the mif blog

Since my first visit to this city back in 2006, many things have changed. At the time, there was little startup activity and only a few pioneers –incubadora Creame and Promotora– establishing angel networks and the first Venture Capital fund of Colombia. Today, the city is home to other funds, co-working spaces, accelerators, and Ruta N: an initiative that turned around a “suspicious” neighborhood in Medellin and made it into a flagship for innovation and entrepreneurship. Medellin has been a good example of how the public and private sectors can join forces to create a vibrant environment where entrepreneurship can flourish.

I recently got back from Buenos Aires, where I spent International Women's Day (IWD) surrounded by entrepreneurs, most of them women. It was a very different IWD for me. Not only because I found myself in a part of the world that I don't get to visit that often, but because for the first time in such a day I wasn't listening to women refer to their situation with respect to men as being disadvantaged. The message I received was actually quite the opposite. On Friday March 8th, I met a group of seven women entrepreneurs, who have started internet companies in the Latin America in the past year or two.