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Member Accomplishments & Founder Storytelling Series Kickoff! ✨ The FF Newsletter
Our 2024 Founder Programming kicks off today at 2pm PT/ 5pm ET: The FF Storytelling Series with Robbie Crabtree | Session 1: Foundations of Storytelling. RSVP below if you haven’t already!
LaFamilia Newsletter
February 08, 2024
Hola FounderFamilia!
Can you believe it’s already February?! Our 2024 Programming for Founders kicks off today at 2pm PT / 5pm ET: The FF Storytelling Series with Robbie Crabtree | Session 1: Foundations of Storytelling. RSVP below if you haven’t already!
What to expect:
💢 Major Updates: Newsletter Cadence
🏆 Community Wins & News: Featuring accomplishments for founders Alonso Mujica, Pierluigi Mantovani, George Suarez, & Erik Ibarra
📅 Programming: Storytelling Series Sessions and LBAN’s Accelerator
👩🏾💻 Who’s Hiring?
💁♂️💁♀️ Community Spotlight: Zino Haro in new book- Rotate
🔊 Call to Action: Feedback
💢Major Updates
Based on feedback, we will be publishing our newsletter every 2 weeks, continuing to alternate between the VCFamilia Newsletter and the FounderFamilia Newsletter. We will continue to send out more tailored one-off emails on programming as needed, which is preferred from our community members. If you have any feedback let us know!
🏆Community Wins & News
Notable Accomplishments for FF Members👊🎉
Alonso for DivInc’s 6th Annual Champions of Change Award
FF member, Alonso Mujica, CRO and CoFounder of Silabuz, has been nominated for DivInc's 6th Annual Champions of Change Awards presented by Indeed! ✨
This recognition celebrates Alonso's dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Hispanic community, highlighting the incredible support within the Austin, Texas ecosystem.
I extend an invitation to everyone in the Austin community to join us on this special evening. Your support has been the driving force behind my commitment to empowering the Hispanic community of founders and investors, and I am immensely grateful for it.
FDA Clearance for EvoWalk
FounderFamilia member, Co-founder, and CEO of Evolution Devices, Pierluigi Mantovani and his team have achieved FDA 510(k) clearance for the EvoWalk system, a groundbreaking solution for mobility restoration!
Inspired by Pierluigi's father's struggles with MS, he envisioned EvoWalk, powered by AI, to enhance walking patterns. The FDA's clearance validates their innovative approach, promising newfound independence for individuals with mobility impairments. As production ramps up to meet demand, Evolution Devices remains committed to advancing EvoWalk. Congrats!🎉
Read the official FDA Press release!
Opnbx.ai Milestone
Below: George- Founder of Opnbx.ai- on this incredible achievement, watch the video!
Magnolia Fund’s First Contract!
FF member, Erik Ibarra is not only the founder and CEO of ORDRS, but is also the founder of Magnolia Fund, an instrumental force behind the development of Houston's East End Food Maker Campus in Magnolia Park. The project, which aims to support local food entrepreneurs and boost economic growth in the community, represents a remarkable achievement for Magnolia Fund and its partners. Through strategic investments and collaborative efforts, they have successfully revitalized the area, creating opportunities for small businesses and contributing to the city's vibrant culinary scene.
Congratulations to Magnolia Fund on this momentous accomplishment!
📅Programming
🎟Upcoming Events
TODAY- FF Storytelling Series with Robbie Crabtree | Session 1: Foundations of Storytelling
Join FounderFamilia for the first session in our Storytelling Series for Founders, led by Robbie Crabtree, founder and CEO of Competitive Storytelling.
About the session:
The best way to turn your startup into a successful business is to make sure that customers, partners, and stakeholders know and believe in the story. This session is designed to equip you with the storytelling skills, strategies, and tactics of the most successful founders. You will walk away with frameworks to immediately implement and practice points to develop your verbal storytelling.
📆Thursday February 8th
⏰ 2pm PST/ 5pm EST
💻Location: Virtual, Zoom link provided upon approval
FF Storytelling Series with Robbie Crabtree | Session 2: Storytelling for Fundraising
Join FounderFamilia for the second session in our Storytelling Series for Founders, led by Robbie Crabtree, founder and CEO of Competitive Storytelling.
About the session:
Learn the storytelling frameworks specifically designed to raise capital that have led to Robbie's privately coached founders raising over $670 million. You will learn how to craft your own Founder Origin Story and Startup Vision Story as well as how to use Conversational Storytelling to better connect with investors. This is a highly actionable deep dive into what works in the current market and what investors are responding to inside of pitches.
📆Thursday February 15th
⏰ 2pm PST/ 5pm EST
💻Location: Virtual, Zoom link provided upon approval
For Investors (share with your investors & netoworks!): Visit our VCFamilia Q1 Programming Page to learn more about what LFF has in store for investors and RSVP for events!
📣 Spread the Word
Past winners we referred to Google for Startups’ Latino Founders Fund 2023!
Google for Startups Latino Founders Fund
FounderFamilia has partnered once again with Google for Startups to refer great candidates to their Latino Founders Fund! If you’re building with AI, please fill out an application for the Latino Founders Fund here.
📅 Due February 16th (see FF slack #general post for more details)
This year, they have broken the process into three stages, where they have an initial filter and then later ask more in-depth questions. In the second phase, Google for Startups has told us there is a field to add a referral partner - select or add FounderFamilia there. Every year we have consistently had 5+ FounderFamilia members win $150k each, and we are excited to show that Latine founders are leading the way in AI. Everything helps, so make sure to mention us and best of luck!
LBAN Sole Conference
On behalf of our partners, the Latino Business Action Network (LBAN), and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), we are pleased to invite you to join LFF for the 9th Annual State of Latino Entrepreneurship (SOLE) Summit!
📆 Date: March 27th
⏰ Time: 11:30am- 9pm
📍 Location: Stanford Graduate School of Business
LBAN’s Startup Accelerator- Applications Open!
Calling all Latiné entrepreneurs! Take your business to the next level with LBAN's Startup Accelerator at Stanford. This 9-week hybrid program provides mentorship, capital matchmaking, and courses from top Stanford professors.
Get ready to be empowered and establish crucial business principles, accelerating growth and traction. After graduating, you will join a mutually supportive ecosystem of over 1,100 Latino entrepreneurs who understand the unique challenges of growing a business as a Latino entrepreneur. Plus, after completing the program, you'll receive a certificate from Stanford GSB Executive Education.
This is an accelerator for Latiné founders that have generated $1M+ in revenue or have raised $200K to $1.5M from Venture Capitalists (VCs) or Angel Investors.
👩🏾💻Who’s Hiring?
Let us know if you or any other startup you know is in need of filling a position and we’ll post it here in this section of the newsletter.
To be featured here, fill out the form below!
💁♀️💁♂️Founder Community Spotlight
Zino Haro Published in New Book: Rotate
FounderFamilia member and founder of Uni-K, Zino Haro and her journey are being celebrated! A fifth of this book is dedicated to her incredible story- pre-orders are now available!
Rotate: How Five Innovative Women Are Rewriting the Story of Business
Why does the corporate world consider innovation a disruption? How can companies adapt to the massive changes happening in technology and culture? What if the solutions to the problems they face can already be found in the nonprofit and entrepreneurial communities? In the face of emerging technology like AI and postpandemic cultural shifts, companies find themselves amid an existential crisis, focused on the risks instead of the rewards.
Yesterday, "Rotate" was the #1 New Release in its category. Gráinne McNamara shares the stories and perspectives of five people rewriting business: Swin Huang Katie Nowak Torin Darling Brazzle Dr. Cheryl Wood and myself.
It feels somewhat surreal to have my story shared. My category is "engineering." I realized yesterday that I started my deep dive into cybersecurity more than half of my life ago. My birthday is less than a week away. At that point, the ratio will be 5:4 - years after hacking versus years before hacking. If you count what happened to my cousin's computer (which is a story that will never be told), the ratio is 7:2.
This tells the story of Uni-ke and some of my other endeavors. It gives some insight into how things tie together as well as my psychology and manner of being (which I have to say is among the most flattering, but accurate, assessments I've received).
FounderFamilia is a grassroots community for founders, let us know if you’d like to be featured. We are stronger together, and we want to amplify your wins. Click below to be featured in our next newsletter!
🔊Call to Action: Feedback
Your valuable input and feedback are integral to our mission of delivering top-notch programming for our community. We sincerely invite you to share your thoughts and ideas on the content you'd like to see. Our feedback opportunities are readily available immediately after every event in the post-event survey we send out.
Should you wish to connect with us sooner or have something to share, please don't hesitate to reach out to Andrea Zapata, our Head of Programming, via Slack DM. Your insights drive our efforts to serve you better!