LATINA STARTUPS
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Our Mission

Built By
Us,
For Us.

Latina founders are starting businesses at a faster rate than any other group in the country. That fact deserves more than a statistic. It deserves names, faces, and a platform where their work is the whole story — not a footnote.

Latina Startups exists to make those names impossible to ignore.

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Floré
Personalized gut microbiome nutrition — founded in East LA, shipping nationwide.
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Sazón
AI

Marisol Vega built a flavor-prediction engine that helps small food brands compete on shelves next to the big guys. She did it with $40k, a rented commercial kitchen, and zero apologies.

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Marisol Vega CEO & Co-founder, Sazón AI
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Terracita
Regenerative farming software built for smallholder Latino farmers across California.
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There are hundreds more where that came from.

The full directory is growing every week. Every founder listed here submitted her own story.

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Viva Remit
Natalia Ortiz — Founder

Zero-fee remittances for Mexican diaspora communities. Natalia built this after watching her mother lose 18% of every wire transfer she sent home.

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Hola Health
Daniela Cruz — Founder

Telehealth in Spanish, for patients who've spent decades nodding along to doctors who don't speak their language.

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Raíz Studio
Gabriela Solis — Founder

A creative production company making branded content that actually looks like the communities it's supposedly made for.

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Founder Spotlight

"They told me the market wasn't ready. The market wasn't the problem — the gatekeepers were."
Valentina Reyes
Founder & CEO, Floré · Series A · San Francisco, CA
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"My abuela ran a business out of her kitchen for 30 years. She just never called it a startup."
Claudia Fuentes
Founder, Terracita · Pre-Seed · Fresno, CA
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On Screen

Talks, pitches & profiles
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Latinas more likely to open their own business
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La Piñata Bakery — Mexican American success story
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Sandra Velasquez — From Front-Woman to Founder
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The Power of a Dream — migration & leadership
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Have the perfect startup plan. Then change it.
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Manzana Verde pitch — Seedstars Summit
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NEN IGNITE — improve your pitch deck
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SmartSweets — Dragon's Den pitch
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$500M into Latin American Startups
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DataPlor raises $4M to digitize small businesses
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Hispanic Success Stories — Gilbert Urbina

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If you're a Latina founder and your company isn't in this directory yet, that's the only thing wrong with this page. Submissions are free, permanent, and read by people who are looking for exactly what you've built.

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Qué es Latina Startups y cuál es su propósito?
Latina Startups es una plataforma dedicada a visibilizar a las fundadoras latinas y sus empresas. Su misión es darles nombre, rostro y un espacio donde su trabajo sea el protagonista, no una nota al margen. La plataforma reconoce que las fundadoras latinas están abriendo negocios a un ritmo más rápido que cualquier otro grupo en el país.
¿Cómo puede una fundadora latina aparecer en el directorio de Latina Startups?
Las fundadoras latinas pueden enviar su propia historia a través del formulario de envío disponible en la página. Las inscripciones son gratuitas y permanentes, y son leídas por personas que buscan exactamente lo que cada fundadora ha construido. Cada fundadora listada en el directorio ha enviado su historia personalmente.
¿Qué tipo de startups y sectores se pueden encontrar en la plataforma?
Latina Startups incluye empresas de diversos sectores, entre ellos tecnología, alimentos y bebidas, salud, finanzas, medios de comunicación y educación. Entre los ejemplos destacados se encuentran empresas de nutrición personalizada, software agrícola, telemedicina en español, remesas sin comisiones y producción de contenido creativo.
¿Quién es Natalia Ortiz y qué problema resuelve su startup Viva Remit?
Natalia Ortiz es la fundadora de Viva Remit, una startup que ofrece remesas sin comisiones para comunidades de la diáspora mexicana. Natalia creó la empresa después de ver cómo su madre perdía el 18% de cada transferencia de dinero que enviaba a casa, lo que la motivó a buscar una solución más justa para estas comunidades.
¿Qué recursos adicionales ofrece Latina Startups más allá del directorio de fundadoras?
Además del directorio, Latina Startups ofrece una sección de videos que incluye charlas, pitches y perfiles de fundadoras latinas. Entre los contenidos destacados se encuentran presentaciones en eventos como Seedstars Summit y NEN IGNITE, historias de éxito hispano, y videos sobre migración, liderazgo y emprendimiento.

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