This year marks Global Startups’ 10th anniversary. Since 2016, over 340 startups have been part of this community. We’ve worked alongside local, provincial, and federal government, grown out of what began as LatAm Startups, hosted a decade of networking events, and launched a sister fund, GSA Ventures. Two companies from our community have gone on to reach unicorn status. That wasn’t because of us, they were exceptional before they ever found us, but we’re proud they built part of that journey here.
Our community looks like the world our founders come from. About half are from Latin America. The rest have come from the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, and in the last while we’ve started seeing more founders arriving from Europe too. Thirty percent of our founders are women.
Government funding matters to us, and we intend to keep building on it. But it isn’t what built this. Government funding made up a much larger share of our budget in our early years than it does today. The larger share of where we stand now comes from the founders and companies who chose to work with us because of what we deliver, not because of who funds us.
That is the part of this milestone we actually want to sit with. Building a company in a new country is a hustle, for every founder who has done it here, that hustle was real, and mostly theirs. Ten years in, the fact that hundreds of them chose to do it with us is the thing worth carrying into the next ten.
Some of the companies that came through our programs in earlier cohorts aren’t early-stage anymore. They’ve built real products, found real customers, and grown into companies with something to teach. So instead of making this anniversary only about us, we’re handing the floor to them.
From September 29 to October 1, we’re hosting a series of free masterclasses at our office (325 Front St W), each one led by a company that was once part of the Global Startups community.
This masterclass is designed for HR leaders, people operations teams, insurance companies, and Insurtechs looking to go beyond traditional employee benefits and respond to growing demand for solutions that actually improve engagement and reduce stress and absenteeism.
This masterclass is designed for Directors of Proposals, Marketing Managers, and business development leaders at AEC firms managing a high volume of RFP responses with small teams under constant deadline pressure.
This leadership roundtable is for founders, CEOs, and business owners leading established companies with annual revenues between $500K and $6M who are navigating growth and finding that leadership can sometimes feel like a lonely place.
This masterclass is designed for early-stage founders, startup entrepreneurs, and small business owners who are ready to grow but keep hitting a wall with positioning, brand clarity, or attracting the right customers.
Discover how forward-thinking leaders invest in local communities, build their brands, and champion the future green workforce.
This masterclass is designed for founders, CEOs, and operations leaders at growing companies with between 10 and 75 employees who have invested in tools, software, or automation but have not yet seen meaningful business results.
This masterclass is designed for business leaders, CRM decision-makers, sales heads, customer service managers, marketing teams, and digital transformation stakeholders looking to improve customer engagement and operational efficiency.
Compliance today is more than meeting regulatory requirements—it’s about building resilience, earning customer trust, and enabling business growth. Yet many organizations struggle with fragmented processes, manual evidence collection, and uncertainty about where to begin.
If you manage 50+ doors, money moves through your business every day. Rent coming in. Maintenance going out. Fees, deposits, owner payouts. The problem isn’t that the money isn’t moving. It’s that you have no clean way to see it.
This masterclass is designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizational leaders who work with diverse teams and recognize that technical skills alone are not enough to succeed in a multicultural environment.
Ten companies, ten sessions, one week. That’s how we’re marking our 10th anniversary.
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