Google's Latino Founder Fund: Their Stories and Advice
November 30th, 2022 from 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm at StartUP FIU, 3rd Floor of the MARC Building. Doors Open at 2:30pm!
About this event:
Join us for a panel discussion about entrepreneurship with 2022’s winning cohort of South Florida-based Google Latino Founders. Students will have the opportunity to hear from creators of three local, innovative startups - Navigate Accelerator, People Clerk and Wisecut - and ask questions about their experiences as Latinos in the startup space, their entrepreneurial journey, how they leveraged private investment to grow, and the importance of ensuring equity and accessibility within their teams and in their outreach to customers.
What To Expect?📝
Get to meet Google’s Latino Founders
Moderated Interview and Q&A Session
Networking Opportunity
Understand how private investment works in the US
The importance of DEI for their organizations and the solutions that they bring to the market
Agenda:
2:30 - 3:00 Doors Open (30 min)
3:00 - 3:15: Welcome and Introductions (15 min)
3:15 - 4:00: Panel Interview (45 min)
4:00 - 4:15: Q&A Sessions from Audience (15 min)
4:15 - 4:50: Open Networking (35 min)
5:50 - 5:00: Closing and Thank You! (10 min)
Learn About the Guests:
1. Pedro Sostre: CEO of Navigate Accelerator
Pedro Sostre is an entrepreneur and author in the tech and e-commerce space, Pedro Sostre is the founder of “Navigate Accelerator” a platform that democratizes access to support early-stage entrepreneurs. Pedro has driven over $100M in revenue to early stage startups and is now focused on helping under-supported founders. Over the past 5 years Pedro has guided hundreds of founders and led startups for WeWork and his accelerator program, Navigate, at the LAB in Wynwood.
2. Camila Lopez: CEO of People Clerk
Camila Lopez, is a J.D, from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is a California licensed attorney, whose passion is to make the law accessible to all through her case management platform, People Clerk. As co-founder, she supports her customers throughout the small claims court process, where the litigant can prepare, file, and serve the lawsuit, as well as create a judge-friendly trial binder for the hearing.
3. Ivo Machado: CEO of Wisecut
Ivo Machado is a Brazilian-born award-winning serial entrepreneur based in Miami, FL, with over 15 years of video editing experience. He is one of the co-founders and CEO of Wisecut AI Video Editor, which provides a platform that leverages speech recognition and AI to edit videos automatically and at scale. Soon after launching, Wisecut joined the Miami accelerator TheVentureCity and Google For Startups, becoming the go-to application for thousands of creators.
4. Hector Mujica: (Moderator) Head of Economic Opportunity, Google.org, Americas
Hector Mujica, who holds a BA in International Business from FIU and a Master of Public Affairs from UC Berkeley, leads economic opportunity efforts at Google.org—Google’s philanthropy—across the Americas. In this role, Hector directs a $100M+ grantmaking portfolio that supports pathways to digital economy jobs for individuals with barriers to employment. Hector also serves on Google’s Latino Leadership Council, where he stewards Google’s social impact ventures within the Latino community.
Who Should Attend? 😄
Any student, faculty, alumni, or community member who wants to learn more about tech entrepreneurship, private investment in startups, accessibility, equity and sustainability is welcome to join us, regardless of major or previous level of expertise.
About StartUP FIU: ⭐️
StartUP FIU is a university-wide initiative that fosters and develops entrepreneurship and innovation to help our students, researchers, and community connect, contribute to, and thrive in today’s fast-changing world. We create and run programs based on two foundational beliefs: that the skills and principles of entrepreneurship are essential to navigate and harness the opportunities of our disruptive age, and that universities can play a unique role in unlocking opportunity and unleashing the potential to shape a better, more inclusive, and more innovative tomorrow.