Andrea Guendelman - How to Leverage Connections for Startup Funding - Episode 12

Andrea Guendelman – How to Leverage Connections for Startup Funding – Episode 12

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Episode Summary

Andrea Guendelman is the CEO and co-founder of BeVisible Latinx, a professional career community that connects US millennial Latinas searching for careers. Andrea is an advocate of promoting Latina education and entrepreneurship through her nonprofit works. She created a community where they enabled Millennial Latinas to embrace each other and support one another’s dreams building their social capital.

In this episode, Andrea shares ways on how she leveraged on her Latina network that eventually helped her get her VC funding. They also talked about the importance of tenacity and coachability of a startup founder.

What We Covered

02:11 – Andrea walks us through what is BeVisible is all about and its mission.
04:00 – Andrea discusses her business background and her ventures.
06:40 – She shares ways on how she expanded her network
09:10 – She shares steps that she did to leverage on her network that eventually helped her get funding
15:31 – Percentage demographics of Latino and Latinas in the VC ecosystem
17:20 – Importance of tenacity and coachability of a startup to get funding from your network
20:27 – How other people mentor you?
24:47 – What is the importance of having that connection Latina to Latina in the venture community?
26:19 – What’s more for Andrea
32:12 – Final Four Rapid Fire Questions