Ep 16 - Brainfood with Felipe Sommer of NearPod

The Big Idea Box

Felipe Sommer is the president and co-founder, of Nearpod, Inc., a mobile platform empowering educators to create learning experiences that engage and inspire millions of students around the world. This platform enables teachers, schools and districts, to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones, iPods or Macs. It seamlessly combines interactive presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution. Moderated by Matt Haggman, an award-winning journalist at The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review, Miami Program Director at Knight Foundation and, most recently, a candidate for U.S. Congress...Let’s dive in!

Here are the topics addressed and timestamps: 2:02 Interview Intro; What is Nearpod? 11:37 Creating a startup in Miami 15:45 B2C to B2B Business service to business product 25:10 Funding and Miami venture investors 44:40 Q & A

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Brainfood Speaker Series is a monthly, hands-on discussion with local entrepreneurs who share the secrets of their success and failures. This monthly event takes place at The LAB Miami, helping Miami startups as well as entrepreneurs understand the opportunities alongside the challenges of launching and growing a business. We’re sharing these amazing stories that provide new ideas and key, practical advice to advancing one’s own entrepreneurial career. Brainfood is brought to you by Endeavor Miami in partnership with The LAB Miami, LAB Ventures, Knight Foundation, and Startup Florida International University (FIU).