ALL IN Women Starters

Over the past several months, we have been taking a look at the COVID pandemic and how it’s affected female business leaders throughout the world. In this episode, we’ll be trying something different. As the world has stopped these last few months, and I’m sure we all know of people, of friends and family who have lost their jobs.  I’m going to talk about something more upbeat, “How to land a VC job in Latin America? with my fellow investor/friend Andres Rivero from Mexico City. 

In our last COVID edition series, I chat with Anca Gardea, Co-founder, Head of Product and Technology for a Transportation startup based in Mexico City about how her team, investors as well as family in the times of pandemic. 

ALLIN Women Starters Podcast is back and considering the global pandemic at the moment, we have decided to tweak the focus of our podcast a little, to feature a more universal view of how the current situation has affected female founders & investors across the world. Until things are back to normal, we will be featuring ladies hailing from several tech hubs across the world, from Singapore, Berlin, New York City, San Francisco and of course Mexico City to hear from their perspective on what's happening, ask them some questions about their business, and how their country is doing given the situation. Our 2nd episode under the COVID edition features my conversation with Erika Gil, Founder, and CEO of Winko, a snack company that uses grasshoppers to make its delicious, high protein, baked chips. 

ALLIN Women Starters Podcast is back and considering the global pandemic at the moment, we have decided to tweak the focus of our podcast a little, to feature a more universal view of how the current situation has affected female founders & investors across the world. Until things are back to normal, we will be featuring ladies hailing from several tech hubs across the world, from Singapore, Berlin, New York City, San Francisco and of course Mexico City to hear from their perspective on what's happening, ask them some questions about their business, and how their country is doing given the situation. This 1st episode under the COVID edition features my conversation with Melissa Lou, Founder, and CEO of Delegate, and a fellow Singaporean. Hear us chat about how her business has been affected, how she is helping other businesses at the same time and her efforts to keeping positive in these times. 

I chatted with Laurene Maire, Co-founder and Chief Merchanding Officer at YEMA, the first conscious supermarket in Mexico, to learn more about her inspiration behind starting YEMA, and her future plans for the brand. 

My coffee meeting with Anna Raptis at the Co-Madre co-working space at Monte Urales, where we chatted about her previous experiences working in a male-dominated traditional industry to becoming one of the first few women investors in Mexico to advocate and build a bigger community of women investors in Latin America. 

An inspirational chat with Marcela Torres, CEO and Founder of Hola Code, on her motivations behind starting Hola Code, her belief in always challenging the norms and how she continuously keeps doing it. 

I caught up with Julia Figueiredo, VP of Latam for Silicon Valley Bank to hear her story on working and hustling hard, flying between the US and Latam, and her views on the current tech and VC landscape in Mexico, Brazil and rest of Latam.

A lovely chat with Maya Dadoo, CEO of Worky, on her experience working for companies in the US and Mexico, to building a disruptive HR platform for companies in Mexico and Latin America. Hear her share her story and her attitude towards life.   

I visited the HQ office of Ben & Frank, in Mexico City, to chat with Mariana Castillo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Ben & Frank, for a conversation on: How her entrepreneurship journey started Values and attributes of Ben & Frank and the culture she is building at the company Where she sees herself in 5 years 

Join me to hear how Liza, CEO of FitnessPass Mexico found her motivations to co-found the company, her journey of career transformation and advice for anyone thinking of taking the leap into entrepreneurship.   

Welcome to the ALL IN podcast. I am Jia from ALLVP, an early-stage venture capital fund from Mexico City, investing across Latam. We started this podcast to share the amazing conversations we have in our network so that you, our listeners, can gain some valuable ALL IN insights. I spoke with Wenyi Cai, CEO, and Founder of Polymath Ventures. She is my very first guest on the ALLIN podcast. This is my very first attempt at podcast interviews, so bear with me and tune in to hear about: Getting to know Wenyi personally, understand her journey moving from the US to Colombia Her personal difficulty (or not) making the move as well as her professional journey building Polymath Ventures What Polymath ventures is currently up to? What exciting stuff can we expect to hear from Polymath ventures this year? Her personal interests/verticals in building companies and why so?