Juse Salcedo
Managing Director
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- Full Name
- Jose Manuel Salcedo (José M. Salcedo)
- Title
- Managing Director
- Firm
- Vista Equity Partners (current, since 2025); previously Riverstone Holdings LLC
- Firm Type
- Private equity / alternative asset management — not angel investing (the stub's "Angel Investors" label is not supported by any source)
- Investment Stage
- Institutional private equity and growth capital (control and structured/line-of-equity investments), not seed-stage angel checks
- Check Size
- At Riverstone in Latin America, deals ranged into the hundreds of millions (e.g., a line-of-equity of up to $300M in one platform); precise personal check authority not publicly disclosed
- Target Company Profile
- Energy/power and infrastructure platforms (Riverstone LatAm); more recently enterprise-software companies (Vista)
- Sector Focus
- Energy, power, infrastructure, and clean/distributed generation (Riverstone); enterprise software and technology (Vista); fintech (via his Klar CFO role)
- Geographic Focus
- Latin America, primarily Mexico (also Argentina)
- Location
- Mexico City, Mexico
Background
Jose Manuel Salcedo is a Latin America–focused private-markets investor and operator, currently a Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners (joined 2025), where he heads Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives for Latin America, supporting Vista's investment and platform activity across Mexico and the broader region. He is based in Mexico City.
Salcedo built his reputation at Riverstone Holdings LLC, the energy- and power-focused private investment firm (founded 2000 by David Leuschen and Pierre Lapeyre, with more than $40B raised). As a Managing Director there, he was instrumental in establishing and scaling Riverstone's Latin American operations from its Mexico City office (opened around 2014 as Mexico's energy market opened to private investment). The stub record's contact details — the [hidden] email and the +52-55 Mexico City phone number — correspond to this Riverstone tenure.
Between his investing roles, Salcedo served as Chief Financial Officer of Klar, the Mexican digital bank/neobank, during a period when the company raised significant growth capital (including a $90M round announced in 2022 and cumulative funding reported above $150M). Earlier in his career he was a Director at Advent International and held investment-banking roles at Morgan Stanley (Latin American investment banking in Mexico City and Principal Investments in New York) and Credit Suisse (Latin American investment banking).
He earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Anáhuac and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (some records also note finance studies at ITAM). He has served on the board of Enseña por México (the Teach For All network affiliate).
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests as an institutional private-equity/growth investor, not an angel — the stub's "Angel Investors / Seed Round" classification is not supported by any source found.
- Latin America first, Mexico-centric: his entire investing track record is built on being an early/pioneering private-markets investor in Mexico and the region.
- At Riverstone: energy, power, and infrastructure — including conventional oil & gas/midstream and clean/distributed-generation platforms — with large, structured, often control-oriented capital commitments.
- At Vista: enterprise software and technology, plus building strategic partnerships and institutional relationships across LATAM.
- Combines an operator's lens (former neobank CFO) with an investor's lens (PE and investment banking), suggesting he values strong unit economics, financial discipline, and scalable regional platforms.
Notable Investments
- Energía Real — controlling stake acquired by Riverstone (announced ~July 2021); a leading commercial & industrial distributed-generation (rooftop solar) platform in Mexico, with committed growth capital.
- Avant Energy — Riverstone line-of-equity investment starting at $150M and scalable to $300M; a Mexican energy company focused on oil, natural gas, refined products, and electricity infrastructure.
- "Zama" offshore discovery (Mexico) — Riverstone was a participant in this historic oil discovery, one of the firm's cited LatAm achievements.
- Mexico's first SPAC and the first dedicated private midstream company in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale play — both cited as Riverstone LatAm milestones during his tenure.
- Klar — as CFO (operating role, not an investment) he helped steer the Mexican neobank through major fundraising, including a 2022 round of ~$90M and cumulative funding reported above $150M.
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