Roundtrip Capital #NYTechWeek
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•‿•Hosted by IncentivesPRO, ALPFA Puerto Rico, and the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce.
Capital doesn't move in one direction. The strongest economies, the ones that actually compound, run on a roundtrip: human capital, financial capital, and network capital flowing back and forth across borders, generations, and balance sheets until each one strengthens the next.
Puerto Rico has been running half that loop for a generation. People leave. Money comes in transactionally. The networks stay siloed. The roundtrip never closes. This event is about the founders, operators, and early employees who are closing it.
They came of age inside the turbulence: the 2008 collapse, Hurricane María, Verano del '19, the pandemic. And they chose to build anyway. Some stayed on the island and built from San Juan, Ponce, and Mayagüez. Others left, learned the playbook in New York and beyond, and are now routing capital, talent, and deal flow back home. Raised in crisis, raising rounds, employing teams, and assembling the infrastructure the rest of the capital stack hasn't caught up to.
These are Puerto Rican founders who have raised capital and built across the sectors that will define the next decade of the island's economy: regulation technology, fintech, AI, HR, energy, and healthcare. Alongside them, the diaspora investors, operators, and allies already moving capital across the corridor. The conversation unfolds across two panels.
Between Two Shores: San Juan & New York
Builders who operate across both cities, pivoting careers, crossing industries, and moving capital, talent, and ideas in both directions. The space between two shores is where the opportunity lives.
Carmelo Cintrón, Owner of Grupo Marullo and Head of Capital Formation at Sygnus Capital Puerto Rico. Pedro Cruz, Co-Founder of MeshMap Labs. Gabriel Ginorio, Senior Growth Manager at Rippling. William Rodríguez, Founder and CEO of an energy and AI startup. Moderated by Laura Camila Rivera, Founder and CEO of CAMI Studio and President of ALPFA Puerto Rico.
Made in Puerto Rico: The Island Advantage
Founders raised on the island who turned it into their unfair advantage: the network you can't buy, the cultural fluency you can't fake, and a home-field edge that compounds over time. Homegrown was never the ceiling. It was the moat.
Gustavo Díaz Skoff, CEO and Co-Founder of IncentivesPRO. Rodrigo Lloveras, Co-Founder and CEO of Hospitri. Jonathan Days, Founder and CEO of Puny.bz. Juan Suárez, Co-Founder and CTO of Equiply. Moderated by Ashley Rivera Mercado, Founder and President of Mujeres in Marketing.
This is a call to action. The producers are already here. The capital is already moving. The networks are already forming. What's missing is the room where we agree to close the loop on purpose.
We close with a networking reception. Salsa, plena, merengue. Because we do business, and we dance.
This event is part of #NYTechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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