Wagner Ruiz

Wagner Ruiz is a Partner at Honey Island Capital and a Co-founder and Board Member at EBANX, currently based in Curitiba, Brazil. He established the Brazilian fintech unicorn EBANX alongside Alphonse Voigt and João Del Valle before launching his venture capital firm in 2015 with Antonio Maganhotte. Through Honey Island Capital, Ruiz manages multiple investment cycles, including a third fund targeting 70 million Brazilian reais, with a total capacity ranging up to 100 million reais. The firm has built a portfolio of more than 25 startups over a decade of operations, connecting these portfolio companies to a network of over 30 mentors and strategic corporate partners such as Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Zendesk. His current professional focus centers on driving financial innovation and scaling early-stage fintech ventures across the broader Latin American market.