Mexico City is truly a GREAT place to build a startup, but most of the early-stage entrepreneurs are not aware of the local resources that are available to help them.

With applications for the  Mexico City Founder Institute  now open, we are excited to release the Mexico City Startup Ecosystem Canvas, which is currently in Draft v1 below! It was developed by the  Mexico City Founder Institute  and local leaders Lorena Sanchez Garcia  and José Antonio Tena Sendra .

This is just a DRAFT, and while we spent many hours on this research, more input is needed. Please leave your comments on this  collaborative Google document  to help us complete the list. There are definitely omissions on this current version. 

Are you looking to build a startup in Mexico City? Then apply to the Mexico City Founder Institute today !

Text version included below, for ease of searching:

Startup Stages

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There is no one right way to build a technology company, but for the sake of simplicity we have outlined a basic, common, sequential framework.

1. Idea Stage

This is where new entrepreneurs get inspired, learn best practices, develop skills, validate ideas, and begin to build their team and product.

A. Inspire

• Startup Media: Centralized local information, listings, and news. (ie startup blogs / publications / lists / FB groups / newsletters32)

1. 500 Startups Mailing List
2. Spaghetti code
3. Latin American VC / Diego Serebrisky
4. Digital World - Blog
5. POSSIBLE
6. Startup Digest Mexico City
7. Startups List Mexico City
8. Tech.co Mexico City
9. One zero
10. Ventura Mexico
11. Xataka Mexico

• Inspirational Events: Open, inclusive, beginner startup events (ie Startup Weekend, idea fairs, and inspirational meetings)

1. Blockchain Meetup CDMX
2. IoT Community Mexico
3. Creative Mornings
4. Girls in Tech Mexico City
5. Global Ventures Summit
6. Google Developer Group UNAM
7. Meetup We-Co Mexico
8. Mexico City IoT Meetup
9. Mexico City JVM Group
10. MUKTEK
11. MUTEK MX
12. NodeBots Mexico
13. Startup Week Mexico City
14. Startup Weekend Back2Basics
15. Startup Weekend Education Mexico
16. Startup Weekend FinTech Mexico City
17. The Data Pub
18. Women Who Code Mexico City

B. Educate

• Best Practices: Beginner knowledge-sharing events. (ie beginner events that serve to educate more than inspire, like 1 Million Cups, Startup Grind, Startup Founder 101, etc).

1. Agile Mexico Meetup
2. Big Data Developers Mexico City
3. Docker Friends Mexico City
4. Eventloop Mexico City
5. Growth Hack Mexico City
6. Mexico City Startup Entrepreneurs
7. Mexico City Startup: Idea to IPO
8. PHP Mexico
9. ProductTank Mexico City
10. National Network Mexico Emprende
11. Startup Founder 101 Mexico City
12. Startup Grind Mexico City

• Training & Feedback: Skill & Idea development. (Ex. Bootcamps and comprehensive training programs, like Founder Institute, General Assembly, Lean Startup Machine, code camps, etc)

1. Amazon Web Services Mexico
2. BEDU
3. Business Coaching Firm
4. Code Ninja
5. CodeaCamp
6. CodingNomads
7. Collective Academy
8. DATA Management Mexico
9. DataCivica
10. DigitalOcean Mexico
11. Dev F.
12. Epic Queen
13. Founder Institute
14. Ironhack
15. Laboratory
16. Lean Startup Machine
17. Startupbootcamp FinTech Mexico City
18. Verbo Mata Carita
19. World Tech Makers

C. Validate

• Team Formation: Resources for teaming up. (ie events or other resources that facilitate early-stage recruitment and cofounder matching)

1. CoFoundersLab
2. Community of Socially Responsible Startups
3. Meeting of Entrepreneurs and Networkers CDMX
4. Endeavor® Mexico
5. Entrepreneurs' Organization
6. FounderDating
7. FuckUp Nights
8. GirlPower
9. Innohub Mexico
10. Freelance and Entrepreneur Meetup in Mexico City
11. Startup Teams in the Historic Center
12. Makers afternoons
13. The Founding Moms' Exchange
14. The Pool Mexico Entrepreneurs Club

• Build First Product: Hackathons & resources to build. (ie hackathons and other builder-focused events and resources)

1. 2017 Mexico City Mobile Health Hackathon
2. AngelHack Global Hackathon Series: Mexico City
3. Avaya Hackathon Developers 2017
4. Fishackathon
5. Girls in Tech Mexico City Hackathon
6. CDMX hack
7. HACK UNAM 2017
8. Hack the World Mexico City Virtual Hackathon
9. Hackathon Telcel Infinitum
10. HackerNest Mexico City Tech Socials
11. HackrobotsMX
12. Hacks / Hackers Mexico City
13. Indigitous Hack
14. Kandy.io IoT Hackathon
15. MXHacks
16. Talent Fest CDMX Hackathon

2. Launch Stage

In this stage, entrepreneurs establish and formalize the company, develop the product, get feedback from customers, and prepare for the next step.

A. Start

• Establish: Law firms & banks for startups

1. Baker McKenzie
2. Banorte
3. Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton
4. CitiBanamex
5. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
6. DLA Piper
7. Duane Morris LLP
8. Garrigues
9. Haynes and Boone, LLP
10. Hogan Lovells
11. HSBC Mexico
12. Jones Day
13. Santander PyME Mexico
14. Scotiabank Mexico
15. White & Case LLP

• Workspace: Co-working and flexible workspaces (note: "official" office space goes in 3.1.a. Infrastructure)

1. Coworking Village
2. Cardolin Coworking
3. Centraal
4. Co-work
5. Collab & Play
6. CoWorking by SACH
7. central District
8. The 3rd space
9. FLYLAB
10. Homework
11. Impact Hub DF
12. Public
13. Coworking Point
14. Sona Center
15. Spaces
16. Spacioss Coworking
17. Startup Mexico Coworking
18. Terminal 1
19. The Pool
20. Urban Station
21. We-Co.
22. WRK
23. WeWork

B. Develop

• Formalize: Accounting, development and HR for early-stage startups.  

1. Alia
2. Mobile Apps Mexico
3. BE Consultants
4. Benipa Accountants
5. EPI Consultants
6. Study spore
7. Accounting Strategy
8. Evenplan
9. Accountants Tax
10. Pixel Engineering
11. Luelmo Contadores
12. MobileLab360
13. Pixzelle Studio
14. RedRing
15. Corporate Services in Accounting and Administration
16. Sparklabs
17. Tr3sco

• Prepare for Seed: Incubators and advanced mentorship. (ie advanced knowledge sharing, later stage events and resources for startup TEAMS)

1. Alcazar & Company
2. Catapult
3. ITESM Business Incubator
4. Business Incubator UVM - UVM
5. Incubator Startblueup
6. NUMA Mexico
7. POSSIBLE
8. Reinvent
9. Startup Mexico
10. Startup Next Mexico City
11. The Pool
12. Victoria 147

C. Launch

• Seed Accelerators: Seed funding mentor programs (Techstars-style programs that provide funding)

1. 500 Startups
2. IDEARSE-Anáhuac Business Accelerator
3. Accelerator Startblueup
4. Finnovista
5. Drive
6. IPN Business Accelerator
7. Innovation Garden
8. MassChallenge
9. Network of Business Accelerators ITESM
10. Smart Impact Accelerator
11. Techstars Mexico
12. Wayra Mexico

• Pitch & Demo: Show local startups for investment (ie demo days for companies seeking seed investment)

1. 500 Demo Day
2. Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge- Mexico Demo Day
3. Demo Day NUMA Batch 15
4. Demo Day Smart Impact Accelerator
5. Demo Day Startup Garage 2017
6. FINNOSUMMIT 2017
7. Public Nights
8. Startupbootcamp FinTech Mexico City Demo Day
9. Talent Fest CDMX Demo Night

3. Growth Stage

Here, a startup proves their utility, receives recognition, and scales up. This usually requires funding, angels, VCs, and ways to connect them to startups.

A. Recognition

• Investor Networking: Connect professional investors with founders. (ie events or groups that facilitate connections with professional investors)

1. Angel Investment Network
2. Angel Investor Summit
3. Angel Ventures
4. ArkAngeles.co
5. GoVenture
6. Investo
7. Play Business
8. Soldiers Field Angels
9. Startup Angels

• Major Media: Mainstream local business press. (ie major local or regional publications that frequently local businesses)

1. Aristegui News
2. CNN Mexico
3. The Economist
4. The universal
5. Excelsior
6. Expansion
7. Forbes Mexico
8. The chronic
9. The Journey
10. The Press
11. Millennium
12. MVS News
13. Televisa News
14. Reform

B. Funding

• Angels / Micro-VCs: Seed-stage investors

1. Abel Bezares
2. Alberto Alcaraz
3. Alejandro Diez Barroso
4. Alejandro Galvez Rico
5. Alejandro Rocha Bracamontes
6. Alessandro Paganini
7. Alex Rossi
8. Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
9. Andres Chico
10. Andres Gavito Aspe
11. Anna Raptis
12. Antonio Osio
13. Armando Badillo
14. Benjamin Garcia
15. Bismarck Lepe
16. Caribou Honig
17. Carlos Paz
18. Christian Hauswaldt
19. Cristobal Perdomo
20. David Garcia
21. Debasish Karmakar
22. Emilio Manchón
23. Enrique Vera del Castillo
24. Erik Wallsten
25. Fabricio Pettená
26. Fernando Fabre
27. Francisco Flores G.
28. Francisco Velazquez de Cuellar
29. Gabriel Mizrahi
30. Grant Taylor
31. Guillermo Zambrano
32. Gustavo Trevino Milling
33. Heberto Taracena
34. Hector Sepulveda Reyes Retana
35. Hernan Fernandez
36. Israel Cerda
37. JP Duque
38. Jacques T'S
39. Javier Arrechea
40. Javier Chavez Ruiz
41. Jonathan Lewy
42. Jorge A. Ortiz
43. Jorge Gonzalez Gasque
44. Jose Bolaños
45. Jose Eduardo Guraieb Monroy
46. Juan Franck
47. Juan Pablo Gonzalez Gasque
48. Juan Pablo Zorrilla
49. Luis Cervantes
50. Luis X Barrios
51. Manolo Atala
52. Maria Ariza
53. Marianela Molina
54. Nazar Yasin
55. Paul Ahlstrom
56. Per se Capital
57. Ramon Garcia Quintana
58. Renzo Casillo
59. Ricardo Elizondo
60. Ricardo Laborin
61. Rodrigo Ocejo
62. Rogelio De los Santos
63. Sandra Sainz
64. Santiago Fossatti
65. Sebastian Carducci
66. Sebastian Miralles
67. Tony Jimenez

• Venture Capitalists: Series A and beyond

1. Acon Investments
2. Adobe Capital
3. Advent International
4. ALLVP
5. Alta Growth Capital
6. Alta Ventures Mexico
7. Angel Ventures
8. Angel Nest
9. Asenza Capital
10. Avalanche Ventures
11. Axon Partners Group
12. B37
13. Beamonte Investments
14. Brainstorm Ventures
15. Indigo Capital
16. Capitalinvent
17. Carao Ventures
18. Capital Cube
19. Dalus Capital
20. DaVinci Capital
21. Dila Capital
22. EMX Capital
23. Endeavor Catalyst
24. Enture
25. Scale
26. Evercore Partners
27. Fund of funds
28. Founders Into Funders
29. General Atlantic
30. Gerbera Capital
31. Global Proteus
32. HIG Capital
33. Ideas and Capital
34. IGNIA
35. Innovateur Capital
36. Investo
37. Jaguar Ventures
38. Linzor Capital Partners
39. LIV Capital
40. Lottus Capital Partners
41. Mountain Nazca
42. NEWGROWTH FUND
43. New Ventures Mexico
44. Nexxus Capital
45. Northgate
46. NXTPLABS
47. OnVentures
48. Paul & Co. Capital Advisors
49. PC Capital
50. Pedralbes Partners
51. PineBridge Investments
52. Social Promoter Mexico
53. QED Investors
54. Richmond Global Ventures
55. Rise Capital
56. Seaya Ventures
57. Planting Capitals
58. Spectron Development
59. Stella Maris Partners
60. SV Latam Capital
61. Temasek
62. Tempest Capital
63. Tera Capital
64. Trebol Capital
65. Variv Capital
66. Vento Capital
67. WAMEX
68. XBVentures
69. Xochi Ventures

C. Growth

• Infrastructure: Office space, HR, local business insurance. (ie office space / HR / insurance providers for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. AXA Seguros
2. Capital + Human Resources
3. Evolution
4. Excellence
5. GMCRH
6. GNP Insurance
7. Properties24
8. Instant Offices
9. LoopNet
10. Cubic meters
11. Properties.com
12. Regus
13. Search Office Space
14. MAPFRE Insurance
15. Insurance SURA
16. Umbrella Insurance
17. Zurich

• Expansion: Growth accelerators / consultants. (ie programs and business consultants for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. Accenture
2. Alvarez & Marsal
3. Aon
4. AT Kearney
5. Bain & Company
6. Boston Consulting Group
7. Capgemini
8. Deloitte
9. Ernst and Young
10. Feher & Feher
11. Frost & Sullivan
12. FTI Consulting
13. Gartner
14. Grant Thornton
15. Hay Group
16. INSITUM
17. KPMG
18. McKinsey & Company
19. Mercer Consulting
20. Millward Brown
21. Protiviti
22. PwC
23. Willis Towers Watson

4. Success Stories

Successful homegrown companies that have raised significant institutional funding, employ a large workforce, or have achieved liquidity.

1. Appli
2. Bitso
3. Boletia
4. Ben & Frank
5. Cabify
6. Clip
7. CompareGuru
8. Conekta
9. Collective Culture
10. Cornershop
11. Enlight
12. Gaia Design
13. Grin
14. Hostspot Analytics
15. Konfio
16. Kueski
17. Kavak
18. kubo.financiero
19. Linio
20. Luuna
21. Mimoni
22. Miora
23. Nexu
24. Nubity
25. Petsy
26. Rappi
27. Rocket
28. SinDelantal
29. Mr. Payment
30. TiZKKA
31. Uniko
32. Wizeline
33. weex

Supporters

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To facilitate the steps, every ecosystem needs strong supporters.

1. Evangelists

Successful local founders who lead the ecosystem & frequently mentor newbies.

1. Amanda Jacobson
2. Angel Ramirez
3. Antoine Cocle
4. Cristian Lloret
5. Eduardo Alvarez
6. Eduardo Morelos
7. Guillermo Garcia Vivanco
8. Jaime Lezama Elguero
9. Jair Ziranda Angel
10. Joel Cano
11. Jorge A. Ortiz
12. Jose Antonio Tena Sendra
13. Juan Carlos Cardoso Riveroll
14. Juan Francisco Del Cerro
15. Juan Jose Roesel
16. Laura Curiel Piña
17. Laura Gonzalez Yepez
18. Lorena Sanchez
19. Luis X Barrios
20. Marcus Dantus
21. Maria Fernanda Gandara
22. Maria Fernanda Ramirez Castillo
23. Newton Davis
24. Oscar Velazquez
25. Pablo Lascurain
26. Rene Lomeli Ojeda
27. Santiago Zavala

2. Government

Public organizations that facilitate local economic development  

1. CDMX Government Innovation Agenda
2. American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico
3. Australia, New Zealand & Mexico Business Council
4. British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico
5. Chamber of Commerce of Canada in Mexico
6. Chamber of Commerce of the City of Mexico
7. Conacyt
8. FONDESO
9. INADEM
10. INFOTEC
11. Laboratory for the City
12. Mexico Emprende
13. Mexico IT
14. Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation CDMX
15. Secretary of Economic Development CDMX
16. United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce

3. Talent

Major local business or tech universities and employers that attract and retain local talent.

• Local Universities (universities with prominent technical or business programs)

1. National Polytechnic Institute
2. Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
3. Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Campus CDMX
4. University of the Americas
5. Anahuac University
6. Autonomous University of Mexico City
7. Autonomous Metropolitan University
8. Ibeoamerican University
9. La salle university
10. National Autonomous University of Mexico
11. University panameric
12. Technological University of Mexico
13. University of the Valley of Mexico

• Local Employers (Major technical employers, like Microsoft or Google or large local companies, with large local offices)

1. Amazon
2. Manzana
3. AT & T
4. Cisco
5. Dell
6. Facebook
7. General Electric
8. General Motors
9. Google
10. Huawei
11. HP
12. IBM
13. Infosys
14. Intel
15. Microsoft
16. Oracle
17. Samsung
18. SAP
19. Siemens
20. Telcel
21. Telefonica
22. Telmex
23. Uber

 

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Learn more about the  Startup Ecosystem Canvas here , and leave us your thoughts on the Mexico City Canvas on this  collaborative Google document  (This is just a DRAFT, and more input is needed!)

Are you looking to build a startup in Mexico City? Then apply to the Mexico City Founder Institute today