L'ATTITUDE Match-Up is due to return again this year in San Diego, during the L'ATTITUDE Conference that is to be held from September 12-15, 2024. This is a highly competitive pitch competition and Venture Capital conference, curating top Latino entrepreneurs who are creating transformational companies in the United States.

The winner of Match-Up receives the L'ATTITUDE Startup of the Year Award with exclusive press coverage, an accelerated opportunity to join the LAT VC portfolio, along with introductions to top co-investors. The event brings influential institutional partners, corporations and venture funds together under one roof, providing an excellent opportunity for pre-seed to Series a Latino owned and operated businesses in the United States.

During the L'ATTITUDE Match-Up competition, founders and investors attend tailored workshops, networking events and educational panels. Accredited investors have access to a curated list of investable companies, while founders demonstrate and compete for the L'ATTITUDE Startup of the Year award. Those selected have the unique opportunity to showcase their business to capital allocators. LAT VC receives and reviews approximately five hundred submissions each year with forty exceptional startups being evaluated and twenty being invited to showcase their business on the main stage.

Previous winners have joined the LAT VC portfolio and received $5 million in capital collectively. Last year twenty three companies from throughout the United States were invited to showcase their business at L'ATTITUDE Match-Up.

“L'ATTITUDE Match-Up is a trusted gateway that secures capital from investors of all stages and types to boost the success of Latino entrepreneurs,” said Kennie Blanco, the Managing Partner and CIO at LAT VC. “The annual pitch takes place at the L'ATTITUDE conference that is set for September 2024. Selected business owners are invited to showcase their companies to a national audience, including angel investors, strategic investors and institutional funds. We invest throughout the year, along with several new businesses pitching at the upcoming Match-Up competition.”

LAT VC does have strict qualifying criteria that businesses must meet before submitting their pitch via the venture capitalists website page. The company must meet one of the following criteria; it must have a US Latino founder that owns a minimum of twenty five percent of the business, or collectively the US Latino founders must own a minimum or twenty five percent of the business. It also includes US Latino C-suite executives that own a minimum of ten percent of the business, these can be a CEO, CTO or CFO.

LAT VC also requires that the business is pre-seed to Series A and must be technology enabled. This means that they must be a software or technology enabled business that solves an important societal problem with a potential large market. In addition to this, the business must be USA based or led.

About Us:

LAT VC is a purpose led venture company that invests in early stage US Latino led and owned businesses with large and high growth opportunities. The company started in 2019, addressing the troubling economic costs to our country and the underfunding of US Latino entrepreneurs. The company invests, elevates and accelerates Latino owned businesses by investing early. LAT VC invests from $200,000 to $1.5 million in Latino led and owned technology companies that offer or provide technology as core to businesses. Full details on LAT VC the process and pitch submission form can be found on their information packed website at https://lattitudeventures.com/.