Even though Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S. ended this weekend we are still going strong with The National VCFamilia Pitch Competition and an Atlanta Kickback! Read on for more details about our events last week and this week's highlights.

On a more sentimental note, we are truly overwhelmed by all the love in our familia. We've had over 1000 people coming together through our events! We have loved meeting you in person as well as virtually. This newsletter will resume bi-weekly going forward but we will be sending a form to learn more about your experiences and any feedback you may have to improve our programming.

Pitch Competition Details

It's finally here! Our volunteer reviewers analyzed 250 applications over the last week to decide on 8 finalists. It was not easy as there were many incredible companies across industries.

We are excited to present to you our finalists:

Lazo is a one stop shop solution to structure the data and manage the finance, tax, legal & Investor relations needs for VC-backed startups

Leadsales is a Conversational Commerce platform helping SMBs scale their support & sales through messaging on WhatsApp & Social Media with the help of Automation & AI

Angle is #1 platform to hire professional photographers

L5 Automation is harnessing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and commercial off-the-shelf robotics and cameras to solve automation challenges in unstructured environments

Mentaport allows you to create context-aware smart contracts with only a few lines of code

Nixtla is a developer-friendly software that helps data scientists deploy predictive pipelines in minutes, not weeks

Avvinue offers pet reservation systems to airlines to improve the pet travel experience

Neomoon is a 100% digital USD bank, regardless of where you live

All of the finalists will be pitching live tomorrow at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST to an incredible group of judges. They are titans in the VC industry and we are so lucky have them.

So what are you waiting for? RSVP today!

Atlanta Kickback

We're presente during Atlanta Innovation week! If you're there, please RSVP here.

Last Week Events

Thank you to our partners!

Thank you to our incredible partners, especially SVB, our founding sponsor, and Comcast, our platinum sponsor for Hispanic Heritage Month. None of this would be possible without your support.