Medellín Startup Traction and Funding Network

❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/25170 to get your link and join us live!

❯ Who Should Attend

• Experienced professionals with a startup idea who have been waiting for a technical co-founder
• First-time solo founders who want to validate an idea without writing a single line of code
• AI-curious professionals who want to use AI to build products, not just automate tasks at work
• Anyone who has been told they need a developer to get started

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❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/25170 to get your link and join us live!

❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23171 to get your link and join us live!

❯ Featured Speakers:

• Liza Rodewald (FI Washington DC Alumni) - Founder & CEO @ Instant Teams: Liza brings 16+ years of technical experience as a software engineer and 4x entrepreneur, with a background building enterprise software for government and healthcare. A Computer Science graduate from the University of South Alabama and top 3% Founder Institute alumni, she launched Instant Teams to reshape how companies build remote teams through a talent funnel of military-connected professionals. She is a Forbes contributor, SheEO Top 25 honoree, and active mentor for female founders. Instant Teams is a remote talent marketplace connecting military families with flexible remote jobs. Raised $13M in a Series A led by Tiger Global, hit $19M in revenue in 2024, with CEO Liza Rodewald named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
• Johanna Behm (FI Silicon Valley Alumni) - Co-founder & CEO @ Envire: Johanna brings a decade of experience across live events, bioinformatics, enterprise software, and climate tech. A Finnish engineer raised on sustainability as a default, she built Envire to become the AI-native intelligence layer for the global events industry, helping venues cut emissions and eliminate 90%+ of manual reporting. She also co-founded Global Climate Solutions to accelerate capital to climate founders and scientists worldwide. Envire is an AI-powered platform helping event venues and organizers reduce their environmental footprint through consolidated data and sustainability insights…

Envire is an AI-powered platform helping event venues and organizers reduce their environmental footprint through consolidated data and sustainability insights, targeting the events industry's contribution to global carbon emissions.

❯ Featured Host:

• Chris Foltz is a Global Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Founder Institute and Managing Director of Responsible Solutions, a Silicon Valley-based global strategy firm. He advises founders, executives, and policymakers across 6 continents on brand storytelling and go-to-market strategy. Named to the IRG100, an annual list of the world's top 100 CMOs and change agents, Chris brings a rare, unfiltered perspective shaped by a career that has spanned partisan politics, personal adversity, and a remarkable reinvention.a seed-stage fintech fund backing embedded financial technologies that expand economic access for low- and moderate-income Americans and small businesses.

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❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/startupwebinar/25336 to get your link and join us live!

❯ Featured Speaker:

• Adeo Ressi - CEO at Decile Group and and Chairman at the Founder Institute - Adeo has personally launched 14 venture capital funds and founded 11 startups, having nearly $2 billion in exits before the age of 30. He is currently CEO of Decile Group, powering the next generation of venture capital firms worldwide and parent of the VC Lab venture capital accelerator; and Chairman at the Founder Institute, a pre-seed accelerator with chapters in over 250 cities worldwide and over 8,900 portfolio companies.

❯ Who Should Attend:

• Professionals with 5 to 15+ years of experience in an industry who have been thinking about starting something but haven't made the move yet
• Solo founders who have an idea and the drive, but need a structured process to move forward without a team
• Professionals whose role is changing because of AI and who want to turn that disruption into their own company
• Ambitious professionals who are ready to bet on themselves and work harder than they ever have

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If you had March 23 blocked in your calendar, we’ve got something for you in the meantime 😊 Take a look at this webinar instead: How Aspiring Founders Can Use AI to Test Ideas & Move Faster: https://fi.co/startupwebinar/24246
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Below are the original event details, now rescheduled for June 8
Startup Advisors 101: How to Find Advisors and Maximize Their Impact:

Great startup advisors can be a huge benefit for early-stage founders - helping them access networks, avoid mistakes, supplement missing skills, and even provide emotional support. But finding great advisors can be challenging, and their benefits are typically tied to how well you can leverage their limited time. On this interactive online event, we'll break down a practical, founder-friendly process for finding, vetting, and activating great startup advisors from our experience facilitating tens of thousands of advisor relationships since 2009.

❯❯ RSVP now at 👉 https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124 to get your link and join us live!

❯ What You'll Learn:

• How to identify the right advisors.
• The chemistry + contribution test: how to evaluate fit before making anything official.
• How to structure advisor interactions so they produce outputs.
• When and how to use the FAST Agreement to standardize responsibilities + equity and avoid drawn-out negotiations.
• Common failure modes (advisor vanity, “free consulting,” misaligned incentives) and how to prevent them.

❯ Featured Speaker:

• Jonathan Greechan - Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute - Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and over 100 countries, producing over 8100 portfolio companies with nearly $2B in venture funding. In his long career in tech and marketing, Jonathan has advised thousands of startups on marketing, growth, and product strategy and has spoken at startup conferences on four continents.

❯ Who Should Attend?

• Founders at the idea, pre-seed, or early traction stage who want help but don’t want drama.
• First-time founders building their first advisory board.
• Operators and technical founders who need domain, distribution, or fundraising support.
• Mentors/advisors who want a clearer framework for being helpful (and getting properly compensated).

❯ The FAST Agreement (Founder-Advisor Standard Template)
The FAST Agreement is used by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and advisors per year to establish productive working relationships, trading advice and support for a standardized amount of equity. See the free agreement at FI.co/FAST.

❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP now at 👉 https://fi.co/startupwebinar/23124 to get your link and join us live!