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Founding Story
Nikon
Our team brings together experts in business development, international development and technology who are passionate about creating impact.
After his 8 years of professional experience in research and industry, with a focus on Innovation, Data Mining, Entrepreneurship and Biotechnologies, Nikon is driven to combine scientific and business-oriented methodologies to innovate the enterprises of tomorrow. He completed his PhD from Cambridge University in Computational Neuroscience.
The rest of the Pullapproach team includes: Robin Rahe - MBA & Product Development, Jose Luis Arteche - Big Data and Carlos Hernandez Corbato - PhD & Data Mining, Hector Calleja and Irene Chinchilla - Design. Our advisors are Pablo de Manuel Triantafilo, Luis Gonzalez Blanch, Ester Botica and Jose Sanz.
I have been developing the Global Incubator technology for entrepreneurs since August 2010. Seeing a need for regional development agencies and other international actors to pull tailored social enterprises into their region, I co-proposed a spin-off called Pullapproach.
Since July 2012, we have been testing and developing our prototype with a large non-profit agency in Latin America. As CEO, I am responsible for establishing strategic goals and coordinating efforts between the core Pullapproach team and Global Incubator in order to co-develop technology that measures social impact and is based on complex models. Prior leadership experiences equip me to identify opportunities, establish vision for the team and to build long-term partnerships with key stake holders.
, CA, Mountain View
Latin America, Europe, and U.S.
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Start-Up (a pilot that has just begun operating)
Our parent company (Global Incubator) is focused on large, profitable businesses and start-ups. We build upon this by measuring their social impact, adding new social enterprises and by using crowd sourcing and experts to analyze where initiatives can have the biggest impact. We use technology to reverse typical regional development processes by pulling in companies tailored to a region´s needs instead of pushing a generic solution to different regions.
We operate in 3 countries and have a database of profitable business models with a social impact for more than 10,000 companies. Through our technology more than 7 social enterprises have gotten seed funding and start-up space to further improve and scale their businesses.
We are currently developing long-term partnerships with our clients
and partners. These relationships will determine the size of our impact.
We connect regions in need of sustainable development solutions with brilliant entrepreneurs who have devised such solutions but face barriers to scaling into
those regions.
We have customized our services for the following segments:
1 Government agencies at local, regional and national levels that invest in development and
promote entrepreneurship.
2 Multinational companies who want to align their core values with regional development
opportunities and to foster social ventures.
3 Development Organizations including think-tanks, NGOs and for-profit organizations
dedicated to promoting global social and economic development.
1. Pullapproach serves the needs of an entirely different market segment than Global Incubator´s. We focus on organizations concerned with international development, social impact, and profitability. We have identified a way to bring together all stakeholders of regional development, an untapped vertical for GI.
2. We enhance the core tools and add new functionalities for measuring impact which can be further developed for traditional business clients.
3. We fulfill the social mission of Gl to make the world better through technology.
The platform and tools were designed based on consultations with more than 250 leading
incubators in over 20 countries and from analysis of 1200 entrepreneurial tools. Our base technology is valued at $3.5 million.
In addition to the use of this technology, Pullapproach may use up to 80 hours of consultation per month from Global Incubator staff to adapt the platform. By developing this technology over 3 years, the staff have developed expertise in creating software tools for a many types of clients. Moreover, Pullapproach collaborates with Global Incubator´s extensive network of clients with whom we tests various service packages and delivery options. The Global Incubator board of directors also provides feedback on business development and provides introduction to potential clients.
The arrangement stated above will continue for the rest of the fiscal year. At that point, we must demonstrate that future revenue from signed customer contracts will be used to offset at least half of the costs of personnel. This arrangement ensures that Pullapproach continues to co-develop its technology and product offering for our market segments.
Our partnership with Socialab has given us insight into the needs of social incubators. Helping our partners to scale quickly is essential to expanding our database of business models exponentially. Meanwhile, our Singularity partnership enables us to interact with leaders and adds disruptive new initiatives to our database.
We work with senior in-house developers to enhance the platform for development-oriented actors and with designers to establish our online presence.
So far, working with Global Incubator has been an incredible asset. Pullapproach can defray high development costs and yet offer immediate access to an advanced suite of tools being used by institutions around the world. At times, our team must dedicate itself towards core technology improvements but the partnership also ensures that Pullapproach technology will continually improve as Global Incubator enhances software to meet the needs of its growing user base.