Services
It provides financing, mentoring, access to technology expertise within Telefónica and use of purpose-built Wayra Academies to technology start-ups. Successful projects initially spend six months in a Wayra Academy, receiving help to accelerate their business and technical support to further develop their ideas. In exchange, they take an average of about 10% of the company's equity. To date Wayra has received over 8000 submissions and provided financing to over 100 start ups.
Wayra is present in 13 countries: seven are in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela), and six are in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and two in Spain).
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