Regalii, LLC SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN PRESTIGIOUS GLOBAL ACCELERATOR PROGRAM, START-UP CHILE,
GARNERING $40K OF EQUITY-FREE SEED CAPITAL
Selected participants, 100 in total, hail from 36 different nations and comprise the third and final application round of 2011
Philadelphia, PA – February 27, 2012 – At $69BN, remittances are the largest form of foreign capital flowing into Latin American families in Latin America. However, because of the offline nature of this activity, sending remittances is expensive, slow and burdensome. As a result to this problem Edrizio De La Cruz and Brian Sulaiman came up with Regalii. Regalii is a revolutionary, free and collaborative form of remittance between Latinos (in U.S. and Spain) and their family in Latin America (“LAC”). As opposed to sending cash, Regalii empowers Latinos to send group gift cards (via SMS) for stores and supermarkets in LAC. The user 1) selects Recipients (family in LAC), 2) invites other family members (in U.S.) to share the gift cost. 3) Finally, the Recipient receives a text message with the e-code, which can be redeemed at cash registers at supermarkets and stores in LAC.
- Founders:
Edrizio De La Cruz -Co-founder and CEO. Edrizio has executed strategy for Fortune 500 businesses and startups, both as a financier (Pegasus & J.P. Morgan) and as an operator (Nopone.com). Edrizio is a 2011 MBA graduate from Wharton, and was recently at DreamIT Ventures performing sales for an ecommerce company, Nopone.
Brian Sulaiman – Co-founder and CTO. Brian is a senior systems engineer at eBay and an expert in ecommerce with over 12 years of experience.
- Attracted over 2000 followers on Facebook and Twitter and over 100
subscriptions.
- As opposed to sending cash, Regalii empowers Latinos to send group
gift cards (via SMS) for stores and supermarkets in LAC.
- The target market is Hispanics in Spain and in the U.S. – which are the largest and fastest growing minority populations in both countries
- To attract and retain this segment we’ve launched a brand extension of Regalii focused on Mexico:
www.facebook.com/Regalii.Mexico
About Start-Up Chile
Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government, initiated by the Ministry of Economy and executed by Corfo/InnovaChile, that seeks to attract early-stage high potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups using Chile as a platform to go global. In line with the national goal of converting Chile into the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Latin America, the program plans to bring 1,000 startups to Chile by 2014.
During the six months the participants must be in Chile – for which they receive US$40k of equity-free seed capital, a 1-year work visa, and access to local financial and social networks– the objective is to raise funds, hire talent, create networks, and to launch their businesses from Chile while leveraging and interacting fully with the local entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The program, unique in the world, and catalyst of similar initiatives such as Startup America, Britain, and Greece, is the ideal opportunity for bootstrappers to receive funding without ceding equity while utilizing one of the strongest Latin American economies as their launching/development platform. Start-Up Chile has been featured in The Economist, BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, and Forbes, among others.
For more information about the Start-Up Chile experience, please visit www.startupchile.org.
Soy Mexicano 
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