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Wayra is the corporate accelerator and open innovation arm of the Telefonica group, which has invested in around 400 startups since inception. In Latin America Telefonica has around 40% of market share and is mainly represented by the Movistar brand, and Wayra invested in 100+ startups.
Wayra wanted to boost international growth and fundraising knowledge of their portfolio and was looking to collaborate with a brand that could understand the culture, speak the local languages, and had extensive startup development experience, especially someone agnostic to industries, development stages, funding paths, since Wayra’s portfolio was so diverse to begin with.
We were selected by Wayra and their partner Swisscontact, a Swiss development agency active in emerging markets, and we provided onsite workshops and 1-1 sessions with entrepreneurs and online support after the program to make sure that topics were executed properly. Plenty of startups could profit from the mentoring and consulting, we reached a NPS of 92 and several companies contracted us for focused work with them directly after the program.
” Frank from FFA helped our portfolio companies a lot and we are really thankful that he took the time and resources to support them on international growth and fundraising topics. “
” Frank from FFA helped our portfolio companies a lot and we are really thankful that he took the time and resources to support them on international growth and fundraising topics. “
Wayra is the corporate accelerator and open innovation arm of the Telefonica group, which has invested in around 400 startups since inception. In Latin America Telefonica has around 40% of market share and is mainly represented by the Movistar brand, and Wayra invested in 100+ startups.
https://hispam.wayra.com/startups
Wayra wanted to boost international growth and fundraising knowledge of their portfolio and was looking to collaborate with a brand that could understand the culture, speak the local languages, and had extensive startup development experience, especially someone agnostic to type of products and business models (B2B or B2C SaaS, marketplaces, tech solutions, hybrid HW/SW solutions, ecc), to industries (including Telco, IoT, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Logistics, Social Networks, Retail, eHealth, Healthtech, EdTech, LegalTech, Tourism, Gaming, ecc), to development stages and funding paths (from early seed to Series A ready), since Wayra’s portfolio was so diverse to begin with.
Here an excerpt of the companies that were in the portfolio and that we worked with on quite specific requirements and challenges, there were dozens more that are only listed at the end:
We were selected by Wayra and their partner Swisscontact, a Swiss development agency active in emerging markets, and we provided onsite workshops and 1-1 sessions with entrepreneurs and online support after the program to make sure that topics were executed properly.
In the next 12 months after the collaboration Quantum Talent, Fitco, and many others could raise theirinternational funding rounds, and many more could reach significant funding and growth milestones and several companies contracted us for focused work with them directly after the program.
After the program we could reach a NPS of 92, which is above our normal average number in such diverse programs.