OUR STORY

My parents were the first to notice and encourage my community development and entrepreneurship skills since I was 10 years-old. My mother helped me collect empty medication boxes from family and friends. Soon enough I had enough to simulate a pharmacy shop in our backyard where I was the pharmacist/owner, and my cousins and neighbors, my employees and customers.   All this nurturing was setting me up for a clear path in Science, but as a teenager, I couldn’t wait to start making money. I launched a home fitness center for women, a flower market, and a child care service targeting consumers in my own neighborhood.  As I got older, I learned that creating businesses was at my core. During The Big Recession in 2008,  I realized how powerful those early experiences shaped my conviction to lifelong learning and helping communities like the one I grew up in Peru.  By 2019, there was enough evidence that automation was going to impact the likelihood of many of us.  Resuming to my childhood interests, I triggered memories of playing as a pharmacist to recreate happy moments that I could replicate to inspire vulnerable individuals facing job losses and living in extreme poverty. After running a non-scientific market research across 22 rural cities, Nxt Wave Founders (NWF) was born as a side-project by New Year's Eve of 2020.  COVID-19 couldn't present a better timing to follow our north star and fight for upward economic mobility for all through a low-carbon pathway that can be compatible with sustainable growth.

Luisa Bracamonte leads Nxt Wave Founders (NWF) with her experience as a program software development manager, startup founder, and social impact entrepreneur.  Previously, she led $12M software projects that launched SAP products into global financial platforms for State Farm Insurance, a $18M Tele- communication services serving millions of global customers for Crown International, a $500M M&A portfolio at Azimuth Wealth Management in Sao Paulo, Milan and Miami and authored Project P.E.P.P. for PODS, Inc.  A $12M disaster preparedness plan that positioned the company for a $2 billion acquisition.  She also bootstrapped many startups since she was a teenager; and created a nonprofit to redirect the funding gap for under-served founders working at the intersection of climate change and poverty eradication. With the historical use of biased algorithms in industry automation, she envisioned a convenient way for herself and fellow founders to scale their impact through the development of fair machine learning, build community and create jobs in areas with some of the highest poverty rates by hosting The ScoutZ Lab2Market (SL2M) Hub's Initiatives.