For this week’s Espresso, we invited Marta Forero, co-founder of UBits to talk about the recent investment they closed with the Stanford GSB Impact Fund. We also cover the open call for the Women STEMpreneur Competition 2020 organized by the IDB Lab and Angel Ventures, the launch of Facebook’s accelerator program, and other updates from BBVA Mexico, Loft, Mottu, The NotCo, & more!
Outline of this episode:
- [0:26] – New fund from Loft
- [0:49] – NotCo’s valuation
- [1:27] – Mottu: “Delivering to those who deliver”
- [1:52] – Marta Forero, UBits
- [3:35] – BBVA Mexico acquires Adquira
- [4:00] – Facebook’s commerce accelerator
- [4:26] – Women STEMpreneur Competition 2020 & WeXchange
Resources & people mentioned:
- Marta Forero
- Startups: Loft, NotCo, Mottu, UBits, Adquira, Openpay
- Enterprise: Itaú, XP Investimentos, BBVA Mexico, Telefonica, Facebook
- VC: Kaszek Ventures, Angel Ventures
- Women STEMpreneur Competition 2020
- IDB Lab, WeXchange, We-Fi