Miguel Santos, 52, knows what it’s like to live difficult years. He says that being an entrepreneur means sleep like a baby That is waking up every two hours at night when the worst omens and the best ideas appear in the face of all kinds of difficulties. His maternal grandfather was the modernist architect Amancio Williams and father of him, another architect who loved mathematics. His mother, a psychologist who he defines as a very restless intellectual.
Miguel studied Exact Sciences at UBA, like his brother, who is a molecular biologist. And so Technisys was born, in the living room of a doctor’s office, together with his partners Germán Pugliese Bassi and Adrián Iglesias. They were the pioneers of Internet banking in Latin America and the fourth worldwide.
They have specialized in a next generation cloud based system for customer support. That is, that software that by voice or by mail it solves people’s financial lives. For example, remember payments or generate experiences such as predicting when money will be missing. It offers the customer to help him in the procedures, guides him in investments, or if he loses his card, he virtually replaces it.
The role of artificial intelligence
They continue to focus on user needs in a business that is today shaken by the speed of digital transformation and the weight of artificial intelligence.
In this way, the Endeavor Foundation’s approach to supporting and guiding high-impact entrepreneurs has been fundamental to Santos. In 2006, Santos was a major user of Endeavor’s services and its global network to connect with international consultants.
He was making several rounds of investments, even in the midst of a world that exploded with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. And when no investor wanted to put a dollar to the development of digital banking.
Lisandro Bril, head of several investment funds, defines him as “a low-profile, resilient and generous visionary, fundamental conditions in the face of the heart-pounding turbulence of a startup that must sustain the pace of execution”.
Expansion in Europe
A few years later, in February 2022, when due to the speed of growth it had to go public, an unexpected call came from a company in the United States. SoFi Technologies, based in San Francisco USA, has offered to buy his company. everything was fast and He sold it even though he is still in charge and has settled in Spain to expand it in Europe.
Before selling Technisys, Santos has put together a fund together with other UBA Esatti graduates such as the neuroscientist Mariano Sigman, and the mathematicians Sebastián Ceria and Guillermo Durán, current dean of that faculty. offer scholarships for those studying those careers that require 40 hours a week of exclusive dedication. They also help so that teachers can have materials for their lessons. A return to the public university that trained them.
He is a donor to Endeavor and invests in technology-based companies with high growth potential, in areas such as digital finance, cryptocurrencies, security and fintech.
The Grand Prix
And he decided to co-found DemocracyOS.org, a focused non-profit technology company improve citizen participation in politics through the use of the new tools that the Internet can provide.
He usually describes himself as a father of two, husband, snowboarder and DJ from time to time.
Santos was elected last week as Argentina’s Entrepreneur of the Year by EY, the planetary giant in services and auditing. It will have to be measured in a competition in Monaco. But there is expectation of a triumphal ride against other founders of unicorns from around the world.
Source: Clarin
