OUR ECOSYSTEM
SquareOne Model.
Three disciplines that reinforce one another — businesses built for the long term, capital deployed with conviction, and a backbone that compounds through cycles. Together, they sustain a fourth: a foundation that gives back.
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.
1. 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
TRACK RECORD · #1 SME LENDER 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.
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
2. BUILDS
Venture Building.
Companies where there is a thesis with internal conviction.
SQUAREONE LABS
SquareOne Labs is a frontier technology lab that applies generative AI, quantum computing, and neuromorphic/thermodynamic computing to real-world problems across industries, with a strong focus on financial services.
THREE MAJOR AREAS
Its work spans three major areas: credit risk and portfolio intelligence, proprietary domain-specific AI models, and responsible AI governance.
All three are built on in-house IP and a team that takes solutions from research to production.
SQUAREONE DIGITAL
[Soon]
3. BUILDS
Acceleration Program.
Pre-seed capital and acceleration for Venezuelan Tech founders.
INNOVEN · VENEZUELA
InnoVen helps founders improve their product, enhance their go-to-market and expand their options for raising money.
PRE-SEED CAPITAL
Tickets of $50k–$100k
MENTOR NETWORK
60+ mentors
PROGRAM
Structured acceleration
FOLLOW-ON
SquareOne network
FOUNDERS
Venezuela produces exceptional Tech founders
FIRST MOVER
Launched in 2025
The country’s first Venture Accelerator.
Invests.
Capital deployed with conviction and held with patience.
1. INVESTS · Venture capital · Global
Venture Capital.
Conviction capital for companies that compound with scale.
SQUAREONE CAPITAL · GLOBAL
Nearly a decade of disciplined early-stage investing with over 30% cumulative IRR.
CUMULATIVE IRR
Over 30%
STAGE
Seed to Pre-IPO
GEOGRAPHY
Americas, Europe, selected markets
PORTFOLIO
50+ companies
CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Privately held, No fund cycles
FOCUS
Compounding intelligence systems
Focus on companies where AI creates compounding intelligence systems — regardless of sector.
PORTFOLIO
50+ companies
Portfolio of 50+ companies, including Anthropic, Space X, OpenAI and Stripe; prior exits include Coinbase & Robinhood.
2. 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.
3. INVESTS
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.
1. COMPOUNDS
Public Markets.
Globally diversified and actively managed portfolio. The financial backbone of the Group.
Actively managed portfolio
Liquidity, diversification and long-term capital preservation.
MANDATE
Stability and investment capacity of the Group
MANAGEMENT
Actively managed
NETWORK
Global banks, SWFs, institutional allocators
HORIZON
Long-term
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.
Gives Back.
Capital mobilized for those in need, governance for those who give.
THE FOUNDATION
Capital mobilized to where it is needed most. Every gift, governed to institutional standard.
Founded in 2008 by the family behind SquareOne. For nearly two decades it has widened access to education and opportunity, and moved resources to where they matter most.
- FOUNDED
2008, by the family behind SquareOne
- STATUS
Independent nonprofit
- GOVERNANCE
Institutional-level governance and accountability behind every donation
Where the Foundation moved
Two responses, one standard.
Port explosion response
Beirut, 2020
When the 2020 explosion tore through one of the cities closest to this family, the Foundation moved. It coordinated international support and channeled resources through trusted organizations delivering relief on the ground.
Earthquake response
Venezuela, 2026
After the 2026 earthquake, the Foundation is coordinating support and funding recovery through vetted local and international organizations, and staying until people are back on their feet.