Primary Job Title Co-Founder, Director, & CEO Primary Organization Delee
Location Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Regions Latin America Gender Female
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Liza Velarde is the Co-Founder, Director, and CEO at Delee Corp. Velarde is a Y Combinator alumna, and received a Bachelor of International Business degree, summa cum laude, from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Throughout her career she has raised over $1.3 million USD through investments, government funds and multiple awards. At Delee, Velarde has
been responsible for the development and execution of the company’s strategic plans; while leading a multidisciplinary team that has created a technology successfully tested on patients with prostate cancer, for the isolation and analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells, with presales that exceed $1.4 million USD. Additionally, she has enabled the establishment of strong relations with top hospitals and research centers. Velarde’s outstanding work has been highly regarded by international institutions such as Cartier Women's Initiative Awards and WeXchange (from the Inter-American Development Bank). On October 2019, she was acknowledged as one of the 50 most relevant people who are transforming Mexico, and was invited as a speaker on various international panels about cancer and entrepreneurship such as WeXchange 2019 and The Economist: War on Cancer LATAM 2019. She also led and supervised the development of the Zen Fluidics™ scientific line, a group of products that enables researchers to develop their own microfluidic applications.
