About the program
Parallel18 is a global startup accelerator and investment platform that offers startup founders from all over the world access to high-quality business training, mentorship, connections and investment resources to help them scale globally.
As described in Public Law 214-204, is a nonprofit organization created in 2004 to promote the participation and creation of jobs on the island in the global knowledge economy by promoting investment and the financing of research and development of science and technology. The PRSTRT invests, facilitates, and builds capacity to continually advance Puerto Rico’s economy and its citizens’ well-being through innovation-driven enterprises, science and technology, and its industrial base. With the goal of Puerto Rico being an innovation center of global recognition. The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust was also designated one of the 31 Tech Hubs, by President Biden’s administration in 2023, to lead the PRBio Tech Hub, with a multi-sector consortium on the Island.
MEET OUR MENTORS!
Deborah Collazo
Industrial Organizational Psychologist & HR Consultant
Clinical Associate Professor of Business Administration at Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Raúl Burgos
Founder & Managing Partner of Global 1080 Business Solutions
Miguel Calderón
Sr. Customer Business Manager at McCormick & Company
Board Member at Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust & Chairman at Cascades Technologies
Rodolfo Artiles
Managing Director - Miami at Cornerstone International Group
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