Askan Straume

Background

About Askan Straume

In 2010 I Co-Funded Socialab, a platform that support Social-Tech entrepreneurs and Social-Business. Just in 2014 Socialab reached more than 2,5K Applicants wanting to be accelerated with us. Socialab has given more than 1,9 million dollars in seed capital for Social StartUps and has offices in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Mexico. I`m a Social Entrepreneur, Design and Strategy Thinker. Designer and Graduate of Singularity University. I was Director of Innovation at Socialab, specializing in digital transformation, disruptive technologies, consumer behaviour & business models, innovation processes & methods. Currently I´m Director of Innovation at Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP. In 2014 I was selected among thousands of applicants to be a part of Singularity`s University GSP Class and went to study their program at the NASA Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley. In 2010, I was nominated one of the 50 Most Creative Young Professionals by City Magazine for deveploping and managing the project called "Conectados con mi País"(Connected to my Country) executed along with Movistar and Microsoft and aimed to brake the digital gap for the BoP markets in Chile. In 2009, I co-founded the Innovation Center of Un Techo para mi País, first of its type. I have been an Innovation Consultant for several companies like Chilealimentos, Inchalam, K2, Oster, Coleman, Telefónica Movistar, CGE Chile, ANSPE and Compartamos Colombia, among others.