Julie Ruvolo is an entrepreneur, anthropologist, columnist and professional socializer who started her career in digital advertising and business development and has written for VentureBeat and AdAge, been written about in The Atlantic, and spoken at South By Southwest, SummitSeries and DEMO.

But Ms. Ruvolo is best-known in the New York start-up scene as a co-founder of Solvate, the marketplace for freelancers and small businesses, where she served for two years as COO and co-raised its $2.3 million Series A from RRE Ventures and DFJ Gotham before moving on to head up digital strategy at the Museum of Sex, where she manages audience development and is currently consulting on an interactive exhibition on non-medical interpretations of genetic information. She recently launched a monthly column, “Digital Anthropology,” for Forbes, and co-hosts Innovator Date Night with Venrock partner David Pakman. But she’s plotting a start-up comeback later this year--in Brazil, where she did her undergraduate thesis, and where opportunity abounds for an entrepreneurial Portugese speaker with a well-established network in New York.

“The economy is booming, the private equity scene is booming, investors like Redpoint and angels like Dave McClure are seriously getting involved in Brazil, and I'm excited to get down there and see what I find,” she told Betabeat. “Brazil is emerging as an epic tech market on the horizon...I'm interested in a bridging role between New York City and Brazil... There is serious cross-cultural entrepreneurial work to be done.”