Jesse Martinez

Jesse Martinez is co-founder and co-chair of the Latino Startup Alliance, a non-profit supporting global Latino tech entrepreneurs and startup ecosystems, and co-founder of AVION Ventures, the first pre-accelerator for Latina women entrepreneurs based in San Francisco. His other start-ups include picosito.com, one of the first online bilingual Latino communities; Giggo, a Groupon-like venture delivering messaging all in Spanish; and Relevance, where he served as the country director under the Startup Brasil Program. Martinez has served as an advisor to Hackers/Founders Co-op, #YesWeCode, SXSW 2016 Accelerator, TechCrunch 9th Annual Crunchies, and the Global EIR Coalition. He was a 2014 Clinton Global Initiative attendee, team leader for the U.S. White House Initiative on Tech Inclusion, and a former board member for Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA).