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Start-Up Chile selects 105 new startups in round 6

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32 pointsguillermovs14 comments

Honest question, are there any well known start-ups that have come out of the Start-Up Chile program?

The two more successful ones I'm aware of are cruisewise and babelverse so far.

But really, the program isn't focused on the success of the start-ups, it's about start-ups affecting the Chilean ecosystem, and that is happening.

I'm interested to hear how the Chilean ecosystem has changed as a result. Since I don't live in Chile, I don't have much visibility into that. Can you share your experience?

It's a relatively new program - shouldn't it take 6-8 years on average to see results?

I'd expect to see the first signs of results in a couple years. For example, how many companies from the first batch are still around?

My company participated in the pilot round. Last I heard from Nate (Entrustet and Welcu), 23% of our cohort were profitable and bootstrapping, 32% had taken further investment, and only 14% had failed.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2012/09/03/start-up-chiles-first-al...

23% isn't too shabby.

not many, I'm afraid - but a few of them are making good progress: Babelverse, WeHostels, Taggify and SaferTaxi

(most of them not due to Startup Chile anyway, but still...)

I'm from Bolivia and I'm curious if anyone from my country is there. Algun Boliviano por ahi? :)

Hello there, I'm from Mexico, i was part of the 2nd generation of Startup Chile .. I remember Daniel Ponce from Bolivia.

He was on a startup called "amerpages", I think he is now part of "CityHeroes".

Un saludo desde Mexico :).

All the links to companies appear to be broken. Is it just for me?

Yep, looks like they got something wrong there!

When is the next batch? Can't seem to find in the website.

Congrats to NuFlick!

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