Katherine Krug

🔥 Mission: Techstars - Week 1 🔥 💚 Level 2: The Power of Community At Techstars Miami , we’ve realized it’s not just about great ideas—it's about the connections that propel those ideas. 🌐 This week, we’ve been shown that we're not just any team; we're part of a global lineup alongside 12 incredible startups. Proof we’re here because we belong here. But now? The real work begins: focus, execution, and driving impact. 💪 We've got the data, the team, and the tools to transform. Time to level up. Ready for what’s next? Keep watching. #TechstarsMiami #StartupLife #GrowthMindset #Entrepreneurship #Startups #TechFounders #Miami #GlobalInnovation #GalileiLearning

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It was a pleasure meeting Pierre N Rolin🙌 NY Tech Week was an incredible experience, offering the opportunity to connect with visionary founders, investors, and entrepreneurs. I'm thrilled by Pierre's enthusiasm for EasyLex! Our innovative approach is set to revolutionize the legal tech industry by streamlining legal processes, enhancing efficiency, and reducing costs. With Pierre’s interest, we're more motivated than ever to join Ankh Impact Ventures and drive significant impact in the near future. #EasyLex #emprendedoresmexico #EmprendedoresMexicanos #womenceos #womenleaders #venturecapital #femalefounders #womenentrepreneurs #womenintech #legaltech #generationequality #thefutureisfemale #impactinvesting #womeninbusiness #womenchangemakers #legaltechbusiness #startuplegal #startup #lawyers #diversity #womenceos

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#ObsessivelyEnthusiasticInvestor #UnreasonablyEnthusiasticInvestor #IrrationallyEnthusiasticInvestor at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund. We look for the people we believe are doing the best work in Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology; Attempting the impossible. Then we go all-in on them. With obsessive, unreasonable, and irrational enthusiasm. We back them with evangelical zeal. Join us. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital #DemandTheImpossible #UnreasonableEnthusiasm #ObsessiveEnthusiasm #IrrationalEnthusiasm  

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"True prosperity is measured by the richness of your experiences and the depth of your purpose, not just by financial success." Follow for more motivational and actionable content! 💪😉 #ProsperU #ProsperUniversity #HolisticWealth #WealthJourney #FinancialFreedom #PersonalGrowth #HealthAndWealth #LifeSuccess #WealthBuilding #SuccessMindset #WealthManagement

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We’re all about collaboration 🤝 At Merak Group, we’re master collaborators (it’s something that has allowed us to be as successful as we are!), and as such, we love working with our clients to develop their strategies and grow their businesses. Some of the turrific collaborations have included: ✅ Top Turf Miami Inc ✅ TurfKingdom ✅ EasyTurf ✅ Coastal Synthetic Turf. Do you agree that collaboration and trust are essential in private equity? Comment below with your thoughts on collaboration and private equity. #PrivateEquity #Collaboration #Partnership #Teamwork

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WATCH NEW VIDEO in my Angelo Meditation channel (ENGLISH) and in PAZ Y PODER (Spanish version) About this episode: This episode is for those who are in the awakening process, the transformation process. Those who are actively working on themselves to become better human beings. If you are one of us, you will understand this and you will find it useful for your own unique process. There are facts about the spiritual and personal development. Some of us are working and learning how to be better humans. How to bring more light into the darkness. We never received guidance, and most of us are learning in pieces. During this process, we are forced to face our shadows, our weaknesses, and our wounds. Once we see them and face them with love, we start the healing process. The real transformation process is just to pass from an IMPURE FORM at the body, mind, and soul level, into a PURE FORM. The most difficult part is to focus our healing process in the body, or mind, ONLY. The key is to stay as SOULS and from the soul level heal our existence. Inner resources will emerge to support our process. A higher level of guidance, people, and angels will show us the way. Don't give up. Keep learning and keep moving forward with your own unique goal. Love you all Angelo #transformation #healing #awakening

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☀️ ATTENTION: Miami Startup Ecosystem 🏝️ We are excited to be coming to Florida for the Founders N' Funders Miami VC Reverse Pitch Event, presented by Fidelity Private Shares and GoGlobal! If you are a full-time startup founder or venture capital investor, we invite you to join us for an evening where we turn the tables and have investors take the stage to pitch themselves to entrepreneurs. This is a unique opportunity for startup founders in South Florida to learn more about potential investors, their investment criteria, and what they look for when evaluating potential investment opportunities. This is an invite-only event specifically for full-time founders who are currently raising capital and active venture capital investors. If you are interested in attending, please reach out to one of our sponsors for a free registration: 💥 GoGlobal - Andrew Lindquist / Marcus H. 💥 Fidelity Private Shares - Jason Hammond 💥 Forecastr - Jeff Erickson 💥 Lazo - Juan Manuel Barrero 💥 Mana Tech - Gina Piscitelli-Marrone If you are a venture capital investor in Miami and would be interested in presenting, we have up to two more spots available. Please reach out to Gina Piscitelli-Marrone for more info. #startups #Miami #venturecapital

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I want to invite you to watch an inspiring conversation I had featuring the incredible Adriana De La Puente, Head of People and Culture at Grupo Elektra, an $8 billion WorldBlu certified Freedom-Centered Organization in Mexico City! Discover how Grupo Elektra, a prominent Mexican financial and retailing powerhouse with 80,000 employees, has transformed its culture and achieved extraordinary success through Freedom-Centered Leadership. In this enlightening conversation, Adriana and I share: • Five key secrets for transforming command-and-control hierarchies into engaging, freedom-centered organizations • How to boost revenue growth by reducing unnecessary hierarchy • Strategies to increase trust, collaboration, and innovation • Methods to enhance decision-making quality and build a more agile organization Learn how Grupo Elektra energizes its culture with freedom over fear, creating an environment where employees thrive and the company flourishes showing you how to lead with freedom and accountability, creating a culture people love while driving growth. Watch now and discover how leading with freedom can transform your organization while boosting the bottom line! #FreedomAtWork #LeadershipStrategy #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #GrupoElektra #Culture #Strategy #Growth #Success #WorldBlu https://lnkd.in/euNeMcNq

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We've planted 15,000 trees 🌳🌳🌳🌳 We’re thrilled to share that, through our partnership with Eden Project, we’ve planted over 15,000 trees! Through our 1 video 1 tree program, every video we publish with a creator is translated into a tree in the Honduras rainforest. Fun Fact: A single mature tree can produce enough oxygen for up to four people in one day. Therefore, 15,000 trees could provide oxygen for approximately 60,000 people daily once they reach maturity. At Tatam, we know that every small action leads to a bigger impact. By planting trees, we’re not just offsetting carbon emissions—we’re nurturing a greener, healthier future for generations to come. #Sustainability #Tatam #TheEdenProject #PlantForTheFuture

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Friendly reminder: SPEND WISELY! "Building wealth is less about how much you earn and more about how wisely you manage and spend your money." Follow for us for more motivational and actionable content! #ProsperU #ProsperUniversity #HolisticWealth #WealthJourney #FinancialFreedom #PersonalGrowth #HealthAndWealth #LifeSuccess

🌟 Ready to elevate your business dreams? Launch your business with confidence using our tailor-made Puerto Rican Cafe Bakery Business Plan Example Template! 📈 💼 Our MS Word template covers everything from market analysis to financial planning, making it your go-to guide for a successful startup. Perfect for entrepreneurs who mean business! 🔗 Tap the link in our bio to explore the template and start planning your future today! https://lnkd.in/dJcVSY5X 👍 Don't forget to like this post and follow us for more practical business solutions. Stay tuned for updates and tips to keep you ahead of the curve! #BusinessGrowth #EntrepreneurMindset #StartupLife #BusinessPlanning #SuccessDriven #sidehustle #businessopportunity #sidehustleideas #businessplan #businesstips #businessproposal #businessplanner #templates #startupbusiness #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #businessideas #smallbusinesstips

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It's a pleasure for me to share my new creative studio, Studio Pacha LLC. ❍ Studio Pacha is a creative studio based in Medellín, Colombia serving clients worldwide. We create Sentipensante (sense-think) brands that empower brands, organizations and creative entrepreneurs to re-think the way in which branding can empower business, societal, ecological and personal change. 𓇢𓆸 Our focus is to integrate lo-fi design with a Latin American ontological Sentipensante approach to branding and strategic brand development. Sentipensar was described (1984) by Orlando Fals Borda (1925-2008) as a living principle of Indigenous peasant communities of Colombia’s Caribbean coastline. Fals Borda was a Colombian sociologist and one of the founders of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Sentipensar translates to “feel-thinking” (from Spanish: sentir/feel and pensar/think) and implies the ways of knowing and being that are rooted in thinking with both heart and mind. (Source: on-curating.org) 𓃮 I was also inspired to create Studio Pacha as an alternative creative studio that focuses on the wellness on the designer and client side. We focus on new approaches to designing brands and strategies that empower both sides of the design relationship. By providing offerings such as Brand Design Intensives an impactful and beautiful brand can be designed in an intensive time period enabling both sides to utilize time, personal energy and focus in a more effective and empathetic way. ❍ Our approach is sensitive, empathetic, ecological, pluriversal, lo-fi, Latin American, ancestral and Sentipensante. 𝐖𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐞𝐭𝐜. 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥, 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭. Follow our LinkedIn page and on Instagram as we will be launching new offerings and tools for creatives. We would love to hear about what you are working on and how Studio Pacha can support and empower the next phase of your business and ventures. Please feel free to reach out via DM through our business page Studio Pacha LLC or we can also be reached at [email protected] 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎 𝒂𝒕 @studiopacha_co 𝑭𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 https://lnkd.in/gAbUjrce #branding #brands #latinamerica #design #pluriversal #sentipensantebrands #entrepreneurs #womenwhodesign #creativestudio

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my first conversation with Maria Gutierrez Peñaloza was back in 2023 in the beginnings of Nido Ventures with her co-founder Ana Carolina Mexia Ponce both of them have an amazing background & story, but we dived into Maria's and her perspective on Nido, venture investing, starting companies, Latin America, Latin Americans and Hispanics in the US, and much more.. Full story below, on #StartupSounds by Draper House Americas: Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dxep7p7k YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dx73SdBd 🎙️ From Stanford to Startups: Maria's VC Journey with Nido Ventures Maria Gutierrez-Peñaloza co-founded Nido Ventures during her MBA at Stanford, tackling the challenge of building a fund while managing studies. Her VC firm focuses on pre-seed B2B tech startups in the U.S.-Mexico corridor, supporting industries like supply chain, manufacturing, and financial services. Driven by a passion for solving real problems, Nido’s mission began as a way to invest in startups they admired. 💡 Investing Beyond Capital: Nido's Approach to Value-Add VC Nido Ventures stands out by providing more than funding. Maria and her team leverage their technical backgrounds and extensive networks to help startups land enterprise clients and refine go-to-market strategies. For Nido, being a "value-add investor" is about fostering connections and delivering strategic insights that catalyze growth. 🌍 Cross-Border Innovation: Mexico Meets Silicon Valley With half its capital from the U.S. and half from Latin America, Nido Ventures thrives on its cross-border strategy. Maria emphasizes the critical interdependence of Mexico and the U.S., creating a unique flywheel where LPs are not just investors but potential clients for the startups they back. This approach positions Nido as a bridge for global innovation. 🚀 From WhatsApp Decisions to Institutional Excellence Starting as an informal angel syndicate, Nido’s evolution into a structured VC fund exemplifies adaptability. Maria humorously recalls one of their biggest LP commitments: a 40-minute call with cameras off! Through a blend of technical innovation and relentless pitching, Nido has institutionalized its processes, achieving remarkable efficiency with limited resources. 🦸‍♀️ Superpowers and Kryptonite: Nido's Unique Edge Nido’s superpower? Bootstrapping innovation. By streamlining operations with technology, they maximize their reach and impact. Their kryptonite? Bureaucratic hurdles in legacy industries resistant to change. Yet, Maria sees opportunity in adversity, as near-shoring trends and global competition push industries to adopt transformative technologies. thanks to AstroPay & Zendesk for backing Draper House Americas as we work alongside founders to help them imagine and build the future

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Today’s VC Spotlight 💡 Ganas Ventures is as a leading Latinx-VC fund, renowned for its commitment to nurturing pre-seed and seed-stage startups across the US and Latin America. Recognized by esteemed organizations like Nasdaq and TechCrunch, Ganas Ventures embodies a mission-driven approach to venture capital, placing a strong emphasis on community building. Beyond merely providing funding, the firm empowers visionary founders tackling significant challenges, offering comprehensive support and access to an extensive network of over 83K members. At the helm of Ganas Ventures is 🙌🏽 Lolita Taub, a seasoned General Partner with a rich background in Silicon Valley. She has over 15 years of experience and a portfolio of more than $70M in tech sales and 100 venture deals. Her investment philosophy centers on identifying startups poised to make waves in the US and Latin America 🌎 earning recognition as a top investor by prestigious publications and organizations like Forbes and LAVCA. What sets Lolita apart is her genuine dedication to supporting underrepresented #founders, earning accolades for her approachable and supportive style in an industry often perceived as exclusive. Embracing the spirit of "echarle ganas," Lolita and the Ganas Ventures team are passionate advocates for community-driven #startups that embody resilience and dedication. Looking ahead, Ganas Ventures remains steadfast in its mission to reshape the face of startups and #venturecapital, leveraging its unique advantage to connect with future unicorns within the #Latinx community. Through strategic investments like the recent participation in Avify's pre-seed round, Ganas Ventures continues to drive positive change and empower innovative solutions that make a meaningful impact 💪🏼 https://lnkd.in/gfHNqBv5

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🚀 Exciting News from EndeavorLAB! 🚀 EndeavorLAB (Endeavor Miami) is pleased to announce that applications are now open for their next cohort. This program is designed to empower underrepresented founders in Florida by providing the tools and support needed to scale their businesses. Eligibility Criteria: Founder Status: Applicants must be founders of their companies. Location: Companies must be based in Florida. Market Fit: Companies should have product-market fit. Revenue: Companies should be generating revenue, up to $1M annually (applicable for recurring business models). Industry: All industries are welcome, provided the solutions are tech-enabled and not service-based. Please note: EndeavorLAB does not work with service-based companies, including consulting firms, marketing agencies, event planning agencies, and financial firms. Those ready to build up with EndeavorLAB can apply now by clicking the link below! Join EndeavorLAB and build something great together. 👉https://lnkd.in/diztacBn #Entrepreneurship #Startups #FloridaFounders #ScaleYourBusiness

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The White House will invest $1 billion in Latin American and Caribbean startups, with the launch of the Americas Partnership Investor Network. The massive program is set to shake up the start-up scene, spark innovation and drive economic growth, according to Forbes. The announcement comes as U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan hosted an Americas Partnership kickoff meeting in mid-July, eight months after President Biden hosted a leadership summit to help create the program. Sullivan said in a statement that the $1 billion "in private capital (will) uplift the next generation of entrepreneurs in Latin America and the Caribbean." He also believes, "that if we— governments and investors— continue to work with one another to invest more in our hemisphere innovation, then we can achieve the region's full potential." Part of the expected growth in entrepreneurship will be facilitated by the Uruguay Innovation Hub with support from Endeavor Miami, who will be curating connections between investors and Latin American founders. Other nations participating in the initiative include Barbados, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay. "By mobilizing anchor investment, this initiative is not only providing potential financial resources but also fostering an environment where innovation and economic growth can thrive," said Claudia Duran, Endeavor Miami Regional Managing Director for North America. The investment also comes as Latin America's entrepreneurial scene is buzzing both in the U.S. and at home. According to Forbes, Latino-owned businesses contribute $800 billion annually to the American economy. Brazil and Mexico account for roughly 80% of the valuation of private startups in Latin America, with other fast-growing markets being found in other countries like Colombia and Chile, according to an Economist Impact analysis. The Americas Partnership may be able to further accelerate them. "Critically for Latin America— the growth of private startups in the region has the potential to unleash positive economic spill-overs, as seen in some of the main innovation clusters around the world like the United States, india and China, where startups have driven net market opportunities and improved affordable access to key services including health care, financial services and education," wrote Monica Ballesteros, Economist Impact's Senior Manager of Policy and Insights. Kori Hale, CEO of CultureBanx, a news website that focuses on Business and Finance, agrees, arguing that investing in Latin America could unleash the region's full potential.

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We are done!! Thanks Gary Jinks for doing this. As they say in the Navy, No good deed goes unpunished!! :) The Exclusive Workshop: "How to Become an Angel Investor" Part of the Venture Connect Summit 2024 in #Ciudad #Juárez We talked to a few LatinX business men and women, on topics that range from.... well , see the video below.. This workshop is part of the Venture Connect Summit activities, bringing together investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs in Ciudad Juárez. #AngelInvesting #Startups #VentureCapital #Innovation #Entrepreneurship Startup Chihuahua Gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua Manos Accelerator Arrowhead Center at NMSU Sylvia Flores Julio César Casillas and many others karla padilla

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