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Partnering for Success: Alliances Between Boricua Entrepreneurs and Act 20/22/60 Investors
Partnering for Success: Alliances Between Boricua Entrepreneurs and Act 20/22/60 Investors
During this conversation, you will learn about the partnership behind DAME UN BITE, why do many businesses partnerships fail and why has Dame Un Bite succeeded, the economic, pandemic and cultural challenges, and their view on how to encourage more business partnerships in the Island.
About DAME UN BITE
Dame Un Bite is a delivery platform that connects Puerto Ricans with restaurants and other businesses in their area. Through the mobile app and www.dameunbite.com, people can order their favorite dishes, their medicines, and other products quickly and safely and receive their order at their home, office, park, beach or wherever they are. Dame Un Bite is a 100% Puerto Rican company, created by José Alejandro Ortiz in 2015 in Mayaguez and began operations in 2017 in San Juan. Dame Un Bite has more than 800 businesses on its platform in Arecibo, Aguadilla, Cataño, San Juan, Guaynabo, Caguas, Bayamón, Gurabo, Trujillo Alto, Carolina, Levittown, Ponce, Dorado and Mayagüez. DUB has received business awards after having stood out in the EnterPrize competitions of the Guayacán Group, the "Experience Award" of the global telecommunications company Liberty, and the business incubator Parallel 18, among others.
About guest speakers
Dave Watkins - Co-Founder and CEO of Livindi and Co-Founder of Dame Un Bite. Dame un Bite is the most successful Act 22 related company in Puerto Rico having hired over 2,000 people and sustaining over 10,000 indirect jobs. Livindi is an Act 73 virtual health and wellness company based out of Puerto Rico that provides technology and care services to insurers, providers and families throughout the United States needing to care for an older adult. Dave is a successful entrepreneur who began his career at Accenture and Interleaf. In 1995 he co-founded Softscape, one of the first SaaS companies that provided Human Resource software to over 300 Global 2000 companies with over 5 million users worldwide. After selling the company he founded Cryptecon in 2014, a bitcoin mining company and created the karmacoin altcoin. He oversees the WatkinsValls Family Foundation that educates local entrepreneurs, provides student scholarships and grants for childhood cancer research. Dave is on the Board of Home is Puerto Rico, an organization that promotes economic development and is focused on local companies that have decided to make Puerto Rico their business hub. He manages the Dorado Fund and is an investor in the Grupo Guayacan IDEA Seed Fund and was one of the first Mentors in Residence at Parallel18.
Jose Ortiz – Founder of Dame un Bite and alumni of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus.