GROUP ARCHITECTURE
How the group operates.
Three disciplines that reinforce one another — businesses built for the long term, capital deployed with conviction, and a backbone that compounds through cycles.
Compounds.
Strength and stability that accumulate, and that fund every ambition of the group.
Gives Back.
The Goguikian Foundation
Capital mobilized for those in need, governance for those who give.
Builds.
Operating businesses managed for long-term growth.
BUILDS · VENEZUELA AND SPAIN
Financial Services.
Two challenger franchises led with over four decades of senior banking experience.
BANCRECER · VENEZUELA
Venezuela’s premier bank for the entrepreneurial economy. 50%+ market share in SME and microcredit lending.
License
Specialized microfinance
Platform
Fully digital
Customer base
25K+ SMEs
FINTONIC · SPAIN
Spain’s leading consumer credit digital marketplace. c. €700M originated through proprietary FinScore technology.
Origination
c. €700M to date
Users
Over 5 million
Credit score
FinScore
TRACK RECORD · #1 BANK IN VENEZUELA
Built, ran and divested alongside Europe’s largest lender the country’s leading privately held bank.
Delivered one of the most profitable and landmark investments and transactions in Banking in South America.
TRACK RECORD · INVESTMENT BANKING IN SOUTH AMERICA
Led the team that throughout 15 years built, South America’s largest privately-held financial services group achieving more than 10x ROI.
Venture Building and Acceleration.
Pre-seed capital and acceleration for Venezuelan Tech founders.
FOUNDERS
Venezuela produces exceptional Tech founders
InnoVen helps founders improve their product, enhance their go-to-market and expand their options for raising money.
FIRST MOVER
Launched in 2025
The country’s first Venture Accelerator.
INTERNAL CONVICTION
SquareOne also builds
Companies where there is a thesis with internal conviction.
PRE-SEED CAPITAL
Tickets of $50k–$100k
MENTOR NETWORK
60+ mentors
PROGRAM
Structured acceleration
FOLLOW-ON
SquareOne network
Invests.
Capital deployed with conviction and held with patience.
Invests · Real assets · Global
Real Assets.
Direct positions in tangible assets, structured to compound through cycles.
SPAIN, US, LEBANON, VENEZUELA
Real estate
A portfolio of direct holdings in commercial and residential real estate across four geographies, built over decades of local presence in each market. Each position selected on the same conviction-and-depth criterion the group applies everywhere.
VENEZUELA
Reconstruction Co-Investment Fund
Direct co-investments alongside foreign operators in Venezuela’s re-entry and reconstruction, providing early-mover access during the rebuilding of one of the most resource-rich and widely dislocated economies in the world.
Venezuela Reconstruction Co-Investment Fund.
Direct co-investments alongside foreign operators in Venezuela’s re-entry and reconstruction, providing early-mover access during the rebuilding of one of the most resource-rich and widely dislocated economies in the world.
WHAT WE BRING
Local presence, institutional navigation and risk management built over four decades operating inside the country. Aligned capital in the highest-risk phase of entry and ramp-up.
HOW WE STRUCTURE
Co-investments through SPVs designed to be sanctions-compliant since inception. Each partner clears its own regulatory perimeter before capital is committed.
FOCUS
Assets targeted by Foreign Operators seeking to enter Venezuela
MODEL
Direct co-investment, aligned interests
PARTNERS
International operators with sanctions clearance
COMPLIANCE
Partner-first + governance layer
The partnership.
What a global operator obtains in Venezuela when SquareOne enters alongside.
OPERATOR-SIDE CAPABILITIES
Country and regulatory navigation
Anticipating risks difficult to price as an outsider.
Institutional and stakeholder access
Four decades of non-political relationships at every level.
Talent repatriation
Senior local operators reconnected for asset operation.
Structuring and execution advisory
Industry, country and transaction structuring at institutional standard.
CAPITAL POSTURE
Aligned capital
Structured as conviction signal rather than control.
Long horizon, short cycle
Capital that stays as long as the thesis holds, with disciplined recovery mechanics.
Risk shared, control retained
Partner protections embedded in governance covenants without compromising operator autonomy.
Compounds.
Strength and stability that accumulate, and that fund every ambition of the group.
Investment Management.
Globally diversified and actively managed portfolio. The financial backbone of the Group.
Actively managed portfolio
Liquidity, diversification and long-term capital preservation.
Focus
Volatility trading to capture market dislocations and asymmetries.
Relationships
Three decades of investing have built deep relationships with leading global banks, sovereign wealth funds and institutional allocators across the Americas, Europe and the Gulf.
MANDATE
Stability and investment capacity of the Group
MANAGEMENT
Actively managed
NETWORK
Global banks, SWFs, institutional allocators
HORIZON
Long-term
Institutional partnerships
Rooted in Venezuela. Operating globally.
SquareOne opens selectively to institutional partnerships as Venezuela enters a new chapter. We would be glad to start a conversation.