which has become a reference point for founders operating in Latin America specifically, as distinct from generic startup advice written for the US market.
How he invests
Requarth’s angel activity draws directly on his own experience as a foreign founder building and exiting a company in Brazil, and his public commentary (through Latitud and his own writing) often focuses on the specific challenges of building in Latin America versus the US.
As with most active angels, a complete, itemized personal portfolio is not comprehensively public — his influence on the ecosystem is felt as much through Latitud’s community and content as through any individually disclosed investment.