VISIBLE NEWS
September 30, 2022
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Happy Friday VH Community, We hope you are thriving and well! Here is a gentle reminder to pause for a moment and take a few deep and nourishing breaths. It's important to take time for yourself amidst the hustle of building your startup, working as investors, or however you are grinding this week. If you're in need of a longer TLC break with like-minded founders of color, check out our upcoming Winter Well Founded Retreat in Tulum. At VH, we've had a jammed-pack week with exhilarating moments—such as our GP and Co-Founder and VHLX Product Manager joining the Google for Startups family in ringing the Nasdaq Opening Bell for Hispanic Heritage Month—and energizing meetings with our VHLX and Visionary Accelerator Cohort founders who are busy pushing their companies forward. To hear from some of our amazing alumni who are currently fundraising, register now for our Fall 2022 This is a Visionary showcase! Read on below for more updates from our portfolio founders, exciting ecosystem events, and cool job postings. Be well,The VH Team
VH ANNOUNCEMENTS 🗞
VH General Partner & Co-Founder Yasmin Cruz Ferrine alongside Jorge M. Calderon of Inicio Ventures and Joey Womack of Goodie Nation rang the Nasdaq Opening Bell as part of the Google for Startups family for Hispanic Heritage Month!
Congratulations to our GPs and Co-Founders Yasmin Cruz Ferrine, Daniel Acheampong, and Justin Kang who were recently announced as the Boston Business Journal's Power 50 Movement Makers in business! 🎉
We kicked off our Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Hispanic Heritage month! Join us for a weekly, virtual workshop to guide founders and entrepreneurs through how to build a playbook and launch a venture-backed company led by our VHLX Product Manager, Yulkendy Valdez. Register here!
This past Wednesday, we held our first Cafecito chat on Twitter Spaces with VHLX Founders Michelle Addison and Andrea Orrego for honest conversations with founders on their company-building journey! Follow us on Twitter for more pop-up conversations.
VISIONARIES
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Visionary Updates, Asks, and Wins:
Love our startups? Interested in investing? Our Fall 2022 This is a Visionary showcase is less than one week away! Register now to tune in on 10/6 and hear pitches from some of our '21 Visionaries who are currently fundraising for their startups!
'21 Visionary startup Beautyocracy will be CCNYC's CultureCon on 10/8! Buy your tickets here!
Congratulations to VHLX Fellow Gabriela Campoverde and '21 Visionary Son Ca Vu who were both recently chosen to be a part of AWS' Impact Accelerator for Women Founders! They will each receive $225,000 in cash for their startup as well as AWS credit, mentoring, and other great resources!
Congratulations to '21 Visionary startup Aura Finance for being accepted into the TechStars and JPMorgan Founder Catalyst Program!
Congratulations to '22 Visionary Tania Kottoor, who was recently selected won runner-up in The Female Founder Collective pitch competition and was featured on Bloomberg News!
Congratulations to '21 Visionaries Brooke Hill of Swella and Chudi Iregbulem of Beatmatch for being chosen as finalists for the 2022 Black Ambition Prize Competition! Be sure to cast your vote for the finals!
WHAT WE HAVE OUR EYES ON 👀
➕ Founder Resources and Events:
’22 Visionary Denisha Kuhlor, Founder/CEO of Stan, is hosting StanCon, the music industry’s first fandom conference. Check it out on 10/5 in Brooklyn, NY, and buy your tickets here!
Join '22 Visionary Shannon Morales on 10/6 at Momentum Coffee and Coworking in Chicago, where Shannon, Founder & CEO of Tribaja™️, will share how Chicago's talent marketplace and community is reimagining how applicants start and grow careers in the tech industry. Learn more and register here.
Project W’s signature program, Women Entrepreneurs Boot Camp (WEB), returns to Seattle on 11/7 for an immersive day of workshops and activities for female founders of seed-stage tech companies. Learn more and apply here by 10/11!
Want $10K for Your Business? Join Create&Cultivate at the Small Business Summit in New York City on 10/15, where three finalists will pitch their ideas live to a panel of judges. The winner walks away with a $10K small business grant—apply today!
Join us on 10/20-10/21 for the Unicorn Ambition conference; a two-day conference in Miami for Black founders and tech investors hosted by Black Men Talk Tech! Get your discounted ticket here!
A few spots are left for our upcoming Well Founded Retreat in Tulum, Mexico for founders of color, in partnership with Afro Yoga! Be sure to apply now before spots are gone!
Pilot’s 2022 Founder Salary Report is out! Read it here to see responses from over 500 founders across the globe to the question —"What should I be paying myself?"
🌎 Ecosystem Spotlights:
Hispanic Heritage Month is here! Join VCFamilia's kickoff dinners in TEN cities, a $50k Latinx pitch competition, & a keynote featuring one of the biggest Latinx venture titans! Learn more here.
Project Enginuity applications are open - apply for their accelerator that uplifts Black, Hispanic, Latino and women entrepreneurs, assisting them on their journey to secure non-dilutive capital and fuel innovation. Learn more and apply here by 10/10.
Common Future Accelerator applications are now open! Apply today to join a cohort of 10 organizations that are actively working to dismantle economic inequality by giving power back to communities left out of prosperity. Learn more & apply here by 10/11.
Verizon Forward for Good Accelerator application is now open! They're supporting startups working to close the gaps in health access and outcomes. Learn more and apply here before 11/11.
💼 Cool Jobs:
WESTxEAST is hiring a brand marketer! This role will be the driving force behind the organization's brand initiatives, client, and revenue growth. Learn more & apply here!
CareCoPilot is hiring a UX/UI Designer. CareCopilot is a web and mobile application that saves these friends and family caregivers time and money as they take care of the people they love. Learn more and apply here.
🧑🏽💻 Reading + Listening + Watching List:
Reading: 35 Latina-Owned Businesses and Entrepreneurs To Know And Support Always by Creator & Cultivate
Listening: '21 Visionary startup ChildNEXUS' 100th episode on its podcast "Diverse Thinking, Different Learning"
Watching: Never Have I Ever Season 3
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