nearshoring
(3)
Deepak Chhugani
Deepak Chhugani is the founder and CEO of Nuvocargo, an AI-powered platform for cross-border truckload freight between the United States and Mexico. Born in Kenya to Indian parents and raised in Ecuador, he worked on Latin America M&A deals at Bank of America Merrill Lynch before starting Nuvocargo in 2019. The company has raised more than $75 million from investors including Y Combinator, Tiger Global, QED, and NFX, and combines freight forwarding, customs brokerage, cargo insurance, and financing on one platform. Chhugani was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technology in 2023 and is an Endeavor Entrepreneur.
Domenica Obando
Domenica Obando is the Peruvian founder and CEO of Talently, a Latin American tech talent marketplace that vets, trains, and places software engineers and data scientists into roles at companies across the US and LATAM. After stints in an NGO, the public sector, and an English-learning startup called Andi, she pivoted into Talently when she noticed her customers were really developers chasing international jobs. Talently has connected thousands of engineers with hundreds of companies including PayPal, Walmart, Nubank, Mercado Libre and Rappi, and raised seed funding backed by 500 Startups and IDB Lab (BID Lab).
Rosalba Reynoso
Rosalba Reynoso is the co-founder and CEO of Blue Trail Software, a San Francisco-based benefit corporation delivering custom software, AI/ML, IoT, and QA solutions for enterprises and scale-ups across the Americas and Europe. Coming from a human resources background rather than a technical one, she built a nearshore Pan-American IT company with teams across Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain, serving Fortune 100 clients including Samsung, Cartier, Hewlett Packard, and Logitech. A proud Latina leading a women-founded and women-led firm, Reynoso champions diversity and inclusion, stakeholder empowerment, and social impact - from funding coding bootcamps for women in Mexico to creating the My Luna menopause-tracking app.