Beto Pallares
Board Observer @ Camino Financial
El Paso, United States
Beto Pallares is a seed investor at Camino Financial in El Paso focused on Manufacturing and Developer Tools. Beto Pallares founded Joseph Advisory Services (JAS) in 2006. He brings extensive domestic and international start-up experience as an entrepreneur and in conducting due diligence for both start-ups and late stage companies. His professional experience spans working for top-tier strategy consulting firms, co-founding start-ups, internationalbusiness development, nonprofit management, venture capital and military service.In the summer of 2009, he co-founded Cottonwood Capital Partners, the general partner of Cottonwood Technology Fund, a seed and early-stage venture fund with headquarters in El Paso, TX. He serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards.He is also an advisor to the UT Horizon Fund, the venture capital investment fund of the University of Texas System, and serves on the limited partnership advisory committees of several venture funds.Mr. Pallares graduated from Brandeis University, in Waltham, MA, with a degree in economics, and received his MBA from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He also went on to attain a Ph.D. in International Business from UTEP. Dr. Pallares’ research has focused on confluence of high tech emerging market firms, incubators and technology commercialization.Dr. Pallares is married, and enjoys fatherhood. When not watching his kids while his wife, a professional photographer, is on assignment, he engages in reading, writing and community service, including service in Rotary International and Gideons International.
- Total investments:
- 14
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
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Industries Beto Pallares invests in
Stages Beto Pallares invests in
Countries Beto Pallares invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 2 (14%)
- Developer Tools 2 (14%)
- Video 1 (7%)
- Medical 1 (7%)
- Genetics 1 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (14%)
- Series A 2 (14%)
- Series C 2 (14%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (7%)
- Series B 1 (7%)
Investments
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Parabeac
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Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX. | $685K / Seed / Nov 02, 2021 | |
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Parabeac
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Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX. | $300K / Pre-Seed / Dec 01, 2020 | |
Parabeac
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Parabeac makes it easy for both designers & developers to make accurate & responsive designs. | $75K / Seed / Jun 25, 2019 | |
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Parabeac
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Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX. | Pre-Seed / Jun 25, 2019 | |
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Parabeac
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Parabeac makes it easy for both designers & developers to make accurate & responsive designs. | $77K / Seed / Jun 15, 2018 | |
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Parabeac
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Parabeac helps app development teams automate their design to development process for UI/UX. | $77K / Pre-Seed / Jun 15, 2018 | |
FibeRio
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FibeRio Technology Corporation is transforming the materials market through the unlimited availability of nanofibers. It is supplying the equipment and processes that are meeting these demands. Utilizing rapid response manufacturing methodologies, the company is quickly developing and delivering Forcespinning technology to the market whileproducing the highest quality and most cost-effective equipment. | $13M / Series C / Feb 25, 2013 | |
Exagen
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Exagen is dedicated to transforming the care continuum for patients suffering from debilitating and chronic autoimmune diseases by enabling timely differential diagnosis and optimizing therapeutic intervention. Exagen has developed and is commercializing a portfolio of innovative testing products under its AVISE brand, several of which are based onour proprietary Cell-Bound Complement Activation Products, or CB-CAPs, technology. Exagen’s goal is to enable providers to improve care for patients through the differential diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of complex autoimmune and autoimmune-related diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.Exagen was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Vista, California. | $5.3M / Series C / Sep 10, 2012 | |
InView Technology
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InView Technology Corporation develops and manufactures compressive sensing-based imaging and hyperspectral imaging products. The company offers shortwave and midwave infrared cameras and hyperspectral imagers for industrial process control, food and pharmaceutical inspection, energy audits, material research, surveillance, and securityapplications. It also offers its technology for use in hyperspectral imagers to deliver an image of a scene and spectral informational for pixels in the scene (a spectrometer per pixel). The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $1.5M / Series A / May 15, 2012 | |
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Exagen
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Exagen is dedicated to transforming the care continuum for patients suffering from debilitating and chronic autoimmune diseases by enabling timely differential diagnosis and optimizing therapeutic intervention. Exagen has developed and is commercializing a portfolio of innovative testing products under its AVISE brand, several of which are based onour proprietary Cell-Bound Complement Activation Products, or CB-CAPs, technology. Exagen’s goal is to enable providers to improve care for patients through the differential diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of complex autoimmune and autoimmune-related diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.Exagen was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Vista, California. | $34.1M / Feb 16, 2012 | |
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Co-Investors
About Camino Financial
Camino Financial is an AI-powered community lending platform that offers affordable credit and wealth building solutions to overlooked entrepreneurs. The company builds proprietary credit assessment and data aggregation AI to identify, price and provide affordable loans tailored to credit-invisible, cash-heavy businesses. By partnering with otherfinancial institutions, public agencies and mission-aligned companies, Camino Financial is able to pool and distribute low-cost funding and educational resources to entrepreneurs. The winning combination of community-driven partnerships and AI technology results in offering loans with monthly payments 40% lower than alternative products in the market. All loans are tailored for upward mobility, setting entrepreneurs on a graduation path to an expanded suite of credit and other wealth building solutions.Camino Financial is a nationally certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) with oversight by the U.S. Department of Treasury. Since inception, the company has funded over $140,000,000 across the United States, netting above $95,000,000 in incremental revenues and fees saved among its members. Camino Financial is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with supporting offices in Mexico City, Mexico and Bogota, Colombia.
Camino Financial Contacts
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Beto Pallares
Board Observer
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Sean Salas
CEO & Co-Founder
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Cho-Nan Tsai
Chief Technology Officer
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Eric Smeby
Vice President of Engineering
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Kenneth Salas
Chief Operating Officer
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What does Beto Pallares invest in?
Beto Pallares invests primarily in Manufacturing, Developer Tools and Video startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Beto Pallares closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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