Mexico City, 18 November 2021.
In order to make visible the efforts of women in entrepreneurship, the International Day of Women Entrepreneurs is celebrated every November 19. At Universidad Panamericana we are committed to promoting the entrepreneurial culture, so we celebrate the achievements of our alumni who have chosen this path.
Here are some of our proud UP entrepreneurs:
-Lula Chef - Rattlesnake
Lula Martín del Campo, better known as Lula Chef, is a graduate of our university's School of Institutional Management (ESDAI). She is currently the owner of Cascabel, a restaurant located in Plaza Santa Fe, in Mexico City. She has also participated in television programmes such as Tu cocina on Canal Once and in 2015 she was a guest on Master Chef Mexico.
"When you follow your heart, it is obviously your vocation. You only find that when you are connected to yourself and the path opens up for you, and it's okay that there might suddenly be a stage of confusion," Lula advises the Panamericana students.
On her time at ESDAI, she says: "I feel very proud to be part of the UP family and, of course, to be an ESDAI girl, which I carry with great pride".
-Rosa Costes - EnvíoClick
After graduating from the Faculty of Business Administration and Finance, Rosa decided to leave the comfort of a job in an established company to start her own business: EnvíoClick.
It is a pioneer of the Tech Shipping Solutions industry in the Americas, which aims to create a globalised, fair and inclusive trade for entrepreneurs and SMEs.
Likewise, her entrepreneurship earned her being named Forbes magazine's Forbes Tech Promise of 2019. "Entrepreneurship is not easy, but starting something new and leading the market is super satisfying, you always have to take on the challenge and not stay in your comfort zone," she says.
-Anahí Sosa - Perfekto
This Management and International Business alumni is the founder of Perfekto, a platform that offers a subscription of home-delivered fruit and vegetables that have the peculiarity of being imperfect. In this way, the aim is to reduce food waste.
For Anahí, a good entrepreneur must have a lot of resilience, "you go through moments where there is so much uncertainty and it can make you doubt even what you are creating".
But above all, he points out the importance of being creative and thinking outside the box: "because there are going to be so many problems, that there is a reason why a business has not been created in the same way, because perhaps it has not been possible to solve those problems, so we have to think of other ways of solving them and unblocking them".
From January 2021 to the present day, Perfekto has almost 300 subscribers and has managed to rescue +8,000 kilos of food.
-Gabriela Gutiérrez - GetIot Internet of Things
A graduate of the Faculty of Engineering and at the same time of our Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), together with her former professors Luis Amaya (PhD in Electronic Engineering) and Raúl Trejo (PhD in Artificial Intelligence), she created GetIot Internet of Things.
This is a technology development company that was born out of Gabriela's desire to develop a social project in September 2017, thanks to which GaSaver, the company's first product, was born.
"Entrepreneurship is often like a lone ranger, many times when you start a business you don't know how to move forward or what step to take," says Gabriela, who acknowledges that it is thanks to the CEI that her company has received support from several accelerator programmes.
