Grupo Guayacán, sponsors of the I-Corps Puerto Rico entrepreneurial bootcamp, announced the three winners of its 11th cohort, which drew 22 participating teams. Seed capital prizes totaling $8,500 were awarded with the support of the Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico (MUPR) fund at the Boston Foundation. The team from Mujerona was awarded the first prize […]
Grupo Guayacán will celebrate its traditional end-of-year event in a virtual format — in tune with the current pandemic — to highlight achievements of the organization and its participants, as well as the award ceremony of the 2020 EnterPRize competition. The virtual event will be broadcast Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. on Grupo Guayacán’s YouTube […]
Small donations of $1, $10 and $50 added up to help Grupo Guayacán surpass its fundraising goal for the 2020 Guayacán Giving Day, which closed with $82,768 in donations, the nonprofit announced. The campaign is the organization’s most important effort geared at raising individual donations to support its entrepreneurial development and training programs, which are […]
Many studies have proven that entrepreneurs are a key driver of innovation, wealth creation and economic development. Being an entrepreneur, however, is not for the faint of heart. It requires sacrifice, commitment, tough decisions and access to resources like capital, talent, and mentorship. Entrepreneurs are typically in desperate need of guidance and support, be it […]
Grupo Guayacán announced the return of the Guayacán Giving Day, its annual fundraising campaign that runs until Oct. 14, 2020. The campaign will be live over the following weeks under the slogan “Give to Support” and will highlight success stories of Guayacán alumni companies. More than 1,200 people have benefited from the various initiatives developed […]
Grupo Guayacán is looking for business ideas and future entrepreneurs who are eager to learn how to start a business in a short, yet intense virtual series of workshops. This will be the 11th edition of Grupo Guayacán’s I-Corps Puerto Rico (I-Corps PR) program, the idea validation boot camp to be offered online at no […]
Technological innovations not only transform, evolve and improve certain products or services; they also drive economic growth. To achieve such innovation, companies need to walk the talk and pave the road to success for other entrepreneurs in their economic landscape. Some actions in that direction include promoting good concepts, enabling support networks and providing adequate […]
Grupo Guayacán announced that it will award a $1,000 cash grant to all emerging companies selected to participate in the EnterPRize 2020 business competition, to help them deal with the blow dealt by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We are facing a new reality that requires using all the tools at our disposal to support our small […]
Starting in April, Grupo Guayacán will host a series of virtual talks providing tools and best practices for small and medium businesses, to help them keep their business afloat and successfully face the COVID-19 pandemic challenges. The virtual lecture series “Preparing for the Impossible: Virtual Talks for Businesses in Times of Crisis,” will provide information […]
Some 20 entrepreneurs were honored last night during Grupo Guayacán Inc.’s year-end event. The business training organization awarded more than $200,000 in seed capital prizes to foster the development of a group of 17 emerging companies. As part of the awards ceremony held at the Puerto Rico Museum of Art, the winners of the 14th […]
Grupo Guayacán closed its annual fundraising campaign, aimed at supporting the education and training programs offered to entrepreneurs at different stages of business development, raising $105,234.75. Through the month-long Guayacán Giving Day campaign, the organization will boost its endowment fund, which will directly support its programs and activities. This effort has been conducted for three […]
A total of 175 Puerto Rican business ventures benefited from $1.2 million in funding granted over the past two years by Grupo Guayacán Inc. to boost the island’s recovery after the devastating hit of Hurricane María in September 2017, the nonprofit said. Among the business, 42 were projects in the idea development stage, 100 were […]
Grupo Guayacán, Inc. (GGI) announced the ninth cohort of its business idea validation bootcamp, I-Corps Puerto Rico (I-Corps PR), which for the first time will take place at the University of Puerto Rico’s Río Piedras Campus. The event will be held in collaboration with the University’s Center for Commercialization and Innovation Support (UPR i+c), a […]
The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and Grupo Guayacán Inc. have signed a collaborative agreement to offer training services, support and mentoring to participants of the institute’s Cultural Factories and staff. As part of the agreement, the Institute will offer Guayacán the use of its facilities for its business development programs. “One of the Institute’s […]
A “record-breaking” group of 27 start-ups kicked off the finalist phase of Grupo Guayacán Inc.’s 2019 EnterPRize Competition, the entity announced. More than 30 collaborators, sponsors, and mentors participated in a judging session on Aug. 9, in which they evaluated pitches from 40 semi-finalists to select the group that would go on to compete for […]
NIMB ON SOCIAL MEDIA