🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Relief and Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff Recap

30 Sep • Read in: 6 minutes

Helping our familia in PR and continuing the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Relief

Our familia in Puerto Rico was hit hard after the most recent hurricane, leaving many without electricity and under water. We stand with the people of Puerto Rico. We launched a donation matching campaign to support our community in Puerto Rico. We will be matching up to $10k in donations, dollar for dollar. We will divide donations equally among:

Take part by donating to the organization of your choice and submitting your donation here.

VCFamilia Kickoff Events!

Over 500 members of our familia gathered across 9 different cities across the US and Mexico last week to celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. Nothing replaces the vibes and conversation that happens in real life through these gatherings. It was magical to see our communities come to life.

We appreciate all the love we get on socials - if you joined us in person, please make sure to tag us @familiavc and @founderfamilia to RT!

What an amazing time at L'ATTITUDE. The LBAN familia showed up strong to our dinner on the first night of events. Special thanks to LBAN alum David Favela, CEO…

Hispanic Heritage Month Pitch Competition

VCFamilia is bringing you our second annual Latinx pitch competition with an even bigger prize – $50k of equity free cash. We will be announcing our rockstar judges If you’re a Latinx founder or if you know a stellar Latinx founder, direct them here.

The deadline is October 6, so make sure that you enter for your chance to pitch a judge of A List VCs in front of our Familia and community. The pitch competition will take place on October 18. Apply here and RSVP to attend.

Familia Felicidades

Felicidades to Jorge Calderon, Managing Director of Inicio Venures, who had the honor of ringing the opening bell for Nasdaq in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month. We are so proud to have you represent our community in this honor.

Make sure to check out the reply here.

Support for our Familia from SVB

SVB Startup Banking is a team of former founders, operators, and investors passionate about supporting founders on their path to success. Beyond banking, we work with early-stage pre-seed and Series A startups to help them navigate the challenges of funding and scaling from Day 1. While there are many Startup Banking teams at SVB, the New & Strategic Channels team is specifically focused on working with ecosystem partners like VCFamilia and Founder Familia to help close the access and opportunity gap for underrepresented founders. We’d love to learn more about what you’re building and how we can help. Please reach out to us here.

Thank you to our sponsors

None of the work that we do at VCFamilia would be possible without the support of our sponsors. This week, we highlight our Silver Sponsors, TechStars Miami and Gunderson. Their support of Latinx familia in venture is making all the events this month possible.

MIL GRACIAS!