Brian Condenanza

Brian Condenanza FRSA (born 3 May 1999) is an Argentinian venture capitalist, technology entrepreneur, and public intellectual best known for blending frontier science, financial innovation and public-interest storytelling.

A 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Monaco honouree in Finance, he is the Founder & Managing Partner of Hevea Capital, an early-stage fund backing breakthrough companies in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, biotechnology and next-generation fintech rails.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Early Life and Education

Brian Condenanza was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a family of Italian-Argentine heritage rooted in entrepreneurship and public service. Fascinated by computers and capital markets from childhood, he sold his first software scripts online at age 13 and was investing in equities before he finished secondary school.

Condenanza earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), while serving as President of the Latin-American Student Association. During his undergraduate years he completed an study abroad program in Italy. He later completed the Oxford Fintech Programme at the University of Oxford.

He is fluent in Spanish and English, conversational in Italian and Portuguese, and has basic proficiency in Swedish.

Career

Early ventures

While still in college, Condenanza co-founded Revista Bitcoin, a blockchain magazine in Spanish. He also advised several blockchain and fintech startups, often serving on their advisory boards.

Hevea Capital

In 2020, Brian launched Hevea Capital with a vision “to fund the picks-and-shovels of the exponential age.” The firm has backed more than 40 early-stage companies across:

• AI infrastructure – scalable foundation-model tooling, moats in synthetic-data pipelines
• Biotechnology – AI-guided antibiotic discovery, programmable cell therapies
• Fintech rails – embedded finance APIs, CBDC-ready payment layers

Investment Philosophy

“Edge compounds where regulated scarcity meets scalable compute.”

Condenanza subscribes to a “tri-vector” due-diligence model:

1. Technological inevitability (does physics reward it?);
2. Regulatory asymmetry (does law lag opportunity?);
3. Narrative surface area (can the story travel across capital).

He explicitly avoids what he calls “trend-surfing with no cash-flow traction,” favouring businesses that convert complexity into APIs or hard IP.

Public speaking and thought leadership

Condenanza is a sought-after keynote speaker, known for weaving quantitative depth with media-savvy narrative:

• Sorbonne Finance Club – Keynote on "Investing in Digital Assets, Fintech & Artificial Intelligence"
• TEDx – “How to Use Blockchain to Create a Better World”
• United Nations Youth Assembly – Delegate addressing fintech for development

Honours and awards

• Forbes 30 Under 30 Monaco – Finance (2022)
• Royal Society of Arts – Fellow (FRSA, 2024)

External links

• Official website – briancondenanza.com
• Hevea Capital – hevea.capital
• Forbes 30 Under 30 2022 - Monaco - https://web.archive.org/web/https://forbes.mc/30-under-30