Alvaro Alvarez del Rio

I'm Alvaro. I'm an investor at Boost Capital Partners based in London and founder of Boost Capital Partners. I have been a venture capital investor since 2011 and have invested in over 120 software companies at pre-seed and seed stages. I have also sat on more than 30 start-up boards across Europe, Latin America and North America.

I work as Investment Director at Swordfish Investments and I founded and manage TSO CAPITAL LIMITED. I have been an angel investor in companies including Deliveroo and Zencargo, and I serve on boards and as a strategic advisor for multiple startups like Volta XR, Moova, Wibond, Creature Comforts, and Five Lives.

And my hot take is startups should stop treating growth as a vanity metric and focus on user retention instead.