Startup OLÉ has closed the third edition of its Latam Roadshow in Latin America. According to data from the organization, the global figures speak of more than 300 participating startups, more than 30 investment funds and corporations and around 100 speakers and judges of the pitch competition.
To these figures are added more than 400 “1-to-1” meetings, in addition to the participation of representatives of five national governments and five national associations of investment funds, startups associations, three national investment agencies and a wide number of international media.
The finishing touch to this tour took place with the Startup OLÉ – Chile event, in which institutional representatives such as Stefanie Sherman, manager at Digevo Ventures and Vice President of ACVC -Asociación Chilena de Venture Capital and Francesca Lasagna, Director of Innovation at ProChile participated. , which opened the event.
Also participating were Sebastián Pillado, director of ProChile Spain; Beatriz Herrera, International Network Coordinator of InvestChile; Cecilia Valdés, manager of Corporate Affairs at Corfo; David Fernández, deputy manager of Start-Up Chile and Esteban Campero, SME and Entrepreneurship advisor to SEGIB-Ibero-American General Secretariat-, as well as Erik Díaz, CEO of Blackshiip VC; Gonzalo Soriano, Venture Capital investor at AC Ventures (ACV_VC) and Sofia del Sante, ProChile Trade and Innovation Representative in Munich.
The awards and benefits for Latin American startups provided in the tour were, in addition to the visibility and possibility of meeting with the most prominent investment funds at an international level, a direct pass for Startup OLÉ 2021 to the 10 winning startups of the pitch competition. Chile also had its ten winning startups: Sumato-Id, Tetris4D, Alfi, Strong by Form, SOQUIMAT SpA, AgroMatch, Localshop.cl, SymbiOx, Yu-Track and the winner, Anastasia.ai, a SAAS AI centric Platform that fell in love to the pitch jury with its proposal for exclusive solutions that allow its technology to be adopted in weeks, not months, making artificial intelligence simple to understand, explain and scale.
After the success of this Latin American tour, the Ibero-Latin American entrepreneurial ecosystem, made up of governments, institutions, investment funds and startups, will also be present at what will be the largest startup event after the summer: Startup OLÉ 2021, which will be held from 6 to September 10 in Salamanca in a combined format and which aspires to be the most international. With this, on September 6, Startup OLÉ 2021 will hold an Ibero-American Forum in online format, made up of the main Latin American investment funds, such as AMEXCAP -Mexican Association of Private Capital-, ARCAP -Asociación Argentina de Capital Privado-, ASCRI -Asociación Española de Capital, Crecimiento e Inversión-, ACVC -Asociación Chilena de Venture Capital- and ABVCAP -Brazilian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association- and as well as the main associations of Latin American startups, ASEA -Asociación de Emprendedores de Emprendedores Argentina-, ASEM -Association of Entrepreneurs of Mexico, Start-up Chile, ABSTARTUPS and Spanish Association of Startups.
