Guadalajara

08 May 2017

“We are the unexpected seeds, hustling for high impact.”

Alisée de Tonnac

10+

startups

Event description

The Seedstars World competition comes to Guadalajara for the first time!

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is coming to Guadalajara on May 8th, 2017 at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara.

The best startups from Guadalajara will pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most promising seed-stage startup of Seedstars Mexico. The winning startup will join the global Seedstars Family and take part in the finals for Mexico at SSW Mexico and compete to represent the country at the Seedstars World competition and win up to USD 1 million in equity investment, the chance to be part of a 3months growth program and network with investors and mentors from around the world.


Criteria:


1.) Have maximum 2 years since founding date,


2.) Have a maximum of USD 500,000 of funding to date,


3.) Have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

This year Seedstars is also partnering with the bank BBVA to source the best FinTech startups in Latin America for their BBVA Open Talent competition! In others words startups have double chances to win!

In addition to the Seedstars Prize, BBVA will award the best FinTech startup with 1000 EUR as well as the chance to be named country winner and take part to the Regional Final Summit of BBVA Open Talent and compete for 30,000k grant.


Criteria:


1.) Projects must be operative or at least in beta version,


2.) Startups no older than January 1st 2013,


3.) Earned less than €1,5 M in revenue,


4.) Raised less than €2,5 M in funding.

In addition to seeing the top startups pitch, you can look forward to an event filled with disruptive tech, inspirational discussions and networking sessions.

Join us

The winners

1S
Lefort logo

Lefort

Lefort is a virtual Robot that processes, learn, and registers every business transaction at the moment it occurs.

2S
PITZ INC logo

PITZ INC

Pitz, (name of the ancient mayan ballgame) is, since 2016, the new way of organize global amateur soccer. PITZ is a web platform for managi…

3S
Robin logo

Robin

Mobile bank for kids with a focus on their financial education

Startups Competing

Paynom logo

Paynom

Bochito logo

Bochito

Kintos logo

Kintos

Fondify logo

Fondify

Getabed Suite logo

Getabed Suite

Lefort logo

Lefort

PITZ INC logo

PITZ INC

Robin logo

Robin

Jury

Marisol Menendez

Head of Open Innovation / External Ecosystems @ BBVA

Jose Vielma

CEO @ Fondify

Ana Karina Caudillo

Digital Banking @ BBVA

Juan Manuel Sotelo

Head of Product @ Kueski

Juliane Butty

Regional Manager Latin America & Caribbean @ Seedstars

Mak Gutierrez

Director for LATAM @ Hackers/Founders

Program

Seedstars Guadalajara
May 8, 2017

17:00

Arrival / Networking

17:30 - 17:45

Kick off

17:45 - 18:30

1st Pitching session

18:30 - 18:45

Break / Networking

18:45 - 19:30

2nd Pitching session

19:30 - 20:15

Jury Deliberation/Networking

20:15 - 20:30

Announcement of the winner

20:30 - 21:00

Networking Cocktail

Partners

Regional partner

Venue partner

Local supporter

Local supporter

Local partner

Local supporter

Venue

Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara: Av. Patria 1201, Col. Lomas del Valle, C.P. 45129, Zapopan, Jalisco, México