2022 Endeavor Impact Report
Endeavor is the community of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs. Together, we create a Multiplier Effect by inspiring them to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward. Today, Endeavor operates in 41 markets and has helped 2,000 entrepreneurs in their journeys to scale. This report celebrates 25 years of the multiplier effect and the Endeavor Entrepreneurs who are building thriving ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world.
Letter From Linda
This Impact Report marks Endeavor’s Silver Jubilee, and milestones like this are a time for celebration and reflection. Twenty-five years ago, my co-founder Peter Kellner and I sat at my parents’ kitchen table in Boston and sketched out a plan for Endeavor on the back of a napkin. Yes, an actual napkin. We had this crazy idea that entrepreneurs could come from anywhere and that, with a little help, they could unleash the tremendous talent and potential that already existed in emerging and underserved markets.
By our teen years, we recognized that the peer community of carefully screened and rigorously selected Endeavor Entrepreneurs was doing a lot more than just generating revenues and creating jobs. We noticed that the entrepreneurs who achieved breakout success were also starting to inspire, mentor, train, and invest in other founders. In our earliest markets, the individual contributions of a handful of Endeavor Entrepreneurs had made a profound impact on the local tech ecosystem.
We didn’t have a name for it yet, but this was the genesis of what we at Endeavor have come to call the Multiplier Effect.
We decided to measure and visualize the power of high-impact entrepreneurs to affect change, and with our partners at Bain & Company, we developed the Bubble Map. At Endeavor, we love Big Bubbles because they signify precisely how entrepreneurs are paying-it-forward to the next generation of founders. In these pages, you’ll see the Bubble Maps of Endeavor Entrepreneurs who represent the best of this ethos. And you’ll in turn see the Multiplier Effect — spawned by just three to four Big Bubbles in a given market — that catalyzes local ecosystems of innovation.
The most recent phase of Endeavor’s growth, into early adulthood, has been defined by our goal of becoming a self-sustaining organization. We challenge our entrepreneurs to disrupt the status quo, and in 2012, we looked inward
to challenge how we fund our work around the world. We developed the most mission-driven way possible to support our entrepreneurs, by investing in them and sharing in their success. Endeavor Catalyst, our rules-based co-investment fund, now has over $500 million under management; we have made more than 250 investments in Endeavor Entrepreneurs; and we already have returned millions of dollars both to LPs and Local Offices to further our mission. We’re closer than ever to becoming self-sustaining, and I couldn’t be prouder to be mission-aligned partners in our entrepreneurs’ journeys.
I’m often asked to predict the future. Where others may respond that the next Big Thing will be specific industry verticals (“Fintech!” “Cleantech”) or specific areas of innovation (“AI!” “Crypto!”), the future vision for Endeavor is clear. We will continue selecting, supporting, and co-investing in high- impact entrepreneurs who are solving real-world problems at scale. It’s this commitment to improving the lives of local communities through regional- and global-scale platforms and solutions that drives nearly all Endeavor Entrepreneurs.
As the world becomes simultaneously more intertwined and yet more chaotic and unpredictable, our work in many ways is just beginning. I look forward to building the next chapter of Endeavor’s history together.
Onward and Upward!
LINDA ROTTENBERG
Co-founder & CEO, Endeavor
INTRODUCING
The Multipliers
Successful founders build and scale their creations.
Multipliers move and shake entire nations.
With their been-there, done-that gears,
saving peers years and years of mistakes.
They start with big dreams but do not stop there.
They seek to accelerate the lessons, the pace,
the form with which new founders and businesses transform.
That’s how they multiply their impact.
Dreaming bigger, and scaling faster is only half the mission.
While innovation is built with passion and much ambition,
it multiplies when we fuel the dream, grit, and vision
the next gen dares to pursue.
With each funding round the ecosystem grows louder.
Yet, it is multiplied when founders fund other founders.
It’s growth driving impact. It’s impact fostering growth.
Slowly, but surely, one bold individual multiplies into many.
Thousands creating solutions from dream to execution,
bringing cities, countries, regions to greater and greater heights.
Multipliers are the face of a revolution.
And the Multiplier Effect: onward and upward, evolution!
Redefining Entrepreneurial Success
Have you seen the recent news on entrepreneurship? Did you hear about that massive funding round? What about the latest newborn unicorn? For years, entrepreneurial success has been narrowly defined as growth, profit, and valuation.
While both entrepreneurs and the business media often focus on companies’ financial successes, we believe these metrics only tell half the story. Equally important for the growth of ecosystems is the Multiplier Effect — the compound impact entrepreneurs have by virtue of mentoring, inspiring, and investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs. We also believe the Multiplier Effect can ignite ecosystems and bring broad, sustainable economic growth to emerging and underserved markets.
When investor Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn” to describe startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more in 2013, all 39 existing unicorns were founded in the United States. Today, Endeavor alone supports 68 unicorns founded in 22 countries around the world. Unicorns may get all the attention, but they’re just the most visible outcome of networks of trust.
Mini (and not so mini) Silicon Valleys are popping up in emerging and underserved markets around the world thanks, in large part, to these networks. As Endeavor co-founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg says, “a unicorn that doesn’t breed even more unicorns is just an endangered species.”
The practice of paying it forward by investing in the next generation of founders jumpstarts ecosystems, and it doesn’t take a huge number of multipliers to make a difference. Endeavor research shows that it takes a few local successful companies with the Multiplier Effect mindset to jumpstart a tech ecosystem. Similarly, a single founder can impact more than 700 other founders regionally. Through the Multiplier Effect, early successful founders fertilize what will later become thriving unicorn-breeding grounds.
You can see the power of the Multiplier Effect to ignite innovation ecosystems in stories as well as statistics. Much as the “PayPal mafia” went on to found companies, including Tesla, LinkedIn, Palantir, SpaceX, Affirm, and Yelp in the United States, alumni from Colombia’s first ever unicorn, on-demand delivery app Rappi, have gone on to found or lead more than 100 tech firms across Latin America.
When Mudassir Sheikha returned to Dubai after a successful stint founding a company in Silicon Valley, he was determined to repeat this success in the Middle East. Not only did he manage to build Careem, a ride-hailing company that was acquired by Uber for $3.1 billion, becoming the Middle East’s first unicorn, but Careem has acted as a training ground for more than 100 startup founders, igniting the local ecosystem.
The success of just a few founders with the multiplier mindset in an emerging market breaks both mental and structural barriers to building thriving ecosystems in even the most unexpected places. That is the essence of the Multiplier Effect.
The Multiplier Effect in Action
Multiplier Effect: Martin Migoya, Globant
From weathering Argentina’s economic crises to coaching a generation of founders worldwide.
When Guibert Englebienne, Martin Migoya, Martin Umaran, and Nestor Nocetti sketched out their idea for software development company Globant on the back of a cocktail napkin in an Argentine bar in 2002, they were just four ordinary guys with an extraordinary dream. Argentina was in the middle of its worst-ever economic crisis, but the four friends vowed to bring a little Silicon Valley magic to their home country. And they actually managed to pull it off. Today the four are co-founders of a globe-spanning company with a market capitalization of $7.32 billion, offices from Brazil and Peru to Canada and the UK, and more than 6,000 employees. But becoming the first Latin American company to go public on the NYSE wasn’t enough for these Endeavor Entrepreneurs. Globant’s founders have triggered the biggest Multiplier Effect within the entire Endeavor community. Between spin-offs and mentees, they have inspired more than 700 founders.
Multiplier Effect: Mudassir Sheikha, Careem
From disrupting the car-riding business in the UAE to igniting the next success stories in the Middle East.
Careem, a super-app that has become a symbol of mobility, fintech, and digital culture in the Middle East, is famous for getting acquired by Uber for $3.1 billion and becoming the region’s first unicorn. But underlying these headline accomplishments are the smaller stories of the millions of Careem users and drivers whose lives have been transformed by the platform. About 2 million drivers, including many women, are registered under the Careem umbrella. In the UAE, 50% of gig workers use their earnings to fund their children’s education. Careem’s success also ignited the Middle East’s innovation ecosystem. Former Careem employees have gone on to found over 120 startups. Thanks to Careem co-founders Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson and their commitment to the Multiplier Effect, MENA now has its own homegrown version of the PayPal Mafia.
Careem’s Multiplier Effect
Fresh out of college with an economics degree, Mudassir Sheikha, marched into Silicon Valley with one impossible goal: to build a brand so strong it could compete with the gig economy’s biggest giants. And that’s precisely what he did. After raising $200 million in funding for his first startup, he moved to Dubai with a brain full of experience, and an even more impossible goal: to create the kind of startup Uber would invest in. Once again, that’s precisely what he did.
He was after more than mere profits, though. Mudassir wanted to change lives. So, after a stint at McKinsey and Company, he created Careem — a super-app that has become a symbol of mobility, fintech, and digital culture in the Middle East.
Mudassir’s ambitions found a perfect match in his co-founder, Magnus Olsson, a management consultant he had worked with at McKinsey in Dubai, who had launched his first business before he even celebrated his sixteenth birthday. Like many Careem employees, Magnus resigned to join the fledgling company.
Careem launched operations in July 2012 and in less than a decade, it expanded into 14 countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, operating in more than 100 cities and creating more than a million jobs. Eventually, ride-hailing app Uber took notice and acquired the Dubai-based company in 2019 for $3.1 billion, instantly transforming it into the Middle East’s first unicorn.
Starting with impact in mind
From the beginning, Careem’s co-founders wanted their business to be about more than just profits, so they listed their values long before they drew up their first business plan. Then, they went out into the world to find drivers who could navigate the tangled roads of Dubai. “The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity,” says Mudassir, and in the Middle East, ground transportation was certainly a significant problem.”
Careem faced many challenges to make that business model work: unbanked drivers, lack of trust in the community, gender inequalities, and customers’ desire to pay with cash rather than credit cards, so they decided to build in stages. The two founders tacked their first platform with the digital equivalent of staples and sticky tape. Careem’s initial iteration relied on rudimentary browser-based requests and emails for corporate car bookings. But demand for their services sky-rocketed, particularly during the lockdown, and so did the brand’s popularity.
Today the super-app handles multiple functions, including food and essential product delivery, a digital wallet to replace cash payments, bike-sharing, and ride-sharing. About 2 million drivers, including many women, are registered under the Careem umbrella. The company serves 48 million customers and employs more than 1,500 people.
That didn’t happen by accident. From the start, Mudassir and Magnus were committed to creating a million jobs, focusing on the unbanked population and female drivers. Through this ambition, Careem earned its seat in the social impact space. It also provided seats, particularly for Dubai’s women, who needed drivers they could trust.
Now armed with a decade of experience, Magnus advises mentees to launch before they know what it takes to achieve startup success. “You have no idea about what you don’t know. Just start and learn,” he says.
Enter Endeavor
Endeavor can spot a game-changing company from miles away, and Careem represented precisely that. We selected the founders as Endeavor Entrepreneurs in 2018, mere months before the company embarked on the exponential growth that would transform Careem from a regional ride-hailing app into a major player on the global scene. We immediately set the two co-founders up with key players in the fintech industry, which enabled them to expand rapidly with few bumps in the road.
One year later, Careem became Uber’s biggest acquisition at a purchase price of US$3.1 billion. “If you just focus on the learning and impact,” says Mudassir, “the other things will follow.”
The Multiplier Effect
Careem had a social impact as its foundation, so it’s no surprise that it achieved outsized impact. Economists expect the gig economy to comprise half of the US workforce by 2027, but this revolution has already arrived in the Middle East and North Africa, where on-demand services are more than just a convenience – they are an essential tool to empower unbanked and underprivileged communities. In the UAE, 50% of drivers use their earnings to fund their children’s education, while in Pakistan, 15% were unemployed before Careem.
Careem’s success also acted like a match that ignited the Middle East’s innovation ecosystem. Mostafa Kandil’s mass transit app Swvl was just valued at $1.5 billion. Belal El-Megharbel’s B2B platform MaxAB has attracted more than $60 million in funding, and Mohammed Aldossary’s Sary has raised more than half that amount. These three founders have something in common: they are all former employees of Careem. Former Careem employees have founded over 120 startups, demonstrating that the MENA region has earned a place in the global tech world and now has its own homegrown version of the PayPal Mafia.
Investors are scrambling to gain a foothold in the region, where total venture capital funding hit $3 billion in 2022, with plenty of room for expansion given its $3 trillion GDP. Mergers and acquisitions have lit up the region in the e-commerce and fintech sectors. Even Amazon entered the fray by acquiring the e-commerce platform Souq.com.
Careem continues to invest in its community through mentoring and workforce development, but Mudassir has moved on to new challenges. As the chair of Endeavor’s 40th office, he is now helping Pakistan’s entrepreneurs trigger their own Multiplier Effect. With more than 220 million people, the country’s economic potential remains largely untapped by entrepreneurs. With Careem’s founder to guide them, Pakistan’s entrepreneurs will be better able to scale quickly, expand internationally, and transform potential into growth. They’re learning about the Multiplier Effect from one of its masters.
Multiplier Effect: Simón Borrero, Rappi
From becoming the first unicorn in Colombia to putting Latin America on the map for investors and innovation
While working on the second of his many businesses in 2013, Simón Borrero stumbled on a problem — the lack of a good, user-friendly delivery service for everyday items in his home country of Colombia. Together with two long-time friends, Sebastian Mejia and Felipe Villamarin, Simón set out to build one, launching Rappi by giving out free donuts on the streets of Bogota in 2015. Soon Rappi would transform the streets of Colombia, filling them with people with orange backpacks zipping around on their bikes, making all sorts of deliveries. In 2018 the company was valued at $1 billion, making it one of Latin America’s first unicorns. Its fundraising success has drawn global VC interest to Latin America, and inspired a whole new generation of founders. More than 100 companies can trace their origins back to Rappi, including Colombian online distribution firm Fruban and pet product platform Laika, as well as Chilean proptech company Houm.
Multiplier Effect: Juan de Antonio, Cabify
From building the first unicorn in Spain to proving companies don’t have to choose between good business and good deeds
The world doesn’t lack for ride-hailing companies, but Spanish competitor Cabify stands apart. From the time it was founded in 2011, Cabify has been committed to creating a safe and healthy environment for both drivers and passengers, and in 2018 it became Europe’s first 100% carbon-neutral app. At Cabify women make up 46% of employees, far exceeding industry averages. Founder Juan de Antonio’s vision of doing good for people and the planet didn’t hold back the success of Cabify. In 2019 the company achieved unicorn status, making it the first Spanish scaleup to reach that milestone. Now the company is taking its socially conscious approach to transportation global, expanding to more than 40 cities in seven Spanish-speaking countries, from Mexico to Uruguay. Today, Cabify helps 33 million regular customers access affordable mobility and stands as proof that founders don’t have to choose between good business and good deeds.
Multiplier Effect: Hande Cilingir, Insider
From founding one of the first female-led unicorns in Turkey to championing a new generation of female leaders.
Hande Cilingir’s story is one of perseverance and success, and it is inspiring the next generation of founders in Turkey. Hande was just 32 in 2012 when she founded Insider, an AI-based platform to help digital marketers serve personalized consumer journeys in a cost-efficient way. By 2016, Hande was named “Microsoft’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year.” In 2022, after raising $121 million in a Series D round, Insider became one of the first female-founded and female-led SaaS unicorns in the world. Today, Hande’s company helps over 1,000 global brands, including Singapore Airlines, Samsung, and Uniqlo, manage their multi-channel marketing processes. Insider employs more than 700 people across 26 countries, and 50% of top executives are women, including the CEO and CFO.
Multiplier Effect: Songe LaRon, Squire
From attorney to barbershop owner to a beacon of encouragement for up-and-coming Black entrepreneurs
Some entrepreneurs focus on access to healthcare or mobility or food security. Songe La Ron decided to focus on a frequently overlooked but no less essential ingredient in human flourishing — community. And he decided to do it through barbershops. Together with his co-founder, Dave Salvant, Songe, a former attorney, spent a year running a barbershop himself before developing Squire, a suite of tools to help keep neighborhood barber shops in business and profitable so they can continue to serve as the unofficial heart of their communities. Songe’s success is reflected in the many local businesses Squire has helped to thrive and in the company’s soaring valuation — it rose from $85 million in March to $750 million in August 2021. But among his most meaningful impacts has been serving as a beacon of hope and encouragement for other up-and-coming Black entrepreneurs.
Multiplier Effect: Peter Njonjo, CEO of Twiga
From revolutionizing the food supply chain in Africa to inspiring agtech founders across the continent
Back when he served as President of Coca-Cola West Africa Kenyan businessman Peter Njonjo noticed that food production and distribution faced severe challenges. He founded Twiga to tackle them. The platform allows food sellers to conveniently and transparently buy from food producers at fair prices using cashless transactions. According to Business Insider Africa, it has connected over 17,000 fresh food producers and 8,000 retailers, reducing food prices for consumers in the process. And Twiga is targeting pan-African expansion next. At Endeavor, we’re cheering Peter on and celebrating his impressive impact as a role model for future generations.
Multiplier Effect: Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, Proximie
From a childhood in war-torn Lebanon to saving lives by supporting surgeons at a distance
Human bodies around the world are alike. They all malfunction in the same ways and fall victim to similar injuries. But the results of those injuries can be very different depending on where a particular person lives. At least 5 billion people around the globe don’t have access to safe surgery, and inadequate access to surgery kills nearly 17 million people each year. California-born, Lebanon-raised doctor Nadine Hachach-Haram founded Proximie to help close those gaps. Proximie utilizes machine learning, AI, and AR to allow clinicians to virtually ‘scrub in’ and collaborate with each other from anywhere in the world. Already the platform is being used in 100 countries and has facilitated 13,000 surgeries, and its reach is still growing rapidly. Nadine is also co-managing partner of KHP Ventures, a VC firm investing in groundbreaking MedTech startups. Her 2017 TED Talk about the future of surgery has over 1.3 million views.
The Multiplier Effect: Veronica Pascal Boé, ASTI
From leading one of the greatest robotic companies in Spain to mentoring the next generation of women in STEM
Veronica Pascal Boé transformed a family manufacturing business into a world-leading automated intralogistics company. ASTI Robotics is one of many reasons Endeavor started hunting for entrepreneurs in non-obvious patches of the world. We know you can create magic anywhere if you have the right tools, and it’s these rarely-acknowledged addresses that need economic elevation the most. Boé is an icon of those efforts. She’s set her goals on the highest star she can see, but she also knows that dreaming big is not enough—you need to build a vehicle for those goals, which takes intellect and unremitting work.
The Multiplier Effect lit up in Times Square
The Multiplier Effect works, in large part, by inspiring people to dream bigger. Founders’ success and generosity lights up the dark of underserved regions, illuminating what’s possible and the path to take to get there. So do Times Square billboards. Which is why, to celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we were thrilled to see our multiplier maps visualizing the incredible impact of some of Endeavor’s biggest multipliers shining from Nasdaq Tower. On December 6th, for the first time, a billboard known for celebrating IPOs, big funding rounds, and other financial milestones, was celebrating the impact founders can have on their ecosystems. We like to imagine future founders passing by, gazing up, and rethinking what it means to be a successful entrepreneur.
“It is a surreal moment seeing one’s face in Times Square, but it is humbling when it is done so to celebrate the impact one has had on the entrepreneurial ecosystem: ‘for paying it forward as an individual who reinvests their own entrepreneurial success and multiplies it across many other startups.’”
Melvyn Lubega, Multiplier & CEO of Go1
Multipliers in the Making
Meet our newest Endeavor Entrepreneurs.
In 2022 Endeavor selected 150 new Endeavor Entrepreneurs from 31 markets to join our global network and contribute to our vision for high-impact entrepreneurship. Endeavor Entrepreneurs are not only selected for their capacity to build successful, fast-growing companies, but also for the impact they can have on the next generation of founders and their ecosystems as a whole. We are looking for entrepreneurs who aim not just for impressive metrics and big huge valuations, but to accelerate innovation, improve lives, and boost broad, sustainable economic growth. Only multipliers committed to those goals make the cut.
Bazaar
Entrepreneur: Hamza Jawaid & Saad Jangda
Vertical: Smart City
Market: Pakistan
Bazaar is building an operating system for traditional retail in Pakistan. The Bazaar retail app provides merchants with a one-stop-shop to purchase thousands of products for their stores. The company’s fintech products include a digital ledger and a lending product. Bazaar has raised $100M+ in total, most recently a $70M Series B in March 2022.
Cora
Entrepreneur: Igor Senra, Leonardo Mendes, & Gustavo Viegas
Vertical: Fintech
Market: Brazil
A 100% digital bank, Cora allows Brazilian SMEs to open an account in minutes and access debit and credit cards. Today, they offer the main SME account bank in Brazil, opening more than 500K accounts since their beginning. With over $150M raised thus far, Cora is paving the way toward a more digitized, accessible, and flexible financial landscape.
Piggyvest
Entrepreneur: Somto Ifezue, Odunayo Eweniyi, & Joshua Chibueze
Vertical: Fintech
Market: Nigeria
PiggyVest is a financial services platform that provides its predominantly young users across Nigeria with access to savings and investment products that drive wealth creation and preservation. The founding team of Somto Ifezue, Odunayo Eweniyi, and Joshua Chibueze represent a new generation of Nigerian entrepreneurs who are committed to building companies and products aimed at serving their generation.
Pinhome
Entrepreneurs: Dayu Dara Permata & Ahmed Aljunied
Vertical: Commerce – Proptech
Market: Indonesia
Pinhome aims to unlock home ownership for first-time buyers in Indonesia by digitizing property data, home transactions, and home financing. Co-founder Dayu Dara is not only a brilliant woman leader, but also a role model and mentor for other women entrepreneurs in the ecosystem. Ahmed Aljunied is a serial entrepreneur and CTO. Together they are transforming the archaic real estate industry.
soona
Entrepreneurs: Liz Giorgi
Vertical: Enterprise Software & Services
Market: Colorado
soona helps brands access professional-quality photo and video content within 24 hours at an affordable price. Since its launch in 2018, soona has acquired over 10K merchants on the platform and has launched five studios. The company recently closed a $35M Series B round. Crunchbase recognized founder Liz Giorgi as one of the country’s top 10 funded women entrepreneurs in 2022.
UnoBravo
Entrepreneurs: Danila De Stefano & Gregorio Maria Diodvich
Vertical: Healthcare
Market: Italy
Unobravo is the largest online therapy platform in Europe with more than 2,300 active psychologists and 60,000 patients. CEO Danila de Stefano, a psychologist who is passionate about using technology to make mental health services more accessible, founded the company to meet her own need for a therapist while living in London. In 2020, Gregorio Maria Diodovich joined as co-founder and COO.
#OneEndeavor Community
Finally, Back Together Again!
Endeavor may have 41 offices globally, but we’re one community, one network, one vision, #OneEndeavor. Our first in-person event since the pandemic was our March retreat in Dubai, UAE. The much-anticipated event gathered more than 90 entrepreneurs, board members, and mentors from 26 countries over the course of three days with the goal of connecting entrepreneurs to smart capital and like-minded innovators. Founders exchanged lessons for scale to inspire their next phase of growth. After two virtual years of programming, these high-growth entrepreneurs had a lot to catch up on. We were also thrilled to be able to begin meeting in person once again for two of our monthly International Selection Panels, which choose the latest entrepreneurs to join the Endeavor community. Beautiful Costa Navarino, in Greece, and São Paulo, in Brazil hosted our in-person ISPs this year.
“Greece has now an innovation ecosystem that is $8 billion in valuation. The new Greek Founders have created almost 9.000 jobs in Greece, with another 9.000 jobs generated in Greece from a large number of foreign big-tech companies through their investments in the country.”
Costantza Sbokou-Constantakopoulou, Chairwoman of Endeavor Greece
Worldwide Gathering
On July 15, 2022 Endeavor Greece hosted our first Innovation Summit in Athens, with the goal to make it an annual international innovation event. Together, we celebrated 10 years of supporting high-impact entrepreneurs and their extraordinary accomplishments in Greece, pushing global innovation forward and contributing to sustainable economic growth for all. As Linda Rottenberg, co-founder and CEO of Endeavor explained at the event, “When economies turn down, entrepreneurs turn up. The reason: Chaos is the friend of the entrepreneur. And boy are these are friendly times.”
OUR OPERATING MODEL
We are the leading global community of, by, and for High-Impact Entrepreneurs
— those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward.
Our Core Belief:
High-Impact Entrepreneurs transform economies.
What We Do:
We create a Multiplier Effect by inspiring high-growth entrepreneurs to dream bigger, supporting and investing in them to scale faster, and providing a platform to pay it forward.
Why We Do It:
To build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world.
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We select Endeavor Entrepreneurs by searching the globe, identifying founders with the greatest growth potential, and inviting them to participate in our renowned international selection process.
We support Endeavor Entrepreneurs with our expansive global network, unrivaled peer-to-peer community, and highly-curated services.
We elevate Endeavor Entrepreneurs as aspirational role models and provide avenues for them to mentor and inspire others to reimagine what is possible.
We invest in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through our rules-based fund, Endeavor Catalyst.
We advance the conversation around global entrepreneurship and innovation through original content, leveraging Endeavor’s proprietary data set and insights.
OUR GLOBAL FOOTPRINT
Endeavor supports over 2,400 high-impact entrepreneurs today across 42 markets — and counting. This year we continued our active expansion, searching the world to identify markets with a growing pipeline of high-impact entrepreneurs and a vibrant startup scene lacking in scale-up support. In 2022, we launched offices in Pakistan and Poland and will be launching in Portugal in 2023.
ENDEAVOR HAS OFFICES IN:
42 MARKETS.
67 CITIES.
Endeavor launches in markets with:
• A pipeline of potential high-impact entrepreneurs
• A vibrant start-up scene still lacking in scale-up support
• Local “pull” from top business leaders
ENDEAVOR
HAS OFFICES IN:
OUR OPERATING MODEL
GLOBAL SUPPORT OFFICES
New York
San Francisco
Singapore
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires
Córdoba
Rosario
Noa
Cuyo
Patagonia
ATLANTA
BRAZIL
São Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
Belo Horizonte
Curitiba
Florianópolis
Porto Alegre
Recife
Fortaleza
BULGARIA
Sofia
CANADA
Calgary
CHILE
Santiago
Patagonia: Puerto Varas
Atacama: Antofagasta
COLOMBIA
Bogotá
Barranquilla
Medellín
COLORADO
DETROIT
ECUADOR
Quito
EGYPT
Cairo
GREECE
Athens
INDONESIA
Jakarta
IRELAND
Dublin
ITALY
Milan
JAPAN
Tokyo
JORDAN
Amman
KENYA
Nairobi
LEBANON
Beirut
LOUISVILLE
MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur
MEXICO
Mexico City
Puebla
Querétaro
Mérida
Guadalajara
Monterrey
MIAMI
MOROCCO
Casablanca
NIGERIA
Lagos
NW ARKANSAS PAKISTAN
Karachi
PERU
Lima
PHILIPPINES
Manila
POLAND
Warsaw
PORTUGAL
Lisbon
PUERTO RICO
ROMANIA
Bucharest
SAUDI ARABIA
Riyadh
SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg
Cape Town
SPAIN
Madrid
TUNISIA
Tunis
TURKEY
Istanbul
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Dubai
URUGUAY
Montevideo
VIETNAM
Ho Chi Minh City
WESTERN NY
HIGH-POTENTIAL
Bangladesh
New Zealand
Thailand
Board Members
“I believe it to be the responsibility of entrepreneurs to enrich and give back to the ecosystem, by sharing insights and connections. It is an honor and privilege to spend time with scale-up entrepreneurs who will shape the future and that’s why I’m so excited to serve on the Endeavor Global board.”
GUILLAUME POUSAZ
Founder & CEO, Checkout.com
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Joined the Endeavor Global Board in 2022
Global Board of Directors
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Chairman, Co-founder & General Partner, Waverley Capital;
Executive Chairman, Global Thermostat;
Managing Partner, Accretive LLC
Board Chair
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO, Checkout.com
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Jason Green
Founder & General Partner,
Emergence Capital Partners
Javier Olivan
VP of Central Products,
Meta
Linda Rottenberg
Co-founder & CEO,
Endeavor
Martin Escobari
Co-President, Managing Director
and Head of Latin America,
General Atlantic
Matt Harris
Partner, Bain Capital Ventures
Nick Beim
Partner, Venrock
Nicolas Szekasy
Co-founder & Managing
Partner, Kaszek Ventures
Endeavor Entrepreneur
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder, LinkedIn;
Partner, Greylock Partners
Endeavor Catalyst Chairman
Shu Nyatta
Managing Partner, Softbank
Veronica Allende Serra
Founding Partner,
Pacific Investments
& Innova Capital
Peter Kellner
Founder & Managing Partner,
Richmond Global;
Co-founder, Endeavor
Emeritus
Global Ambassadors
Our global ambassadors are an annual cohort of leading entrepreneurs and executives who pay it forward by sharing their knowledge and expertise with the next generation of successful entrepreneurs. See our 2022 Global Ambassadors below.
Are you interested in becoming a Global Ambassador? Contact us at [email protected].
Anderson Thees
Managing Partner & Co-founder,
Redpoint e.ventures
Chris Misner
Advisor and Former President
of International, Roblox
Diego Piacentini
Founder, View Different
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde
Co-founder and Managing Partner,
Riverwood Capital Partners
Jeff Brody
Partner and Co-founder,
Redpoint Ventures
Joanna Rees
Managing Partner,
West Ventures
Josh Silverman
CEO, Etsy
Kevin Ryan
Founder and CEO,
AlleyCorp
Luis Lora
Managing Partner, Globo Ventures
Nicolas Aguzin
CEO of International Private Bank,
J.P. Morgan
Roshini Bakshi
Managing Director,
Everstone Capital Advisors
Scott Sobel
Co-Founder and Managing Director,
Valor Capital Group
Local Boards of Directors
ARGENTINA
Guibert Englebienne
Co-founder & CTO, Globant
Board Chair
Alejandro Larosa
Co-founder & President,
Agrofy
Carlos Miguens
President, Grupo Miguens
Eduardo Bastitta
Co-founder & CEO,
Plaza Logística
Eduardo Elsztain
Chairman, IRSA
Federico Braun
President, SAIEP
Gustavo Grobocopatel
President, Grupo Los Grobo
Luciano Nicora
Co-founder, Addventure
Club Investor
Luis Zambonini
Partner, McDonalds
Marcos Galperín
Co-founder & CEO,
MercadoLibre.com
Martín Migoya
Co-founder & CEO, Globant
Nelson Duboscq
Co-founder & CEO,
Digital House
Nicolás Sanchez
CEO, Grupo Prima
Nicolás Szekasy
Co-founder & Managing
Partner, Kaszek
Ricardo Neme
President, Censys
Roberto Souviron
Founder, Win Win Ventures
Vanesa Durán,
Founder Vanesa Joyas
ATLANTA
Lynne Laube
CEO, Cardlytics
Board Chair
David Cummings
Founder & CEO,
Atlanta Ventures
Brittany Boals Moeller
Managing Director,
Southeast Region
Head, Private Wealth
Management & Institutional
Client Solutions,
Goldman Sachs
Dave Gray
CEO, Stonybrook Ventures
Dave Keil
CEO, Lakeside Software
Jeff Arnold
Chairman & CEO,
ShareCare
Jewel Burks Solomon
Managing Partner,
Collab Capital
Mark Lewis
VP, Strategy & Corporate
Development, Cox
Enterprises
Rahul Patel
Partner, Corporate |
Finance and Investments,
King & Spalding
Rodney Bullard
Executive Director,
Chick-Fil-A Foundation,
VP of Community Affairs,
Chick-fil-A
BRAZIL
Rodrigo Galindo
CEO, Cogna Educação
Board Chair
Cesar Carvalho
CEO & Co-founder,
Gympass
Eric Santos
CEO & Founder,
RD Station
Fabio Barbosa
CEO, Natura&CO
Laura Constantini
Co-founder, Astella
Investimentos
Mariana Dias
CEO & Founder, Gupy
Robson Privado
COO, MadeiraMadeira
Sergio Furio
CEO & Founder, Creditas
Tiago Dalvi
CEO & Founder, Olist
BULGARIA
Kalin Radev
CEO, Software Group
Board Co-Chair
Hristo Hristov
CEO, Darik Radio
Board Co-Chair
Atanas Simeonov
CEO & Owner,
Ocean Investments
Christo Iliev
Founder, AG Capital
Dennis Smith
Partner, Evolution
Capital Partners
Dimitar Tsotsorkov
Chairperson of the
Supervisory Board,
Assarel-Medet JSC
Ivo Evgeniev
Co-founder & Managing
Director, Rosslyn Capital
Partners
Kiril Boshov
Co-founder & Chairman,
Eurohold Group
Lyubomir Minchev
Founder, Telelink
Nedelcho Spasov
Co-founder, Management
Financial Group
Petia Dimitrova
CEO & Chairperson,
Eurobank Bulgaria
Pressian Karakostov
Founder, PhoneArena
Sabina Gyosheva
Co-founder & CEO, BY FAR
Stefan Gugushev
Founder & Managing
Partner, Gugushev &
Partners Law Office
Vassil Terziev
Managing Partner,
Eleven Ventures
CANADA
Susan Anderson
Co-founder, Digital
Commerce Bank
and DC Payments
Board Chair
Brad Zumwalt
President, Zinc Ventures
Chen Fong
Co-founder and Board
Director, Pureweb Inc.
Chris Huskilson
Former CEO, Emera Inc.
Jim Estill
CEO, Danby Appliances
Joanna Harries
SVP of Expansion,
Endeavor Global
Lindsay Machan
Co-founder, Angiotech
Pharmaceuticals
Mike Mannix
Founder & Managing
Partner, Band Capital
Partners
Paul Desmarais III
Chairman & CEO, Sagard
Paul Parisi
Head of Canada, Silicon
Valley Bank (SVB)
CHILE
Christoph Schiess
President, Tanica
Board Chair
Ariel Gringaus
CEO, Colegium
Javier Donoso
CEO, Geomar
Jorge Nazer
CEO, ALTO
Juan Enrique Rassmuss
Director CAP, Cemin
Kathleen Barclay
Director KCB
Mario Araya
Chairman, Kibernum
Paula Jaras
Director, Entrelagos
Paula Valverde
Chairman, Limonada
Salvador Said
Scotiabank Director;
Parque Arauco President;
Embonor President
COLOMBIA
Kenneth Mendiwelson
Founder, Refinancia
Board Chair
Andrés Echavarría
Board Member,
Organización Corona
Colombia
Albert Douer
Chairman & Co-CEO,
UBQ Materials
Diana Gómez Kopp
Co-Chair of the Board,
Memo SAS
Eduardo Pacheco
President & CEO, Colpatria
Gonzalo Córdoba
President, Caracol
Televisión
Julio Rojas Sarmiento
CEO, Cordillera Capital
Nicolás Loaiza Galeano
Executive President,
Bodytech
Rubén Minski
President & CEO,
Grupo Procaps
Simon Borrero
Co-founder & CEO,
Rappi
COLORADO
Dan Caruso
Caruso Ventures;
Founding CEO & Chairman,
Zayo Group
Board Chair
Courtnee Chun
Chief Portfolio Officer,
Liberty Media
David Cohen
Co-founder & Chairman,
Techstars
Eric Remer
CEO, Evercommerce
Eric Roza
Managing Director,
Vista Equity Partners
John Street
Founder & CEO, Pax8
Kent Thiry
Former Chairman & CEO,
Davita
Mike Fries
CEO, Liberty Global
Sandi Lewis
Co-founder, Zayo Group
Teresa Taylor
Former COO, Qwest
Valeria Alberola
CEO, ZomaLab
DETROIT
Nate Lowery
Co-founder & CEO,
LexTM3 LLC
Board Chair
Jason Wenk
Founder & CEO,
Altruist
Lynda Applegate
Baker Foundation
Professor, Harvard
Business School
Mike Vichich
Co-founder, Wisely
Stephen Shaya, M.D.
Managing Director,
Akkad Holdings
Steve Jbara
President, Grand
Rapids Gold
ECUADOR
Alfredo Peña
CEO, Graiman
Andy Wright
Executive Vice President,
La Favorita
Christof Leuenberger
Nestlé
Eduardo Berg
Danec
Fabián Baca
Casabaca
Fernando Moncayo
Inspectorio
Guillermo Lasso Alcivar
VP, Banco de Guayaquil
Juan Ribadeneira
Director, Independent
Juan Carlos Serrano
CEO, Grupo KFC
Pablo Salazar
CEO, Banco Diners Club
Rodrigo Ribadeneira
Marathon Sports
Roque Sevilla
President, Grupo Futuro
EGYPT
Amr Shady
Co-founder & CEO, Tribal
Board Chair
Ahmed Mekky
Chairman & CEO,
Benya
Amir Barsoum
CEO & Founder, Vezeeta
Ashraf Zaki
Managing Partner,
Lorax Capital Partners
Ayman Essawy
Co-founder & MD,
Lucky App
Belal El-Megharbel
CEO, MaxAB
Dalia Ibrahim
CEO, Nahdet Misr
Publishing House
Farida Khamis
Chair of The British
University in Egypt (BUE);
The Egyptian Propylene
and Polypropylene
Company; and of The
Orientals Group
Hisham Khazindar
Co-founder & MD,
Qalaa Holdings
Hussein Rifai
CEO & Founder,
Inertia Egypt
Mohamed Azab
Co-founder & CEO, Grinta
Mounir Nakhla
CEO, MNT Halan
GREECE
Costantza Sbokou-
Constantakopoulou
Onwer & CEO, Phāea
Resorts; Senior Architect,
TEMES SA
Board Chair
Alexander Macridis
President & CEO,
Chryssafidis SA
Andreas Stavropoulos
Partner, Threshold
Ventures
Dean Dakolias
Co-Chief Investment
Officer, Fortress
Investment Group LLC
Dimitri Papalexopoulos
Chairman of the Group
Executive Committee,
Titan Cement International
Eftichios Vassilakis
Vice Chairman & CEO of
Autohellas S.A./Hertz;
Chairman, Aegean Airlines
and Olympic Air
Ioannis Martinos
CEO, The Signal Group
Ιoanna Papadopoulou
President & Managing
Director, E.J. Papadopoulos
Lamda Development
Representative: Odysseas
Athanassiou, CEO
Marco Veremis
Co-founder & Executive
Chairman, Upstream;
Partner, BigPi Venture
Capital
Michael D. Chandris
Advisor, Chandris Group
National Bank of Greece
Representative: Pavlos
Mylonas, CEO
Nikos Moraitakis
CEO, Workable
Yiannis Stassinopoulos
Executive Member of the
Board of Directors & CEO,
Viohalco S.A.
INDONESIA
Arif P. Rachmat
Co-founder & Executive
Chairman, Triputra Agro
Persada Group
Board Chair
Alvin Sariaatmadja
President Director,
PT Elang Mahkota
Teknologi (EMTEK Group)
Anne Patricia Sutanto
Vice CEO, PT Pan Brothers
Tbk. and Group
Harun Hajadi
Managing Director,
Ciputra Group
Husodo Angkosubroto
Chairman, Gunung
Sewu Kencana
Nick Nash
Managing Partner
& Co-founder,
Asia Partners
Pandu Patria Sjahrir
Managing Partner,
Indies Capital Partners
Dr. Raoul Oberman
Managing Director
Sasya Terra Pte Ltd
Svida Alisjahbana
CEO, GCM Group
Tan Su Shan
Group Head of Institutional
Banking, DBS Bank
IRELAND
The Edge
U2
Board Chair
Alan Foy
Chairman,
VentureWave Capital
Anne Heraty
Founder, Cpl Resources
Denis O’Brien
Chairman, Digicel
Elaine Coughlan
Managing Partner &
Founder, Atlantic Bridge
Mark Roden
Chairman & CEO, Ding
Matthew O’Dowd
Director, Investment
Banking, Numis Securities
Paddy McKillen
Tony Kilduff
Chairman, Elgin Energy
Holdings Ltd
ITALY
Pietro Sella
CEO, Sella Group
Board Chair
Monica Mandelli
Managing Director, KKR
Board Vice Chair
Alessandro Fracassi
CEO and Co-Founder,
Gruppo MutuiOnline S.p.A.
Diego Piacentini
Founder, View Different
Fabio Troiani
Digital entrepreneur and
former CEO and founder
of Bip
Fulvio Renoldi Bracco
CEO, Bracco Imaging SpA
Mario Costantini
CEO, Neva SGR
Massimiliano Vercellotti
Partner – Deputy EMEIA EY
Private Leader – Assurance,
EY Italy
Paolo Merloni
Executive Chairman,
Ariston Thermo
JAPAN
Taizo Son
Board Chair
Koichiro Nakamura
Senior Managing Director &
Co-Founder, Sozo Ventures
Makoto Takano
CEO, MT Partners K.K.
Oki Matsumoto
Chairman & CEO,
Monex Group, Inc.
Teruhide Sato
Founder & CEO,
BEENEXT Capital
Management Pte. Ltd.
JORDAN
Nadia Al Saeed
CEO, Bank al Etihad
Board Chair
Ahmad Abu Ghazaleh
CEO, International Wings
Group & Abdali Hospital
Ali Al-Husry
Director, Hikma
Pharmaceuticals
Dawod Alghoul
CEO, Capital Bank
Fahad Al Jasem
CEO, Zain Jordan
Hussam Hammo
CEO, Tamatem
Maher Kaddoura
Angel Investor &
Management Consultant,
nextmove
Michael Wakileh
CEO, ProgressSoft
Corporation
Qais Sabri
Founder & CEO,
Eon Dental
Randa Sadik
Deputy CEO, Arab Bank
Saad Mouasher
Chairman, Jordan Ahli Bank
Dr. Safwan Masri
Director, Columbia
University Middle East
Research Center
Said Darwazah
Chairman & CEO,
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
Samar Obaid
Partner, Ernst & Young
Walid Tahabsem
President & CEO,
Integrated Technology
Group
Yousef Shamoun
Co-Founder & CEO,
ZenHR Solutions
Ziad Shatara
CEO, Umniah
KENYA
Dr. Benson Wairegi
Board Chair
Anthony Muthusi
Partner and Principal,
Ernst & Young
Darshan Chandaria
Director & Group CEO,
Chandaria Group
Isaac Awuondo
Chairman, NCBA
Bank Kenya PLC
Ken Njoroge
Co-founder & Director,
Cellulant
Michael Mutiga
Chief Business
Development & Strategy
Officer, Safaricom
Peter Njonjo
Co-founder & CEO,
Twiga Foods
Sachen Chandaria
Executive Director,
Orbit Chemicals Ltd
LEBANON
Fadi Majdalani
Board Chair
Gaith Yafi
Co-founder,
BY Venture Partners
Karim Farra
Managing Director,
Manara Capital
Maher Mikati
Executive Director,
M1 Group
Mouhamad Rabah
General Manager, ZRE
Mu’taz Sawaf
Chairman of Board
Executive Committee,
Mimar Invest
Roy Haddad
Former WPP MENA
Director; Chairman J.
Walter Thompson MEA
Sami Khouri
CEO, Teeba Holding
Tarek Sadi
Partner,
Cornerstone Global
LOUISVILLE
Matt Thornton
Founder & Partner,
Thornton Capital
Board Chair
Ankur Gopal
Founder & CEO,
Interapt
Brian Brackeen
General Partner,
Lightship Capital
Brook Smith
CEO & Founder,
Smith-Manus
Doug Grissom
Managing Director,
Madison Dearborn Partners
Greg Pope
Louisville Office
Managing Partner, EY
Jackson Andrews
Managing Director,
Endeavor Louisville
Joe Kelley
President & CEO,
Kelley Construction
Kimberly Halbauer
President, Fifth Third Bank
Kaveh Zamanian
Founder & CEO,
Rabbit Hole Distillery
Ron Turnier
Co-founder & CEO,
WhatChefsWant!
Stacy Griggs
CEO, El Toro
MALAYSIA
Brahmal Vasudevan
Founder & CEO, Creador
Board Chair
Afzal Abdul Rahim
Commander-in-Chief,
TIME dotCom
Chern Yuan Lim
Group CEO,
Yinson Holdings
Eric Cheng
Co-founder & Group CEO,
Carsome
Loi Tuan Ee
Founder, The Holstein
Milk Company
Mark Chang
Founder, JobStreet
Fadzarudin Shah Anuar
Co-founder & CEO,
FV Group
Thomas G. Tsao
Co-founder, Gobi Partners
MEXICO
Adolfo Babatz
Co-founder & CEO, Clip
Agustín Coppel Luken
Chairman & CEO, Coppel
Alberto Fasja Cohen
Co-Founder & Strategic
Member & Board,
Grupo Axo
Carlos García
CEO & Co-founder, Kavak
Elías Cababié Daniel
Chairman & CEO, GICSA
Emilio Azcárraga Jean
Chairman, Televisa
Francisco del Valle
Perochena
Partner & Co-founder,
Grupo Empresarial Kaluz
Jean Michel Enríquez
Partner, Creel, García-
Cuellar, Aiza y Enríquez
Karla Berman
Former Operating Leader,
SoftBank
Luis Cervantes
Head of Mexico,
General Atlantic
Mariana Castillo
Co-founder & Co-CEO,
Ben & Frank
Paqui Casanueva Pérez
Chairman, INTERprotección
Sergio Rosengaus
Leizgold
Founder & CEO,
KIO Networks
Sergio de la Vega
CEO, Gulf Mexico
MIAMI
Andres Moreno
CEO, Open Education
Board Co-Chair
Ernest Bachrach
Former Managing Partner,
Advent International
Board Co-Chair
Abi Mandelbaum
Co-founder, YouVisit;
Visionary; Innovator;
Investor; Advisor
AJ Nahmad
President, Watsco, Inc.
Alberto Beeck
Partner, VH Properties
Anshu Motwani
SVP, Bayview Asset
Management
Emiliano Abramzon
Co-founder, Nearpod
Henry “Hank” M.
Dudgeon, III
Partner, Future Labs
Capital; Co-founder, Davin
Holdings; Owner, Real
Estate Buildings in Ashburn
Virginia
Jamie Knall
Partner, The Knall Cohen
Group of Stifel Nicolaus
Jessica Mindich
Founder & CEO,
Caliber Collection
Julia Figueiredo
Director for Latin America,
Partners For Growth
Matt Haggman
Executive Vice President,
Opportunity Miami,
Beacon Council
Maurice R. Ferré, M.D.
CEO & Chairman,
INSIGHTEC
Michael Simkins
President & CEO,
Lion Development Group
Raul Moas
Senior Director,
Knight Foundation
MOROCCO
Khalid Zitouni
Founder & CEO, MaroTech
Board Chair
Adnane Filali
Managing Partner,Azur
Innovation Management
Ali Bettahi
Chairman, Equity Invest
Brahim El Jai
Senior Partner, Africinvest
Ely-Michel Ruimy
Chairman, Aerium
Ilan Benhaim
Partner & Cofounder,
IB Participations
Salma Benaddou Idrissi
Founder & Managing
Partner Baker Tilly Burj
Finance
Sophia Alj
Co-founder & COO,
Chari
NIGERIA
Atedo Peterside (con)
President & Founder,
Anap Foundation
Board Chair
Bolaji Balogun
CEO, Chapel Hill Denham
Board Vice Chair
Andrew Alli
CEO, Zigzag Advisory
Halima Dangote
Group Executive Director,
Dangote Industries Limited
and Trustee, Aliko Dangote
Foundation
Ireayomide Oladunjoye
Managing Director & CEO,
Endeavor Nigeria
Jaideep Gulab
CEO, Rosemonde
Mitchell Elegbe
Founder & GMD,
Interswitch Group
Sari El-Khalil
Chief Transformation
Officer, Seven-Up Bottling
Company; Co-founder,
W Motors
Suresh Chellaram
Chairman, Chellarams
Group
‘Tokunboh Ishmael
Managing Director &
Co-founder, Alitheia Capital
Yemi Lalude
Managing Partner,
TPG Growth
NW ARKANSAS
Clete Brewer
Managing Partner,
NewRoad Capital Partners
Board Chair
Andy Murray
Founder, bigQuest
Barbara Marchini-Ellis
Partner, EY
Candice Matthews
Brackeen
Founder, Lightship Capital
Carl George
Co-CEO, George’s Inc.
Elise Mitchell
Founder & Chairwoman,
Mitchell Communications
Michael Guptan
Global Head of Corporate
Development and M&A,
Walmart
Todd Simmons
CEO & Vice Chairman,
Simmons Foods
PAKISTAN
Mudassir Sheikha
Co-founder & CEO,
Careem
Board Chair
Aaqib Gadit
Founder, Cloudways;
Chief Revenue Officer,
DigitalOcean
Ali Mukhtar
Founder & GP,
Fatima-Gobi Ventures
Amir Paracha
Chairman & CEO,
Unilever Pakistan
Faisal Rehman
Managing Partner,
Softbank Vision Fund
Jawad Khan
Senior Partner/Managing
Partner – Pakistan,
Mckinsey & Co.
Tania Aidrus
Co-founder, Rayn Group
PERU
Julio Luque
President & CEO, Métrica
Board Chair
Carlos Rodriguez Pastor
Chairman, Intercorp
Board Vice Chair
Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio
General Manager of
Innovation, Grupo Breca
Federico Cúneo
Partner & Director,
Amrop Peru
Jiro Hiraoka
Head of Business
Development, Hiraoka
Juan Carlos Verme
Chairman, Inversiones
Centenario
Julio Luque
President, Metrica
Consultores
Luis Arbulú
VP & Founder, Xertica
Luis Felipe Castellanos
CEO, Interbank
Martin Kenneth Lopez
Managing Director,
Tekton Labs
Paulo Pantigoso
Managing Partner,
EY Peru
PHILIPPINES
Jasen Ko
Chairman, Laborem Inc.
Board Chair
Anthony “Anton” Huang
President, Stores
Specialists Inc. Group
Edgar “Injap” Sia II
Chairman & CEO,
Double Dragon
Properties Corp.
Erramon “Montxu” Aboitiz
Chairman, Union Bank
Federico “Piki” Lopez
CEO, First Philippine
Holdings Corporation
Jaime Augusto
Zobel de Ayala
Chairman, Ayala Corp
Roberto “Bobbit” Panlilio
Former Chairman, JP
Morgan Chase Philippines
Wilfred Steven “Fred”
Steven Uytengsu
Chairman, Alaska
Milk Corporation
POLAND
Wiktor Schmidt
Co-founder & Executive
Chairman, Netguru
Board Chair
Andrew Sieja
Founder & Executive
Chairman Relativity
Bartosz Ciolkowski
General Manager of
Southeast Europe,
MasterCard
Daniel Surmacz
Co-founder & COO,
RTB House
Ewa Szmidt-Belcarz
CEO, Empik
Grzegorz Czapski
Chief Business
Development Officer,
Allegro
Jakub Dwernicki
Founder & CEO, R22
Maciej Noga
Co-founder & Chairman,
Pracuj
Marcin Zukowski
Co-founder, Snowflake
Oktawian Zajac
Managing Director
& Partner, Head of
BCG Warsaw
Paulina Skrzypińska
Chief Innovation Officer,
BNP Paribas Bank Poland
PORTUGAL
Joaquim Sérvulo
Rodrigues
Chairman & CEO, Armilar
Venture Partners SCR
Board Chair
Anabela Ferreira
Co-Owner, Executive
Board Member, Intraplás
& Hotel Cidnay
António Murta
Managing Partner,
Pathena SGPS S.A.
João Coelho Borges
Partner, Draycott Capital
Manuel Schiappa Pietra
President & CEO,
FreeBalance
Nuno Sebastião
Chairman & CEO,
Feedzai
Pedro Castro e Almeida
CEO, Santander Portugal
Philippe Teixeira da Mota
Investor and former
Partner, Hedosophia
PUERTO RICO
Jose Stella
Co-founder & Co-CEO,
QMC Telecom
Board Chair
Ignacio Álvarez
President & CEO,
Popular, Inc.
Jason Borschow
President & CEO,
Abarca Health
John Helmers
Founder & CIO,
Long Focus Capital
José Fernández
Partner & COO,
StepStone Group
Juan Sabater
Partner, Valor
Equity Partners
Lisanne Dorion
Principal, Lisanne
Dorion LLC
Mac Schuessler
President & CEO,
Evertec
ROMANIA
Marius Stefan
Founder & CEO, Autonom
Outgoing Board Chair
Vargha Moayed
Venture Partner, White Star
Capital; UiPath Alumni
Incoming Board Chair
Andrei Dunca
Technology Entrepreneur
Costin Taracila
Managing Partner, RTPR
Karina Paval
Vice President,
Paval Holding
Marian V. Popa
Managing Director,
Romania – Globalworth
Mark Steven Davis
Regional Director, EBRD –
Romania and Bulgaria
Rozalia Nistor
CEO Centrico Selir,
Sella Group
Tiberiu Moisa
Deputy CEO, Banca
Transilvania
Voicu Oprean
Founder & CEO,
AROBS
SAUDI ARABIA
Musaab Al Muhaidib
Chairman, Masdar
Building Materials
Board Chair
Abdulla Elyas
Co-founder & Chief
People Officer, Careem
Abdulmohsin Al Rabiah
Co-Founder & CEO,
Shawarmer
Ahmed Hamdan
Co-founder & CEO,
Unifonic
Dalal Al Mutlaq
Co-founder & Managing
Director, The Local Agency
Faisal Tamer
Managing Partner,
Tamer Group
Fares Bugshan
CEO, Saudi Bugshan
Ibrahim A. Al Jammaz
CEO, Alamar Foods
Nouf Adib AlZamil
Director Corporate
Communications & ICT,
Zamil Group Holding
Company
Omar Al Majdouie
Founding Partner,
Raed Ventures
Rami Al Turki
President & CEO,
Alturki Holding
Tal Nazer
CEO, Bupa Arabia
SOUTH AFRICA
Herman Bosman
CEO, RMB Holdings
& RMI Holdings
Board Chair
Barry Swartzberg
CEO, Vitality Group Inc.
& Co-founder, Discovery
Limited
Candice Roberts
Co-founder & CEO,
CallForce
Ernst Gouws
Chair Acorn Trust &
Ex-CEO, Outsurance
Gordon Little
CEO, FNB Business
Melvyn Lubega
Co-founder & Director,
Go1
Nadya Bhettay
Chief Operations Officer –
Ventures & Partnerships,
Vodacom Group
Nkateko Khoza
CEO, Dzana Investments
Vukani Mngxati
CEO, Accenture Africa
Zakhe Khuzwayo
Co-founder & COO/CFO,
InnoVent
Adrian Gore (Patron)
Co-founder & Group CEO,
Discovery Limited
David Frankel (Patron)
Co-founder, Internet
Solutions; MD, Founder
Collective
Paul Harris (Patron)
Non-Executive Director,
RMB Holdings
Isaac Shongwe (Patron)
Chair, Letsema Group
SPAIN
Jaime Carvajal Urquijo
Former Managing Director
& Partner, Advent
International
Honorary Board Chair
Juan de Antonio
Founder & CEO, Cabify
Board Chair
Verónica Pascual
ASTI MD and Global AMR
Business MD, ABB Robotics
Board Vice Chair
Alejandro Romero
Founder & CEO, Constella
Álvaro López-Jorrín
Partner – Corporate Law,
Garrigues
Andoni Goicoechea
Founder & Chairman, Goiko
Beatriz González
Managing Partner,
Seaya Ventures
Beatriz Magro
Co-founder & CEO,
Komvida
Carlos Fernández
González
President, Finaccess
Carlos Torres Vila
Executive Chairman, BBVA
Federico Linares
Chairman, EY Spain
Francisco Riberas
Chairman & CEO, Gestamp
Gloria Fluxà Thienemann
Vice-Chairman & Chief
Sustainability Officer,
Iberostar Group
Javier Monzón
Founding Partner,
Wabisabi Inversiones
José María Álvarez-Pallete
Chairman & CEO, Telefónica
Leandro Sigman
Chairman, Insud Pharma
Marc Puig Guasch
Chairman & CEO, Puig
Miguel Arrufat
Founder, UNIR
Pablo Fernández
Co-founder, Clidrive
Pablo Isla
Global Senior Advisor,
General Atlantic Partners
Pau Gasol
IOC member, Gasol
Foundation Chairman,
Advisor and Investor
TUNISIA
Mohamed Elyes
Ben Rayana
Co-founder & CEO, Value
Board Chair
Ismail Mabrouk
Chairman, BIAT
Karim Beguir
Co-founder & CEO,
InstaDeep
Nabil Triki
Managing Partner & CEO,
SPE Capital Partners
Noureddine Tayebi
Founder & CEO, Yassir
Rym Baouendi
Founder & Managing
Director, Medina Works
Sami Ben Romdhane
Vice President & Technical
Fellow, eBay Inc.
TURKEY
Emre Kurttepeli
Founder, Mynet
Board Chair
Ali Koç
Vice Chairman of
the Board, KOÇ Holding
Alp Saul
CEO, Pronet
Cansen Başaran-Symes
Ebru Özdemir Kışlalı
Board Member,
Limak Holding
Engin Aksoy
CEO, Vodafone Turkey
Fady Jameel
President, Abdul Latif
Jameel Investments
Fırat İşbecer
Co-founder & CEO,
Commencis
Hande Çilingir
Co-founder & CEO, Insider
İlker Koçer
Regional Sales Director,
Oracle
Koray Bahar
Co-founder & CEO,
Figopara
Burcu Civelek Yüce
EVP, Consumer Banking &
Digital Solutions, Akbank
Murat Özyeğin
Board Member,
FİBA Holding
Nevzat Aydın
Co-founder & Chairman,
Yemeksepeti
Suzan Sabancı Dinçer
Chairwoman, Akbank
Tankut Turnaoğlu
Chairman, P&G Turkey
UAE
Nabyl Al Maskari
CEO, Al Maskari Holding
Board Chair
Ahmed Galal Ismail
CEO, Majid Al
Futtaim Properties
Badr Jafar
CEO, Crescent Enterprises
Elda Choucair
CEO, Omnicom Media
Group MENA
Faisal Al Hammadi
Managing Partner,
Further Ventures
Guillaume Pousaz
Founder & CEO,
Checkout.com
Hani Barhoush
Executive Director,
Mubadala Capital
Khaled Al Huraimel
Group CEO, Bee’ah
Majed Al Suwaidi
Managing Director Dubai
Media City, Studio City, and
Production City, TECOM
Muna Easa Al Gurg
Vice Chairperson
& Retail Director, Easa
Saleh Al Gurg Group
Najla Al-Midfa
CEO, Sharjah
Entrepreneurship Center
(Sheraa)
Osman Sultan
Formerly, CEO,
Emirates Integrated
Telecommunications
Company (du)
Patrick Chalhoub
CEO, Chalhoub Group
Souheil Hajjar
CEO, Majid Al Futtaim Trust
URUGUAY
Eduardo Mangarelli
Dean of the Engineering
School, ORT University
Board Chair
Álvaro Moré
President, VMLY&R
Ana Inés Echavarren
CEO, Infocorp
Andrea Roth Cárdenas
Directora Comercial,
APITER
Andrés Cerisola
Chairman, EMTV
Eli Barnett
Co-founder, Ebizmarts
Geoffrey Fichte
CEO, HSBC Uruguay
Hugo Romay
Director, Montecarlo
Televisora Color
Jean Paul Beer
5M Travel Group
Joaquín Morixe
VP of Entrepreneur
Relations, Globant
Julia Rodríguez Larreta
Director, El País
Marcos Guigou
CEO & Founder,
Agronegocios Del Plata
Martín Gomez Platero
Director, Gómez Platero
Arquitectos
Maximiliano Casal
Co-founder & COO,
Nowports
Orlando Dovat
President, Zonamerica
Sergio Fogel
Co-founder,
dLocal
VIETNAM
Nguyễn Thành Nam
Former CEO, FPT;
Founder, FUNiX Online
University
Board Chair
David Do
CEO, VIG
Nguyễn Việt Quang
CEO, Vingroup
Phan Quốc Công
Chairman, International
Consumer Products
Corporation
Phạm Vũ Thanh Giang
Former Partner,
Mekong Capital
Tô Hồng Trang
Deputy General Director,
Digiworld
Trần Thị Lệ
CEO, NutiFood
Vu Lam
CEO, Katalon
WESTERN NY
John Somers
CEO, Harmac
Medical Products
Board Chair
Deborah Biedenkopf
Founder & CEO,
MB2Group, LLC
Gene Gramza
Managing Partner (Retired),
EY Buffalo
Gregory Duval
Regional Executive &
Managing Director,
Great Lakes
John Gavigan
CEO, CrediVault
Martin Babinec
Managing Director,
UpVentures Capital
Rajat Shah
Partner, Harris Beach PLLC
Scott Stenclik
President & CEO, Aleron
ENDEAVOR GLOBAL SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Linda Rottenberg
Co-founder & CEO
Adrian Garcia-Aranyos
President
Allen Taylor
SVP, Entrepreneur Experience & Managing Partner, Endeavor Catalyst
Jackie Carmel
Managing Director, Endeavor Catalyst
Joanna Harries
SVP, Global Expansion
Margarita Chavez
SVP, Finance & Administration
Santiago Muro
VP, Global Partnerships
Silvia Cavalcanti
VP, Marketing & Communications
Carmela Bulacan Tran
Finance Director
Dustin Poh
Creative Director
Evan Bullington
Director, Entrepreneur Selection
Kirk Benson
Chief of Staff
Leah Barto
Senior Director, Research
Marina Turner
Senior Director, Entrepreneur Services
Marta Ghiglioni
Director, Entrepreneur Services
Nasim Novin
Senior Director, Entrepreneur Services
Nathan Cohen
Senior Director, People
MANAGING DIRECTORS OF LOCAL OFFICES
Argentina: María Julia Bearzi
Atlanta: Aaron Hurst
Brazil: Camilla Junqueira
Bulgaria: Momchil Vassilev
Canada: Kristjan Sigurdson
Chile: José Manuel Correa
Colombia: Camila Salamanca
Colorado: TBA
Detroit: Diana Callaghan
Ecuador: Pablo Freund
Egypt: Amr El Abd
Greece: Panagiotis Karampinis
Indonesia: TBA
Ireland: Rory Guinan
Italy: Marco Rampazzo
Japan: Rina Otsuka
Jordan: Dina Shawar
Kenya: Maryanne Ochola
Lebanon: Christina Chehade
Louisville: Jackson Andrews
Malaysia: Adlin Yusman
Mexico: Vincent Speranza
Miami: Claudia Duran
Morocco: TBA
Nigeria: Ireayomide Oladunjoye
NW Arkansas: Canem Arkan
Pakistan: Ali Samir Oosman
Peru: Paloma Aramburu
Philippines: Manuel Ayala
Poland: Bartosz Lipnicki
Portugal: Ricardo Mesquita
Puerto Rico: Cristina S. Tamayo Pérez
Romania: Mihnea Craciun
Saudi Arabia: Lateefa Alwaalan
South Africa: Alison Collier
Spain: Antonio Iglesias
Tunisia: Walid Bellagha
Turkey: Aslı Kurul
UAE: Noor Shawwa
Uruguay: Analia Migues
Vietnam: Lan Anh Nguyen
Western NY: Alan Rosenhoch
“ Sustainable economies are dependent on high-impact entrepreneurship.
What Endeavor does better than any other organization is to create entire cultures of entrepreneurship that spread within and between countries.”
REID HOFFMAN
Co-founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock
Endeavor Global Board Member
Endeavor Catalyst Chairman