Endeavor invited 26 High-Impact Entrepreneurs representing 14 companies from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Mexico and Turkey to join the organization at our 38th International Selection Panel, which was held from March 23rd-25th in Mexico City. Endeavor now supports 580 High-Impact Entrepreneurs from 372 companies in 11 emerging market countries.
“Once again, our International Selection Panel highlighted the innovation and vibrancy of high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets,” said Endeavor Co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg. “I’m particularly inspired by the fact that despite the recent upheavals in Cairo, Endeavor Egypt and Egyptian entrepreneurs were able to attend this event. I also want to extend a special thank you to Endeavor Mexico’s Board of Directors, as well as Board Chairman Emilio Azcárraga Jean, for hosting the panel.”
The International Selection Panel is the culmination of a rigorous multi-step Search & Selection process in which top local and international business leaders interview and offer guidance to entrepreneur candidates. Endeavor’s next scheduled International Selection Panel will be held in London in May.
Entrepreneur(s)/Companies selected:
Argentina
PAEZ
Entrepreneurs: Francisco Murray, Tomás Pando & Francisco Piasentini
Description: The company designs and sells alpargatas, traditional Argentine shoes, in more than 30 countries on five continents.
Brazil
Caso do Construtor
Entrepreneurs: Expedito Arena & Altino Cristofoletti
Description: Tapping into the lucrative Brazilian civil construction market, Caso do Construtor provides homeowners, self-employed professionals, and small construction companies with equipment like scaffolding and concrete mixers.
ClearSale
Entrepreneurs: Pedro Chiamulera & Bernardo Lustosa
Description: ClearSale’s credit and fraud management solution enables e-commerce systems to identify suspicious behavior, assign a risk factor based on more than 280 variables, and reject or flag a risky order for manual review.
Chile
Buscalibre
Entrepreneurs: Boris Kraizel, Eduardo Stekel & Ricardo Wurgaft
Description: This e-commerce website for books sells a comprehensive collection of titles by unifying Latin America’s segmented book markets through a network of local publishers.
SIRVE
Entrepreneur: Juan Carlos de la Llera
Description: SIRVE designs, produces, and implements devices that protect structures from damages caused by earthquakes, a technology that was tested and proved during Chile’s 2010 earthquake.
Colombia
Sístole
Entrepreneur: Ricardo Leyva
Description: A fast-growing agency that specializes in “experiential marketing,” Sístole has managed campaigns in 15 countries for a client list that includes Procter & Gamble and Hyundai.
Egypt
E-Masary
Entrepreneurs: Omar El Sanhoury & Moatasem Osam
Description: In a country where roughly 75% of the population owns a cell phone but only about 6% have bank accounts, Omar and Moatasem aspire to use online and mobile payments technology, as well as a robust network of merchants, to turn cell phones into debit cards.
T.A. Telecom
Entrepreneur: Amr Shady
Description: A true pioneer in the mobile value-added services (VAS) industry, Amr founded T.A. Telecom in 2000 when Egypt still had single-digit penetration. Since the onset of Egypt’s revolution, T.A. Telecom’s Content & Alerts Platform has been surging.
CitiVox
Entrepreneurs: Oscar Salazar & Jorge Soto
Description: CitiVox uses mobile and crowdsourcing technology to build and enhance the relationship between citizens and government, increasing civic engagement and government accountability and transparency.
Enova
Entrepreneurs: Jorge Camil, Moís Cherem & Raúl Maldonado
Description: Enova designs, builds, and operates small, cost-effective educational centers called the RIA, Red de Innovacíon y Aprendizaje, targeting populations that have slipped through Mexico’s notoriously deficient public education system in marginalized neighborhoods.
Ingenia Muebles
Entrepreneurs: Christian, Ernesto & Patrick Vidal Flores
Description: The Vidal Flores brothers are bringing modern, stylish furniture to the masses through an innovative business model that allows them to deliver products faster and cheaper than their competitors.
Vicky Form
Entrepreneur: José (Pepe) Zaga Saba
Description: Using a sales model similar to Avon, over 120,000 Vicky Form salespeople — almost all women — sell Vicky Form lingerie, cosmetics, and clothes to their friends and neighbors; this model, along with provocative advertising and department store sales, has given Vicky Form nearly universal brand recognition in Mexico.
Vidrios Marte (VIMA)
Entrepreneur: Hugo Hernández Basulto
Description: VIMA’s highly technical product, Thermak®, offers an insulated glass unit alternative to traditional glass panes: when installed as skyscraper windows or refrigerator doors, it reduces energy consumption by up to 30 percent.
Turkey
Vistek
Entrepreneur: Aytül Erçil
Description: Serving a client list across a broad range of industries, Vistek delivers “smart” camera-based automation systems that can quickly and effectively scan various processes, and then output statistical analyses.
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