Santiago Zavala

Hacker, Investor, Creator. Love communities, running and journaling.
Global Managing Partner @500GlobalVC, @500latam.

[tobifrieder @TobiFrieder]

Tuki

[Christine Tsai @christine_tsai]

Every image in this short was created w/ #CanvaCraft. Congrats @MelanieCanva Cliff Obrecht @themaninblue & @canva team on releasing Canva's 1st image generation model! Debuted as the world's 4th most advanced image generation model on @designarena, making Canva the 2nd most advanced AI lab for image gen.

[500 Global @500GlobalVC]

AI has transformed software. Science is next, and science happens in a lab.

@warpsciences is out of stealth with $215M to build AI + robotics-powered chemistry labs that help researchers discover new medicines faster. Proud to back @kevinweil @dpatil @manohar_paluri and Sol Reisberg.

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@ali_moiz Ai writing is structural, not a one-off.

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

RT @christine_tsai: 🚀🚀🚀 Congrats @jang_yoel and the @dreamlabs_ai team emerging from stealth w/ Dream-1 and $90M in seed funding! Proud tha…

[Giancarlo Gonzalez Ascar @giangonz]

La suerte de coincidir en un viaje en 2012 (Geeks on a Plane), la magia de conectar y colaborar, la oportunidad de invitarte a Puerto Rico para el Tech Summit en 2014 y ahora volver a encontrarnos en 2026, esta vez con la perspectiva de los años.
Ver cuánto hemos avanzado, reconocer que somos parte de una generación que ha contribuido a construir el ecosistema tecnológico y saber que, después de tantos años, seguimos creando, compartiendo ideas y conectando.
Un abrazo @dfect @500GlobalVC

[shirish @shiri_shh]

sir... the guy who helped lead Gemini just dropped a visual thinking model matching Astra on frontier performance 😭

[500 Global @500GlobalVC]

Dapta has raised US$6M in seed funding to bring AI sales agents to more small businesses across the U.S. and Latin America, building on strong momentum with over 200K users, US$4M in annual revenue, and more than 4,000 new users joining weekly.

Its AI sales agent, Dapti, instantly responds to inbound leads, qualifies prospects, and schedules meetings, helping SMBs convert more customers without adding administrative overhead. According to Dapta's internal data, businesses using Dapti are seeing their contact rates double.

We're excited to continue backing Nicolas Rojas and the team as they make enterprise-level AI capabilities more accessible to small businesses.

Full story here: https://t.co/J6z1Ol3XLH

@christine_tsai @khailee @dfect @damarismendozal @rlomeli88 @DidierQuiroz @regina_zuru @porfin_entiendo @atxfrench

[Nico 🌵 @NicolasRojas]

Inspired by @noahkagan's War on Expensive Software, we were tired of paying for Typeform....

So here it is: https://t.co/PbkwzMt9zf

Completely customizable easy to use forms. Free online: https://t.co/jdEdAIvLpw and open source for self hosting.

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

Long time fan of Superhuman, crazy to think i have over 1,000 days of inbox zero.

#HitZero

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@zeeg @RhysSullivan “Put on tortilla”, making all of it a taco.

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@snyatta What would be your top industries/opportunities to look for in latam for this kind of businesses?

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@pejmannozad interested but DMs are closed! Ping me!

[Videoclaw = Video Creation Agent @videoclaw]

AI video creation is getting more powerful, but only a few have figured it out.

Thats why I built Videoclaw.

I want it to be so easy, you don't need to figure it out. Just prompt, and watch it edit, generate and create video :)

Today we launch.

The video was made entirely with Videoclaw, blending human and generated footage. To show how truly easy it is, prompts and proofs for each project are in the thread.

Try it for free.

Oh, and there’s one more thing 👇

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@dweekly Oh yeah, saw them at ▟∲❪⋣ⲕ⧝⟊⨪⦭Ⱪ⑱⋬⊹⁀ 2025, they are really ⺒⛬⒓ⷖ⊴⋝

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@Jpmontoya_94 @ponchodelosrios Para mí es Mensho

[Tony Wang @TonyW]

Glad to see the discussion around open v. closed frontier labs. The next area of innovation will be open robotics.

Steel Bot@steelbot_ comes out of stealth with America’s first open humanoid to accelerate the robotics industry. Learn more about the challenge ahead with my conversation with founder @randallmbriggs. https://t.co/lojPXIrkrQ

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@pitdesi Would you rather have equity on bending spoons or on the hyperagent ai spinoff?

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@betancur muy bueno! Aunque discutiria que no es cada 6 meses, es como cada 10 minutos ahora!

[Santiago Zavala @dfect]

@temnco Huevos rotos are the best