Paula Enei

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

2023 - Current

Co-founder & Partner

2020

Platanus helps build and grow startups with technical founders in Latin America. We invest $200,000 for 5,5% of the company. Twice a year. In the top 1% of thousands of applicants. Startups join our community during an intense 3-month program created and guided by experienced Spanish-speaking founders.

Co-Founder and Senior Director

2017 - 2021

El Vaso Medio Lleno is a digital media and entertainment company with 23M content views per month that focuses on positive and uplifting content for Spanish speakers. El Vaso Medio Lleno is currently a self sustaining business with growing traction and revenue. - Implementation and supervision of the automatic publishing system created for our content. - In charge of community management and user loyalty.

Co-Founder and Content Director

2014 - 2017

El Vaso Medio Lleno is a digital media and entertainment company with 23M content views per month that focuses on positive and uplifting content for Spanish speakers. We create positive, custom Branded Content campaigns for like-minded companies. In charge of: - Leading the content team, whose efforts garnered 1.4 million followers on Facebook, 23 million monthly content views and a 92% average monthly growth rate. - Creating and curating content. Writing and translating articles, video scripts and making videos for social media. - Co-creator of an adapted version of SCRUM, an Agile framework that improves teamwork, communications, and speed. It was adapted for our creative team and was essential for the achievement of the team's goals. - Making people happy :) Achievements: - Start-Up Chile Generation 15 participants: A program created by the Chilean Government that seeks to attract high-potential entrepreneurs to grow their startups in Chile. - Invited to an interview at Silicon Valley by top level accelerator Y-Combinator.

Director of International Growth

2019 - 2020

My mission as Director of International Growth, is to strategically plan, create and secure international expansion opportunities for the Start-Up Chile portfolio and other Chilean scale-ups. For this: 1) I locally represent the Go Global soft-landing program (created by ProChile and Corfo) where I manage a cross-border team of 4 Key Account Managers located in Perú, Colombia, México, and Miami that deliver the Start-Up Chile model abroad for our scale-ups. We support 60 scale-ups approx. per year, that grow into these 4 markets. 2) Advise in the selection process of the companies supported by Go Global and coordinate key-actors that can contribute through their experience, knowledge, and tools to the scale-ups success. 3) Oversee that the Start-Up Chile's portfolio succeeds in its international expansion efforts, everything ranging from market immersion knowledge to effectively matching international investors with the startup founders. We support 150-200 startups through our soft-landing program per year.

Head of International Networks & Scouting

2018 - 2019

Head of International Networks & Scouting for Start-Up Chile. Manager of international networks (100+), soft-landing programs, and scouting efforts, assuring that great quality startups are selected for the program. Within this role, I secured a pipeline of great potential grant investments for the program of worldwide talented founders and promising businesses. About Start-Up Chile: Start-Up Chile is a program created by the Chilean Government that seeks to attract early-stage, high-potential entrepreneurs to bootstrap their startups using Chile as a platform to go global. The end goal of this program is to position Chile as the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Latin America and to impact the Chilean economy by welcoming tech & innovation startups to our country.

Community Builder & HR Manager

2017 - 2018

In charge of Community & Experience as well as HR at Start-Up Chile, Latin America's #1 accelerator and #4 worldwide (http://gust.com/global-accelerator-report-2015/) Responsible for: - Managing, attending and accompanying over 250 startups which are accepted in the program per year. - Assuring an incredible experience for Start-Up Chile entrepreneurs by managing processes such as their soft-landing, induction, and adaptation to Chile and its culture. - In charge of Staff and Intern recruitment processes. - In charge of overseeing Start-Up Chile's OD. - Creating a community based on Start-Up Chile’s core values for the entrepreneurs and for the staff. - Working with and attending the needs of three main acceleration programs within Start-Up Chile: The Startup Factory, Seed and Scale. - Evaluating interventions made in the area of Experience and Culture and creating improvements that promote and facilitate the relationship between Start-Up Chile and its Stakeholders. - Organizing community activities (Orientation day, Friday’s SUP lunch, graduation ceremony among others.) to generate the best experience for entrepreneurs and to promote the program's core values. - Responsible for internal communications (Newsletters, Social Media, etc.) Created during my management: - Landing Buddy program (handling an inter-generation program where 200+ people looked to match with each other to support/be supported during each new landing process). - SUPpers Online (an internal website that solved the problem of multiple and sometimes inefficient communication channels used to reach the entrepreneurs. All the valuable information that impacted the entrepreneur's experience was made available on this site, which is now main place of consultation for them.)