Luis Sánchez

Co-Founder & CEO, KredFeed · 1 appearance on the record.

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Luis Jorge Sánchez is the co-founder and CEO of KredFeed, a Mexico-based fintech company offering automated receivables-based financing to small and mid-sized enterprises. Prior to KredFeed, he served as Chief Financial Officer of the venture-backed marketplace startup VoxFeed.

18statements → 15claims → 6claims resolved → 50%fully supported → 3.94/5average certainty → 1.56/5average debate potential → 2said about them ↓

3 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 8 not checkable as stated how the 15 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 13 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 15 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Luis argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Sánchez: Mandatory Mexican e-invoicing makes unpaid factoring a criminal fraud
“We track every single invoice on real-time due to the electronic invoicing being mandatory in Mexico, so we know the status of every invoice on real-time. So if they get paid by their customer and they don't pay us, that's considered fraud. So that's a crimina…”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 9:47 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Sánchez: 70% of Mexican SMBs Are Profitable When Bankrupt
“Did you know that 70% of all SMBs in Mexico are actually profitable when they go bankrupt?”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 2:50 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"

Everything Luis Sánchez said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Sánchez: $5T in Manufacturing Trade to Shift to LatAm
“It is expected that five trillion dollars from manufacturing trade will shift into Latin America in the next five years.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 3:59 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Contradicted
Sánchez: 70% of Mexican SMBs Are Profitable When Bankrupt
“Did you know that 70% of all SMBs in Mexico are actually profitable when they go bankrupt?”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 2:50 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sánchez: CredFeed's default write-off rate is 0.5% vs. 12% industry average
“Default, like, write-offs that we have done, it's 0.5% today. The industries, it's 12% in Mexico.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 5:15 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Supported
Sánchez: Mandatory Mexican e-invoicing makes unpaid factoring a criminal fraud
“We track every single invoice on real-time due to the electronic invoicing being mandatory in Mexico, so we know the status of every invoice on real-time. So if they get paid by their customer and they don't pay us, that's considered fraud. So that's a crimina…”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 9:47 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Supported
Sánchez: CredFeed needs only 5,000 of Mexico's 770,000 manufacturers for $100M ARR
“Today there are 770,000 manufacturing companies just in Mexico. We only need 5000 to get to a hundred million dollars in annual recurring revenue to be a billion dollar company with the average revenue that we're generating today with our current users.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 31:18 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sánchez: CredFeed will reach $4M ARR with $10M debt facility
“So we're raising this round To help us unlock a ten million dollar debt facility that will allow us to get to those four million dollars in ARR in the next months.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 8:22 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Contradicted
Sánchez: Mexican banks require real estate collateral for all business loans
“Because banks in Mexico, they all require real estate as collateral to provide any kind of business loan.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 8:49 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sánchez: 3 to 4 users churn from Xepelin to CredFeed monthly
“We have at least three to four users that churn from Zeppelin into Credly every month”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 26:20 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sánchez: CredFeed underwrites loans in six hours versus competitors' eight weeks
“They would take around eight weeks on the write-up customer. We take around six hours.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 30:29 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
CredFeed Has Unlocked Over $30.5M in Cash Flow for SMBs
“And at CredFeed, we have already unlocked over 30 and a half million dollars from the cash flows of small and mid-sized businesses.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 2:41 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Partly supported
Sánchez: 80% of Mexican SMBs Lack Access to Credit Products
“80% of all SMEs in Mexico still do not have access to any kind of credit products”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 3:03 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Disclosure
Sánchez: CredFeed Operates With 16% Capital Cost and 20% Spread
“So, our cost of capital today is 15.97%. Our average APR, it's 36.14%. So there we have a 20% margin spread.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 7:51 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luis Sánchez: CredFeed is currently breakeven
“We're breakeven.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 12:37 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Disclosure
Sánchez: CredFeed is raising $1.2M with $905K secured
“We're raising 1.2. We already have a 905 K secured.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 16:50 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luis Sánchez: CredFeed has 71% 24-month customer retention
“71%, 24 month retention rate.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 17:54 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luis Sánchez: CredFeed maintains 108% net dollar retention
“Net dollar revenue retention, 108.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 18:03 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Assertion Supported
Sánchez: Mexico's B2B financing gap stands at $164 billion
“The financing gap in Mexico in the B to B market, it's one hundred and sixty four billion dollars.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 29:01 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Disclosure
Luis Sánchez: CredFeed has raised $107k to date
“We raised a small 107 K.”
Luis Sánchez Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 12:40 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"

The other half of the tape: Luis Sánchez's own voice is left out of every number here. 2 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Luis Sánchez, by other people (2)

Opinion
Bamberger: CredFeed's Luis Sánchez is the right bet for a Latin American unicorn
“It's a little fuzzy for me, but I think he's the one to bet on if there was one. If there was a, like, who's gonna be in LATAM, the billion-dollar unicorn, I'm like, yeah, I'm willing to bet on that.”
Beck Bamberger Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 24:15 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"
Opinion
Muccio: CredFeed Is Vertical Software With Factoring as a Wedge
“People are seeing this as a lending company, but I actually think CredFeed is more like vertical software. Luis is using factoring as the Trojan horse to get people to use his software, automating the accounts and receivables from manufacturing companies.”
Josh Muccio Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 33:36 "70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?"

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
"70% of Mexican SMBs Fail Due to Cash Flow: Can FinTech in Latin America Save Them?" Jun 26, 2024 15m
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