Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 15, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Alex founded El Árbol English School in Costa Rica, an institution where students of all ages learn English and develop critical thinking skills. Creating unique lesson plans. After taking courses on his scholarship, Alex taught in Costa Rica for years before receiving his master’s degree in the United States.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

NEC X has graduated over 130 startups since 2018 that have worked with NEC X’s innovation team, researchers, industry experts, coaches, mentors, and advisors to develop their products and establish market fit.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My Rafael López is a 2018 YLAI Network Fellow and the co-founder and CEO of Malengu, a Honduran fashion brand. She told me I would be successful because I took care of my money,” Rafael says.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It By Jewelle Saunders. Everyone deserves to have equal opportunities, rights, and benefits,” says Marí?a It is time for everyone to fight for what is right and fair.”. María, who was born and raised in El Salvador, is the founder of Masshii.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

While 2018 YLAI Fellow Janeel Boon spends his time running his business Boon’s Computer Repairs , he is also well-known in his home country of St. Kenishia Mais, a 2018 Fellow, works with her financial coaching organization, ThrivingDollars , to educate young people on budgeting. Understand your audience and educate your community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. MyEO DealExchange was formally approved as a MyEO Premier Group in August 2018. So that’s what I did. Two months later, we hosted our first conference.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Gastón is the founder of eaInversores , an online platform based in Córdoba, Argentina, that provides low-cost investment assistance and financial literacy education. “It is important to try to understand your customers and their needs and supply what they need with honesty,” says Gastón Fontaine.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. By Jewelle Saunders. Before starting his own company, Boon’s Computer Repairs , in 2014 in St. Kitts and Nevis, Janeel came from humble beginnings.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

2018 YLAI Fellow Marcos Heyd is a great example of someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit. Entrepreneurship can empower individuals and communities limited in resources. Someone with a good entrepreneurial spirit will look for ways to improve a community and its integrity through its businesses and missions.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Cinthya Andino is most passionate about design and about protecting the environment. By Angie Garozzo. In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Crazy Rich Asians became the No.

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data was extracted from the 2018 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) report from the U.S. More than 25,000 jobs were created in 2018 by firms 0-1 years old in Tarrant County. Census Bureau.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

2018 YLAI Fellow Kenishia Mais, founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform designed to empower young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, faced a lot of adversity on her path to financial success and entrepreneurship. How a Jamaican financial educator perseveres through adversity.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 4, 2021

In fact, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 according to the Kauffman Foundation (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%).

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Porfirio Baez spent his free time dreaming up different ways to contribute to the preservation of the environment. By Jewelle Saunders. So he founded his own company to do just that. Green Depot , based in the Dominican Republic, aims to make the planet, and his community members, more eco-conscious.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 28, 2020

Through the Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic , 2018 YLAI Fellow Valesca Saint Cyr is able to deliver quality and affordable dental care to underserved communities in Haiti. By Ana Gonzalez. The clinic travels to different areas for two or three days at a time and treats over 100 people each day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure but he made compelling arguments about how other markets have developed as they matured so I took note. He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ? Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 19, 2022

With encouragement from friends and family, in March 2018, I founded Covert Results, a private investigations and security company. But, after going through my Dad’s death while being mandated to work uniformed assignments and subtracting my overtime pay due to bereavement leave—I became salty. It was time to retire and start a new venture.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group. Plenty of initiative.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 26, 2018

The latest data from Pew Research Center’s 2018 Social Media Use Survey indicates social media usage is not going to drastically decline (although some channels may have quarters where new user growth is slowing) or go away. Instagram, now has 35% of adults using it as 2018, which is a 28% increase compared to 2016.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 24, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow and co-founder of L3G’s & Associates, Fatima Chi, is empowering businesses in her community in Belize to take control of their finances.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. If you look at the blue line below in what we are calling “private-market IPOs” you’ll see the discernible trend that began in 2014 and has continued through 2018 and you’ll see the impact this has potentially had on public IPOs in green.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ranaldi and Szekely won their local GSEA competition and advanced into the Canadian national competition in January 2018. And although they did not go on to compete on the global stage, Ranaldi appreciated the opportunity to be a part of EO GSEA. . GSEA brought a ton of value to us,” he shared.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

April 30th, 2018. What do I know about venture? I’m not totally sure. I’ll tell you if my hypotheses – these and others – proved correct on my 50th birthday. For now I just seek continued advise from the sages who have seen this all before and decided to drink water instead of tequila. *.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Meet the tech companies transforming real estate using VR and AR technology: View this post on Instagram UberPuppy A post shared by VirtualAPT (@virtualaptcorp) on Nov 19, 2018 at 1:58pm PST VirtualAPT develops autonomous robots that scan rooms and capture 360-degree video content that customers can then use to market their spaces.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This photo of incoming mayor Eric Adams and former Chancellor Richard Carranza was taken by me at PS24 in Sunset Park Brooklyn during CS Education Week in 2018. My best moments over the years in this work have always been in the schools. I wrote about that visit here. Computer science is the first new subject to be taught in K12 in 50+ years.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It sold its assets earlier this year to PB Funding Group — a group of lenders recruited by then-CEO Bill Mitchell in 2018 to keep it afloat. Quibi (2018-2020). Stockwell/Bodega (2018-2020). Remembering the startups we lost in 2018. Total Raised: $1.75 Total Raised: $10 million. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 11, 2022

In 2018, she moved her business to Charlotte and has seen significant improvements since. In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She quickly realized it was a difficult place for her to succeed, since she built her network roots in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

August 2018 saw an exodus of top execs, including Evernote’s chief technical officer, chief financial officer, chief product officer and head of HR. ” Small, the former CEO of platform-as-a-service company TokBox, came on in 2018. ” Small, the former CEO of platform-as-a-service company TokBox, came on in 2018.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

According to a new report from Risk Based Security, 6,500 publicly known data breaches from 2018 exposed more than 5 billion user records, a decrease from the 7.9 Senators about the potential privacy and security implications of recording passengers in-flight. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The United States Department of Homeland Security designated their MailSecur device as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology in early 2018. Their clients include celebrities, government agencies, and leading Fortune 500 companies. The company has been growing since as a result of its breakthrough technology.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

In 2018 we had 200 businesses, and in 2019, 400. We want an interactive brand, to have people come on and say, “we want to be a part of this!”. What has it been like to scale your business? Right now, LinkUp is growing quicker than we thought it would. When we launched, we had just 20 businesses on the platform.

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