Juan Torres arrived at ICA with a career that refuses to stay in one lane — and that turns out to be exactly the point. As Operating Partner for Portfolio & Network Operations, he leads the teams responsible for managing ICA's investment portfolio and the networks that connect its founders to capital, expertise, and market opportunity. The throughline across all of it is a genuine obsession with building things that work, for people who need them to.

Juan began his career in accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and corporate law at Anderson Kill before moving into technology investment banking at Thomas Weisel Partners, where as Co-Head of the Software Group he raised billions in capital during the early years of the internet. He spent the better part of the following decade as a founder and operator in education — co-founding LearnNow, which grew to hundreds of employees managing charter schools across four states before a successful sale to Edison Schools, and Platform Learning, which became the country's largest tutoring provider under No Child Left Behind, reaching 50,000+ low-income students across ten states. He went on to hold COO and SVP roles at Voxy and UniversityNow, scaling both organizations globally. At Getaround he served as EVP of Operations, building out sales, marketplace, customer experience, risk, and field operations across 135 cities through a $300M financing. Most recently he was CEO of Bellhop, a technology-forward moving marketplace, where he drove a deep commitment to product and AI, dramatically improving its unit economics and customer experience at scale. He holds a J.D. from Michigan Law, an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas, and a CPA from his days at Baruch College, where he started.

Juan grew up in the South Bronx in New York City, and that background is not incidental to this work. The founders ICA backs deserve more than a check, and making sure they get it is what gets him up in the morning. He serves on the board of SFMade, a nonprofit supporting local manufacturers and the working communities they sustain, and is a Pahara Fellow of the Aspen Institute. Outside of work, he spends his time on physics coursework, Afro-Latin drumming, and math sessions with his son — which, he will tell you, are not as different as they sound.