Miryam Lazarte
General Partner at GSA Ventures
Miryam Lazarte
General Partner at GSA Ventures
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2023 - Current
As General Partner, I'm responsible for overseeing and managing the overall operations and investment activities at GSA Ventures.
CEO & Co-Founder
2016
As a CEO of Global Startups my job is to seek funding and strategic growth for the organization. Under my administration Global Startups has been able to partner with the City of Toronto, become a member of the National Angel Capital Organization, get designated organization for the Startup Visa program, and obtain funding from Federal, provincial and local government, between other achievements. Global Startups is the evolution of LatAm Startups. As a non-profit accelerator, we have been able to support over 200 startups in the last 7 years.
Member of the Program Advisory Committee Seneca College
2017
Member of the Program Advisory Committee for the School of Management and Entrepreneurship
VP, Business Development & Co-Founder
2013 - 2017
Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. As part of Go South! Consulting my job is to be your guide to doing business in Latin America, focused in markets as Chile, Peru, Colombia and Uruguay. Go South! specializes in the connection of high-tech companies from Canada with the most relevant infrastructure projects in Latin America. A new additional service will be helping startups into reach either Canada or Latin America according with their goals and expectations. Go South! is an authorize agent of Carmanah Technologies in Uruguay. Follow our Blogs and our LinkedIn Company Page.
Logistic Partner - Procolombia
2015 - 2015
Our work was to contact speakers, trainers, organize tours, organize a conference, and register some attendees for the B2B sessions of the Colombia ICT Matchmaking Forum at Metro Toronto Convention Centre - Oct 28-29, 2015 As result, we implemented a different event for Procolombia, the training sessions on Oct 28 provided insights about the tech ecosystem in Canada, how to do business and marketing from a Canadian perspective. The ecosystem tours gave access to the Colombian companies to meet and interact with innovation centres, hubs and companies developing new technologies in different areas including video gaming and animation. The very first pitching session for Procolombia allowed to 10 Colombian startups to get a training session with a super coach and perform a good first pitching session for most of the startups participating this year. We provided a high level conference on Oct 29, with the participation of City of Toronto, the IT department of Scotiabank, investors and journalist. Finally we contributed with some companies for the B2B sessions, the major part of the Canadian companies came from Procolombia's sources. $12M in business and more than 500 appointments were performed during the Matchmaking session.
Contract Administrator & Logistics
2010 - 2013
At Terra I worked supporting the business development department by preparing proposals (Canada & Latin America), preparing and attending trade-shows (Colombia), doing marketing research (Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador), preparing and attending introduction meetings with potential clients (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador) and administrating contracts, preparing bonds for proposals and contracts, invoicing clients and following-up post-sales. Additionally, I’ve been working managing directly the shipping department, exporting and importing our LiDAR system in different countries such as Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile and USA. My contribution to Terra helped to manage large contracts as Autopista La Montana with ISA in 2010, and other contracts in Peru and Guatemala. I published some articles about LiDAR in cooperation with some of our co-workers at Terra.