Luis Silva is a serial Brazilian entrepreneur, currently the CEO and founder of CloudWalk, one of the most promising global fintechs, with an estimated market value of US$2.15 billion. In 2019, CloudWalk launched InfinitePay, a financial services platform focused on SMBs that changed the landscape of the payments market. Now, it has over 1.1 million customers in Brazil and is on track to surpass $400 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

Born into a humble family in 1984 in the countryside of Sao Paulo state, Luis received a computer at the age of 11. His father believed it would be the future and invested what little he had in financing. Luis taught himself programming and pursued his career as a programmer and software engineer as an autodidact.

He started his first company in 2005, at the age of 21. CloudWalk is his sixth venture. Early in the CloudWalk journey, in 2014, Luis was selected among 80 global entrepreneurs to live and study at NASA Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley. There, he attended Singularity University, delving deep into future and disruptive technologies shaping our world.

In 2021, Luis led the largest funding round in Brazil for a Series B: $190 million. In four years, CloudWalk went from a company with only a few dozen employees to a unicorn valued at $2.15 billion.

In 2022, at the age of 38, Luis entered a traditional educational institution for the first time. He was selected for the OPM 62 class of the prestigious Harvard University program.
Luis is passionate about technology, archaeology, nature, astronomy, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. He believes that AGI is near and will help make humans more human.