Latino Founder Hour

Latino Founder Hour

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Latino Founder Hour episodes

  • #141 Irma Olguin Jr. with Bitwise
    Irma Olguin Jr. is the CEO and founder of Bitwise Industries, a Fresno CA startup creating bridges between humans from marginalized communities to access opportunities in the tech industry. Irma is a Fresno native that became the first person in her family to attend college and then start a career in tech but soon realized that her calling was bridging that accessibility gap between tech careers and the marginalized communities in Fresno. To date, Bitwise has raised more than $100M to fulfill its mission and have expanded into other communities.
    Irma Olguin Jr. es la CEO y fundadora de Bitwise Industries, una startup de Fresno CA creando puentes entre los humando marginalizados y apartados de las oportunidades en la industria de tecnologia. Irma es una nativa de Fresno que fue la primer graduada de universidad en su familia y con una carrera en tecnologia. Muy pronto se dio cuenta que su llamado de accion era crear estos vinculos de inclusion para comunidades apartadas como su natal Fresno. A la fecha Bitwise ha recaudado mas de $100M para ampliar su alcance y continuar con esta mision de equidad e inclusion.
    47 min
  • #140 Luis Perez with Remoov
    Luis Perez is the CEO of Remoov, a Bay Area startup that is an all-in-one decluttering online service that collects, sorts, donate, sells and recycles customer's used furniture saving time and money in the process. Luis realized first hand how tedious it was to move when helping his wife move out of Stanford and that experience gave him the idea to start a more efficient and less costly way of disposing of unwanted items. Remoov was born after taking a leap of faith renting a uHaul in the Bay Area and starting this new journey as a startup founder.
    Luis Perez es el CEO de Remoov, una startup del Area de la Bahia que se dedica a la limpieza, coleccion, clasificacion, donacion, venta y reciclaje de muebles usados durente el proceso de mudanza. Luis vivio por cuenta propia como es este proceso tedioso de la mudanza cuando ayudo a su esposa a desalojar la Universidad de Stanford. Esta experiencia le dio la brillande idea de crear un servicio en linea mas eficiente y a bajo costo para deshacerse de los muebles no deseados. Remoov nacio de este salto al emprendimiento cuando Luis rento un uHaul para iniciar este nuevo camino como fundador de startup.
    51 min
  • #139 Adriana Vazquez with Lilu
    Adriana Vazquez is the CEO and co-founder of Lilu, a startup that was founded on the recognition that new moms have been vastly ignored by technology, especially when it comes to breast feeding. Adriana shares with us her fascinating story on how an idea from an engineering school project quickly became a full time startup that aimed to make breast pumps suck less (pun intended!)
    Adriana Vazquez es la CEO y co-fundadora de Lilu, una startup que fue fundada debido al descubrimiento que las mamás primerizas han sido ignoradas por la tecnologia y especialmente en el tema de la lactancia. Adriana nos comparte su historia fascinante de como una idea de proyecto en la escuela de ingenieria se convirtio en un apasionado startup que ha decidido reinventar el obsoleto extractor de leche materna.
    48 min
  • #138 Bertha Jimenez with RISE Products
    Bertha Jimenez is the co-founder of RISE Products, a sustainable startup based in NYC that is upcycling brewery waste and transforming it to super flours. Bertha is a young Ecuadorian entrepreneur with a passion for innovation and sustainability. Her approach from waste to value is the combination of her passion and training as a mechanical engineer on how to foment industrial symbiosis to reduce food waste and carbon footprint.
    Bertha Jimenez es la co-fundadora de RISA Products, una startup de sustentabilidad basada en NYC que esta reciclando el bagaso de cervecerias y transformandolo en super harinas. Bertha es una joven emprendedora ecuatoriana con una pasion por la innovacion y la sustentabilidad. Su tesis de desperdicio a valor es la combinacion de su pasion y su entrenamiento como ingeniera mecanica, lo cual cuestiona el como fomentar simbiosis industriales para reducir el desecho y las huellas de carbono generadas por nuestro consumo.
    50 min
  • #137 Elias Guerra with Popwallet
    Elias Guerra is de CEO and founder of Popwallet, an innovative Customer Experience platform for mobile wallets. Elias has a rich experience in the corporate world and technology but after a long and prosperous career he decided to begin a new journey as a startup founder. Elias drew his inspiration from his family and also other peers creating generational wealth by leaving the corporate world and starting their own companies. "Testing yourself and your limits is starting a company" tells us Elias in a candid conversation about what it takes to go from zero to one!
    Elias Guerra es el CEO y fundador de Popwallet, una plataforma innovativa de Experiencia de Clientes para monederos digitales. Elias viene de una larga trayectoria en el mundo corporativo y de tecnologia que finalizo para poder iniciar una nueva etapa como fundador de startup. Elias inspiro su salto al emprendimiento de su familia y tambien de colegas profesionales que decidieron lanzar sus propias empresas y crear patrimonio generacional. Poner a prubea tus limites es comenzar una empresa nos comenta Elias, en una candida conversacion de lo que es llevar una idea de cero a uno!
    52 min
  • #136 Agustin "Gus" Arrieta with Dalent Medical
    Dr. Agustin "Gus" Arrieta is the CMO of Dalent Medical, a Miami startup creating better solutions for physicians to help restore health to patients living with sinus conditions. Dr. Arrieta is a part of a dedicated team of Cuban-American physicians, marketers and business developers that is patenting new devices that are less intrusive and more cost effective for Hospitals. We talked about the pitfalls of being a startup founder during covid times but also opportunities to video market to a more face-to-face crowd.
    Dr. Agustin "Gus" Arrieta es el CMO de Dalent Medical, una startup de Miami creando mejores soluciones meidcal para restaurar la salud de pacientes con condiciones de sinusitis. El Dr. Arrieta es parte de un dedicado equipo de doctores y ejecutivos Cubano-americanos que estan patentando dispositivos menos intrusivos y mas economicos para Hospitales. En este episodio discutimos los obstaculos que la pandemia ha impuesto en startups y las oportunidades de como pivotear en las estrategias de mercado y oportunidades en usar herramientas de video conferencia.
    53 min
  • #135 Andrea Puente Salazar with Panal Fresh
    Andrea Puente Salazar is the founder of Panal Fresh, a Bolivian social startup that connects farmers directly to markets and consumers and bridging the digital divide for the underserved. A young visionary and serial entrepreneur despite her young age, Andrea moved her company from software factory to full on digital inclusion startup creating the first B2B e-commerce platform where farmers in Bolivia (and soon everywhere else) can sell their products directly to markets, restaurants, cafe's and create a more equitable income distribution.
    Andrea Puente Salazar es la fundadora de Panal Fresh, una startup Boliviana que conecta directamente al agricultor con los mercados y consumidores creando asi un puente digital para los mas aislados. Una joven visionaria y emprendedora a pesar de su joven edad, Andrea transformo de empresaria en software a fundadora de startup de emprendimiento social, creando la primer plataforma B2B e-commerce en su pais que permite conectar las areas rurales con los mercados consumidores y asi cerrar la brecha digital
    55 min
  • #134 Sofia Chaves with IGLUW
    Sofia Chaves is the co-founder of IGLUW, a Colombian based startup integrating digital solutions for property management. A young and ambitious entrepreneur started her career as a founder during her University years and immediately started scaling IGLUW after graduation. Sofia set out to solve problems on how real estate is managed in Colombia and quickly realized that their revenue model had to change drastically, leaving her team with the tough decision to take a risk and start a new monetization model.
    Sofia Chaves es la cofundadora de IGLUW, una startup Colombiana integrando soluciones digitales de gestion de propiedades. Sofia es una jove emprendedora que inicio su carrera como fundadora durante la Universidad y de inmediato escalando IGLUW despues de graduarse. Sofia esta solucionando problemas en como los bienes raices son gestionados en Colombia y ya avanzado su emprendimiento se dio cuenta que tenia que cambiar su modelo de negocio, asi que tomo junto con su equipo la decision mas dificil que es tomar el riesgo de cambiar radicalment su modelo de monetizacion.
    46 min
  • #133 Charlie Vazquez - Writer, Editor and Story Teller Consultant
    Charlie Vazquez is a published writer and editor based in New York City. An experienced story-telling consultant, Charlie tells us more about his work on democratizing access to networks of influence and the art of writing well as a powerful tool to align our values and ideas with investors, partners, and clients. We learned more about the art of the Elevator Pitch that any startup founder needs to master early on.
    Charlie Vazquez es un autor y editor basado en Nueva York. Un consultor multifascetico en el arte del "story-telling", Charlie nos detalla a profundidad su labor en democratizar el acceso a redes de influencia y el arte de escribir bien como herramienta necesaria para alinear nuestros valore e ideas con inversionistas, socios y clientes. Aprendimos mas acerca del arte del "pitch de elevador" que cualquier fundador de startup necesita dominar desde muy temprano.
    54 min
  • #132 Andres Londoño with Instrumentalia
    Andres Londoño is the COO of Instrumentalia, a Colombian online commerce platform of medical instruments and equipment. Andres is a third generation operator in this family run business that is transforming itself into a startup and rethinking how Instrumentalia will become a scalable online platform. Great conversation about how a multi-generational business can completely disrupt itself.
    Andres Londoño es el COO de Instrumentalia, una plataforma Colombiana de comercializacion de instrumentos y equipos medicos. Andres es un operador de tercera generacion en esta empresa familiar que se esta reinventando en una startup y replanteando como Instrumentalia se convierte en un modelo escalable de e-commerce. Gran conversacion de como un negocio multigeneracional puede transformarse ser auto-disruptiva.
    56 min

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