The May Edition☀️ Cinco de Mayo, Coworking Days, & Upcoming Cocktails

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LaFamilia Newsletter
26 May • Read in: 8 minutes

Hola Familia!

Hope you had a wonderful Cinco de Mayo! We had a great time at the Ricardo Arjona concert in San Francisco last Friday and loved celebrating with the Familia. Thank you to our friends at Hercules Capital who made it happen and to everyone that joined us. 💃 

Cinco de Mayo Ricardo Arjona Concert

We’ve had an eventful May so far with 7 FounderFamilia members being accepted into the AWS Impact Accelerator program for Latine founders. This was an incredibly competitive process, with over 1,000 applications for just 20 spots. Muchas felicidades to Jessica Mendoza of Monadd, Sergio Torres of Alvva, Juan Manuel Barrero of Lazo, Mario Amaro of Ease, Yamillet Payano of Sign-Speak, Ariana Gibson Vargas of STIGMA, and Rodrigo Tamellini of GamerSafer! 🥂

We are proud of our continued partnership with AWS and excited to collaborate more this year. If you want to know more, check out our post here!

We also partnered with Lazo to host a happy hour for the community during Miami Tech Monthly and loved celebrating the local startup scene with awesome investors, founders and operators! 

Miami Lazo Happy Hour

The May festivities continue as we had 2 coworking day events. New York City’s coworking session was held at Cooley’s Hudson Yards office which featured some INCREDIBLE views from the 39th floor and a great AMA session with a Cooley partner that specialized in working with emerging companies. We finished the day off at a Happy Hour in Little Spain with some sangria and tapas! Thank you to our sponsors- Cooley and Angeles Investors and special thanks to our hosts Alicia Maule and Sebastian Hernandez! In case you missed the video recap- check out our LinkedIn post here!

NYC Cooley Coworking Day

Miami’s coworking session at the Techstars coworking space in Midtown was a special edition “Building Community” day where all members were encouraged to invite a fellow Miami based founder; lunch was followed by a special presentation by the director of Techstars Miami, Andres Barreto. Thank you Techstars and a special thanks to our host Valerie Lopez!

Miami Techstars Coworking Day

We’re thankful for the amazing turnout for all of our events this year and can’t wait to continue to bring our communities closer together!

Partner Spotlight: AWS

We’re grateful to AWS for their continued support of our mission. As a primarily volunteer-led organization, support from valued partners like AWS enables us to create a powerful impact for Latines in the ecosystem and continue to catalyze opportunities for our community.

If you’re interested in partnering with us on upcoming initiatives, reach out to us at [email protected]!

📅 Upcoming Events

  • 5/30 SF Coworking Day with Bee Partners - Our next coworking day is in SF during SF Tech Week! Bee Partners, an SF based VC firm, will be hosting us and providing special programming for all attendees after lunch, sign up here.

  • 06/03 LBAN Capital Matchmaking Day - This is a great way to connect with the innovative founders of Cohort 15 and explore promising investment opportunities by forming meaningful relationships that fuel success. If you are in town, take these meetings in person and if not, there is an option to schedule your meeting virtually! Schedule your slot here!

LBAN Cohort 15

Get ready for LA Tech Week and make way for some major Latine representation this year

  • 06/06 East Side Story: Latino Founders & Funders - In partnership with Pledge LA, Vamos Ventures, Supply Change Capital, LatinX VC, and Leeaf- we will be hosting a double event series in celebration of the Latine community in the venture ecosystem. This event will be in East Side LA- sign up here!

  • 06/08 Debunking the Myth: Latino Founders & Funders - Our second event with the above organizations in Culver City! Sign up here.

  • 06/08 El After: Fiesta con LaFamilia with AWS - following the “Debunking the Myth” event, you will be able to walk on over to the after party we are hosting alongside AWS at a speakeasy bar in Culver City! Sign up here.

  • 06/07 BLCK VC + Diversity VC: Navigating the Capital Landscape Panel - We are partnering with these two incredible organizations to bring you an amazing panel on navigating the capital landscape featuring varying perspectives within the venture capital ecosystem. As the venture capital industry continues to evolve, this panel will explore the unique challenges and opportunities facing diverse fund managers and founders in securing investment capital and bridging the funding gap. Sign up here.

  • 06/13 Chicago Coworking Session with Cooley - Due to the success of our NYC coworking day with Cooley, we are excited to bring our talents to Chi-town for another co-working session! After lunch there will be special programming by Cooley partners- make sure you don’t miss it if you’re in town! Sign up here.

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