Camillo Acosta

Founder & Managing Partner, Perceptive Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Camilo Acosta is the Founder and Managing Partner of Perceptive Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in agentic AI and AI-first startups. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Pay By Group before becoming a generative AI product lead at Meta.

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The record, in short

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Insight
Acosta: Total payment volume beats user count as a fintech health metric
“Because payment volume is, is, is a better indicator of company kind of health than number of people. Because you know, you can have few people spending a lot of money versus a lot of people spending a little small amounts of money. We'd rather have less peopl…”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 7:30 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
Disclosure
Acosta: PayByGroup charges invited participants 2.9% and is free for organizers
“It's free for the organizer, but everyone that you invite is going to pay 2.9%.”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 4:26 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Acosta: PayByGroup has handled group purchase splits up to $30,000
“We've had 30,000 dollar purchases that get split.”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 4:58 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Acosta: Over 300 merchants use PayByGroup
“We have over 300.”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 7:13 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
Assertion Partly supported
Acosta: Average vacation rental booking is $1,500 to $2,000
“1500 to 2000 dollars is the average vacation rental.”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 7:03 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
Disclosure
Acosta: PayByGroup is neither raising capital nor trying to sell
“No, no, no, we're not, neither, neither raising nor selling. The goal is really to just build a big business.”
Camillo Acosta Dec 2, 2016 ▶ 13:00 EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Ca Dec 2, 2016 6m
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