{"id":340702,"date":"2017-05-12T03:02:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1488445"},"modified":"2017-05-12T03:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T19:02:45","slug":"meet-cubas-first-internet-entrepreneurs-at-disrupt-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/meet-cubas-first-internet-entrepreneurs-at-disrupt-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Cuba\u2019s first Internet entrepreneurs at Disrupt New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=738\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Cubazon. Kewelta. Knales. These aren\u2019t house hold names in the US but they\u2019re at the vanguard of entrepreneurship in Cuba and they\u2019ll be joining us on stage at Disrupt New York.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be talking with Bernardo Romero Gonzalez, CEO &amp; founder of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cubazon.com\">Cubazon<\/a>, an online store for the Cuban diaspora that lets them send products to their relatives back home. He earned his MBA at the Universidad Cat\u00f3lica San Antonio de Murcia in Spain and studied engineering in Cuba. His company won the 10x10KCuba initiative as one of the country\u2019s most promising tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll also be joined by Carlos Manuel Garc\u00eda Vergara, the founder of Kewelta, an advertising network for Cuban artists. He is one of the first Cubans to explore adtech on the island. Finally, we have Diana Elianne Benitez Perera, founder of Knales, a company that sends news and information to mobile users in Cuba. She sends NBA, MLB and soccer league scoreboards as well as weather forecasts in a country where information comes in at a trickle.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be talking at 11:30am on Monday, May 15 and these will, quite literally, be the first Cuban startups on the TechCrunch stage. It\u2019s an exciting time and a fascinating topic and I look forward to finding out what their world looks like from a technical and political perspective and where they\u2019re headed in the future.<\/p>\n<p><small>Featured Image: Buena Vista Images\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=1358 1358w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/gettyimages-592535597.jpg?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;Cubazon. Kewelta. Knales. These aren&#8217;t house hold names in the US but they&#8217;re at the vanguard of entrepreneurship in Cuba and they&#8217;ll be joining us on stage at Disrupt New York. We&#8217;ll be talking with Bernardo Romero Gonzalez, CEO &#38; founder of Cubazon, an online store for the Cuban diaspora that lets them send products to their relatives back home. 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