We are kicking this new year with big changes! As we enter our seventh year as a Puerto Rican innovation hub that focuses on underrepresented founders, our team continues to evolve and our subprograms are optimizing their capabilities to ensure a full growth cycle for startups around the world. A transformative year for the parallel18 team As…

June is the official month that commemorates the 1969 Stonewall uprising, the historical event that ignited the LGBTTQQI+ rights movement. Now, Pride month is an annual event that celebrates the visibility of the queer community, while continuing its mission to call out discrimination and inequality that suffers this underrepresented group. …

At parallel18’s international acceleration program, P18, we’ve offered to more than 240 startups from around the world access to high-quality business education, financing, and networking opportunities to help them scale globally. Furthermore, we have another invaluable resource for the startups that participate in our program: a thriving Puerto Rican workforce. …

At parallel18, we are super excited to announce that our international acceleration program, P18, will be welcoming its 10th cohort on June 28th! We will be having a cohort 100% from LATAM; where four Puerto Rican startups will be leading Gen. X. …

During our P18’s calling process, we receive thousands of applications from across the world. Make sure that when filling the form, you stand out from the crowd and submit all the important information that we require. Also, be aware that only 10 startups will be selected and will receive: $125,000…

Gen. X is determined in disrupting the startup ecosystem as we know it and with that in mind: we’re selecting only 10 companies that will participate in our thriving international acceleration program. “Accelerators are pivoting and parallel18 is leading the way too. As we celebrate our tenth cohort, we wanted…

The South by Southwest (SXSW) is an annual event in Austin, Texas where global entrepreneurs meet to mingle and seize networking opportunities. Our Executive Director, Juan Carlos Hernández, will be there and this is your chance to meet him and tell him about your startup as Gen. …

After a well-deserved break, the parallel18 team is back to business! 2021 was a challenging year, where the COVID-19 pandemic continued and we adapted a blended mode to finish a very successful ninth cohort. Finally, after more than 20 months of virtual events we summoned investors, mentors, and corporate partners…

Since parallel18 began, Sebastián Vidal, our past executive director, has dedicated himself to designing a Puerto Rican accelerator focused on serving local entrepreneurs and the rest of the world. In 2015, the year that parallel18 was founded by the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust (PRSTRT), the island faced…