Thalys Guimarães

Designer, entrepreneur, advisor and angel investor

Head of Design @Kanastra

About

30 years old, father of Pedro, husband of Esther.
I was co-founder and first designer at Vitta, a healthcare and insurance startup acquired by Stone Group in 2020. After the acquisition, I worked at Stone for a few years - among other projects, I was responsible in the Design team for Stone's entry into the investment segment through the Central Bank authorization to operate as a financial institution.

Since 2024, I've been part of Kanastra's team, arriving shortly before raising a Series A of R$ 110 million led by Kaszek and since then I've been leading design initiatives (both product and visual). More recently, we launched a new banking as a service vertical, besides becoming partners with Itaú.

Work

Today, for a series of reasons, I no longer maintain a visual portfolio. I've been exploring a transition to work at the intersection of design, product, and code (what has been conventionally called Design Engineer).

Some of what I can publish will be on Github, and if you want to see something specific or chat about the subject, reach me via