Meet the 6 Endeavor Entrepreneurs Selected Virtually in December

This month, Endeavor selected six entrepreneurs leading three companies through virtual selection panels. The organization now supports 2,673 entrepreneurs leading 1,632 companies in 45+ countries around the world.

Each selection panel is the culmination of a rigorous, multi-step journey to identify high-impact entrepreneurs from all over the world. We seek founders with the greatest growth potential and those who commit to reinvesting time and resources into their local entrepreneurial ecosystems to help build the next generation of entrepreneurs, sparking a Multiplier Effect. Our panelists interviewed entrepreneurs about their businesses and evaluated their potential for high-impact growth. The panelists then discuss the candidates and vote on whether to select them to become Endeavor Entrepreneurs.

Panelists

Endeavor would like to thank our panelists from these selection panels:

Veronica Serra, Innova Capital (Endeavor Global Board Member); Raoul Oberman, Sasya Terra Pte Ltd (Endeavor Indonesia Board Member); Pietro Sella, Sella Group (Endeavor Italy Chairman); Brian Requarth, Latitud (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Danny Ellis, SkySpecs (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Giorgio Tinacci, Casavo (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Jasper Grafvon Hardenberg, Daystar Power Group (Endeavor Entrepreneur); Gregoire Delpit, Checkout.com; Javier Villamizar, Softbank; Michele Levy, lhabela Holdings; Sandi Lewis, Zayo Group; Shailesh Rao, Arc180.

Our New Entrepreneurs

Learn more about the entrepreneurs and the innovative companies they are building.

Blip (formerly Take)

Entrepreneurs: Roberto Oliveira and Daniel Rodrigues Costa
Endeavor Office: Brazil

What they do: Blip (formerly Take) is a Brazilian conversational platform that empowers companies to interact efficiently with their customers at every stage of their journey through a single integrated channel. Blip currently serves more than 4,000 clients in more than 32 countries, including Mexico and Spain.

Who they are: Roberto and Daniel, two of Blip’s co-founders, have been working together for more than 25 years. They created Brazil’s first mobile web company in 1999 and have been innovating ever since.

EightTwenty Solar

Entrepreneurs: Tony Capucille and Kent Cissell
Endeavor Office: Midwest – USA

What they do: With increasing energy prices, extreme weather, and growing power demand, the US solar energy industry is experiencing rapid growth. Named after the fact that sunlight takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach the Earth, EightTwenty Solar is a vertically integrated solar provider designed to serve commercial SMBs, nonprofits, and underserved residential communities. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the company designs, sells, and installs solar projects from end to end. Their proprietary platform simplifies the solar installation process, while their financing arm, Brightwell Capital, connects impact investors with nonprofits, unlocking new funding and driving more projects.

Who they are: Tony Capucille (CEO) and Kent Cissell (President) are seasoned tech entrepreneurs with deep roots in the payments industry. Tony and Kent both worked at Heartland Payments Systems, helping lead the company through its $4 billion+ acquisition by Global Payments (NYSE: GPN) and its growth from $1 billion to $20 billion in revenue. Together, they leveraged their expertise to create EightTwenty Solar, bringing tech-enabled efficiencies to the solar space.

Lendo

Entrepreneurs: Osama AlRaee and Mohamed Jawabri
Endeavor Office: Saudi Arabia

What they do: Lendo is a shari’ah-compliant peer-to-peer lending marketplace that helps to digitally finance SMEs in Saudi Arabia. Lendo’s products and solutions, such as invoice factoring, make everyday business activities easier, more secure, and more efficient for both investors and borrowers alike.

Who they are: Osama AlRaee, Lendo’s CEO, worked at Strategy&, McKinsey, and Amazon and obtained his MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Mohamed Jawabri, Lendo’s CTO, has spent his career as a developer and digital project manager.