Start-Up Chile selects 105 new startups in round 6

kirian 13 years ago |

Honest question, are there any well known start-ups that have come out of the Start-Up Chile program?

pedalpete 13 years ago | |

The two more successful ones I'm aware of are cruisewise and babelverse so far.

But really, the program isn't focused on the success of the start-ups, it's about start-ups affecting the Chilean ecosystem, and that is happening.

kragen 13 years ago | | |

I'm interested to hear how the Chilean ecosystem has changed as a result. Since I don't live in Chile, I don't have much visibility into that. Can you share your experience?

skndr 13 years ago | |

It's a relatively new program - shouldn't it take 6-8 years on average to see results?

jmathai 13 years ago | | |

I'd expect to see the first signs of results in a couple years. For example, how many companies from the first batch are still around?

trevelyan 13 years ago | | |

My company participated in the pilot round. Last I heard from Nate (Entrustet and Welcu), 23% of our cohort were profitable and bootstrapping, 32% had taken further investment, and only 14% had failed.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/09/03/start-up-chiles-first-al...

jmathai 13 years ago | | |

23% isn't too shabby.

herval 13 years ago | | |

not many, I'm afraid - but a few of them are making good progress: Babelverse, WeHostels, Taggify and SaferTaxi

(most of them not due to Startup Chile anyway, but still...)

sergiotapia 13 years ago |

I'm from Bolivia and I'm curious if anyone from my country is there. Algun Boliviano por ahi? :)

j_camarena 13 years ago | |

Hello there, I'm from Mexico, i was part of the 2nd generation of Startup Chile .. I remember Daniel Ponce from Bolivia.

He was on a startup called "amerpages", I think he is now part of "CityHeroes".

Un saludo desde Mexico :).

kno 13 years ago |

All the links to companies appear to be broken. Is it just for me?

guillermovs 13 years ago | |

Yep, looks like they got something wrong there!

wiradikusuma 13 years ago |

When is the next batch? Can't seem to find in the website.

arturogarrido 13 years ago |

Congrats to NuFlick!