#87 - Impact entrepreneurship on the blockchain: Brett Hagler, New Story

04/06/22 • 38 min

By 2030, the UN predicts that 3 billion people will be living without shelter. Today's guest is doing something to combat that.

Brett Hagler is a Y Combinator graduate, a published author and cancer survivor, but you may know him best for his non-profit New Story and for his impactful key note speaking.

Brett started New Story at 25 years old. In the years since they have funded over 2,300 homes, built 16 communities and raised over $25M, so it's no wonder they were named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in the World four different times.

Having been featured in Forbes' 30 Under 30 and named one of the Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, Brett is passionate about speaking on leadership and social entrepreneurship.

Today, Brett and I are talking about:

Building a venture-backed non-profit
Incorporating startup principles in impact entrepreneurship
And taking innovation to those who need it

Building something new? Apply for the Latitud Fellowship at apply.latitud.com

Building good sh*t in Latin America?

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By 2030, the UN predicts that 3 billion people will be living without shelter. Today's guest is doing something to combat that.

Brett Hagler is a Y Combinator graduate, a published author and cancer survivor, but you may know him best for his non-profit New Story and for his impactful key note speaking.

Today, Brett and I are talking about:

Building a venture-backed non-profit
Incorporating startup principles in impact entrepreneurship
And taking innovation to those who need it

Building something new? Apply for the Latitud Fellowship at apply.latitud.com

Building good sh*t in Latin America?

Learn about how Latitud can help you at latitud.com
Discover and pitch Latitud Ventures, your partner from 0 to 1 and beyond
Sign up for our weekly newsletter for founder insights and some tough love
And follow us on Linkedin / Instagram / Spotify to stay in the loop

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#86 - Investing in the future of LatAm tech: Angela Strange, a16z

Angela Strange is a multiple marathon winner and once achieved 7th place in Canada's distance running national ranking, but you may know her best as an investor on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz.

Before joining the world of venture capital, Angela launched and scaled up Chrome for Android and Chrome for iOS during her time at Google, and her previous experiences have uniquely positioned her as an investor that's been in the trenches and knows what it's like to build something from scratch.

As a General Partner at a16z, Angela focuses on financial services such as financial infrastructure, insurance and real estate, and she's taken special interest in Latin America after witnessing the transformation in its fintech space in the last 5 years.

In this episode, Angela and I went over:

Her thesis that every company will be a fintech company
Nurturing relationships between investors and founders
And why she chose to invest in Latitud

Building something new? Apply for the Latitud Fellowship at apply.latitud.com

Building good sh*t in Latin America?

Learn about how Latitud can help you at latitud.com
Discover and pitch Latitud Ventures, your partner from 0 to 1 and beyond
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#88 - Altitud | Tackling the trade finance gap in LatAm: Santiago Molina, Finkargo

Colombian-born Santiago Molina got his degree in business administration and finance from Houston Baptist University on a soccer scholarship, and moved back to his home country after his MBA to start his entrepreneurial journey.
Santi is second-time founder focused on promoting financial inclusion, and is now on a quest to create an innovative solution to democratize access to capital in Latin America.

He and his co-founders Andres Ferrer and Tomas Shuk came together to start Finkargo, LatAm's first import financing platform. They're enabling small and medium-sized importers to finance their international purchases, and have just raised a $7.5 million Seed Round from co-led by Quona Capital and MAYA Capital to propel their vision.
Building something new? Apply for the Latitud Fellowship at apply.latitud.com

Building good sh*t in Latin America?