March 3, 2022
UPDATE
Apple launches inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Latin founders
This week, Apple launched its inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Hispanic and Latin founders, inviting leaders and builders from 9 app firms from the US, Brazil, Guatemala, and Portugal to construct the subsequent era of cutting-edge apps.
“We’re so excited to bolster the influence of Entrepreneur Camp with the addition of this new cohort for Latin technologists,” mentioned Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice chairman of Surroundings, Coverage, and Social Initiatives. “It’s an honor to help these founders and builders on their journeys as they construct superb apps that join, inform, and encourage us.”
Throughout this immersive tech lab, builders obtain one-on-one code-level steerage from Apple specialists and engineers to assist speed up their apps. Contributors additionally obtain mentorship, inspiration, and insights from the corporate’s leaders.
The primary Entrepreneur Camp was held in 2019 for app-driven firms based and led by builders from underrepresented backgrounds in expertise. The primary cohorts centered on feminine founders and builders, and final 12 months, Apple welcomed its first group of Black founders.
Program alumni have gone on to safe main funding rounds, garner awards and accolades, and efficiently promote their firms in main acquisitions. Earlier app participant BookSloth not too long ago turned the first-ever acquisition of a female-led expertise firm in Puerto Rico.
Extra apps from Entrepreneur Camp alumni could be discovered on the App Retailer right here.
Meet the Builders
“Cuca Catch”
Brazil
Apple Developer Academy graduates Matheus Kulick, Theo Caldas, and Kassio Veras wished to discover a manner to make use of expertise to advertise Brazilian folklore and tradition. They not too long ago launched “Cuca Catch” on the App Retailer — a dynamic sport that makes use of customers’ facial expressions to assist Cuca, Brazil’s most iconic witch, create potions.
Encantos: Play, Study & Develop
United States
A number of years in the past, CEO and Encantos co-founder Steven Wolfe Pereira was in search of a method to share his Dominican tradition together with his youngsters, and launched into the journey of launching a various content material library. As his firm grew to a full crew, together with builders Keith Elliott and Francine Walker, their focus has broadened to serving to youngsters improve their literacy and life expertise via audio, video, books, and video games from creators of underrepresented communities.
Falou
Brazil
When Gabriel Santos, Vitor Marques, and Matheus Medina held conferences in English, they seen that dialog could possibly be troublesome for individuals who had studied the language in class, however didn’t have a lot sensible talking expertise. They created Falou to assist folks change into conversational sooner by strolling via immersive journey simulations.
“Gamma Fighter”
United States
An homage to ’80s-style video games like “House Invaders” and “Galaga,” “Gamma Fighter” is a retro-style arcade sport created by solo developer Jorge Briones. Although sport creation is a ardour venture that Briones initially picked up as a passion, he now blogs about his “coding adventures,” in hopes of inspiring others to learn to code.
Memoria
Brazil
Apple Developer Academy college students Ana Bittencourt Vidigal, Djenifer Renata Pereira, and Gustavo Kumasawa need to evoke recollections related to digital pictures the best way outdated printed picture albums do. Throughout camp, they’ll be engaged on Memoria, a sharable digital picture album that anchors pictures to things or environment, to assist spark recollections related to the pictures in order that they don’t get “misplaced” or forgotten in your iPhone digital camera roll.
Sinq: Your Health Companion
Brazil/Portugal
Well being and wellness have been at all times vital passions for Apple Developer Academy alums Matheus Fogiatto, Rodrigo Giglio, and Daniela Aires dos Reis. They noticed a chance out there for Sinq, an app that makes use of a customizable dinosaur character to behave as a motivator buddy for health, and now, they’re working to launch extra group actions and challenges.
Tripify
Brazil
When founder Alexandre Morgado couldn’t discover what he wanted in a journey app, he began designing his personal. With the assistance of fellow developer Thiago Imolesi, the crew constructed Tripify as a holistic journey app with options to plan journeys, handle bills, register recollections, and log locations visited.
Wakeout!
Guatemala/United States
Wakeout! is a “motion remedy” app designed to get customers off the sofa or out of their desk chair with temporary motion periods all through the day, it doesn’t matter what their environments appear like. Already vastly profitable on the App Retailer, Wakeout! obtained an App Retailer Award in 2020. Since then, teammates Andres Canella, Pedro Wunderlich, and Dmitry Ivanov have added hundreds of workout routines to the platform and have even created a separate, however related, providing for teenagers.
Yoga Wake Up
United States
Founders Lizzie and Joaquín Brown first got here up with the concept for Yoga Wake Up throughout a yoga class. Aiming to create a device for newcomers and people with persistent well being points who’re looking for an approachable method to make yoga part of their routine, the app encourages pleasant interactions between instructors and the neighborhood, and now provides over 365 bed-based audio periods.
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