enlace+
enlace+
enlace+ was founded in 2008, in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, by businessmen Alberto G. Villarreal, José Wapinski (Emwa), Rogelio Zambrano (Cemex) and Enrique Gómez Junco (Óptima Energía), with the firm purpose of promoting Mexico's economic growth.
enlace+ is a program that helps to institutionalize innovative companies in the growth and consolidation stage, in order to professionalize, through the largest network of personalized counseling and mentoring – made up of 500 high-profile members – the business skills of their leaders.
Services
enlace+ operates under a model in which, for a year and a half:
- Assigns an Advisory Council focused on the needs of the company.
- Offers mentoring provided by a group of high-profile entrepreneurs and managers, who are suitable for the line of business of each company.
- Connects with investors and allies.
- Strategically accompanies decision making to generate growth in sales and profits, achieve orderly growth and enhance positive impact through the training of conscious businessmen and women.
- 15 years of experience.
- Presence in 11 chapters: Aguascalientes, CDMX, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Irapuato, León, Monterrey, Querétaro, Puebla, Sinaloa and Toluca.
- More than 400 supported companies, which on average have reported increases in sales of more than 133% and growth of 180% in job creation compared to the previous year of their participation in the program.
- A network of more than 500 members whose business and management experience (20 years on average) allows us to offer personalized Counseling and Mentoring to support those who are founders and general directors of the innovative companies that have been selected to be part of the program.
Every year, enlace+ looks for innovative entrepreneurs who are generating a positive impact in Mexico, to promote the institutionalization of their companies .
Requirements:
- Differentiating model and/or the capacity to be the leader in the industry.
- Positive impact on the development of Mexico.
- Exponential scalability/ growth potential.
- Annual sales between $10 and $500 M MXN.
- Business model already defined and with at least 4 years of operation.
- Sales growth of at least 15% in the last year.
- At least 10 employees.
Steps to participate:
- Period to receive applications from companies: January 15 to March 15 at enlacee.org/convocatoria
- Interviews with pre-selected companies: February to April.
- Final company selection panel: May.
- Welcome and onboarding of selected companies: June.
The program has a determined value based on the company's annual sales amounts, taking as a reference the end of the year prior to the call. Companies with sales amounts of less than 300 million of pesos will have a percentage discount to support the development of SMEs.
Alma Nelly Pérez
Líder Nacional
almap@tec.mx
www.enlacee.org
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