Promoting Innovation and
Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Parallel18 is a top-level, performance-driven international innovation hub focused on providing funding, mentorship, business connections, and investment to underrepresented founders around the globe.
FOR LOCAL STARTUPS
A three-month pre-acceleration program that provides grants, high-quality business training, funding, and networks to local startups to help them launch to the market. Build and run by Puerto Ricans, for Puerto Ricans.
FOR INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL STARTUPS
A five-month acceleration program that provides grants, high-quality business training, funding, and networks to international startups to help them scale globally.
FOR LOCAL STARTUPS
A four-month post-acceleration program sponsored by Banco Popular aiming to support growth-stage innovative startups from Puerto Rico that are ready to expand towards a sustainable growth and scale to new markets.
FOR LIFE SCIENCES STARTUPS
A Life Sciences innovation incubator program led by the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust to increase economic development through innovation and entrepreneurship in the life sciences sector.
Challenge to Innovate is an initiative for college students, professors and founders in the clean energy industry in early stages in Puerto Rico. We offer education, technical support and access to capital to validate their idea until its potential commercialization.
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Emmanuel F. Oquendo-Rosa
P18 Gen. 4 Alumni and CEO at BrainHi
“parallel18 has played a very important role in the history of BrainHi. The parallel18 team helped us grow our MRRs 20x during the program and supported us in raising our first round. More importantly, the relationship didn’t end when we finished the program; we are still in contact and receiving a lot of value.”
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Chantelle Bell
P18 Gen. 7 Alumni and Co-Founder of Syrona Health
“Coming to parallel18 from the UK really helped us drive our business forward by actioning weekly KPIs. The P18 team pushed us to explore new business opportunities and supported potential collaboration efforts within the Island. It has also given us a head start understanding the US market for our Expansion.”
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Fede Dibenedetto
P18 Gen. 4 Alumni and Co-Founder of Wisboo
“P18 is amazing!! The staff, the culture, the mentors, and the program itself. Our best startup accelerator program experience ever!! We define P18 as a true coach and a key role to guide your startup and take it to the next level of growth.”
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Emmanuel F. Oquendo-Rosa
P18 Gen. 4 Alumni and CEO at BrainHi
“parallel18 has played a very important role in the history of BrainHi. The parallel18 team helped us grow our MRRs 20x during the program and supported us in raising our first round. More importantly, the relationship didn’t end when we finished the program; we are still in contact and receiving a lot of value.”
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Chantelle Bell
P18 Gen. 7 Alumni and Co-Founder of Syrona Health
“Coming to parallel18 from the UK really helped us drive our business forward by actioning weekly KPIs. The P18 team pushed us to explore new business opportunities and supported potential collaboration efforts within the Island. It has also given us a head start understanding the US market for our Expansion.”
OUR STARTUPS SAY
Fede Dibenedetto
P18 Gen. 4 Alumni and Co-Founder of Wisboo
“P18 is amazing!! The staff, the culture, the mentors, and the program itself. Our best startup accelerator program experience ever!! We define P18 as a true coach and a key role to guide your startup and take it to the next level of growth.”
WE’RE OUR NUMBERS
394
startups
$13.7M(USD)
grants distributed
$210M(USD)
total investment raised
600+
investor network
75+
corporate partners
High-quality business education is a must for every founder, especially when they are looking to grow and scale their business.
FROM A MENTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Neil Cohen
Marketing Therapist
“I’ve never not been impressed with the quality of each and every parallel18 cohort. The entrepreneurs come ready to work and learn and are a dream to work with. And the team at P18 are in a class by themselves. Consummate pros that care deeply about the success of the companies in the program. It’s a privilege to be a mentor.”
FROM A MENTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Alexandra García
Program Manager at Google
“As a born and raised Puerto Rican, I was extremely proud and inspired to see the level of innovation and determination coming out of startups in the P18 program. The founders were very receptive towards the importance of storytelling and building purpose into the narrative of their companies. They quickly applied the learnings and principles into their value proposition, branding and sales pitches to better connect with their audiences.”
FROM A MENTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Devin Baptiste
Founder, CEO – GroupRaise
“Supporting founders as a Mentor of parallel18 is an extreme joy & honor. P18 founders tend to be excellent operators looking to put insights into practice right away. They tend to ask great questions, be very teachable and achieve excellent results.
P18 is one of the most rewarding places that I mentor because it gives me great joy to see the founders put insight into practice very quickly and create both long-term economic and social impact that is extremely rewarding to watch. Mentoring in P18 creates leverage for me to make meaningful impact in early stage founders’ journeys that I see compounding over time.”
AMAZING PERKS AT THE PALM OF YOUR HAND
Our service providers support our startups (just like you!), by offering amazing deals.
BECOME A MEMBER OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL COMMUNITY, JOIN OUR TALENT APP
The Talent app is a digital tool in which students, freelancers, and professionals, in general, submit their resumes to be part of a robust database that is available to the more than 350+ international companies that belong to our programs. Not only can you contribute to the ecosystem, you can also export your talent to other global markets!
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