Carlos García Ottati is a Venezuelan entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Kavak. Frustrated by the highly dangerous, informal, and fraud-ridden experience of buying a used car in Latin America, Ottati built Kavak into a massive, data-driven e-commerce platform that completely standardized the pre-owned vehicle market. In 2026, Kavak is not merely Mexico’s first tech unicorn; it is a sprawling, multi-billion-dollar global logistics and financial titan. Ottati operates massive vehicle reconditioning hubs across Latin America and the Middle East. Crucially, Kavak doesn’t just sell cars—it functions as a massive shadow bank, utilizing proprietary algorithms to provide direct auto-financing to millions of Latin Americans who are routinely rejected by traditional banking institutions, fundamentally driving upward economic mobility.