The financial services multinational promoted the next Punta Tech Meetup, to be held on January 15 in Maldonado.
He Nasdaq stood out Uruguay as a regional innovation hub on its screens Times Square (Manhattan, New York) to promote the next Tip Tech Meetup to be held on Monday, January 15 in the spa city of Punta del Este.
At the event, a delegation from the government of the USAleadered by Ramón Escobar, the director of Western Hemisphere Strategy of the White Housewill announce that Uruguaynext to Canada and USAwill lead a network of investors aimed at mobilizing risk capital, both for local and regional entrepreneurs, and that the country will also support the creation of a regional accelerator of startups.
From Punta Tech Meetup they highlighted the fact that “Uruguay shines on Nasdaq“, and that the multinational financial services company highlighted its technological potential. “Punta Tech Meetup joins the Uruguay Innovation Hub to highlight the lifestyle, innovative talent and commitment to the knowledge economy of our country!”, expressed the organization through its X account (formerly Twitter).
For her part, Inés Bonicelli, Business Development of Uruguay Innovation Hubused the same social network to ask: “What more could you ask for than our flag and our colors shining in Times Square?”
Uruguay committed in the APEP to promote the business accelerator
The Punta Tech Meetup is also framed within the activities supported by the Alliance for the Economic Prosperity of the Americas (APEPfor its acronym in English), the association launched in Washington D.C. in November of last year, of which Uruguay is part.
Uruguay had committed there to promote a regional acceleration program together with the United States Agency for International Development (USAIDfor its acronym in English), and lead the creation of the new investor network, to bring together promising entrepreneurs at the regional level, who will receive training, capitalization and connections with private sector investors.
The objective of the accelerator is to benefit hundreds of American startups, as well as mobilize additional capital to promote economic development in these countries.
Source: Ambito
