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Last night the AVATIST (Derrick Raphael Esq.) team had the opportunity to finally meet members of Launchpad Consulting (Yooku Aidoo (ICON Talent Partners Alum), Kristine Nguyen, Sarah He and Debjyoti Bala Bivu) in person during the ICON X Microsoft Reactor: How Gen AI Impacts the World event at the Microsoft HQ in Toronto. This was a phenomenal event hosted by our collaboration partner ICON Talent Partners as they provide opportunities for high school students and university students to gain access to competitive sectors where they are often not represented! Excited to continue our collaboration with Launchpad in 2025 and beyond! #AVATIST #LAUNCHPADCONSULTING #GENAI #StrongerTogether

AVATIST is excited to share our Collaboration Partnership with Launchpad Consulting will be extended until the Spring 2025 semester! This has been a mutually beneficial relationship and we are excited to strengthen our partnership with their top notch team of consultants! Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks! Again a special thanks to Yooku Aidoo, an alumni from the ICON Talent Partners Fellowship program, who has been joined by his team on this project which also includes Dan Gershman (Founder and Managing Director), Kristine Nguyen, Sarah He, Olivia and more! Our team is looking forward to sharing some transformative updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #LaunchpadConsulting #Startups #StrongerTogether

The AVATIST team is excited to spotlight our very own Peter Kegode, CFO at AVATIST, as he provided at rousing speech and important keynote about the massive potential for disruption via African-made goods! His insights into leveraging local production and export opportunities highlighted untapped growth areas within the continent and beyond. The next chapter of African innovation awaits at YORA Summit 2025! 🚀 We encourage you to reserve your Super Early Bird tickets today and join us on this exciting journey: https://lnkd.in/epCv3hXu" #AVATIST #MarketDisruption #AfricanMade #Entrepreneurship #YORASummit2024 #YORASummit #StrongerTogether

Wow!!! I had such an incredible session this week working with the Launchpad Consulting team for our first deep dive where they shared the many insights they gleaned for the AVATIST team! Some of the many deliverables they shared included the following for AVATIST: a) Competitor Analysis b) Positioning c) Lean Customer Acquisition d) And much more! We plan to take away and leverage their excellent research for implementation in both the Canadian and American markets. Once again we are quite thankful for the efforts of the Launchpad Consulting team as we look forward to future deep dive sessions. A special thanks to Dan Gershman (Founder), Yooku Aidoo (VP), Kristine Nguyen (Project Lead), Sarah He and Robert Simone (Consultants), Alexandra King and Ambar Kaur Johal (Junior Analysts) and the rest of the team for a great meeting! Stay tuned as we are looking forward to sharing some transformative updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #LaunchpadConsulting #GENAI #StartupsScaling #Startups #StrongerTogether

This week AVATIST is excited to share that we are launching our Campus Ambassadors program! The undergraduate students across North America who participate will get the opportunity to learn first hand about the inner workings of a fast moving GEN AI startup while getting significant facetime with the founding team. In addition there will be special perks to join invite only VIP events hosted by AVATIST or our strategic partners across the region. Last but not least those who join us will learn how to build a brand and develop key tech sales skills! If this opportunity if of interest to you or anyone in your network please feel free to complete the interest survey via the link below by Friday November 15th if not before as space in the upcoming cohort will be limited to a few spots: https://lnkd.in/gUtmUUUs Excited to launch this program and if you have any questions please free to use the survey to share them. #AVATIST #CampusAmbassadors #TechSales #Startups #TechSales #StrongerTogether

From Tuesday October 1st to Thursday October 3rd AVATIST had the privilege to attend the Elevate Festival which is the premier startup and innovation focused event in Canada! During Elevate we were able to achieve several tangible wins such as the following: 1. Connecting with several startup incubator program leads based in Canada 2. Establish relationships with many fast moving startup founders in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 3. Build ties with not for profits focused on helping startups based in the US to land and expand in Canada And much much more! Once again thanks to the amazing team at Elevate for organizing such a phenomenal program with leaders coming from all over North America and the world! Stay tuned as we are looking forward to sharing even more transformative industry updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #Elevate #Startups #Accelerators #Founders #StrongerTogether

AVATIST has been on fire 🔥 the last few weeks! And there have been many incredible developments. 1. Black Founders Network Pitch Night where we unveiled AVATIST 2.0! 2. Elevate Festival where we were able to meet many amazing startup founders and ecosystem leaders in Canada and beyond! 3. Launchpad Consulting has joined AVATIST to do some market research and analysis and we are just getting started! Stay tuned for more announcements in the coming weeks! In addition as of today we have now reached 800+ followers and we are now much closer to our END OF YEAR GOAL to reach 1000+ before 2025! Again this was a full team achievement which was supported by the collective efforts of our executives, board members, advisors and allies! Vincent E. R. Jillian McAdams, MBA, PROSCI Phil Alfaro Bayo Okusanya Kim Fox Nick Tietz James V. Lee Mark Ritchie Derrick Raphael Esq. Dr. Janice M. Porter, Educational Leadership, Ed Tech and Author Dr. Phillip S. Porter, Co-Founder, President, CEO, MBA, CWE, CSST #AVATIST #BlackFoundersNetwork #Elevate #LaunchPadConsulting #artificialintelligence #global #leadership #strongertogether

This week AVATIST and Launchpad Consulting officially launched our collaboration with a team standup on Monday whereby we mapped out how their team of student leaders will support our mission! Key next steps include the following: 1) Support with connecting AVATIST to relevant startup organizations 2) Deep analysis comparing the competitive advantages for AVATIST in the US and Canada 3) Deep dive on direct and indirect competitors 4) And much much more! Once again we are quite hopeful that AVATIST's FIRST Collaboration Partnership in Canada will lead to continued engagement with Launchpad Consulting! A special thanks to Dan Gershman, Kristine Nguyen, Sarah He, Alexandra King and Mohammed Haider Saif for attending the kickoff meeting. Stay tuned as we are looking forward to sharing some transformative updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #LaunchpadConsulting #Startups #StrongerTogether

AVATIST is excited to share that our team will be attending the Elevate Festival taking place in Toronto from Tuesday October 1st to Thursday October 3rd! This will mark the first time that AVATIST will be an official attendee and we are very excited for the opportunity to unveil version 2.0 of what we are building! For all attendees who lead startup ecosystems, incubators or accelerators please don't hesitate to connect with our team. Thanks again to the amazing team at Elevate for organizing such a phenomenal program with leaders coming from all over North America and the world! Stay tuned as we are looking forward to sharing even more transformative industry updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #Elevate #Startups #Accelerators #Founders #StrongerTogether

AVATIST is excited to share our FIRST Collaboration Partnership in Canada! We are excited to work with Launchpad Consulting which is a student-run, pro bono consulting firm dedicated to empowering startups with strategic insights and solutions. This relationship was facilitated by Yooku Aidoo, an alumni from the ICON Talent Partners Fellowship program, and he is joined by his team on this project which also includes Dan Gershman (Founder and Managing Director), Kristine Nguyen, Sarah He and Olivia. This Collaboration Partnership will help AVATIST as we expand our footprint in the Canadian ecosystem through their market research on behalf of growth plans. Again we are just getting started as there are several additional partnerships in progress which will be announced in the coming months. If your incubator/accelerator would like to benefit from the power of our interactive, multilingual AI avatars please don't hesitate to reach out directly via our survey below: https://lnkd.in/gSpHAJhu Or via email: derrick@avatist.ai Stay tuned as we are looking forward to sharing some transformative updates for AVATIST to be announced early 2025!!! #AVATIST #LaunchpadConsulting #Startups #StrongerTogether