Panelist: Margarita Quihuis
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Margarita Quihuis Founder and President Indigo Financiera Currently a social entrepreneur and founder of Indigo Financiera, Margarita Quihuis’s career has ranged from developing high-end aerospace systems to gender-focused design to leading the pioneering Women’s Technology Cluster business incubator and most recently as a venture capitalist and Reuters Fellow at Stanford. Her current efforts include financial innovation for the unbanked both in the United States and in developing countries and encouraging technological innovation on behalf of humanitarian needs. In 2004, she was recognized by Women’s eNews as one of their ‘21 Leaders for the 21st Century’ for her efforts in increasing access to capital for women entrepreneurs and was named as one of WITI’s Women to Watch in 2003. Indigo Financiera: Indigo is a radical proposal to develop a micro-private equity fund whose source of capital comes from profits generated by a remittances service business targeted toward the US Mexican diaspora. Inspired by Working Assets, the remittances service provides a sustainable business model that allows the Indigo fund to invest in SMEs and take more risks in this underserved market. |
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