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Camila Key Saruhashi

Camila Key Saruhashi

Early stage venture investor focused on foundational industries and fintech

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United States
Joined August 2025
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Camila Key Saruhashi is an early-stage venture capital investor with a deep focus on foundational industries like manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain. She believes these sectors are ripe for disruption through breakthrough technologies such as AI, advantageous regulatory and policy shifts, and crucial paradigm changes like those driven by climate change and the need for resilient supply chains. constructcap+1
Prior to her role at Construct Capital, Camila was a Principal at QED Investors, a prominent fintech venture capital firm. Here, she cultivated a portfolio of companies providing embedded financial services to underserved markets, demonstrating her commitment to financial inclusion and her operational expertise in the fintech ecosystem in Latin America and beyond. qedinvestors+2
Camila possesses a strong background as an operator in fast-growing startups. Notably, she served as Head of Operations at Nubank, one of the world's largest digital banks, where she managed a substantial team and oversaw critical functions like customer acquisition, billing, and payments. She also contributed to product development at Earnin, focusing on financial solutions for the underbanked population. constructcap+1
Her international background, having grown up in Brazil and invested in Latin American startups through Redpoint e.ventures, informs her perspective on global commerce and the potential for financial innovation in emerging markets. She combines this operational and regional insight with a strong academic foundation, holding an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor's in Finance from FGV-EAESP. qedinvestors+1

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Camila Key Saruhashi: Joining Construct to Transform Foundational Industries

January 30, 2024

An article authored by Camila Key Saruhashi outlining her reasons for joining Construct Capital and her investment thesis in foundational industries, covering breakthrough technologies (AI), regulatory/policy changes, and paradigm shifts (climate change, resilient supply chain, nearshoring).

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Embracing the Next Generation of QEDians

December 18, 2020

A blog post from QED Investors announcing Camila Key Saruhashi joining as a Principal, highlighting her background as an operator and investor, her focus on fintech, and her perspective on the future of financial services, especially in Latin America.

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Hobbies

Enjoys hiking with friends and spending time with her dog. qedinvestors

Notes

EMElias Mufarechsaid that if they were building a pre-seed fintech company,
CSCamila Saruhashi
would be among their top choices for an investor.

Oct 27, 2025

EWEugene Wansaid that if they were starting an early-stage fintech company,
CSCamila Saruhashi
would be one of their top choices as an investor.

Oct 22, 2025