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Rodrigo De Alvarenga

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Founder & Managing Partner at XcelerateImpact
📍 Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Rodrigo de Alvarenga is a venture builder, Managing Partner at HAG Ventures, and Director of the Porto Business School Entrepreneurship Center. After a 22-year career in finance with firms like HSBC and Santander, he now focuses on scaling startups and fostering innovation globally. Colleagues describe him as visionary, insightful, and resilient.

He is passionate about mentoring and describes his personal mission as "venture building people" through pro-bono initiatives to foster mindset changes. He loves learning, is deeply family-oriented, and considers his wife his most important business partner. He lives by a philosophy learned from his father: "the right is right, the wrong is wrong. "

Unique fact: He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Startup Grind for his significant contributions to the global entrepreneurial community.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Founder & Managing Partner
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
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Impact Entrepreneurship
He founded XcelerateImpact to help mission-driven startups and has invested in ventures focused on environmental and energy efficiency, reflecting a core passion for impact.
Corporate Innovation
He designs and teaches programs on open innovation, corporate venture capital, and venture building for corporations at top institutions like Porto Business School.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Founder & Managing Partner
XcelerateImpact
5-2013
Managing Partner & CEO
HAG.Group
3-2024
Director of the Entrepreneurship Center
Porto Business School
6-2023
Program Director - Corporate Start-up Programme & Visiting Professor
Porto Business School
7-2023
Visiting Professor
FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Education
3-2018 - 6-2024
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Not concluded)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná
2017 - 2017
Exponentials Foundations
Singularity University
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